The 5th Darwin Day Symposium – University of Haifa – Program
Multi-purpose Building, Safdie Auditorium
PROGRAM
08:30 – 09:00 – Registration and refreshments
09:00 – 09:10 – Introduction and opening remarks – Dr. Rami Reshef
09:10 – 09:20 – Remarks in memory of Professor Irit Meir – Prof. Wendy Sandler
09:20 – 11:00 – BODY AND MIND IN LANGUAGE EVOLUTION
Prof. Nurit Bird-David, chair
09:20 – 10:10 – Prof. Michael Corballis, University of Auckland
The Origins of Language: A Darwinian Perspective
10:10 – 11:00 – Prof. Wendy Sandler, University of Haifa
The Grammar of the Body and Language Evolution
11:00 – 11:30 – Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 – PRIMATE GESTURES, HUMAN SPEECH
Prof. Wendy Sandler, Chair
11:30 – 12:15 – Prof. Katja Liebal, Freie Universitat Berlin
What Nonhuman Primates’ Gestures Can and Cannot Tell Us about Language Evolution
12:15 – 13:00 – Prof. Bart de Boer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Evolution of Speech – Behavioral, Comparative and Computational Perspectives
13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30 – BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF SPEECH ABILITIES: ANATOMY AND GENETICS
Dr. Rami Reshef, Chair
14:00 – 14:45 – Prof. Israel Hershkovitz, Tel-Aviv University
Anatomy of Speech: An Evolutionary Perspective
14:45 – 15:30 – Prof. Liran Carmel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Paleo-Epigenetics: Extensive Regulatory Changes in Genes Affecting Vocal and Facial Anatomy Separate Modern from Archaic Humans
15:30 – 16:00 – Coffee break
16:00 – 18:20 – SOCIAL PREREQUISITES
Prof. Dani Nadel, Chair
16:00 – 16:45 – Prof. Daniel Dor, Tel-Aviv University
Mind the Gap: Rethinking the Question of Language Evolution
16:45 – 17:30 – Prof. Nurit Bird-David, University of Haifa
Community, Scale, Language: Insights from Modern Hunter-Gatherers
17:30 – 18:15 – Prof. Jerome Lewis, University College London
Music First: Hunter-Gatherer Ethnography and the Evolution of Language
18:15 – 18:30 – Closing remarks