ESLR Seminar Series
This year we will start our ESLR Seminar Series with a focus on the research of ECRs with a first round on Social Learning. The seminar takes place on Zoom on Thursday at 4pm CEST.
Talks should be about 20-30 minutes long, be a work in progress, a pre-print or a finished project and should have an ECR as the main (or one of the main) researchers.
Schedule
| DATE | SPEAKER | TOPIC |
| May 27th, 2021 | Rachel Harrison | The Natural History of Conformity |
| June 10th, 2021 | No seminar because of the CES Meeting | |
| June 24th, 2021 | Aysha Bellamy | Biases or balancing act? Investigating the flexibility of conformity |
| July 8th, 2021 | Marco Smolla | Cumulative cultural evolution and the coevolution of learning and social structure in changing environments |
| July 22nd, 2021 | Andrea Gradassi | The impact of own and others’ confidence on social information use |
| August 5th, 2021 | Xinyue Pan | Conformity Pressure and Norm Changes in Dynamic Environments |
| August 19th, 2021 | Saeed Shafiei Sabet | Anthropogenic sound reverberates at the community level; potentially disrupt sustainability of the natural environment |
| September 2nd, 2021 | Yoav Ram | Cultural evolution of cooperation: the role of non-vertical transmission |
| September 30th, 2021 | Justin Sulik | Harnessing the diversity of social learning strategies in science |
| October 14th, 2021 | Mason Youngblood | Cultural transmission bias in the spread of voter fraud conspiracy theories on Twitter during the 2020 US election |
| October 28th, 2021 | Victoria Franks | Parents versus peers: the effect of social environment on foraging behaviour in a juvenile songbird |
| November 11th, 2021 | ||
| November 25th, 2021 | Limor Raviv | Linking language evolution, language acquisition, and language diversity: How social and cognitive pressures shape learning and communication What are the social, environmental, and cognitive pressures that shape the evolution of language in our species? Why are there so many different languages in the world? And how did this astonishing linguistic diversity come about? These are some of the most interesting questions in the fields of cognitive science and linguistics, and represent the range of topics discussed in my research so far. My work focuses on linking core aspects of language acquisition, language evolution, and language diversity using a range of novel behavioral paradigms and computational models. My goal is to (1) shed light on the communicative pressures and cognitive constraints (e.g., memory limitations, efficiency) that shape social interaction and language use in our species, and (2) to identify the social, environmental, and cross-cultural factors (e.g., population size) that lead to language diversity and to cross-linguistic variation. In this talk, I will provide an overview of my research in the past six years (including methods and results from selected projects), as well as present future directions and ongoing work. |
Sign-up as Speaker for the ESLR Seminar Series
As an early career researcher you are most welcome to sign up for one of the free presentation slots above. Please use the following form to do so:
Sign-up as Attendee for the ESLR Seminar Series
To attend the seminars please sign-up here and you will receive the Zoom link via Email.
FAQ
If you would like us to record your talk (e.g. to share it later on your own website or YouTube), we can certainly record your talk and provide the video file to you after the talk. Let us know whether you would like us to record your talk prior to the meeting or.