11.01.2024

The Young Academy Distinguished Lecture Series

A new format to connect people and science

The Young Academy has launched its own lecture series: die Young Academy Distinguished Lecture Series. The YADLS brings scientific topics of general relevance to the public, presented by an invited distinguished expert and a member of the Young Academy in an interactive and accessible format. The aim is to inspire open-minded discussion about cutting-edge research in both humanities and the natural sciences.

Dates: 

11 January 2024 – Host: Katharina Rebay-Salisbury; Guest: Thomas HIGHAM (Universität Wien, previously: University of Oxford)
Prähistorie in neuem Licht

Host: Paolo Sartori; Guest: Lea YPI (London School of Economics)
Memory, history and political imagination
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9 October 2024 - Host: Sandra Müller; Guest: W. Hugh WOODIN (Harvard University)
Why mathematics does not have an answer to the question how many real numbers there are

June 2025 – Host: Anne Sophie Meincke; Guest: Alfred MELE (Florida State University)
Can Biology Help Us Understand (and Defend) Free Will?

Contact:

Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW)
Actuary (Young Academy)
Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2
1010 Vienna

T +43 1 51581-1294
junge.akademie(at)oeaw.ac.at