Warfare, Environment, Social Inequality, and Pro-Sociability Biennial Conference

May 23, 2019 - May 25, 2019 | Winthrop University and James Madison University
Seville, Spain
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For over a millennia, warfare, environmental degradation, and social inequality have brought much suffering to humankind. In an effort to facilitate interdisciplinary cross-fertilization, WESIPS brings together a cadre of internationally recognized scholars to address the underlying causes of warfare, environmental degradation, the advent of social complexity, and social inequality from a host of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives. Setting the stage for the cumulation of knowledge, this symposium seeks to uncover effective solutions which promote peace, altruism, cooperation, social equality, biodiversity, and sustainable use of natural resources. This interdisciplinary conference seeks papers addressing one or more of the following topics: prehistoric/modern warfare, ritual violence, biodiversity, natural resource utilization, past and present cases of environmental degradation/sustainability, egalitarianism, advent of social complexity, social inequality, conflict resolution, and prosocial behavior.

This interdisciplinary conference (which will be held on 23-25 May, 2019) seeks papers addressing one or more of the following topics: prehistoric/modern warfare, ritual violence, biodiversity, natural resource utilization, past and present cases of environmental degradation/sustainability, egalitarianism, advent of social complexity, social inequality, conflict resolution, and prosocial behavior.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Timothy Earle (Northwestern)

Abstract Submission Deadline: 01 October, 2018 at 11:59 PM (EST)

When: 23-25 May, 2019

Where: The Center for Cross-Cultural Study (Spanish Studies Abroad) in Seville, Spain

Organizers: Dr. Richard J. Chacon (Winthrop University) and Dr. Yamilette Chacon (James Madison University)

For more information about the conference and/or to submit an abstract, visit the WESIPS Conference website: http://www.spanishstudies.org/wesips-conference.html