Talks and Presentations

2026

Joint Meeting: European Society for the History of Science and History of Science Society, 12-16 July 2026, Edinburgh

Organized Panel: Book Reviewing and (Inter)disciplinarity in Postwar Science, organized by Sjang ten Hagen, with Cora Stuhrmann, Julien Gradoz
Submitted paper: Disciplinarity under Review. Sociobiology and its reception, 1975-1978.

2025

International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology Biennial Meeting, 20-25 July 2025, Porto
Submitted Paper: From Critique to Concept: The Development of Biological Determinism, 1970-1999.

Three Societies Meeting (ESHHS, CHEIRON and SHP), 1–5 July 2025, Paris

Organized Panel: Explaining Human Behavior with Biology. Behavioral Sciences, Ethology and Sociobiology in the 1960s and 1970s, organized by Cora Stuhrmann, with Rüdiger Graf, Cécile Hauser, commentary by Philippe Fontaine
Submitted paper: “Whether the social sciences can be truly biologicized in this fashion remains to be seen.” – The reception of E.O. Wilson’s Sociobiology in the social sciences, 1976–1980.

2024

Lehrstuhl für Anthropologie und Humangenetik, "We" and "the Others." Peaceful collaboration or hostile antagonism in human groups and societies, 29-30 July 2024, München, organized by Wolfgang Enard
Invited Talk: From the "Science of Altruism" to "Biological Determinism".
European Society for the History of Science Biennial Conference, 4-7 September 2024, Barcelona
Submitted Paper: From the evolutionary past to the future? E.O. Wilson, sociobiology and societal transformation, 1968-1975.
Forum für die Geschichte der Lebenswissenschaften (FoGel), Biologische Begrifflichkeiten, 25 September 2024, Lüneburg, organized by Kärin Nickelsen, Caterina Schürch and Cora Stuhrmann
Submitted Paper: Soziobiologie und Biologischer Determinismus,

2021

History of Science Society Annual Meeting 2021, 18-21 November 2021, online
Submitted Paper: Recognizable Fields in a Competitive World: Animal Behavior Studies from the 1960s to the 1980s.
Evaluation in den Geisteswissenschaften. Institutionen – Personen – Praktiken, 18-19 March 2021, online, organized by Nachwuchsnetzwerk Akademische Archive
Invited Talk: Evaluation und Öffentlichkeit. Rezensionen im New York Review of Books und die Soziobiologiedebatte 1975-1987.

2019

History of Science Society Annual Meeting 2019, 23-27 July 2019, Utrecht
Submitted Paper: Moving Pictures: Sociobiology and Public Persuasion.

Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Biology (JAS-Bio), 28 March-1 April 2019, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, organized by Kate Dobson and Kathryn Jones (MBL)
Submitted Paper: Moving Pictures: Sociobiology and Public Persuasion.

Munich Research School for Social epistemology, 22-23 March 2019, Munich, organized by Cora Stuhrmann and Josephine Musil-Gutsch (LMU)
Discussion Paper: Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarities.

2018

CEU Budapest Summer University “The Biological and the Social between 1900 and Today”, 16-21 July 2018, Budapest organized by Tatjana Buklijas and Emese Lafferton (CEU Budapest)
Submitted Paper: Sociobiology as a Debate.
Histories of Biomedical Knowledge Colloquium Series (HU Berlin), 13 July 2018, Berlin, organized by Lara Keuck (HU Berlin)
Invited Talk: „Mutual Incomprehension and Red Herrings“: Strategies of Disciplinary Competition in the Sociobiology Debate.

2017

3rd Open Forum on the History of the Life Sciences at DGGMNT Annual Conference, 21-22 September 2017, Münster, organized by Christian Reiss (Regensburg) and Robert Meunier (Kassel)
Submitted Paper: Strategien der Konkurrenz in der Soziobiologiedebatte, 1975-1995.

2016

2nd Open Forum on the History of the Life Sciences at DGGMNT Annual Conference, 15-16 September 2016, Lübeck, organized by Cornelius Borck, Birgit Stammberger (Lübeck), Mathias Grote, Lara Keuck (HU Berlin)
Submitted Paper: Biology on the Margins (with Caterina Schürch and Josephine Musil-Gutsch).
Postgraduate Conference of the British Society for the History of Science, 6-8 January 2016, Cambridge
Submitted Paper: Competing Disciplines. The Sociobiology Debate, 1975-1990.