Programme

The conference will take place at the Humanities Research Institute (34 Gell Street, Sheffield S3 7QW) at the University of Sheffield (see map — opens in a new window).

FRIDAY, 15 APRIL 2011

• 11.00 – 1.00:
  Coffee & Registration
• 1.00 – 2.00:
  Ori Friedman (Psychology, University of Waterloo)
  Principle-based Reasoning about Ownership in Young Children
• 2.00 – 2.30:
  Open Discussion
• 45 minute break, with coffee
• 3.15 – 4.15:
  Robert Layton (Anthropology, Durham University)
  Continuity and innovation in the transmission of traditional Chinese culture
• 4.15 – 4.45:
  Open Discussion
• 30 minute break, with coffee
• 5.15 – 6.15:
  Susan Gelman (Psychology, University of Michigan)
  The non-obvious basis of ownership: tracing the history and value of owned objects
• 6.15 – 6.45:
  Open Discussion

SATURDAY, 16 APRIL 2011

• 9.30 – 10.30:
  Gergely Csibra (Psychology, Central European University)
  Cognitive resources for learning about artefacts in human infants
• 10.30 – 11.00:
  Open Discussion
• 30 minute break, with coffee
• 11.30 – 12.30:
  Nurit Bird-David (Anthropology, University of Haifa)
  Setting or mind-setting?: a study of a South Indian hunter-gatherer camp
• 12.30 – 1.00:
  Open Discussion
• 2 hour lunch break — lunch not provided
• 3.00 – 4.00:
  Emma Flynn (Psychology, Durham University)
  Investigating social learning and cultural transmission in young children
• 4.00 – 4.30:
  Open Discussion
• 30 minute break, with coffee
• 5.00 – 6.00:
  Barbara Malt (Psychology, Lehigh University)
  Naming artifacts: patterns and processes
• 6.00 – 6.30:
  Open Discussion

SUNDAY, 17 APRIL 2011

• 9.30 – 10.30:
  Aimee Plourde (Philosophy, University of Sheffield)
  Artefacts’ as signals of strength in political competition; a case study of landscape monuments from the Late Bronze Age Anatolian Plateau
• 10.30 – 11.00:
  Open Discussion
• 30 minute break, with coffee
• 11.30 – 12.30:
  Jamie Tehrani (Anthropology, Durham University)
  Phylogenetic approaches to the transmission of material culture: current trends and future directions
• 12.30 – 1.00:
  Open Discussion

 

• End of Conference