Thursday, 9th June 2016

08:30-09:15	~~~~~~~~~ Coffee & Registration ~~~~~~~ Hills Building, School of Psychology
09:30-09:45	Welcome Aston Webb, Room G5
09:45-10:15	Keynote 1 Carel van Schaik: Why us? On the evolution of the capacity for cultural evolution in our lineage
10:15-10:40	Discussion
10:45-11:30	Coffee Break + Poster Session
11:30-11:50	Podium presentation Amanda Lucas, Francesca Happé, Christine Caldwell, Alex Thornton: Examining the role of teaching and imitation in generating cumulative culture
11:50-12:10	Podium presentation Claudio Tennie: If cultural attractors explain human culture, then imitation should not matter (much). So, does it?
12:10-12:35	Discussion
12:40-13:40	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Lunch~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
13:45-14:15	Keynote 2 Peter Richerson: Cumulative Cultural Evolution as Collective Cognition
14:15-14:40	Discussion
14:40-14:55	~~~~~~~~~~~~~Coffee Break ~~~~~~~~~~~~
14:55-15:05	Pecha Kucha talk 1 Miriam Haidle & Michael Bolus: From cultural accumulation to donated culture – archaeological hints on cumulative culture
15:05-15:15	Pecha Kucha talk 2 Helena Miton: Statistical variability in cultural transmission studies: Why and how to exploit it?
15:15-15:25	Pecha Kucha talk 3 James Walker & David Clinnick: Reviewing the evidence of cumulative culture in the Howieson’s Poort sub-phase of the Middle Stone Age
15:25-15:50	Discussion
15:50-16:00	~~~~~~~~~~~Leg-stretcher~~~~~~~~~~~~
16:00-16:30	Keynote 3 Rachel Kendal: What is cumulative culture, who has it, and why might this be?
16:30-16:55	Discussion
17:00-18:00	Drinks

Keynote speakers will be taken for dinner at the city centre. Please find information about where to go for dinner here. After dinner, we will go to a pub/beer garden nearby (The Old Crown) and we encourage everyone to join (approximate time will be announced on the first day).

 

Friday, 10th June 2016

09:15-09:30	~~~~~~~~~~~~~Registration~~~~~~~~~~~
09:30-10:00	Keynote 4 Olivier Morin: Burying the ratchet
10:00-10:25	Discussion
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break + Poster Session
11:00-11:20	Podium presentation Mathieu Charbonneau: All innovations are equal, but some more than others: (Re)integrating modification processes to the origins of cumulative culture
11:20-11:40	Podium presentation Andrew Buskell: Cultural Evolvability: exploring Cumulative Culture
11:40-12:05	Discussion
12:10-13:10	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Lunch~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
13:10-13:40	Keynote 5 Alex Mesoudi: Cumulative Culture’s catalysts and constraints: Transmission fidelity, population size and acquisition costs
13:40-14:05	Discussion
14:05-14:30	~~~~~~~~~~~~~Coffee Break~~~~~~~~~~~~
14:30-14:40	Pecha Kucha talk 4 Rachel Harrison, Edwin van Leeuwen, Andrew Whiten: Innovative and flexible tool-based solutions in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in response to a changing foraging task
14:40-14:50	Pecha Kucha talk 5 Takao Sasaki & Dora Biro: From collective to cumulative intelligence in animal groups
14:50-15:00	Pecha Kucha talk 6 Michael Muthukrishna: Innovation in the Collective Brain
15:00-15:30	Discussion
15:30-15:40	Concluding Remarks

Those who are not in a rush are encouraged to get together and round the conference off with a nice meal or a drink.