08:30-09:00 – ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Registration ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
09:10-10:00 – Anthropology Keynote: Dr Jamie Tehrani, Durham University: “Cultural traditions and population histories – how are they related?”
10:00-10:30 – Dr Joseph Stubbersfield, University of St Andrews: “Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality’: Testing for a moral content bias in cultural transmission”
10:30-11:00 – ~~~~~~~~~ Coffee Break + Poster Session ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
11:00-11:50 – Archaeology Keynote: Prof Alex Bentley, University of Bristol: “Cultural sustainability from prehistory to modern media”
11:50-12:20 – Dr Liliana Janik, University of Cambridge: “Exploring visual culture: neurophysiology, cultural preferences and storytelling over the last hundred thousand years”
12:20-12:50 – Dr Fiona Coward, University of Bournemouth: “What does (material) culture do?”
12:50-13:50 – ~~~~~~~~~ Lunch (Caribbean buffet) ~~~~~~~~~~
13:50-14:40 – Biology Keynote: Dr Claudio Tennie, University of Birmingham: “Human culture: (still) alien to chimpanzee culture”
14:40-15:10 – Dr William Hoppitt, Anglia Ruskin University: “Developing quantitative methods for studying social learning in the field”
15:10-15:40 – Elena Miu, University of St Andrews: “Emergent conformity in cumulative culture”
15:40-16:10 – ~~~~~~~~ Coffee Break + Poster Session ~~~~~~~
16:10-17:00 – Psychology Keynote: Dr Thomas Scott-Phillips, Durham University: “The theory of cultural attraction”
17:00-17:30 – Dr Laurel Fogarty, University College London: ” Modelling cultural change: what mathematics can add to the study of culture and why it matters”
17:30-18:00 – Maggie Lieu, University of Birmingham: “The transition of culture through interplanetary colonisation”
18:00-18:30 – ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Drinks Reception ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~