conference agenda

KEYNOTE Lecture: Nothing to Lose? Economic PANEL: FURTHER DISCUSSION OF DOMESTIC WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25 Inequality, Poor Life Prospects, and Lethal FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 VIOLENCE, WITH EMPHASIS ON PARENT-CHILD Competition RELATIONSHIPS Opening KEYNOTE ADDRESS: DESTINED TO FORT DOUGLAS POST THEATER (Overflow in Officers’ Club) WELCOME AND RECAP OFFICERS’ CLUB, FORT DOUGLAS WAGE WAR FOREVER? THE EVOLUTION OF NOON – 1:00 PM OFFICERS’ CLUB, FORT DOUGLAS 1:45 – 3:05 PM PEACEMAKING AMONG PRIMATES 8:55 – 9:00 AM UTAH MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS IN THE MARCIA AND JOHN MARTIN DALY & MARGO WILSON Moderator: Moises Prospero, The University of Utah McMaster University, Canada Dave Carrier, The University of Utah PRICE MUSEUM BUILDING, DUMKE AUDITORIUM VIOLENCE AGAINST STEPCHILDREN: THE Welcome: George Cheney, The University of Utah 7:00 – 8:15 PM EVIDENCE AND ITS DISCONTENTS Introduction: Jon Seger, The University of Utah PANEL: HORMONES AND HUMAN DOMINANCE AND FRANS DE WAAL AGGRESSION Margo Wilson & Martin Daly, McMaster University, Canada Emory University BREAK 1:00 – 2:30 PM OFFICERS’ CLUB, FORT DOUGLAS HORMONAL RESPONSES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Opening & Welcome: Steve Ott, The University of Utah 9:00 – 10:30 AM Mark Flinn, University of Missouri-Columbia Introduction: Kristen Hawkes, The University of Utah Moderator: Wayne Potts, The University of Utah PANEL: COALITIONARY VIOLENCE AND WARFARE DISCUSSANT RECEPTION 8:15 – 9:30 PM OFFICERS’ CLUB, FORT DOUGLAS Sarah Hrdy, University of California, Davis 2:30 – 4:15 PM THE CHALLENGE OF TESTOSTERONE John Archer, University of Central Lancashire, UK Moderator: Doug Jones, The University of Utah BREAK 3:05 – 3:20 PM THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE ONTOGENY OF HORMONAL MECHANISMS FOR MALE COALITIONARY AGGRESSION Steven Pinker, Harvard University ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION WELCOME AND PRELIMINARIES Mark Flinn, University of Missouri-Columbia OFFICERS’ CLUB, FORT DOUGLAS OFFICERS’ CLUB, FORT DOUGLAS AMERICANS AT WAR: EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES THE ROLE OF PHYSICAL STRENGTH IN ANGER AND 3:20 – 4:30 PM 9:00 – 9:15 AM ON AN AGE-OLD STORY Patricia Lambert, Utah State University ANGER EXPRESSIONS Moderator: Sarah Hrdy, University of California, Davis George Cheney, The University of Utah Aaron Sell, University of California, Santa Barbara Elizabeth Cashdan, The University of Utah MALE HIERARCHIES, PARENT-OFFSPRING CONFLICT, AND WARFARE IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA Lenora Olson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Research, BREAK 10:30 – 10:45 AM Polly Wiessner, The University of Utah Department of Pediatrics, The University of Utah and Co- OPENING PANEL: CONFLICT AND CONFLICT Director of Intermountain Injury Control Research Center, RESOLUTION AMONG GREAT APES PANEL: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, WITH EMPHASIS ON The University of Utah BREAK 4:00 – 4:15 PM OFFICERS’ CLUB, FORT DOUGLAS SPOUSAL/PARTNER RELATIONSHIPS Asha Parekh, LCSW, YWCA, Family Justice Program 9:15 – 11:45 AM OFFICERS’ CLUB, FORT DOUGLAS PANEL: FURTHER DISCUSSION OF COALITIONARY Introduction & Moderator: Kristen Hawkes, The University of Utah 10:45 AM – 12:35 PM Moises Prospero, Ph.D., Research Director & VIOLENCE AND WARFARE Assistant Professor, Utah Criminal Justice Center, College of THE IMBALANCE-OF-POWER HYPOTHESIS AND OFFICERS’ CLUB, FORT DOUGLAS Moderator: Moises Prospero, The University of Utah THE EVOLUTION OF WAR Social Work, The University of Utah 4:15 – 5:40 PM AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE ON FAMILY Richard Wrangham, Harvard University Moderator: Bill Zimmerman, Amherst College VIOLENCE Ron J. Llewelyn, Psy.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist, EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES ON CONFLICT John Archer, University of Central Lancashire, UK Domestic Violence/Mental Health Clinical Manager, RESOLUTION WARFARE AND HUMAN ULTRASOCIALITY Cornerstone Counseling Center MEN’S PROPRIETARY VIEW OF THEIR ROMANTIC Joan Silk, University of California, Los Angeles Peter Turchin, University of Connecticut PARTNERS IS SPECIFIC TO SEXUALITY: AN Maggie St. Claire, Former Executive Director, Catholic FROM LAB TO WAR: THE ROLE OF BIOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY Community Services BREAK 10:30 – 10:45 AM PSYCHOLOGY IN POLITICAL AGGRESSION Aaron Goetz, California State University, Fullerton Dominic Johnson, University of Edinburgh, UK CHIMPANZEE POLITICS: PACIFYING HURTING THE ONES WE LOVE: THE FEATURES AND CLOSING REMARKS INTERVENTIONS AND RECONCILIATION DISCUSSANT FUNCTIONS OF AGGRESSIVE PUNISHMENT IN CLOSE OFFICERS’ CLUB, FORT DOUGLAS Frans de Waal, Emory University Richard Wrangham, Harvard University RELATIONSHIPS 4:30 – 4:45 PM Julie Fitness, Macquarie University, Australia SEXUAL DIMORPHISM AND AGGRESSION IN CLOSING REMARKS William Wirthlin Jr., President, L.S.B. Leakey Foundation PRIMATES: JUST WHERE DO HUMANS FIT IN? Steve Downes, The University of Utah DISCUSSANT George Cheney, The University of Utah Mike Plavcan, University of Arkansas Lars Rodseth, The University of Utah Steve Ott, The University of Utah POSTER SESSION ALTA CLUB, ALTA ROOM BREAK 12:35 – 1:45 PM 8:00 – 9:30 PM MARTIN DALY & MARGO WILSON sponsor FRANS B. M. De WAAL Barbara L. & Norman C. Tanner McMaster University, Canada Emory University Barbara L. & Norman C. Tanner Center Center for Nonviolent for Nonviolent Human Rights Advocacy Margo Wilson and Martin Daly are Human Rights Advocacy Dr. Frans B. M. de Waal is a Dutch-born presents the professors in the Department of ethologist/biologist known for his work Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour CO-SPONSORS on the social intelligence of primates. at McMaster University in Hamilton, The Brain Institute His first book, Chimpanzee Politics Canada. Trained in the study of (1982) compared the schmoozing and College of Humanities nonhuman animal behavior, they scheming of chimpanzees involved in have brought a Darwinian perspective College of Science Third Annual power struggles with that of human to bear on human social behavior, College of Social & Behavioral Science International politicians. Ever since, de Waal has including interpersonal conflict as Conference on drawn parallels between primate and manifested in homicide and nonlethal College of Social Work human behavior, from peacemaking violence. Grounding their research in Department of Anthropology Human and morality to culture. His scientific basic evolutionary theories of sexual work has been published in hundreds Department of Biology selection, inclusive fitness, and sexual Rights, of technical articles in journals such conflict, they have developed a variety Department of Communication Conflict as Science, Nature, Scientific American, of hypotheses about the determinants of and outlets specialized in animal Department of Philosophy variations in parental solicitude, spousal Resolution, behavior. His popular books - translated conflict, risk proneness, and discounting Department of Psychology Nonviolence into fifteen languages - have made of the future to generate hypotheses Lisa & William Wirthlin, Jr. & Peace him one of the world’s most visible about epidemiological risk factors primatologists. His latest books are Our for violence, and have applied these L.S.B. Leakey Foundation Inner Ape (2005, Riverhead) and Primates hypotheses to the study of homicide. Institute of Public & International Affairs (IPIA) & Philosophers (2006, Princeton). De Wilson and Daly are founding members Waal is C. H. Candler Professor in the of the Human Behavior & Evolution Office of the Vice President for Research The Evolution of Psychology Department of Emory Society and have both served, at University and director of the Living different times, as its president, as well Human Aggression: Links Center at the Yerkes National as having co-edited the society’s journal Primate Center, in Atlanta, Georgia. Evolution & Human Behavior for 10 years. Lessons for Today’s Conflicts He has been elected to the National They are authors of Sex, Evolution and 260 S. Central Campus Drive, Room 205 Academy of Sciences (US), the American Behavior (1978, 1983), Homicide (1988), Salt Lake City, UT 84112-9150 Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the and The Truth about Cinderella (1998). February 25 – 27, 2009 Phone: (801) 581-6751/581-8620 Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. In They were elected fellows of the Royal Fax: (801) 585-5081 2007, Time selected him as one of the Society of Canada in 1998. E-mail: [email protected] www.humanrights.utah.edu Worlds’ 100 Most Influential People Today.