INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

CONFERENCE ON
"THE EVOLUTION OF RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL NORMS"

 January 27 & 28, 2012
 Location: Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112

FRIDAY, JANUARY 27

9:00 – 9:10 Comments by Donald Saari, Director of IMBS and Michael McBride, Department of Economics

9:10 – 10:00 LAURENCE IANNACCONE
“Lessons from Delphi: Religious Markets, Sacred Capitals, and Prophet Functions"?

10:00 – 10:10 Discussion

10:10 – 10:20 BREAK

10:20 – 11:10 JAMES MONTGOMERY
“Models of Intergenerational Transmission”

11:10 – 11:20 DISCUSSION

11:20 – 12:10 SIMON LEVIN
“Consensus and Collective-Decision making”

12:10 –12:20 DISCUSSION

12:20 – 1:45  LUNCH BREAK

1:45 – 2:35  FRANCISCO AYALA
“Whence Religion and Morality: An Environmentalists' View”

2:35 – 2:45 DISCISSION

2:45 – 3:00 BREAK

3:00 – 3:50 MICHAEL MACY
“Network Structure and the Diffusion of Religious and Normative Pathogens”

3:50 – 4:00 DISCUSSION

4:00 – 4:50 JEAN-PAUL CARVALHO
“Cultural Resistance: How communities respond to Globalization and Development”

4:50 – 5:00 DISCUSSION

SATURDAY, JANUARY 28

10:00 – 10:50 PETER RICHERSON
“Cultural Group Selection and the Origin of Institutions and Norms”

10:50 – 11:00 DISCUSSION

11:00 – 11:50

HERB GINTIS
“Sticks and Stones: Lethal Weapons and the Evolution of Human Political Morality”


11:50 – 12:00 DISCUSSION

12:00 – 1:45 LUNCH BREAK

1:45 – 2:35 BRIAN SKYRMS
“Naturalizing the Social Contract”

2:35 – 2:45 DISCUSSION

2:45 – 5:00 -- SUMMARY AND GENERAL DISCUSSION --