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