Winter Meeting 2010
"Gombe 50"
8th
and 9th December 2010
Zoological Society of London,
Meeting Rooms. ZSL, Regents Park, London.
Organiser:
Dr Sonya P. Hill (Conservation Medicine Division, Chester Zoo)
Enquiries to: registration@psgb.org
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the start of Dr Jane Goodall DBE's ground-breaking research on chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) at Gombe Stream, Tanganyika - now Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. It also marks the beginning of a long tradition of other primatological research at this site, including olive baboons (Papio cynocephalus anubis), red colobus (Colobus badius tephrosceles), and people.
The PSGB's two-day scientific Winter Meeting will be held on 8th-9th December 2010, in celebration of the primatological research done at, or stimulated by, the Gombe studies over the past 50 years, and looking forward to the future. The meeting will consist of a number of invited presentations, as well as proffered papers, spread over the two days, and including several poster sessions. The PSGB and Jane Goodall Institute will be running merchandise stalls at the event, and we also plan to hold a book-signing event with Dr Jane Goodall DBE. As usual, we will have a ticketed social event at the end of the first day, in a local pub.
We are delighted to confirm the invited speakers at "Gombe 50" are:
- Dr Jane Goodall DBE (Founder, the Jane Goodall Institute; www.janegoodall.org.uk)
- Dr D. Anthony Collins (Gombe Stream Research Centre, Tanzania; http://www.janegoodall.org.uk/research/gombe-stream)
- Tara Golshan (Executive Director for Education, "Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots"; www.rootsnshoots.org.uk)
- Dr Shadrack Kamenya (Gombe Stream Research Centre, Tanzania; http://www.janegoodall.org.uk/research/gombe-stream)
- Prof. Phyllis C. Lee (University of Stirling, UK; http://www.psychology.stir.ac.uk/staff/plee/index.php)
- Prof. William C. McGrew (University of Cambridge, UK, http://www.human-evol.cam.ac.uk/Members/McGrew/mcgrew.htm)
- Guy Norton (Anglia Ruskin University, UK / Director of the Animal Behaviour Research Unit, Mikumi National Park, Tanzania; http://web.anglia.ac.uk/abru/)
- Prof. Anne E. Pusey (Duke University, USA; http://evolutionaryanthropology.duke.edu/people?Gurl=%2Faas%2FBAA&Uil=anne.pusey&subpage=profile)
- Ian Redmond OBE (Chief Consultant, GRASP - UNEP/UNESCO Great Ape Survival Partnership; http://www.unep.org/grasp/)
Prof. Andy Whiten (St Andrews University; http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_sp/people/lect/aw2.shtml) will be receiving the Osman Hill Medal, and will give a presentation entitled:
"Cultural elements in a chimpanzee community (Goodall, 1973) 37 years on."
Call for Papers:
The call for papers is now open. Please click here for the Abstract Submission Form and further information. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday 24th September 2010. If you are submitting an abstract, we strongly recommend that you register for the conference as soon as possible once registration opens, and do not leave your registration until later, due to the high level of interest we anticipate in this conference.
Registration:
We will be operating advance registration only, for this year's Winter Meeting, and registration will open in the near future - information will follow shortly, so please check back here soon! Details will also be available soon on the ticketed evening event.
Further information:
Please check this page for updates about the Winter Meeting. Announcements will also be sent to PSGB members via our JISCMail list (PSGB@JISCmail.ac.uk).
If you have any questions about the event after checking the website, please contact the organiser:
Dr Sonya P. Hill,
Conservation Medicine Division,
North of England Zoological Society,
Chester Zoo,
Caughall Road,
Upton-by-Chester,
Chester,
CH2 1LH
UK
registration@psgb.org
We are very grateful to the following for sponsorship of the conference:
 
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