Conference: Applications in Cultural Evolution, June 6-8, Tartu

With Oleg Sobchuk, we organized the conference “Applications in Cultural Evolution: Arts, Languages, Technologies” on June 6-8 in Tartu, Estonia. The summary of the event is visible here.

Applications in Cultural Evolution: Arts, Languages, Technologies is a 4-day cultural evolution meeting planned to take place in Tartu, Estonia, in June 5-8. On June 5, there are introductory workshops from the plenary speakers. June 6-8, the conference itself will take place.

The focus of the conference is on applications of cultural evolution in various domains, their capabilities and comparisons. Contributions related to this in form of case studies, generalizations or meta- and methodological generalizations are welcome. Primarily, we aim to provide a venue for discussions on these matters can be developed in organized sessions and informal settings. Join us!

Conference is over. Thanks for participating!

Keynote lectures are posted online:

• Jamie Tehrani (Durham University) - Languages, Genes and Folktales: the Plot Thickens
• Nathalie Gontier (University of Lisbon) Cultural Evolution and Explanatory Pluralism: The Applied Evolutionary Epistemological Approach
• Kristian Tylén (Aarhus University - The cumulative cultural evolution of prehistoric symbolic behavior

See also:

• Twitter timeline
• Detailed schedule
• Workshop contents
• Book of abstracts
• Palgrave Communications special issue on Cultural Evolution - features some of the papers and authors from the conference.