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From Grooming to Speaking: Recent trends in social primatology and human ethology

4/16/2012

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Call deadline: 8 July 2012
Event Dates: 10-11 September 2012
Event Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Event URL: http://cfcul.fc.ul.pt/linhas_investigacao/Philosophy%20of%20Life%20Sciences/int_col/index.htm

The Centre for Philosophy of Science of the Faculty of Science of the Portuguese University of Lisbon is organizing a 2-day international colloquium entitled 'From Grooming to Speaking: Recent Trends in social Primatology and Human Ethology', on September 10-11, 2012. 

Plenary talks will be given by: 

Johan Bolhuis 
Augusta Gaspar 
Nathalie Gontier 
Mary Lee Jensvold 
Simone Pika 
Tim Racine 
Jordan Zlatev 
More tba 

We call for primatologists, ethologists, anthropologists, sociobiologists, evolutionary, cognitive and comparative psychologists, biolinguists, evolutionary linguists, bio-ethicists, philosophers and historians of science, to provide talks on: 
(1) Historical reviews on the introduction and use of primate studies to acquire knowledge on the origin and evolution of communication and language 
(2) Methodologies of primate communication and language research 
(3) Theories on primate communication and the evolution of language
(4) Ethical issues in social primatology and human ethology 
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The Second International Meeting of Genetic Evolution and Linguistic Evolution

7/21/2011

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Sorry for the late update on this, it is passed the submission deadline, but this may still be of interest to people in the area.
Event Dates: 16-18 September 2011
Event Location: Shanghai, China
Event URL: http://comonca.org.cn/ee/ee-en.htm

Along with the developments in the fields of anthropology in East Asia, many data and much knowledge have been accumulated recently in molecular anthropology and linguistic anthropology, shedding lights on the origin and diversification of the human populations in the Far East. Communications among the subfields are eagerly required to share the knowledge and draw more detailed conclusions on the human population histories. Since the first International Meeting of Linguistic Evolution and Genetic Evolution was hold in 2005 successfully, the second meeting will be necessary to discuss the new data and new results. Therefore, we sincerely invite you to the meeting to be hold in this September in Shanghai.

Language: Chinese, English

Program:
   1) Phylogeny of Sino-Tibetan;
   2) Phylogeny of Daic and Austronesian;
   3) Linguistics and genetics of the North Asians and Southeast Asians;
   4) Computation and Statistics Methods.

Fields including: Evolutionary Linguistics, Molecular Anthropology, Archaeological Anthropology, Forensic Anthropology, Genetic Structure of World Populations.

Several famous linguists and geneticists will be invited for plenary lectures.
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Protolang 2 [Submission Deadline Extended]

6/1/2011

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Call deadline: 15 June 2011
Event Dates: 19-21 September 2011
Event Location: Torun, Poland
Event URL: http://www.protolang.umk.pl/

In response to a number of requests submission deadline has been extended to 15th June 2011.

Protolang is a biennial conference organised by the Department of English, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun. One of the primary goals of this conference is bringing together researchers representing a variety of areas in order to gain a multidisciplinary perspective on the range of currently available evidence relevant to early language evolution. The focus of the conference is on the early stages of the emergence of symbolic, language-like communication in hominids. The conference will reflect the inherently interdisciplinary nature of research into the evolution of language. We invite papers from a wide range of subjects related to language evolution.

Keynote Speakers:

John Gowlett (University of Liverpool; Lucy to Language British Academy Project) - "Language Beginnings – a view from the early archaeological record"

Juliane Kaminski (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) - "Do dogs get the point"

Adam Kendon (Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania)- "An evolutionary approach to explaining why patterned visible bodily action commonly occurs when people speak"

Katie Slocombe (Department of Psychology, University of York)
"Vocal communication in chimpanzees"

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Summer Institute in Cognitive Science: The Origins of Language

3/13/2010

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Reminder: One week left for discounted registrations.

Event Dates: 21 - 30 June 2010
Event Location: Montreal, Canada
Meeting URL: http://www.summer10.isc.uqam.ca/page/inscription.php

The Cognitive Science Institute of the Université du Québec à Montréal is
pleased to launch the program of its third Summer Institute which will bear on The Origins of Language and will take place at UQAM (Montreal, Canada) in June 2010. The program is on the web site of the Summer institute at the following address:

http://www.summer10.isc.uqam.ca/

The program features a wide range of talks from well known researchers across a number of disciplines. The following list provides a small sample of the talks on offer.
  • Biological Evolution - David Sloan Wilson
  • Co-Evolution of Language and Culture - William Durham
  • Animal Communication - Stephanie White
  • Brain Evolution - Terrence Deacon
  • Origins of Human Communication - Michael Tomasello
  • Language as A Culturally Evolving System: From Computer Simulation to The Experiment Lab - Simon Kirby
  • How Language Emerges in Situated Embodied Interactions - Luc Steels
  • On the Origin of Grammar - Bernd Heine
Luke McCrohon
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Language as an evolutionary system: A multidisciplinary approach

3/10/2010

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Event dates: 12-13 July 2010
Event Location: Edinburgh
Meeting URL: http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~monica/LES

"This workshop is concerned with how Darwinian thinking can be applied to the cultural evolution of language. A multidisciplinary collection of contributions form the fields of linguistics, psychology, biology and philosophy will help construct a clearer picture of the state of this field. Additionally, the workshop will hopefully identify empirical ways to solve conflicts and inconsistencies whicn may inform future research and collaborations."

Presenters:

Bill Croft
Tom Griffiths
Alex Mesoudi
Russell Gray
Kenny Smith
Gerhard Jaeger
Monica Tamariz
Simon Kirby
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