KLI Colloquia are informal, public talks that are followed by extensive dissussions. Speakers are KLI fellows or visiting researchers who are interested in presenting their work to an interdisciplinary audience and discussing it in a wider research context. We offer three types of talks:
1. Current Research Talks. KLI fellows or visiting researchers present and discuss their most recent research with the KLI fellows and the Vienna scientific community.
2. Future Research Talks. Visiting researchers present and discuss future projects and ideas togehter with the KLI fellows and the Vienna scientific community.
3. Professional Developmental Talks. Experts about research grants and applications at the Austrian and European levels present career opportunities and strategies to late-PhD and post-doctoral researchers.
- The presentation language is English.
- If you are interested in presenting your current or future work at the KLI, please contact the Scientific Director or the Executive Manager.
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In this workshop we want to argue for the claim that the dichotomy of “the qualitative versus the quantitative” that is entrenched in any scientific fields is deeply flawed, as it conflates several dimensions of research, including the characterization of the phenolmena studied, theory formulation, and the methods applied. Antithetic thinking about these issues is probably fueled by the belief that the discrimination of quality and quantity adds some sort of valuation to the research in question. But this belief is deeply mistaken: qualitative and quantitative research are intertwined on multiple levels, and neither is more “fundamental,” really. A clear-cut separation will therefore be of little use for either of the two “camps,” as it is bound to result in oversimplification of complex issues while ignoring the judgmental impact of the language used for labeling.
