Conferences and Workshops
Recent Conference and Workshop
The 2011 BioSocial Society Funded workshop was held at the University of Bristol on 14th-16th September 2011.
'Applied Evolutionary Anthropology: Darwinian Approaches to Contemporary World Issues'
The aim of this workshop was to bring together anthropologists and other interdisciplinary scientists who are currently applying
evolutionary approaches to contemporary world issues.
Themes included:
1) Changing reproductive and livelihood strategies
2) Food insecurity and intrahousehold resource allocation
3) Co-operative norms and habitat conservation
4) The impact of development intervention and social policies
5) Implications of emerging environmental pressures (e.g. disease, population growth and climate change).
You can see the photos of the workshop from here!
Previous conferences and workshops
- 2010 -
'Intergenerational and Familial Influences on Obesity and Related Conditions' 16-17th September, 2010. Durham University, Durham, UK
The programme is available from here
- 2009 -
'Ethics in the Field: Contemporary Challenges in Biological Anthropology, Social Anthropology and Primatology' 24-25 April, 2009. Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
'Labour, Value and Experiment: Anthropological Reflections on Transnational Medical Research' 22 February, 2009. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
- 2007 -
'Unhealthy Professional Boundaries? Working together in Health and Social Care' 4-5 December, 2007, Goodenough College, London, UK
'Theories and Methods in Applied Biocultural Anthropology', October 19-20, 2007, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
- 2006 -
'Medicine and Evolution', 11-12 December 2006, York, UK
'Fieldwork: examining its practice by biological anthropologists and primatologists', 5th -6th May, 2006, Department of Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University, UK
'Health, Risk, and Adversity: A New Synthesis from Biological Anthropology', 7-10 April 2006, Grey College, University of Durham, UK
- 2005 -
'Space, Movement and Health: Biosocial Perspectives', 18 April 2005, Wolfson Research Institute, University of Durham, Stockton-on-Tees, UK
- 2004 -
'Alloparenting in Human Societies', 7-8 May 2004, British Medical Association House, Tavistock Square, London, UK