Programme overview

Status: 06 September 2019; 11:17 a.m.
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12.30-13.30 Get together

13.30-13.45 Welcome by HWK and MVE / introductory words

13.45-14.45 Keynote: Eckart Voland (University of Giessen) "Anthropology: On the topography of the Bio/Sowi divide"

14.45-15.00 Short break

15.00-16.30 Session 1: Theory (Chair: Jason Mast, University of Frankfurt)

16.30-17.00 hrs Coffee break

17.00-18.30 Session 2: Theory (Chair: Ingrid van Dijk)

From 18.30 dinner together at the HWK

9.00 -10.00 Keynote: Sophie von Stumm (University of York) "Behavioural Genetics"

10.00-10.15 Short break

10.15-11.15 Session 3: Behavioural genetics (Chair: Ingrid van Dijk, Lund University)

11.15-11.45 a.m. Coffee break

11.45-13.15 Session 4: Life course and life history theory (Chair: Sonja Bastin, University of Bremen)

13.15-14.15 Lunch together at the HWK

14.15-15.15 Keynote: Andreas Diekmann (ETH Zurich & University of Leipzig) "Evolutionary Game Theory"

15.15-15.45 hrs Coffee break

15.45-17.30 Session 5: Co-operation & social exchange (Chair: Michael Jankowski, University of Oldenburg)

17.30-19.00 Social programme

From 19.00 dinner together in the Turbinenhalle

9.30 -10.30 Session 6: Partner choice, kinship & fertility (Chair: Sebastian Schnettler, Uni
Oldenburg)

10.30-11.00 a.m. Coffee break

11.00-13.00 Workshop: Nicole Holzhauser (TU Braunschweig)
" Evolutionary research and social sciences as a (scientific) sociological
object of research"

13.00-14.00 Lunch together at the HWK

14.00 -15.30 Session 7: Partner market, love & sexuality (Chair: Richard Preetz, University of Oldenburg)

15.30-16.30 Coffee & farewell

Followed by Business Meeting MVE

Session 1: Theory (Chair: Jason Mast, University of Frankfurt)

Christoph Meißelbach (TU Dresden)
"Theory integration between social and evolutionary sciences. A plea for a deductive approach"

Matthias Jung (University of Frankfurt)
"Evolution of material culture? Cryptoevolutionary premises in prehistoric archaeology and their impact on the socio-historical interpretation of material objects"

Jörg Wettlaufer (University of Göttingen)
"Why is there still no evolutionary historical science? Some theses on the state of the discussion."

Session 2: Theory (Chair: N.N.)

Frank Eggert (TU Braunschweig)
"Evolutionary psychology: A diversions to an evolutionary theory of behaviour?"

Isabell Winkler (TU Chemnitz)
"Psychological aspects of time perception from an evolutionary perspective"

Joachim Rennstich (CVJM HS Kassel)
"A global metamorphosis? A theory of evolution of a digital capitalism"

Session 3: Behavioural genetics (Chair: Ingrid van Dijk, Lund University.)

Harald Eichhorn & Bastian Mönkediek (Bielefeld University)
"Do gender stereotypes and norms determine our leisure behaviour? A genetically sensitive analysis with twin data"

Stefanie Heyne (LMU) & Zerrin Salikutluk (HU Berlin)
"Sociological and biological explanations for gender differences in educational achievement: What can we learn from twin studies?"

Session 4: Life course and life history theory (Chair: Sonja Bastin, University of Bremen)

Johannes Huinink (University of Bremen)

"The life course cube: A tool for studying lives"

Manfred Hammerl (University of Graz)
"Life History Theory - A new meta-theory for the social sciences?"

Kai Willführ (University of Oldenburg) & Richard Preetz (University of Oldenburg)
"Investing until it is too late? - Does Life History Theory explain the maladaptive postponement of childbirth?"

Session 5: Co-operation & social exchange (Chair: Michael Jankowski, University of Oldenburg)

Michael Windzio (University of Bremen):
"Can we ignore the hardwired human nature in studies on immigrant integration? The dynamics of reciprocity and ethnic boundaries in networks."

Lukas Bösch (University of Leipzig):
"Contextual conditions for fairness: a field study"

Hannes Rusch (University of Marburg & TU Munich):
"The evolution of collaboration in symmetric 2×2-games with imperfect recognition of types"

Markus Krellner (TU Dresden):
"Pleasing others to improve indirect reciprocity, an agent-based simulation"

Session 6: Mate choice, kinship & fertility (Chair: Sebastian Schnettler, University of Oldenburg.)

Alexander Pashos (MPI for Social Anthropology Halle)
"Kinship relationships from an evolutionary perspective. The genetic and socio-cultural view - irreconcilable opposites or indispensable components of a synthesis?"

Martin Fieder & Susanne Huber (University of Vienna)
"Biocultural evolution, mate choice and fertility"

Session 7: Partner market, love & sexuality (Chair: Richard Preetz, University of Oldenburg)

Thomas Müller-Schneider (University of Koblenz-Landau)
"Human nature and late modern couple society. A biocultural in-depth explanation including the evolved psychological mechanism of love."

Maximilian Andrian-Werburg (University of Würzburg), Sascha Schwarz (University of Wuppertal), Benjamin Lange (University of Würzburg) & Frank Schwab (University of Würzburg)
"Pornography preferences - An interplay of culture and nature?"

Andreas Filser (University of Oldenburg), Robert Lipp (Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences), Richard Preetz (University of Oldenburg) & Sven Stadtmüller (Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences)
"More boys, more injuries? On the connection between school injuries and the gender composition of school classes"