16.3369, Confs: Anthropological Ling/Essen, Germany

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LINGUIST List: Vol-16-3369. Wed Nov 23 2005. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 16.3369, Confs: Anthropological Ling/Essen, Germany

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Date: 22-Nov-2005
From: Louise Roeska-Hardy < louise.roeska-hardy at uni-dortmund.de >
Subject: Nature, Language and Culture: Learning from Animals? 

	
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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:11:29
From: Louise Roeska-Hardy < louise.roeska-hardy at uni-dortmund.de >
Subject: Nature, Language and Culture: Learning from Animals? 
 



Nature, Language and Culture: Learning from Animals? 

Date: 05-Dec-2005 - 06-Dec-2005 
Location: Essen, Germany 
Contact: Monika Wuehle 
Contact Email: monika.wuehle at kwi-nrw.de 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The conference will examine what can be learned about the features of human language, cognition and culture from empirical research on non-human primates, e.g. concerning the precursors to human language, the behavioural and cognitive characteristics shared by humans and non-human primates, and social learning in humans and non-human primates. 

International conference: Nature, Language and Culture: Learning from animals?
 
2nd annual symposium of the interdisciplinary research group 'Was ist der Mensch? Kultur - Sprache - Natur'
Dec. 5th and 6th at the Kulturwissenschaftliche Institut (Goethe Str.  31) 
in Essen, Germany. 
To register for the conference please contact: Frau Monika Wühle (monika.wuehle at kwi-nrw.de).

Nature, Language and Culture: Learning from animals?

December 5th, 2005   1 p.m.

I. Language: Humans and other Primates
Speakers: 
Jacques Vauclair (Center for Research in the Psychology of Cognition, Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence)
>From hand to mouth in the evolution of language: the contribution of studies 
with nonhuman primates
W. Tecumseh Fitch (University of St. Andrews / Scottish Primate Research Group)

Evolution of Language: A comparative approach
commentators:
Bernhard Schröder (Duisburg-Essen) 
Wolfgang Wildgen (Bremen)

Public lecture  6.15 p.m.
Ludwig Huber (Universität Wien) 
Soziales Lernen: das Bindeglied tierlicher und menschlicher Kulturen
 
December 6th, 2005  9.00 a.m.

II. Nature: Primate cognition
Speakers: 
Christine Caldwell 
(University of Stirling / Scottish Primate Research Group)
	Social learning and behavioral traditions in non-human primates
Hannes Rakoczy (Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig / Universität Leipzig)
	Collective intentionality is the mark of uniquely human cognition
commentators:
Ingar Brink (Lund University)
Judith Burkart (Zürich)

III. Culture: The Nature of primates
Speakers: 
John Dupré  (ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society, University of Exeter)
	What's special about humans? 
William C. McGrew (Cambridge University)
	Cultural Primatology: New Wine in new Bottles
Commentator:
Matthias Kettner (Witten-Herdecke)





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