Past events

CANCELLED: Cultural Evolution Seminar: Visualising and Exploring Human Environmental Timelines
Markus Jonsson on visualising and exploring socioecological coevolution.

Public lab encounter between CEK and CUDAN Estonia
Researchers from CEK will present their work and discuss with researchers from CUDAN Estonia.

Cultural Evolution Webinar: Digital age – the long view
Alberto Acerbi on how cultural evolution is a useful framework to understand spread of information in digital media.

Cultural Evolution Seminar: Sequence representation as an early step in the evolution of language
Anna Jon-And on why human culture is rooted in sequential processing abilities.

Linguistics webinar: Modelling a minimal cognitive architecture for the acquisition of grammar
Anna Jon-And presents a cognitive architecture for language acquisition from a domain-general perspective.

Cultural Evolution Webinar: Spectral Knowledge Representation for Music
Geraint A. Wiggins on a new approach to knowledge representation in AI that relates to the comprehension of music.

Cultural Evolution Webinar: The role of medical treatments in signalling a need for care
Mícheál de Barra on how whe value of many harmful medical treatments may lie in their ability to honestly "advertise" one's need for support during illness.

Cultural Evolution Seminar: Meta-norms around the globe: Appropriateness using social sanctions

Cultural Evolution Seminar: The culture that wasn't?
Alberto Acerbi on how individual and social learning can often not be distinguished.

Cultural Evolution Seminar: The first few minutes of learning a language
Marianne Gullberg: Breaking and entering. The first few minutes of learning a (spoken or signed) language. 10 April 2018

Cultural Evolution Seminar: Manual actions broaden the mind: infant cognitive development
Gustaf Gredebäck aims to gain a better understanding of how infants are shaped by the experiences they have early in life.

Cultural Evolution Seminar: Trajectories of democratic inclusion: expanding the right to vote
Ludvig Beckman provides an overview of electoral exclusions in contemporary democracies. 15 October 2019

Cultural Evolution Seminar: Thinking and Cultural Evolution
Magnus Enquist on why human uniqueness may be a product of cultural rather than genetic evolution. 2 October 2019

Cultural Evolution Seminar: Sequences in democratization
Patrik Lindenfors presents methods for explaining successful democratization. 24 September 2019

Cultural Evolution Seminar: Sequence memory as a first step in the human evolutionary transition
Anna Jon-And from the Centre for Cultural Evolution presents theoretical work on when evolution favours differents kinds of memory adaptations. 4 September 2019

Symposium on cultural evolution
Four sessions on cultural evolution with invited speakers. 7 March 2018

Cultural Evolution Seminar: Beliefs about Climate Change
Malcolm Fairbrother: Beliefs about Climate Change, Support for Climate Policies, and the Importance of Political Trust

Cultural Evolution Seminar: Planning in non-human animals
Johan Lind will talk about planning in non-human animals: is it human-like or a product of associative learning?

Cultural Evolution Seminar: Belief System Networks
Mark Brandt from Tilburg University will conceptualise and analyse attitudes and identities as interactive nodes in a belief system network.

Cultural Evolution Seminar: Government transfers from nonparents to parents and population policy
Martin Kolk: Government transfers from nonparents to parents and population policy in a global perspective – An economic demographic approach. 4 Dec 2018

Cultural Evolution Seminar: Moving beyond economic models of human behavior and cooperation
Kimmo Eriksson on the benefits of abandoning economic models when trying to understand human behaviour and how it changes in a population. 13 November 2018

Cultural Evolution Seminar: Demonstration of a learning simulator
A general software for simulating learning processes in human psychology and nature will be demonstrated. 12 June 2018

Guest seminar
Magnus Enquist, CEK, on evolution. In Swedish. 14 Feb 2018

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