Fall 2007

September 7, 2007:

Dancing in the Streets: The Human Need to Party

Barbara Ehrenreich
Author of Dancing in the Streets, Nickled and Dimed, and Bait and Switch

September 28, 2007:

The New Synthesis in Moral Psychology

Jonathan Haidt
Department of Psychology
University of Virginia

October 12, 2007:

Self control and social cooperation

Howard Rachlin
Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Stony Brook University

October 19, 2007:

How we get cancer and why it has been so hard to cure

Carlo Maley
Assistant Professor, Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program, Wistar Institute
Genomics and Computational Biology Program
Cellular and Molecular Biology Program
University of Pennsylvania

October 26, 2007:

Who cares if I care about you? Field experimental evidence on the external validity of social preferences

Jeffrey Carpenter
Department of Economics
Middlebury College

November 16, 2007:

The Rise and Fall of Empires: why do large states tend to arise on the nomadic pastoralist/settled agriculturalist frontiers?

Peter Turchin
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Connecticut, Storrs

November 30, 2007

Ecology of a fake plant

Jack Schultz
Director, University of Missouri Life Science Center

December 7, 2007:

The problem of biological design: how to build the nexus of physiology and evolution

Scott Turner
Department of Environmental & Forest Biology
SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry