Scientific session 2
Main topic I : New Discoveries Defining Complexity
Moderator : Dame Julia Higgins
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Searching for Simplicity in Complexity; Growth, Innovation, Economies of Scale, and the Pace of Life from Cells to Cities (9:00 / 9:30 a.m.)
Geoffrey West, President and Distinguished Professor, Santa Fe Institute, USA
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Understanding and Managing Planetary Complexity (9:40 / 10:10 a.m.)
John Schellnhuber, Founding Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Professor at Potsdam and Oxford Universities, Distinguished Science Adviser of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UK
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Break (10:20 / 10:30 a.m. )
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Why Physics is Easy and People are Hard (10:30 / 11:00 a.m.)
Ian Hacking Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada; Professeur au Collège de France, Paris, France
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Discussion and short presentations (11:00 / 12:15 p.m. )
Paul Cilliers: Knowing Complex Systems. The limits of understanding Continuation of Discussions. Ernest Hartman: Boundaries between Fields and Boundaries in the Mind
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Working lunch - Round Table : 6 short presentations (12:30 / 1:30 p.m. )
Markus Karner: Cross-disciplinary Dialogue in Academia: Debating Complexity and Organic Development at Singapore Management University
Veronica Boix Mansilla: Many Cultures of Academic Inquiry, Nurturing students' capacity to bridge. Akimasa Sumi: A new Initiative at the University of Tokyo - Integrated Research System for Sustainable Sciences(IR3S) and Transdisciplinary Initiative for Global Sustainability(TIGS)
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KP Mohanan: Many Cultures of Academic Inquiry. Mark Freed: Toward a NonModern NonHumanism. Wei Wu: What Went Wrong? -- The losing battle of Confucian doctrine against cheating in science
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Keynote Lecture II : “Towards a Neuroscience of the Capable Person : Unity, Diversity and Oneself as Another” (1:30 / 2:30 p.m.)
Jean-Pierre Changeux, Professeur au Collège de France, Professor & Chairman of the Department of Neurosciences at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
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Scientific session 3
Main topic II : Origin and Migrations of Modern Humans
Moderator : Dame Julia Higgins
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Human Migrations in Prehistory – the Cultural Record (2:30 / 3:00 p.m.)
Ofer Bar-Yosef, Professor of Anthropology at Harvard and Curator of Paleolithic Archaeology, Peabody Museum, Harvard, USA
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Break (3:10 / 3:20 p.m.)
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The Origins of Modern Humans: Linguistic Issues (3:20 / 3:50 p.m.)
Bernard Victorri, Director of research CNRS, Lattice Laboratory, France
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A Genetic View of Human Origins (4:00 / 4:30 p.m.)
Svante Pääbo, Director, Department of Genetics, Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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Discussion and short presentations (4:40 / 6:00 p.m.)
Discussion and short presentations
Michael McCormick: Initiative for the scientific study of the past at Harvard
University Discussions (Cont'd). Edward Slingerland: Who's Afraid of Reductionism?
Consilience, Cognitive Science and the Humanities Discussions (Cont'd)
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Cultural event and Gala dinner (7:00 p.m.)
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