Invited Lectures


A humble view from inside evolution

Lives to empower, powers to enliven:
Bios at the edge of public reason
University of Milan

Milan, 18 December

The Future of Truth

Nobel Week Dialogue

Gothenburg, 9 December

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A humble view from inside evolution

10 - on - 10: The Chronicle of Evolution
Nanyang Technological University Singapore

Singapore, 20 November

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Der Weg in die ungewisse Welt von morgen

40 Jahre Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft

Vienna, 16 November

Falling Walls Conference

Falling Walls Foundation

Berlin, 9 November

Falling Walls Circle

Falling Walls Foundation

Berlin, 8 November

12th Berlin Debate on Science and Science Policy

Robert Bosch Stiftung

Berlin, 7 November

The radical openness of science

Lund University 350 years

Lund, 18 October

Über den Horizont hinaus

Europatagung 2017

Vienna, 17 October

Working Together – but how?
Scientific collaboration in a globalised world

EMBL Monterotondo Science and Society Seminar

Monterotondo, 29 September

The Lives to Come

The Future of Science
Giorgio Cini Foundation

Venice, 21/22 September

Excellence and Relevance

ERC 10th anniversary event
University of Amsterdam

Amsterdam, 7 September

The Resilience of Science

Award of a Gold medal of the Academia Europaea
Joint Annual Conference of Academia Europaea and ALLEA

Budapest, 4 September

Challenges for Inclusiveness in Frontier Research

ERC – a Success Story for Europe
Side meeting at the Joint Annual Conference of Academia Europaea and ALLEA

Budapst, 3 September

Managing complex systems

European Forum Alpbach

Alpbach, 26 August

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Molecular Recognition, Signaling and Function
A Symposium in Honor of the 80th Birthday of Prof. Israel Pech

Weizmann Institute of Science

Rehovot, 29 June

Academic Freedom: The Threat Within

academic freedom // the global challenge
CEU, Budapest

Budapest, 22 June

Rückblick: Der ERC als europäische Erfolgsgeschichte

10 Jahre Europäischer Forschungsrat
1000 europäische Exzellenzauszeichnungen für Deutschland

Berlin, 21 June

What does quality assessment of research tell us – and what not?

Present day science diplomacy:
Russia and Great Britain experience

Moscow, 18 May

Art in Times of Disintegration

University of Applied Arts Vienna
at the 57th Biennale di Venezia

Venice, 13 May

Cultivating Talents: the next ERC decade
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the ERC

BMWFW

Vienna, 10 May

An Orderly Mess

Social Science Matrix Distinguished Lecture Series
University of Berkeley

Berkeley, 2 May

CLASS Distinguished Public Lecture:
“(Re)discovering Messiness –Science and We”

Nanyang Technological University

Singapore, 15 February

Rethinking Society for the 21st Century

International Panel on Social Progress
University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL)

Lisbon, 26-28 January

„Bullshit“ statt Fakten – Das gefühlte Ende der Vernunft?

Podiumsdiskussion, APA-Science Event

Vienna, 18 January