Human Sciences & Complexity Video Streamed Conferences and Workshops 2005-06
Sponsored by Social Dynamics and Evolution, IMBS, held at UC IRVINE
Saturday Dec 10th 10:00-1:15
Complexity in Early Society I
1. Guillermo Algaze, Anthropology/ Archaeology, UCSD
"The Sumerian Takeoff"
2. Geoffrey Braswell, Anthropology/ Archaeology, UCSD
"The Ancient Mesoamerican Network Society"
3. Robert McCormick Adams, Anthropology/ Archaeology, UCSD
"Excavating with Prosopography below the Elite Field of View in Early States"
Thursday Workshop, Jan 12 10:00-12:00
Chinese Urban Migration
JIN, Xiaoyi; DU, Haifeng; and LI, Shuzhuo - Xi'an Jiaotong University/Stanford Morrison
Institute of Population and Resource Studies
"Rural-urban Migration in China: Some Findings and Social Subgroup Detection"
Thursday Mar 30 10:00-1:00
Simulating Complex Society
1. Art Griffin, UCLA, and Charles Stanish, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Director
"A simulation model of Lake Titicaca Basin settlement patterns circa 2500 BC - AD 1000"
2.. Paul Jorion, Anthropology - UCLA affiliate faculty
"Adam Smith's 'Invisible hand' revisited: A simulation" S
rtsp://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/center/SVideo/2006_03_30_ASC_1.ram
Friday June 2 10:00-1:00
Complexity in Early Society II
1. Paul Goldstein, Anthropology/Archaeology, UCSD
"Agency and Heterarchic Complexity in the Andean Diaspora"
rtsp://media.nacs.uci.edu:554/ITC/SocialScience/White/2006_06_02_ASC.rm
2. Formative Discussion on creation of new Intercampus and Campus Academic Programs:
the June 15th proposal
Thursday June 22 1:30-3:00
Urban Complexity
Doug White, Laurent Tambayong, and Steve Doubleday (IMBS, UCI); with Natasa Kejzar
(Soc Sci, U Ljubljana), Ben Lind (Sociology, UCI), Ben Jester (Social Networks, UCI),
"Cityrise and Cityquake: The Five Alternations Between Global Economy and Regional
Economies in Eurasia in the Last Millennium; and Definitive Evidence of Macro
Civilizational Dynamics"
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Human Sciences and Complexity Video Seminars and Conferences 2005-06
Sponsored by Social Dynamics and Evolution, IMBS. Held at Four Campus Video Sites:
UCI, UCLA, UCSD, and UCR
Friday 1:30-3:00 Sept 30
Doug White
"Civilizations as dynamic networks: Cities, hinterlands, populations, industries, trade and
conflict"
rtsp://media.nacs.uci.edu:554/ITC/SocialScience/White/Anthro-093005.rm
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Friday 2:00-3:30 Oct 14
Chris Chase-Dunn, Department of Sociology, UCR
"Rise, fall and upward sweeps: the emergence of a global state" and a report on successful
Human Social Dynamics funding from the National Science Foundation.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Friday 1:30-3:00 Oct 28
Dwight Read, Department of Anthropology, UCLA
“The Evolution of Cultural Kinship: A non-Darwinian Odyssey”
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Darren Schreiber, Department of Political Science, UCSD
"Humans are by nature political animals: New evidence and arguments"
rtsp://media.nacs.uci.edu:554/ITC/SocialScience/White/2005_11_04_ASC.rm
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Friday Jan 13 1:30-3:20
JIN, Xiaoyi; DU, Haifeng; and LI, Shuzhuo - Xi'an Jiaotong University/Stanford Morrison
Institute of Population and Resource Studies
"Network Study of Rural-Urban Migration in China"
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Friday Feb 3 1:00-3:00
Henry Wright, Department of Anthropology and Anthropology Museum, Michigan
"Recent Research on Mesopotamian State Emergence"
rtsp://media.nacs.uci.edu:554/ITC/SocialScience/White/2006_02_03_ASC.rm
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Friday Feb 10 1:30-3:00
Michalis Faloutsos, Computer Science, UCR
"The Internet Is Like A Jellyfish"
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Adam Kuper, Professor of Anthropology at Brunel University
"Endogamy, adultery and homosexuality: an ethnographic perspective on the Bloomsbury
Group."
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Friday Mar 10 1:30-3:00
Mike Agar, Professor Emeritus, Anthropology, University of Maryland
"Telling It Like It (Subjunctively) Is: Organizational Complexity, Linguistic Anthropology,
and Narrative" Right click and save to download powerpoint
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Friday April 7 1:00-3:00
Steven Bankes, Evolving Logic Inc, Rand Pardee School, UCLA Human Complex Systems,
"Computational Exploration in Long Term Policy Analysis for Social and Organizational
Complex Systems."
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Friday April 21 1:30-3:00
Tsutomu (Tom) Nakano, Kwansei Gakuin University/External Affiliated Faculty, Center on
Organizational Innovation, Columbia University, and Doug White, IMBS, UCI
"Networks-Affect-Pricing Theory in Modern Production Industry: Three Network Studies of
the Giant Industrial District of Tokyo"
rtsp://media.nacs.uci.edu:554/ITC/SocialScience/White/2006_04_21_ASC.rm
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Friday May 5 1:30-3:00
Jean Ensminger, Department of Anthropology, Cal Tech.
"The Co-Evolution of Pro-Social Norms and the Market"
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Friday May 19 1:30-3:00
Darren Schreiber, Political Science, UCSD
"The Emergence of Parties: An Agent-Based Simulation"
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