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
