Program
Friday, 21 November 2025
Kick-off in Natural History Museum
18:30 - 22:00
Natural History Museum Vienna
Burgring 1, A-1010 Vienna
20:00 New Feature Movie on Rupert Riedl
Saturday, 22 November 2025
Symposium
8:00-17:00
University Biology Building (UBB)
Djerassiplatz 1, 1030 Vienna
19:00 Heuriger (tba)
| 8:00-9:00 | Registration, Coffee, Tea |
| 8:45-9:00 | Welcome |
| 9:00-9:45 | Günter Wagner, Yale University/Universität Wien Riedl’s role in Evolutionary Biology |
| 9: 45-10:30 | Michael Schmitt, Universität Greifswald Form and law - Rupert Riedl's significance for morphology |
| 10:30-10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45-11:30 | James DiFrisco, Crick Institute Burden and character individuation in light of Riedl’s imitative epigenotype hypothesis |
| 11:30- 12:00 | Discussion |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30-14:15 | Nadia Fröbisch, Museum für Naturkunde and Humboldt University, Berlin tba (development/morphology) |
| 14:15-15:00 | Alison Cole, Universty of Vienna Cells as evolutionary units: a Cnidarian perspective |
| 15:00-15:15 | Coffee break |
| 15:15-16:00 | David Jablonski, University of Chicago (with coauthor Stewart M. Edie, Smithsonian Institution) Origin and persistence of functional diversity in macroevolution |
| 16:00-17:00 | Discussion, coffee & cookies |
| 19:00 | Dinner at Heuriger (tba) |
Sunday, 23 November 2025
Symposium
8:45-12:30
University Biology Building (UBB)
Djerassiplatz 1, 1030 Vienna
| 8:45-9:30 | Thomas Hansen, University of Oslo tba (Evolvability) |
| 9:30-10:15 | Laura Nuno de la Rossa, Complutense Madrid Translating Riedl: the circulation and operationalisation of evolutionary ideas |
| 10:15-10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45-11:30 | Manfred Laubichler, Arizona State University, Santa Fe Institute Synthesis and Reflection |
| 11:30- 12:30 | General Discussion |