INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EVOLUTIONARY PATTERNS Horizontal and Vertical Transmission and Micro- and Macroevolutionary Patterns of Biological and Sociocultural Evolution
May 27-29th, 2013 | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal Website: http://evolutionarypatterns.fc.ul.pt Upon wide request, we are happy to inform you that we extended the deadline for submissions to February 5th ABOUT THE CONFERENCE The 3-day International Conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform where evolutionary scholars from the exact, technological, life, human and sociocultural sciences can exchange ideas and techniques on how to conceptualize, model, and quantify biological and sociocultural evolution. The Conference is organized by the Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab of the Centre for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon, in collaboration with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and with the support of the John Templeton Foundation. PLENARY AND INVITED SPEAKERS Plenary Speakers Michael Benton, Tal Dagan, John Jungck, Carl Knappett, Daniel McShea, Alex Mesoudi, Mark Pagel, Tyler Volk, and Richard Watson Invited Speakers Quentin Atkinson, Alberto Bisin & Thierry Verdier, Andreas Bohn, Michael Bradie, Jorge Carneiro, Claudine Chaouiya, Mark Collard, Alex de Voogt, Frank Kressing & Matthis Krischel, André Levy, Margarida Matos, Telmo Pievani, Luis Mateus Rocha, Élio Sucena. The conference website contains biographies of all speakers as well as the abstracts of their talk. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS We call for bio-informaticians, evolutionary biologists, microbiologists, paleontologists, geologists, physicists, mathematicians, anthropologists, archeologists, linguists, sociologists, economists, and philosophers and historians of science to provide talks on the following topics: 1. Conceptualization, quantification and modeling of horizontal and vertical transmission in biological and sociocultural sciences 2. Conceptualization, quantification and modeling of micro- and macroevolution in biological and sociocultural sciences 3. Hierarchy theory and the units, levels and mechanisms of evolution 4. How the universal application of evolutionary theories enables new possibilities for inter- and transdisciplinary research and the unification of the sciences We encourage submissions of (1) concrete models and simulations, (2) theoretical, reflexive talks, and (3) historical accounts on any of the above mentioned topics. POSSIBLE FORMATS We call for mini-symposia (3 or 6 talks), poster sessions (3 or 6 posters), as well as individual regular and poster talks. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline Submissions: February 5th, 2013 Notification of Acceptance: March 1st, 2013 Registration Deadline for all Presenters: April 1st, 2013 Registration Deadline Audience: May 1st, 2013 Conference Dates: May 27th-29th, 2013 REGISTRATION FEES Professors: 300 euro | PhD and post-docs: 250 euro | Audience: 100 euro | Students: 50 euro DOWNLOAD OUR POSTER http://evolutionarypatterns.fc.ul.pt/docs/patterns.pdf SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MAILINGLIST http://eepurl.com/n2DTL FURTHER INFORMATION http://evolutionarypatterns.fc.ul.pt; http://appeel.fc.ul.pt
