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PSGB Spring Meeting 2007:

Sex & Violence!

Wednesday and Thursday 18-19 April 2007,

Elvet Riverside Lecture Hall, Durham University

The PSGB Spring Meeting 2007 will take place over Wednesday afternoon and all day Thursday on the 18th and 19th April 2007 in the Elvet Riverside Lecture Halls, Durham University.  The theme is ‘Sex & Violence’ and our invited speakers will address aspects of this topic over the course of the two days.  There will be prizes for the best postgraduate presentation and poster and up to 10 student bursaries of £50 each are available to students giving oral presentations. 

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PSGB Spring Meeting 2007 – Programme

Wednesday April 18th

Session 1:

Chair – Russell Hill
1.30 Opening remarks
1.35 Peter Kappeler: Sexual selection and lemur evolution
2.20 James Higham, Stuart Semple, Ann MacLarnon, Michael Heistermannn & Caroline Ross: Baboon sexual swellings in a multiple-signal framework
2.45 Andrew King, C Douglas, Elise Huchard, Nick Isaac & Guy Cowlishaw: Group decision-making where interest’s conflict: leaders and followers in baboon groups

3.10 Tea & Coffee

Session 2:

Chair – Ann MacLarnon
3.50 Erik Willems & Russell Hill: Range use and habitat selection by a group of vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops)
4.15 Andrew Smith: Factors effecting intergroup encounters between wild mixed-species troops of saddleback (Saguinus fuscicollis) and moustached tamarins (S. mystax)

4.40 Osman Hill Memorial Lecture:

Alison Jolly: Survival in a forest fragment: Ringtailed lemurs of Berenty

5.30 Wine Reception

Thursday April 19th

Session 3:

Chair – Sean O’Hara
9.30 Dave Perrett: To be announced
10.15 Jo Setchell: Signal content of red coloration in mandrills

11.00 Coffee

Session 4:

Chair – Jo Setchell
11.40 Trudi Buck & Una Strand Vidarsdottir: Environmental influences on human craniofacial shape variation
12.00 Henry Pihlström & Mikael Fortelius: Diel activity pattern and relative orbit size: how do primates and non-primates compare?
12.20 Emily J. Bethell, Stuart Semple, Mandy Holmes, Ann MacLarnon: Cogitive bias in rhesus macaques
12.40 Kimberley Hockings, Tatyana Humle, Dora Biro, Claudia Sousa, James Anderson & Tetsuro Matsuzawa
Chimpanzees share forbidden fruit

13.00 Lunch

Session 5:

Chair - Rob Barton
2.15 Orlaith Fraser & Filippo Aureli: The function of post-conflict consolation in captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
2.35 Simon Townsend, Katie Slocombe, Melissa Emery Thompson & Klaus Zuberbühler: Female-led infanticide in wild chimpanzees
2.55 Sean O’Hara: Sex and (avoiding) violence
3.40 Robin Dunbar: Understanding primate social evolution
4.25 Closing remarks and prizes

4.30 CLOSE

Registration:

Registration fees for the conference are as follows:

Registration will be on the day of the conference, although delegates wishing to register in advance can do so using the pre-registration form.

Accommodation:

We have reserved a number of student bedrooms at the Castle (see www.dur.ac.uk/university.college/) costing less than £35 per night.  These can be booked by contacting Todd Rae (t.c.rae@durham.ac.uk) and payment will need to be made in advance.  Alternatively, Durham is a small city and virtually all hotels and guest houses within the DH1 postcode region should be within walking distance of the conference venue.  Some possible hotels and guest houses are listed below or see www.durhamtourism.co.uk/accomm.html.

• Swallow Three Tuns Hotel, New Elvet, Durham DH1 3AQ. Tel: 01913 864326, Booking Line: 0845 4566399
• Farnley Tower, The Avenue, Durham DH1 4DX, Tel: 01913 750011, Booking Line: 0845 4566399
• Durham Marriot Royal County, Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3JN. Tel: 0870 4007286
• Court Inn, Court Lane, Durham DH1 3AW. Tel: 0191 3847350
• Kingslodge Hotel, Flass Vale, Waddington St, Durham DH1 4BG, Tel: 0191 3709977
• The Garden House, North Rd, Durham DH1 4NQ. Tel: 0191 3843460
• Victoria Hotel, 86 Hallgarth St, Durham DH1 3AS. Tel: 0191 3865269
• Travelodge (Durham), Station Lane, Gilesgate, Durham. DH1 1LJ. Tel: 0870 0850950
• Cathedral View Guest House, 212 Gilesgate, Durham DH1 1QN. Tel: 0191 3869566
• The City Hotel, 84 New Elvet, Durham DH1 3AQ. Tel: 0191 3869936
• Castledene, 37 Nevilledale Terrace, Durham DH1 4QG. Tel: 0191 3848386
• The Georgian Town House, 11 Crossgate, Durham DH1 4PS. Tel: 0191 3868070
• Castle View Guest House, 4 Crossgate, Durham DH1 4PS Tel: 0191 3868852
• 60 Albert Street, Durham DH1 4RJ. Tel: 0191 3860608

Accommodation may also be booked through Durham University Conference & Tourism Office, Room GB22, Mountjoy Research Centre, Block 2, Stockton Rd,, Durham, DH1 3UP. Tel: 0191 3342887

Other information:

Details of how to get to Durham University are available at www.durham.ac.uk with general information on this historic cathedral city at www.durhamtourism.co.uk.  For general enquiries contact Russell Hill (r.a.hill@durham.ac.uk).