LOCATION: Teleconference Room, Alexander Library, 4th floor, 169 College Avenue

4th Lembersky Conference on Human Evolutionary Studies

Whenever individuals work together toward shared goals, cooperation is the result. This is true whether those individuals are genes, cells, microbes, people, corporations, or nations. Among humans, cooperation occurs at levels ranging from families and friends to communities, markets, corporations, states, and, via both trade and international organizations, the entire world. Despite the ubiquity of cooperation and its importance for the healthy functioning of organisms and societies, only recently has a transdisciplinary science of cooperation begun to emerge. The purpose of this conference is to further the development of a transdisciplinary science of cooperation.

9am: Breakfast

10am: Elizabeth Matto (Rutgers): A shared responsibility: the theory and practice of teaching civic engagement

10:30am: Diego Guevara Beltran (Arizona State): The perceived (un)predictability of needs determines expectations of repayment

11am: Coffee break

11:30am: Barry Sopher (Rutgers): Opportunities for gains from cooperation in non-ergodic stochastic environments

12noon: Richard Sosis (Connecticut): Religion and cooperation: a systematic approach

12:30pm: lunch

1:30pm: Victoria Ramenzoni (Rutgers): Commons and the supernatural: navigating multidimensional maritime spaces and property rights

2pm – 3pm: Discussion

Co-sponsored by the CCA Working Group Cooperation Across Domains