The Cultural Evolution Society Conference 2024 was held 9-11th September hosted by the Durham Cultural Evolution Research Centre (DCERC),in Durham, United Kingdom. It was immediately followed by the CES Transformation Fund capstone conference on 12-13th September. Both were hybrid conferences with attendance in person or online.

More details can be found at the CES 2024 conference website, on Twitter/X @Durham_DCERC, and BlueSky @durhamdcerc.bsky.social.

Talk Videos:

Talks from the main CES and the capstone conferences can be seen here:

• CES: public , conference registrants

• Transformation Fund Capstone: public, conference registrants

Keynote speakers:

• Patricia Izar, Institute of Psychology, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Kathleen Corriveau, Department of Psychology, Boston University
• Barry Hewlett, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University
• Kevin Lala, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, U.K.
• Nicole Wen, Psychology & the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London

Local organising committee:

Prizewinners:

Website:

http://ces2024.webspace.durham.ac.uk

Programme:

full programme

The Cultural Evolution Society Conference 2022 was held September 21-23rd 2022 and organised from Aarhus University, led by Felix Riede. It was a hybrid conference with attendance either in person or online.

Keynote speakers:

• Ruth Mace, Department of Anthropology, University College London
• Marcelo Cardillo, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Historia y Ciencias Humanas, Buenos Aires
• Fiona Jordan, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, Bristol University
• Michele Gelfand, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford University

Organising committee:

• Luseadra Joy McKerracher
• Jesper Sørensen
• Niels Nørkjær Johannsen
• Benjamin Grant Purzycki
• Mette Løvschal
• Felix Riede
• Iza Romanowska
• Karsten Olsen

Prizewinners:

Website:

https://conferences.au.dk/ces2022/

Programme:

full programme [pdf download]

Due to the Covid pandemic, CES2021 was hosted online from June 9-11, 2021 by a team based in Sapporo, Japan.

Approximately 180 researchers from East Asia, Oceania, Middle East, Europe, North and South America gave presentations on their latest research advancing the evolutionary understanding of human and nonhuman animal culture. In total, approximately 300 people registered to attend CES2021.

Organisers:

Honorary Conference Organizer: Kenichi Aoki (Meiji University)

Chair: Masanori Takezawa (Hokkaido University)

Scientific Committee:

• Kenichi Aoki (Meiji University)

• Yasuo Ihara (the University of Tokyo)

• Hiromi Matsumae (Tokai University)

• Naoko Matsumoto (Okayama University)

• Masako Myowa (Kyoto University)

• Hisashi Nakao (Nanzan University)

• Patrick E. Savage (Keio University)

Local Committee:

• Yutaka Horita (Teikyo University)

• Masanori Takezawa (Hokkaido University)

• Ayaka Takimoto (Hokkaido University)

• Kohei Tamura (Tohoku University)

Website:

https://www.chain.hokudai.ac.jp/CES2020/

Sponsors:

• Centre for Experimental Research in Social Sciences, Hokkaido University

• Center for Human Nature, Artificial Intelligence, and Neuroscience, Hokkaido University

• Evolinguistics group, University of Tokyo

• Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

• Out of Eurasia project

• John Templeton Foundation

Keynote speakers:

• Heidi Colleran (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

• Marcus Feldman (Stanford University)

• Joseph Henrich (Harvard University)

• Kazuo Okanoya (University of Tokyo)

• Brigitte Pakendorf (CNRS)

Prize winners:

Student presentations:

• Taylor Hersh (Dalhousie University): Stability and evolution in sperm whale cultural dialects

• Riana Minocher (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology): An evolutionary demographic decomposition of Spanish-speaking among the indigenous Tsimane of Bolivia

Local student presentations:

• Kenji Itao (University of Tokyo): Evolution of kinship structures driven by marriage tie and competition

• Yuta Kido (Hokkaido University): The coevolution of norm-internalization and frequency dependent preferences through cultural group selection

Presentations from Global South

• Patrícia Izar (University of São Paulo): Using tools influences the association networks of bearded capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus)

• Eduardo Ottoni (University of São Paulo): Tool use generalization and behavioral traditions in tufted capuchin monkeys (Sapajus sp)

Presentations from Global South students

• Luíza Gonzalez Ferreira (University of São Paulo): Early vocal development of bearded capuchin monkeys

• Iatan Ladeia (University of São Paulo): Biases on social learning: the effect of model’s competence on children’s overimitation

Programme / abstracts:

• full programme [pdf download]

• abstracts [pdf download]

Over 300 people attended CES2018 which was held at Arizona State University in Tempe on October 22-24, 2018.

Researchers at the ASU School of Human Evolution and Social Change were the local organizing committee.

Organisers:

Local organisers:

• Rob Boyd, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ, USA

• Sarah Mathew, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ, USA

• Tom Morgan, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ, USA

• Charles Perreault, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ, USA

External organising committee members:

• Lucy Aplin, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Radolfzell, Germany

• Vanessa Ferdinand, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA

• Cristina Moya, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, USA

• Michael Muthukrishna, Dept of Psychology, London School of Economics, London, UK

• Paul Smaldino, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, Merced, USA

• Masanori Takezawa, Department of Behavioral Science, Hokkaido University, Japan

Website:

https://na.eventscloud.com/ehome/ces18/659030/

Sponsors:

• Cultural Evolution Society

• Global Biosocial Complexity Initiative, ASU

• Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

• Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History

• John Templeton Foundation

Keynote speakers:

• Lucy Aplin, Max Planck for Ornithology, Radolfzell

• Alison Gopnik, UC Berkeley

• Katie Manning, King’s College London

• Nathan Nunn, Harvard University

Programme / abstracts:

• full program [pdf download]

• abstracts [pdf download]