[evo.theory] Darwin & Social Sciences Conference-ANU, Canberra, November

[Rachael Brown]

Darwin and the Social Sciences Conference
Location: Sparkle Helmore Lecture Theatre 1
Law School, ANU


There is no registration fee. But those who wish to attend should e- 
mail Kim Sterelny (kimbo at coombs.anu.edu.au) to register their  
interest, since numbers are important for reasons of space and coffee- 
supply.


Thursday November 12

First Keynote: 9.15 am- 10.30  Brian Boyd "'Open Fields': Darwin, the  
Humanities and the Social Sciences"

Coffee: 10.30- 11am

Stephen Davies “Music, adaptation, transformation” 11am-12pm

Ben Fraser “Sexual Selection and Human Morality” 12pm – 1pm

Lunch (independent foraging) 1pm- 2.30 pm


2.30 pm- 615 pm: Language Afternoon (joint with RSPacS Linguistics  
Conference)

Second Keynote 2.30-3.45 Russell Gray: “Darwinism and Cultural  
Evolution”

Coffee: 3.45-4.15

Nicholas Evans: “Renewing the Darwin connection: coevolutionary  
approaches in post-Chomskyan linguistics” 4.15-5.15

Michael Michaels “English is biologically heritable"

Conference Dinner 7.45 on

(venue: tba. It will be an inexpensive Asian café near the ANU. Those  
interested in attending the dinner should e-mail Kim Sterelny kimbo at coombs.anu.edu.au 
  so that he can book for appropriate numbers)



Friday November 13


Elias L. Khalil “Charles Darwin Meets Organismus economicus” 9.15-10.15

Gerald Keaney “From Marx to Darwin: what can economic explanations of  
society can teach us about biological ones?” 10.15-11.15

Coffee: 11.15-11.45

11.45-12.45 Pam Lyon “When Psyche met Darwin: An already consummated  
affair?

Lunch (independent foraging) 12.45 - 2. Pm

Third Keynote 2pm- 3.15 Peter Godfrey Smith 'Darwinism and Cultural  
Change.'

Coffee 3.15-3.45

Fourth Keynote 3.45- 5pm Paul Seabright  “Darwin and Human Society”

Brett Calcott and Lina Eriksson: Explaining institutional change: what  
social science should borrow from biology


7.30pm onwards:
Special Musical Event Jane Sheldon and the Australian Premier of “The  
Origin Cycle”

(Big Band Room, School of Music — free, but those wishing to attend  
must e-mail Sterelny for a ticket, as space strictly limited. For  
further information, see Origin-ANU poster)



Saturday November 14


Robert Scotney “Creativity and the Origin of the Species” 9.30-10.30

Coffee: 10.30-11pm

Final Keynote Speaker 11pm-12.15 pm Dalton Conley “Genes in the  
Ghetto, Chromosomes in the Kitchen: How Can We Estimate Genetic- 
Environmental Interaction Effects?

12.15- 1.45 pm lunch

Kirsty Douglas 'Professor Owen and the not-elephant: Armchair  
travellers in the empires of the dead'. 1.45- 2.45


Kim Sterelny “From Fitness to Utility” 2.45-3.45

Survivor’s Drinks at Wig and Pen

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Rachael Brown
Philosophy Program, RSSS  and
Tempo and Mode: Centre for Macroevolution & Macroecology,
The Australian National University
rachael at coombs.anu.edu.au
ex.53000
+ 61 402 098 909



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