February 4–6, 2015
Ax les Thermes, France
The first PIREN (for Pyrenean Interdisciplinary Research EveNt) will take place in the center of Ax-les-thermes and will be hold February 4th, 5th and 6th, 2015. This will be an exciting interdisciplinary event with a great line-up of speakers from psychology, history, biology and economics.
Program
Wednesday, 4th February: History/Political Science/Neuroeconomics
14:30-16:00: Jakob Vogel, Sciences Po, Paris: "Inventing an Economic Branch. Mining Officials and the Construction of Economic Statistics in the 19th Century
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16:00-16:45: Sreemati Mitter, IAST Research Fellow: "Event the Tables and Chairs: "End of Palestine Mandate" Financial Negotiations, 1949-1952"
16:45-17:30: Dominik Duell, IAST Research Fellow: "Leading from the Periphery - an Experimental Study of the Origins of Spontaneous Rebellion"
17:30-18:15: Jonathan Klingler, IAST Research Fellow: "Don't Know What You Got: Neuroticism and Ideological Uncertainty"
20:00-21:00: Simon Thorpe, CerCo, CNRS, Toulouse: "Four decades of neuroeconomics- a personal view"
Thursday, 5th February: Evolutionary Psychology/Evolutionary Biology/Anthropology
14:30-16:00: Jack Vromen, EIPE, Erasmus University Rotterdam: "The Case from Strong Reciprocity as an Instance of Interdisciplinarity"
16:00-16:45: Alexis Chaine, SEEM, IAST: "Complexity in Evolution: Social Structure and the Evolution of Social Signals in Sparrows"
16:45-17:30: Heidi Colleran, IAST Research Fellow: "Contraceptive Use and the Meaning of "Natural Fertility""
17:30-18:15: Arnaud Tognetti, IAST Research Fellow: "Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided? The IAST expertise at stake"
Friday, 6th February: Economics/Behavioral Economics/Evolutionary Biology
14:30-16:00: Mark Schaffer, Heriot-Watt University, CEPR and IZA: "Economics and Biology"
16:00-16:45: César Mantilla, IAST Research Fellow: "Fishing Technology and Market Structure in Artisanal Fisheries: An Artefactual Field Experiment"
16:45-17:30: Ingela Alger, IAST, TSE, Toulouse: "Evolutionary foundations of human motivation"
17:30-18:30: General Discussion on Interdisciplinarity
This event has been funded by a French government subsidy managed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche under the framework of the investissements d'avenir programme reference ANR-11-LABX-0052.
Reference
Pyrenean Interdisciplinary Research Event (PIREN), Ax les Thermes, France, February 4–6, 2015.