Members of the Somics project will have next week their 7th SYNERGY MEETING, (20-24 June 2016). You are all invited, if you are interested, to participate in the following events:
Monday 20 June, 13.00-18.30, (Room 101): Plenary session (open to members and guests of the department) – Collaborative work in progress:
Very short introductions by the PIs (5’ each)
Presentations (20’ each + 10’ discussion)
Suska (teaching project)
Tiffany (Mutual exclusivity project)
Matthias & Pavel (Tracking project)
(15.00-15.30: Coffee break)
Katerina (Ostension Theta project)
Cordula & Tiffany (Boxes project)
Africa (Tube project)
(17.00 -17.30: Coffee break)
Dora Kampis (FB Identity Change project)
Alex & Christophe (sunk cost project)
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Tuesday 21 June, 16.30 – 18.30, (Room 101): Tutorial (open to members and guests of the department)
Tutorial on CAT (Cultural Attraction Theory) by Thom Scott-Phillips & Dan
(background reading: T. Scott-Phillips, N. Claidière, D. Sperber (2014) How Darwinian is Cultural Evolution? Phil. Trans. B. Available here: http://www.dan.sperber.fr/wp-content/uploads/HowDarwinianIsCulturalEvolution.pdf )
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Wednesday, 22nd June, after the 17.00 Departmental Colloquium (Thom Scott-Phillips: Ostension and meaning in non-human primates), 19.30: Joint SOMICS – Colloquium dinner (Please register at the dinner doodle: http://doodle.com/poll/cedzc7hru467m3sc if you have not yet done so)