1st CALL FOR STUDENTS: 1st International SUMMER School on Evolution
July 15th – 19th, 2013 | Cincia Viva Knowledge Pavilion, Lisbon, Portugal
Website: http://evolutionschool.fc.ul.pt
We are happy to inform you that registration for the 1st International Summer School on Evolution will open on January 7th, 2013. Courses are open to international Master, PhD and Post-doctoral students in the exact, life, human and sociocultural evolutionary sciences.
About the courses
>From Monday to Friday, parallel sessions are organized whereby visiting staff provide a 10-hour course (2 hours a day) on critical aspects of biological and sociocultural evolution. The courses are centered around the following modules.
Module 1: EVOLutionary theory
Courses are taught by: Lus Villarreal, Ilya Tmkin, Frietson Galis.
Module 2: sociocultural Evolution
Courses are taught by Fiona Jordan, Marion Blute, Nathalie Gontier &
Emanuele Serrelli.
Module 3: philosophy of biology
Courses are taught by Derek Turner, Frdric Bouchard, Michael Ruse.
All courses are taught at a level accessible to Master, PhD and post-doctoral students in the exact, life, human and sociocultural evolutionary sciences. Students of evolutionary biology, evolutionary developmental biology, virology, paleontology, evolutionary linguistics, evolutionary anthropology, and philosophy of biology will especially benefit from these courses.
Students will be provided a mandatory reading list which will form the basis of lectures and discussions. There are neither examinations nor paper assignments.
REGISTRATION FEE
350 euro for the whole week, regardless the number of courses you chose.
HOW TO ENROLL
You can enroll for a specific module (therefore following a 30-hour course on the subject) or you may choose three courses of your specific interest.
About the SUMMER School
The School is organized by the Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab of the Centre for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon, in collaboration with Cincia Viva and with the support of the John Templeton Foundation.
SUBSCRIBE TO THE SUMMER SCHOOL MAILINGLIST
http://eepurl.com/n2EGb
Websites
http://evolutionschool.fc.ul.pt, http://appeel.fc.ul.pt
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