NEI events, KLI scholarships, Dibner Institute
Seminar
In this email:
1. New England Institute Lectures and
Conference
2. KLI Scholarships
3. Dibner Institute Seminar in History
of Biology
--------Message 1 of 3: New England Institute Lectures and
Conference---------
The New England Institute
Cognitive Science and Evolutionary
Psychology
Events 2001-2002
Opening: Friday, November 2nd, 2001,
7pm
The Cognitive Unconscious: an Evolutionary
Perspective
Arthur Reber, Ph.D,
Dr. Reber is Broeklundian Professor of Psychology and Head of
the Ph.D. program in Experimental Psychology at Brooklyn College of
CUNY. His current research focus is implicit learning and unconscious
cognitive processes. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological
Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, New
York Academy of Sciences, and serves on the Executive Council of the
Society for Philosophy and Psychology and has authored numerous
books, including the well received Implicit Learning and Tacit
Knowledge: An Essay on the Cognitive Unconscious, and over sixty
articles and book chapters, including, 'The cognitive unconscious:
An evolutionary perspective'.
Venue: University of New England, 716 Stevens Avenue,
Portland, Maine
Room: Parker Pavilion
Admission: Free
1st Annual William D. Hamilton Memorial
Lecture
Friday, May 10th 2002, 7:00 PM
The Evolution and Biology of
Self-Deception
Robert L. Trivers, Ph.D.
The late William D. Hamilton has been described as 'one of the
greatest evolutionary theorists since Darwin'. Hamilton died in
2000 as a result of complications from malaria, contracted in the
Congo, where he was seeking to investigate the population of
chimpanzees who donated HIV-1 to human beings, as well as the mode of
transmission. A distinguished biologist and sociobiologist, Trivers
was a friend of Hamilton, and is an NEI Fellow. Dr. Trivers has
authored seminal theoretical papers social evolution, the evolution
of deception and self deception, reciprocal altruism and parental
investment theory that have had a huge impact on biological thinking,
evolutionary psychology, evolutionary anthropology and ethics. He is
the author of Social Evolution (Benjamin Cummings) and the
forthcoming Genes in Conflict (Harvard University Press)with
A. Burt.
Venue: University of New England, 716 Stevens Avenue,
Portland, Maine
Admission: Free
1st Annual International Conference
August 23-24, 2002
This historic interdisciplinary conference will explore
unconscious cognition and related processes, a notion which has been
highly contentious for at least the past two hundred years.
Directors
Director and Co-Founder: David Livingstone
Smith, Ph.D.
Associate Director and Co-Founder: Robert
E. Haskell, Ph.D.
Distinguished Fellows
Christopher R. Badcock, Ph.D. University of
London,
LSE Steven Kosslyn,
Ph.D, Harvard University
Linda A. W. Brakel, M.D. University of
Michigan George Lakoff,
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Wilma S. Bucci, Ph.D. Adelphi
University Steven Mithen,
Ph.D. University of
Reading
David M. Buss, Ph.D. University of Texas,
Austin.
Randolph M. Nesse,
M.D. University of Michigan
Noam Chomsky, Ph.D.
MIT Steven Pinker, Ph.D.,
MIT
Daniel C. Dennett, Ph.D.Tufts
University
Arthur Reber, Ph.D., City University of
New York
Richard Dawkins,Ph.D. Oxford
University Mark Solms, Ph.D., University of
London, UCL
Edward Erwin, Ph.D.University of
Miami Robert L.Trivers,
Ph.D. Rutgers University
Paul Gilbert, Ph.D. University of
Derby
Mark Turner, Ph.D., University of Maryland
Douglas Hofstadter, Ph.D.University of
Indiana George C. Williams, Ph.D.,
SUNY Stoneybrook
Ray S. Jackendoff, Ph.D. Brandeis University
Affiliates
The Journal of Mind and Behavior
New York City
Theoria et Historia Scientiarum,
Institute of Philosophy, Nicolas Copernicus
University, Torun, Poland
Metaphor and Symbol
University of Toronto
New England Institute
University of New England
716 Stevens Avenue
Portland, ME 04103
U.S.A.
Telephone: 207-797-7688, ext. 4539
Fax (207)878-4897
http:/www.une.edu/nei (under construction)
--------Message 2 of 3: KLI Scholarships---------
KLI Scholarships Available
The Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition
Research (KLI) in Altenberg/Vienna (Austria) invites applications
to two of its scholarship programs: the KLI Postdoctoral Grant
program and the KLI Visiting Scholarship program.
The KLI is a private, non.profit institution which primarily
supports theoretical research in evolutionary developmental biology
as well as in evolutionary cognitive science. The KLI also runs
a small animal facility for selected empirical projects in evolution
and cognition research.
Candidates for Postdoctoral Grants must have received
their Ph.D. or equivalent within the previous five years; substantial
publications are required at the time of application.
Postdoctoral grants run for one year, extendable for a second year
pending review. Postdoctoral Grants are to be used for
subsistence, travel, and other costs related to conducting research
at the KLI.
Candidates for Visiting Scholarships should have advanced
degrees in one or more disciplines relevant to their research and
show evidence of substantial scholarly accomplishment and/or
professional experience in the areas they propose to work in.
They may apply for visits whose duration ranges from one week to
several months, and which are renewable at the discretion of the KLI
Board of Directors. Visiting Scholarships cover travel and
nearby accommodation provided by the Institute.
--------Message 3 of 3: Dibner Institute Seminar in History of
Biology---------
Dibner Institute Seminar in History of Biology:
The Business of Life: Life Science and Industry in the 20th
Century
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
May 15-22, 2002
The Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology
announces
its Seminar in the History of Biology, to be held from the evening
of
May 15 through the morning of May 22, 2002, at the Marine
Biological
Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. This year's seminar will
examine the history of collaborations between academic and
industrial
life scientists.
Throughout the past century such collaborations have been
commonplace,
giving rise to many new agricultural and medical products. The
technologies that have arisen from these collaborations have
transformed
society dramatically, as much as any technologies stemming from
the
physical sciences. Examples include the antisera and antibiotics
that
helped to put infectious diseases into retreat, and the new breeds
of
crops and fertilizers that have helped forestall famine in many areas
of
the world. Yet the nature and significance of technological
developments
based on the life sciences, and brought to fruition by cooperative
work
between academic and industrial biologists, have received only
piecemeal
attention (and relatively little at that). There has been no
concerted
effort to examine these issues.
We will explore a range of collaborations across various life
sciences
and industries throughout the 20th century. The goals of the
seminar
include stimulating new research on the history of industrial life
science, and gaining historical perspective on the recent
controversies
surrounding the intimate relations between biologists and
industrialists
that have developed in relation to genetic engineering. Among
the
questions to be addressed are the following. In the past, what types
of
benefits have businesses offered in return for the technical advice
and
intellectual property of the biologists with whom they collaborated,
and
what restrictions on academic freedom have they imposed? In what
ways
have biologists transformed the businesses in which or with which
they
worked? In what ways (beyond merely providing technical advice)
have
life scientists contributed to transforming their ideas into
products
and making them successful in the wider social context? How have
the
interactions between basic life scientists and industry differed
in
agricultural versus medical arenas? What (if any) distinctive changes
in
biologist-industrialist relations have occurred recently in the
commercial applications of molecular genetics? By bringing
together
historians, sociologists, and life scientists, we will be able to
explore such questions in provocative and multidisciplinary ways.
Participation by leading biologists who have had practical experience
in
biotechnology will provide important perspectives on the sorts of
issues
that arise from these types of collaborations.
We seek a diverse interdisciplinary group in order to promote
rich,
productive discussions and cross-fertilization of ideas and
approaches.
Many collaborative projects have resulted from past Dibner seminars,
and
we expect the same this year. Organizers for the Dibner History of
Biology Seminars are John Beatty, James Collins, and Jane
Maienschein;
for this seminar, John Beatty (
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main
contact. For further information about the seminar series and
for
application materials and financial aid applications (note deadline
of
January 15, 2002), please contact: The Dibner Institute for the
History
of Science and Technology, Dibner Building, MIT E56-100, Cambridge
MA
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