terça-feira, 4 de setembro de 2012

FROM GROOMING TO SPEAKING: RECENT TRENDS IN SOCIAL PRIMATOLOGY AND HUMAN ETHOLOGY

Faculty of Science of the University of Lisbon, Portugal
September 10-12, 2012



Confirmed Speakers:

Johan Bolhuis
Constança Carvalho
Augusta Gaspar
Nathalie Gontier
Mary Lee Jensvold
Simone Pika
Tim Racine
Jeroen Stevens
Jordan Zlatev

CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE JUNE 30TH

We call for primatologists, ethologists, anthropologists, sociobiologists, evolutionary, cognitive and comparative psychologists, biolinguists, evolutionary linguists, bio-ethicists, philosophers and historians of science, to provide talks on:

- Historical reviews on the introduction and use of primate studies to acquire knowledge on the origin and evolution of communication and language
- Methodologies of primate communication and language research
- Theories on primate communication and the evolution of language
- Ethical issues in social primatology and human ethology

Please, send an abstract of about 500 words, before June 30th, 2012, to Ricardo Santos:  rssantos@fc.ul.pt. Notification of acceptance will follow by July, 15th, 2012.

For more information, and to register, visit: http://cfcul.fc.ul.pt/linhas_investigacao/Philosophy%20of%20Life%20Sciences/int_col/index.htm