SEAL News: January 05, 2009 – Boot Camp & Call for Papers
Dear SEAL Members:
Below find information on the following:
1) Law and Neuroscience Boot Camp August 2-12, 2009
2) Call for Papers: Law and Neuroscience Conference July 6-7, 2009 (London)
3) Call for Papers: The Futures of Evolutionary Psychology
Owen D. Jones
Director, SEAL
1) Law and Neuroscience Boot Camp August 2-12, 2009
University of Pennsylvania’s Neuroscience Boot Camp
Dr. Martha Farah, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences and Director of the Penn Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, will lead the University of Pennsylvania’s first Neuroscience Boot Camp from August 2-12, 2009. The program is designed to give participants a basic foundation in cognitive and affective neuroscience and to equip them to be informed consumers of neuroscience research. It will include valuable information, discussion, readings and teaching from leading researchers in the fields of cognitive and affective neuroscience. For more information, please see http://www.neuroethics.upenn.edu/boot_camp.html
2) Call for Papers: Law and Neuroscience Conference July 6-7, 2009 (London)
University College London announces that its fourteenth international inter-disciplinary colloquium this year on the subject of Law and Neuroscience — will take place on July 6 & 7 2009 in the Law Faculty at University College London. Papers are invited on any aspect of the relationship between the two disciplines. Offers of papers and other indications of interest, as well as any queries, should be addressed to: Professor Michael Freeman, Convenor, Email: Michael.freeman@ucl.ac.uk . Offers of papers should be accompanied by a 100-word abstract and full contact details. The final date for submission of offers of papers is January 31, 2009.
3) Call for Papers: The Futures of Evolutionary Psychology
The Futures of Evolutionary Psychology
(Deadline for Submission was January 1, 2009, but if you are interested, contact Guest Editor Dr. Gad Saad (Concordia University) gadsaad@jmsb.concordia.ca )
In 2009, evolutionists around the world will celebrate two important anniversaries: the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, as well as the 150th anniversary of the release of his seminal book On The Origins of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life . Many of these celebratory academic events will be taking stock of the history of evolutionary theory. Of equal importance perhaps is to explore the future of this all-encompassing meta-framework, an issue at the center of the current call for papers. Historically, several Darwinian-based disciplines have contributed to a fuller understanding of human psychology including sociobiology, human behavioral ecology, Darwinian anthropology, gene-culture coevolution modeling, memetic theory, and most recently evolutionary psychology (EP). It has been close to twenty years since EP was founded as a distinct scientific discipline. In those two decades, the progress in the field has been nothing less than spectacular. What does the future hold for EP? Will it continue to be resisted by some groups in the same dogged manners? Will EP contribute in reducing the endemic lack of consilience that has plagued the social sciences? Will new geographical areas or cultural settings remain resistant to EP (e.g., Islamic societies)? Will EP increase its applicability in guiding future public policy debates? What does the future hold in terms of the pedagogic implications of EP? Thus, the overriding objective of this special issue is to explore multiple facets and aspects of the futures of EP. It is important to remember two points regarding the futurological scope of this journal: (1) By future , we mean at least 20 years from now, so prospective contributors must explore distant futures covering 20to 50 years horizons; (2) the emphasis is on futures in the plural. As such, contributors have to explore alternative futures, and in so doing provide different future scenarios and outcomes.
Topics include but are not limited to the following list:
Futures of evolutionary psychology in guiding policy making
Futures of evolutionary psychology in its practical applications
Futures of evolutionary psychology in guiding personal decisions
Futures of evolutionary psychology in pedagogy
Futures of evolutionary psychology in specific regions of the world (e.g., Islamicsocieties)
Futures of evolutionary psychology in serving as a natural bridge between the social and natural sciences
Futures of evolutionary psychology in specific disciplines (e.g., medicine, marketing, sociology, etc.).
Futures of evolutionary psychology as the consilient framework of the social sciences
Futures of evolutionary psychology: increased acceptance or continued dogged resistance
Futures of the relationship between evolutionary psychology and religion
Papers can be from 5000 to 8000 words long. For further information and details, contact Dr. Gad Saad Associate Professor Concordia University John Molson School of Business 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West Montreal, Quebec, CANADAH3G 1M8 Phone: (514) 848-2424 ext. 2900Fax: (514) 848-4554Email: gadsaad@jmsb.concordia.ca Webpage: http://jmsb.concordia.ca/~GadSaad/
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