How do social norms arise? What role does religion play in the origin and persistence of social norms? How does this role emerge in a dynamic religious market? How can the ideas and methodological tools of evolutionary game theory and biology help answer these and other questions about the complex role of social norms and religion in our evolutionary past and today? The Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences presents a conference that will bring together leading researchers from various disciplines ─ biology, sociology, economics, and philosophy ─ to address these questions.

As editor-in-chief of American Anthropologist since 2007, UCI anthropologist Tom Boellstorff has contributed to the journal's 36 percent increase in 5-year impact factor, 61 percent immediacy index (how quickly articles are cited) increase, and 50.9 percent increase in article influence. In 2011, the publication became the number one most downloaded journal in Wiley-Blackwell's 490 social sciences and humanities repertoire.

The Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences presents

"Modeling of Infectious Diseases: Bridging Data and Models"
Two-day conference

October 28 & 29, 2011
Friday 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Saturday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112 (Luce Conference Room)

The UCI Humanities Collective presents

"Culture, Space, Violence: The Neoliberal Imaginary"
Conference including panels with UCI social scientists Cecelia Lynch and Julia Elyachar

October 20-21, 2011
Begins 4:30 p.m.
Humanities Gateway, Room 1030

The Center for Ethnography presents

"The Theoretical and the Practical: Iranian Intellectuals"
COnference with guest speaker Ramin Jahanbegloo

January 24, 2009
9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Social Science Plaza B, Room 1208

Conference Organizer: Philip Grant, Anthropology Graduate Student

This conference is part of the Center As Para-site in Ethnographic Research Projects series.  Co-sponsor – Center for Persian Studies.

The Center for Ethnography presents

"The 'Parole' Para-site Conference"

January 12, 2008
9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Social Science Plaza B, Room 1208

Conference Organizer: Robert Werth, Graduate Student, School of Social Ecology

This conference is part of the Center As Para-site in Ethnographic Research Projects series.

For further information, please contact Sandy Cushman, scushman@uci.edu.

The Department of Logic & Philosophy of Science presents

"Philosophy of Physics Workshop"

Saturday, April 9, 2011
9:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517

Attendance is free, but registration with Patty Jones (patty.jones@uci.edu), preferably by April 1st, is appreciated.

For further information, please visit www.lps.uci.edu/node/9290.

The UC Irvine Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies and UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center present: 
 
"Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa" 
A two day conference 
 
Bringing together scholars, technical experts and humanitarian nongovernmental 
organizations to assess how humanitarianism is imagined and practiced in Africa. 
 
Friday and Saturday, January 16-17, 2009 
8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. 

The Center for the Study of Democracy presents

"7th Annual CSD Graduate Student Conference"

Saturday, May 7, 2011
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112

For further information, please contact Shani Brasier, sbrasier@uci.edu or 949-824-2904.
 

The International Security Studies Section of ISA and the International Security and Arms Control Section of APSA present the 2011 Annual Conference:

"Security for the Future: Charting Emerging Security Conditions and Responses"

October 13-15, 2011
Hyatt Regency Irvine
Irvine, California

Click here for further conference details.  Please contact Heather Cox, hcox@uci.edu, with questions.