Friday, January 13, 2012

Hi folks, here's a notice on a conference integrating evolutionary biology, the evolutionary social sciences, and studies in the humanities: http://consilienceconference.com/

Grad students and post-docs are invited to submit poster proposals (deadline February 15).

Keynote speaker: E. O. Wilson, author of Consilience and of The Social Conquest of Earth (forthcoming).

SIX SPEAKERS FROM BIOLOGY
Herb Gintis
Henry Harpending
John Hawks
Michael Rose
Peter Turchin
David Sloan Wilson

SIX SPEAKERS FROM THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Christopher Boehm
Pascal Boyer
Robert Frank
David Linden
Dan McAdams
Barb Oakley

SIX SPEAKERS FROM THE HUMANITIES
Brian Boyd
Joseph Carroll
Patricia Churchland
Ellen Dissanayake
Jonathan Gottschall
Massimo Pigliucci