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

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