Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Dr. Harvey Whitehouse & Prof. David Wilson

4pm, Monday

11th March 2013

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

Please register at:

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Harvey Whitehouse is Chair of Social Anthropology and Director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture at the University of Oxford. His doctoral research at Cambridge in the 1980s was based on two years of ethnographic research in Papua New Guinea in the late eighties, focused on the role of ritual in binding groups together. He is currently Director of the Ritual, Community, and Conflict project, funded ny a five-year Large Grant from the ESRC (2011-2016), Which examines the causes and consequences of rituals in human societies.

David Sloan Wilson is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University. He applies evolutionary theory to all aspects of humanity in addition to the rest of life, both in his own research and by directing programs designed to reform higher education and public policy formulation. He is known for championing the theory of multilevel selection, which has implications ranging from the origin of life to the nature of religion.

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