Day 1: Thursday 12th July
| 9:00-9:30 | Registration |
| 9:30-9:40 | Welcome |
| 9:40-10:40 | Keynote 1: Andrew Whiten, University of St Andrews: New Experiments Track Cumulative Cultural Change in Children and Chimpanzees |
| 10.40-11.30 | Posters & coffee |
| 11:30-12:00 | Claire Watson, University of Kyoto: Cultural Complexity in Japanese macaques: Literature Survey of Potential Behavioural Traditions |
| 12:00-12.30 | Carsten Bergenholz, Aarhus University: Cooling down atoms: How humans engage in collective, adaptive search when solving a novel and complex problem |
| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30-14.30 | Keynote 2 + Discussion: Eva Reindl and Elisa Bandini, Universities of St Andrews and Tübingen: Complexity: an inefficient concept for the study of culture |
| 14.30-15.00 | Coffee |
| 15.00-15.30 | Marina Bazhydai, Lancaster University: Information transmission in two-year-old children: preference for less complex over pedagogically demonstrated actions |
| 15.30-16.00 | Bill Thompson, University of California: A Bayesian Model of Cumulative Culture |
| 16.00-16.30 | Christian Rutz, University of St Andrews: Cumulative technological evolution in New Caledonian crows: from simple sticks to highly-efficient, crafted hooked tools |
18:00 Conference dinner @ Henderson’s Bistro
Day 2: Friday 13th July
| 9:00-9:30 | Coffee |
| 9:30-10.30 | Keynote 3: Nathan Emery, Queen Mary University London: The Corvid Cultural Complexity Conundrum |
| 10.30-11.15 | Posters & coffee |
| 11.15-11.45 | Maxime Derex, University of Exeter: Cultural evolution without insight? An experimental investigation |
| 11.45-12.15 | Cara Evans, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History: When does it pay to copy the detail? High-fidelity learning mechanisms, learning outcomes and the implications for complex culture |
| 12.15-12.45 | Thomas Morgan, Arizona State University: The empirical study of cognitive and demographic complexity in cultural evolution |
| 12.45-13.45 | Lunch |
| 13.45-14.45 | Keynote 4: Nicolas Claidière, Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive: The ecological vs. social origins of cumulative cultural evolution |
| 14.45-15.15 | Coffee |
| 15.15-16.30 | Panel Discussion hosted by Anne Kandler Panel: Andrew Whiten, Christine Caldwell, Nathan Emery, Claudio Tennie, Nicolas Claidière, Claire Watson & Cara Evans |
| 16.30-16.45 | Closing remarks & Twitter prizes |
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