Evolution and the Social Mind: Speaker Series

Evolution and the Social Mind

UC Santa Barbara's
Evolutionary and Behavioral Social Sciences
Speaker Series

Winter 1998 | Spring 1998 | Fall 1998

Winter 1999 | Spring 1999 | Winter 2000

Imagination and the Adapted Mind conference


*Winter Quarter 1998*

*Friday February 27 3:30pm*	*Catching a Serpent with Another's Hand:* *The Tropical Landscapes of Proverbia*
*English Department* *SH 2635*	*Paul Hernadi and Francis Steen* *English, UCSB*

*Friday March 6* *12:30pm*	*The Neurology of Narrative*
*IHC* *HSSB 6020*	*Kay Young, English, UCSB* *Jeff Saver, Neurology, UCLA*

*Friday March 13* *12:30pm*	*A Functional Analysis of Memory:* *Remembering the Self and Other Persons*
*IHC* *HSSB 6020*	*Stanley Klein* *Psychology, UCSB*


*Spring Quarter 1998*

*Friday April 10, 1998* *12:30pm - 2pm*	*Issues in the Debate over Evolved Functional Specializations versus General-purpose Capacities in Human and Non-human Cognitive Architectures*
*Anthropology Department* *HSSB 2001A*	*Open Discussion*

*Friday April 17, 1998* *12:30pm - 2pm*	*Narrative and the Evolution of Intelligence*
*Anthropology Department* *HSSB 2001A*	*Porter Abbott* *English, UCSB*

*Wednesday April 21* *3:00pm*	*Ecological Intelligence: An Adaptation to Frequencies*
*Anthropology Department* *HSSB 2001A*	*Gerd Gigerenzer* *Director, Max Planck Institute, Berlin*

*Friday April 24, 1998* *12:30pm - 2pm*	*What We Were, What We Have Become: Human Cognitive Evolution*
*IHC* *HSSB 6020*	*Merlin Donald* *Psychology, Queen's University*

*Wednesday May 6, 1998* *11:30am - 1:00pm*	*Related Talk: Rationalizability In Incomplete Information Games* *Paolo Battigalli, Princeton*
*Economics Department* *North Hall 2014*	*The Evolutionary Dynamics Workshop Seminar*

*Friday May 8, 1998* *12:30pm - 2pm*	*Group selection, selection in social contexts, and levels of selection*
*Anthropology Department* *HSSB 2001A*	*Open Forum Discussion*

*Friday May 8, 1998* *2:00pm - 4:00pm*	*Related talk: How We Became Posthuman: HumanisticImplications of Recent Scientific Research into Cognitive Science and Artificial Life*
*Institute for Theoretical* *Physics 1003 Kohn*	*N. Katherine Hayles, English, UCLA*

*Monday May 11, 1998* *12:30pm - 2pm*	*Related talk:Early word learning*
*IHC* *HSSB 6020*	*Ellen Markman, Psychology, Stanford*

*Friday May 15, 1998* *12:30pm - 2pm*	*The Evolution of Culturally Diverse Social Psychologies*
*Anthropology Department* *HSSB 2001A*	*Alan Page Fiske* *Anthropology, UCLA*

*Friday May 22, 1998* *12:30pm - 2pm*	*The Evolution of Moral Sentiments, Practices, and Rules*
*Anthropology Department* *HSSB 2001A*	*Open Forum Discussion*

*Friday May 29, 1998* *2:00pm - 4:00pm*	*Parental Misinterpretation of Children as Competitors: A Predictor of Child Abuse*
*Anthropology Department* *HSSB 2001A*	*Daphne Bugental* *Department of Psychology, UCSB*

*Monday June 1, 1998* *3:30pm - 5pm*	*Related talk: The Once and Future Infant* *Jean Mandler, Cognitive Science, UCSD*
*IHC* *HSSB 6020*	*Developmental and Evolutionary Psychology / Interdisciplinary Human Development series*

*Thursday June 4, 1998* *4:00 - 5:30pm*	*Related talk: Natural Assumptions: Race and the Power of Essence* *Lawrence Hirschfeld, Anthropology, Michigan*
*Phelps 3523*	*Anthropology Spring Colloquium series*


*Fall Quarter 1998*

*Tuesday October 20, 1998* *12:30pm - 2pm*	*Towards a Psychology of Neoformalism:* *Empirical Studies of Literary Response*
*IHC* *HSSB 6020*	*David Miall* *English, University of Alberta*


*Winter Quarter 1999*

*Monday January 11, 1999* *4:00pm - 5pm*	*Reading patients: Medical semiotics since ancient times*
*IHC* *HSSB 6020*	*Thomas Sebeok, Indiana University*

*Friday January 22, 1999* *12:30pm - 2pm*	*How cultural representations spread: Experimental evidence on religious concepts and evolved ontologies*
*IHC* *HSSB 6020*	*Pascal Boyer* *Anthropology, CNRS, Paris*

*Friday January 29, 1999* *12:30pm - 2pm*	*On Evolutionary Game Theory, Bargaining, and Experimental Economics*
*IHC* *HSSB 6020*	*Chris Proulx* *Economics, UCSB*

*Monday February 8, 1999* *4:00pm - 5:30 pm*	*On Intention*
*Psychology Bldg 387*	*David Premack*

*Wednesday February 10, 1999* *1:00pm - 2:30pm*	*Life History Theory and the Puzzle of Modern Fertility*
*IHC* *HSSB 6020*	*Hillard Kaplan*

*Wednesday February 24, 1999* *4:00pm - 5:30 pm*	*Related talk: Deceiving and Detecting Deceit*
*Girvetz 1004*	*Bella DePaulo* *Psychology, University of Virginia*

*Friday February 26, 1999* *3:30pm - 5:00 pm*	*Externalization and Presence in Real and Virtual Environments*
*Flying A Studios Room UCEN*	*Jack Loomis* *Psychology, UCSB*

*Friday March 5, 1999* *12:30pm - 2:00pm*	*Thinking and Feeling*
*Anthropology Department* *HSSB 2001A*	*Paul Romer* *Economics and Graduate School of Business, Stanford University*

*Spring Quarter 1999*

*Friday April 9, 1999* *12:30pm - 2:00pm*	*Why Is Literature: A Co-Evolutionary Perspective on Imaginative Worldmaking*
*Anthropology Department* *HSSB 2001A*	*Paul Hernadi* *English and Comparative Literature, UCSB*

*Monday April 12, 1999* *2:15pm - 3:45pm*	*UC Hitcock Lectures* *Perception, Imagery, and Science*
*Engineering Pavillion*	*Roger N. Shepard* *Professor of Psychology, Emeritus* *Stanford University*

*Wednesday April 14, 1999* *3:15pm - 4:45pm*	*UC Hitcock Lectures* *The Grounds of Science and of Ethics*
*Multicultural Theater* *UCEN*	*Roger N. Shepard* *Professor of Psychology, Emeritus* *Stanford University*

*Friday April 16, 1999* *12:30pm - 2pm*	*The Hunting Apes:* *Meat-eating, meat-sharing, and the roots of human social cognition*
*Anthropology Department* *HSSB 2001A*	*Craig B. Stanford* *Associate Professor of Anthropology and* *Co-Director, Jane Goodall Research Center* *USC*

*Friday April 23, 1999* *12:30pm - 2pm*	*The Forager Olympics. Does it take 20 years to become a competent hunter-gatherer?*
*Anthropology Department* *HSSB 2001A*	*Nicholas G. Blurton Jones* *Anthropology, UCLA*

*Friday May 7, 1999* *12:30pm - 2pm*	*The Moulding of Subjectivity in Literature*
*Anthropology Department* *HSSB 2001A*	*Jørgen Dines Johansen* *Professor & Chair of General and* *Comparative Literature at Odense University*

*Friday May 21, 1999* *12:30pm - 2pm*	*Human Language and Animal Communication in the Context of the Evolutionary Origin of Language*
*Anthropology Department* *HSSB 2001A*	*Charles N. Li* *Professor of Linguistics, UCSB*

*Friday May 28, 1999* *12:30pm - 2pm*	*The Interactive Interface between Gender and Ethnic Discrimination: A Social Dominance and Evolutionary Perspective*
*Anthropology Department* *HSSB 2001A*	*James H. Sidanius* *Professor of Psychology, UCLA*

*Winter Quarter 2000*

*Friday January 14, 2000* *12:30pm - 2:00pm*	*Of Hobbes and Harvey: The Imaginary Companions Created by Children and Adults*
*Anthropology Department* *HSSB 2001A*	*Marjorie Taylor* *Psychology,* *University of Oregon*

*Friday February 14, 2000* *4:00pm - 5:30pm*	*Brain, Mind, and Culture:* *What Relationship?*
*IHC* *HSSB 6020*	*Steven Mithen* *Anthropology,* *Reading University*

*Friday March 17, 2000* *12:00pm - 1:30pm*	*Implicit Pedagogy:* *From Chase Play to Collaborative Worldmaking*
*Phelps 2516*	*Stephanie Owens, Educational Psychology,* *U of Northern Colorado* *Francis Steen, English, UCSB*

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