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