2008 - 2009 Seminar Series

The Center for Human Development's weekly seminar series meets on Fridays from noon to 1pm in Cognitive Science Building room 003. An additional graduate student section is held in the same location from 1pm to 1:50pm for those registered in the seminar course (COGS260).

The series is designed to bring together developmentally-oriented faculty, researchers, and students from our affiliated departments and off-campus research laboratories with the intent of facilitating the integration of the various perspectives of development that are generated across multiple disciplines and academic levels. As such, the seminar addresses diverse topics relevant to the larger domain of development. As in previous years, the seminar will take an interdisciplinary perspective, inviting speakers from different fields and theoretical traditions.

The quarterly topics for 2008-09 along with the names of the respective faculty organizers are as follows:

Fall 2008

Seminar Title:
Applications of Biological Models to Behavioral Science
Faculty Organizers:
Farrell Ackerman (Linguistics) and Nick Spitzer (Biology)

Winter 2009

Seminar Title:
Co-evolution of Language and Culture
Faculty Organizers:
Farrell Ackerman (Linguistics)

Spring 2009

Talk by Michael Tomasello
Chimpanzee Social Cognition
11:00am to 12:15pm
Location: Social Sciences Building, Room 107
co-hosted with the UCSD Department of Cognitive Science