Thursday, 25th May:
9:00-9:30 | Registration |
9:30-9:40 | Welcome |
9:40-10:10 | Keynote 1: Kevin Laland, University of St Andrews, UK: Innovation and the evolution of culture |
10:10-10:30 | Discussion |
10:30-11:30 | Coffee + Posters |
11:30-12:00 | Daniel R. Kelly, Purdue University, US: When Is ignorance adaptive in cultural evolution? |
12:00-12:30 | Mathieu Charbonneau, Central European University, Hungary: Recombination, modularity, and innovation |
12:30-12:50 | Discussion |
12:50-13:50 | Lunch |
13:50-14:20 | Keynote 2: Jonathan Sapsed, Newcastle University, UK: Six secrets of interdisciplinary innovation |
14:20-14:40 | Discussion |
14:40-15:10 | Francisco Brahm, University of Cambridge, UK: Cultural evolution and the theory of the firm |
15:10-15:30 | Discussion |
15:30-16:00 | Coffee |
16:00-16:30 | Regine E. Stolarczyk, University of Tübingen, Germany: What’s new in tool behavior: Using cognigrams and effective chains to detect new and old traits in the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa and beyond |
16:30-17:00 | Elizabeth Renner, University of Stirling, UK: Effect of information source on squirrel monkey performance in two binary discrimination tasks |
17:00-17:20 | Discussion |
18:00 Conference dinner (e-mails will be sent out soon)
Friday, 26th May:
9:15-9:30 | Coffee |
9:30-10:00 | Keynote 3: Grant Ramsey, University of Leuven, Belgium: Toward unified concepts of culture and innovation |
10:00-10:20 | Discussion |
10:20-11:20 | Coffee + Posters |
11:20-11:50 | Elena Hoicka, University of Sheffield, UK: Developing a parent report measure of problem solving from 12 to 47 months |
11:50-12:20 | Helena Miton, Central European University, Hungary: New perspectives on social learning strategies and cultural transmission experiments |
12:20-12:40 | Discussion |
12:40-13:40 | Lunch |
13:40-14:10 | Keynote 4: Valentine Roux, French National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris, France Expertise: A necessary condition for invention |
14:10-14:30 | Discussion |
14:30-15:00 | Tamar Rosenberg-Yefet, Tel Aviv University, Israel: Convergent Evolution or Cultural Transmission? Reconstructing the process of technological innovation in Lower Paleolithic societies – The case of the Levallois method |
15:00-15:20 | Discussion |
15:20-15:50 | Coffee |
15:50-16:20 | Keynote 5: Sarah R. Beck, University of Birmingham, UK: Child innovators in context |
16:20-16:40 | Discussion |
16:40-16:50 | Closing statements |