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The 4-campus collaborative video colloquium series, 2005-06 ________________________________________________________________                        Fall, 2005 ________________________________________________________________ Sept 30,   Friday 1:30-3:00 Doug White "Civilizations as dynamic networks [streaming video]: Cities, hinterlands, populations, industries, trade and conflict" -   Oct 14,  Friday 2:00-3:30 Chris Chase-Dunn “Rise, fall and upward sweeps: the emergence of a global state"[streaming video]   Oct 28 Friday 1:30-3:20 Dwight Read “The  Evolution of Cultural Kinship: A non-Darwinian Odyssey”[streaming video]    Nov 4  Friday 1:30-3:20 Darren Schreiber "Humans are by nature political animals: New evidence and arguments [streaming video]"                ________________________________________________________________________ Dec 10th Saturday 10:00-1:15            UCI Human Sciences and Complexity 2nd Conference  4206 Soc Sci Plaza B 4th floor - Sociology's Robin Williams conference room;  Speakers:   Guillermo Algaze "The Sumerian Takeoff" Geoffrey Braswell "The Ancient Mesoamerican Network Society" Robert McCormick Adams "Excavating with Prosopography below the Elite Field of View in Early States" ________________________________________________________________                  Winter and Spring, 2006 ________________________________________________________________ Friday Jan 13 1:30-3:30 JIN, Xiaoyi;  DU, Haifeng; and LI,  Shuzhuo - Network Study of Rural-Urban Migration in China"[streaming video] Friday Feb. 3  1:00-3:00 Henry Wright "Recent Research on Mesopotamian State Emergence" [streaming video] Friday Feb 10 1:30-3:20 Michalis Faloutsos, UCR Computer Science "Network Models of Internet and Industry”[streaming video] Friday Feb 24 1:30-3:20  Adam Kuper "Structural endogamy in European educated bourgeoisies"[streaming video] Abstract Friday Mar 10 1:30-3:20 - Mike Agar, "Telling It Like It (Subjunctively) Is.  Organizational Complexity, Linguistic Anthropology, and Narrative" [streaming video] Abstract ______________________________________________________________________________________ Friday Mar 30 10:00-1:00 - UCI Human Sciences and Complexity 3rd Conference, Theme: Simulation Art Griffin, UCLA, and Charles Stanish, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Director "A simulation model of Lake Titicaca Basin settlement patterns circa 2500 BC - AD 1000" [streaming video] Paul Jorion, UCLA, "Adam Smith's 'Invisible hand' revisited: A simulation"[streaming video] _____________________________________________________________________________________ Friday April 7 1:00-3:00 - Steven Bankes (Evolving Logic Inc, Rand Pardee School, UCLA Human Complex Systems), "Computational Exploration in Long Term Policy Analysis for  Social and Organizational Complex Systems." [streaming video] Friday April 21 1:30-3:00 - Tsutomu (Tom) Nakano, Kwansei Gakuin University and External Affiliated Faculty, Center on Organizational Innovation, Columbia University, and Doug White (IMBS, UCI) Powerpoint   pdf "Networks-Affect-Pricing Theory in Modern Production Industry: Three Network Studies of the Giant Industrial District of Tokyo"[streaming video]  Abstract Friday May 5 1:30-3:00 - Jean Ensminger - Anthropology, Cal Tech: "The Co-Evolution of Pro-Social Norms and the Market" [streaming video] Friday May 19 1:30-3:20 -  Darren Schreiber - Political Science, UCSD: "Simulating the Evolutions of Parties" - Thursday June 22 1:30-3:20 Doug White, Laurent Tambayong, and Steve Doubleday (IMBS, UCI); with Natasa Kejzar (Soc Sci, U Ljubljana), Ben Lind (Sociology, UCI), Ben Jester (Social Networks, UCI), "Cityrise and Cityquake: The Five Alternations Between Global Economy and Regional Economies in Eurasia in the Last Millennium; and Definitive Evidence of Macro Civilizational Dynamics"[steaming video] Abstract a pdf for the ppt     (some data later program and data)