“From the Genome to the General Assembly: Cooperation and Conflict Across Domains”
Program for the 4th Lembersky Conference in Human Evolutionary Studies
November 2-4, 2022.
Day 1: November 2
Location: Teleconference Room, Alexander Library, 4th floor, 169 College Avenue
9am: Breakfast and registration
10am: Welcome from Erin Vogel, Director of the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies
10:10am: Welcome from conference organizer Lee Cronk
10:15am: Keynote speaker, Gerald Wilkinson (Maryland): Insights from studies of cooperation and conflict at multiple levels
11am: Coffee break
11:30am: Christopher Ellison (Rutgers): Cooperation and conflict within the genome
12noon: Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello (Rutgers): The human microbiome in the anthropocene
12:30pm: lunch
1:30pm: Rebecca Brittain (Rutgers): Microbiota-host cooperation across a shifting nutritional landscape
2pm: Athena Aktipis (Arizona State): Multicellularity, cancer, and cooperation across domains
2:30pm: Alex Pritchard (UC Davis): Personality of stress-coping and social network position in a primate that forms temporary coalitions
3pm: Caitlin O’Connell (Rutgers): Social support in a semi-solitary species? The costs and benefits of sociality in wild orangutans
3:30pm – 4:30pm: Discussion
6pm: Reception in the Ruth Adams Building's third floor atrium on Rutgers' Douglass Campus
Day 2: November 3
Location: Teleconference Room, Alexander Library, 4th floor, 169 College Avenue
9am: Breakfast
10am: Livestream event with Athena Aktipis (Arizona State) and Gerald Wilkinson (Maryland)
11am: Coffee break
11:30am: Kristen Syme (VU Amsterdam): Interdependence and human cooperation
12 noon: Cathryn Townsend (Baylor): Cooperation without authority: insights from three societies
12:30pm: lunch
1:30pm: Drew Gerkey (Oregon State): What is a group?: social networks and the evolution of cooperation
2pm: Jessica Ayers (Boise State): How do we pick our friends?
2:30pm: Michelle Night Pipe (Rutgers): Reducing anti-Native bias in South Dakota: indigenous acts of remembrance and flexible coalitional psychology
3pm: Mark Aakhus (Rutgers): Argument, arguing, and argumentation as cooperation?
3:30pm – 4:30pm: Discussion
Day 3: November 4
Location: Teleconference Room, Alexander Library, 4th floor, 169 College Avenue
9am: Breakfast
10am: Elizabeth Matto (Rutgers): A shared responsibility: the theory and practice of teaching civic engagement
10:30am: Diego Guevara Beltran (Arizona State): The perceived (un)predictability of needs determines expectations of repayment
11am: Coffee break
11:30am: Barry Sopher (Rutgers): Opportunities for gains from cooperation in non-ergodic stochastic environments
12noon: Richard Sosis (Connecticut): Religion and cooperation: a systematic approach
12:30pm: lunch
1:30pm: Victoria Ramenzoni (Rutgers): Commons and the supernatural: navigating multidimensional maritime spaces and property rights
2pm – 3pm: Discussion
