SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
“THE HUMAN BRAIN EVOLVING: PAPERS IN HONOR OF RALPH L. HOLLOWAY”
April 26 th – April 28 th, 2007 , Indiana University , Bloomington
PLEASE NOTE: ALL SYMPOSIUM SESSIONS AND EVENTS WILL BE HELD WITHIN THE INDIANA MEMORIAL UNION (IMU) ON THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY CAMPUS (except for the special registration dinner on Saturday night at the Stone Age Institute)
THURSDAY, APRIL 26th
7 pm - 9 pm Welcome Reception, University Club, Indiana Memorial Union (IMU), first floor. Music by Bulgarian classical guitarist, Atanas Tzvetkov, from Indiana University ’s Jacobs School of Music.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 27th Symposium sessions, Whittenberger Auditorium (1 st Floor, IMU)
9:00 am -9:15 Introductory remarks
Kathy Schick (Stone Age Institute & Indiana U. )
Bennett Bertenthal (Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana U. )
9:15 -9:30 Douglas Broadfield ( Florida Atlantic U. ) and Michael Yuan ( Columbia U. )
“Ralph Holloway: A Retrospective”
9:30-10:00 Terrence Deacon ( U. of California , Berkeley)
“The Study of Human Brain Evolution: From Comparative Morphology to Evodevo”
10:00-10:30 Bruce T. Lahn ( U. of Chicago )
“Probing the Genetic Basis of Human Brain Evolution”
10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00-11:30 Douglas Broadfield ( Florida Atlantic U. )
“Neuroanatomical Reorganization in Early Hominins: Evidence from our Closest Living Relatives”
11:30-12:00 Nicholas Toth, Kathy Schick, and Mohamed Sahnouni (Stone Age Institute & Indiana U. )
“Hominid Brain Reorganization, Technological Change, and Cognitive Complexity”
12:00-12:15 Discussion: Leslie Aiello (Wenner-Gren Foundation)
12:15-2:00 LUNCH BREAK
2:00 pm -2:30 Janet Monge ( U. of Pennsylvania ) and Alan Mann ( Princeton U. )
“Of Brains and Teeth: Can Dental Development Provide Insights into the Evolution of the Brain?”
2:30-3:00 John S. Allen ( U. of Southern California ), Christine Vidal ( U. of Southern California ), Joel Bruss ( U. of Iowa ), and Hanna Damasio ( U. of Southern California )
“Music and the Brain: Implications for the Evolution of Functional Localization in Human Evolution”
3:00-3:30 Duane M. Rumbaugh and E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh (Great Ape Trust of Iowa )
“Emergents and Culture: Comparisons of Prosimians, Monkeys, Apes, and Humans”
3:30-4:00 COFFEE BREAK
4:00-4:30 Robert D. Martin (The Field Museum , Chicago )
“The Maternal Energy Hypothesis of Brain Evolution: An Update”
4:30-5:00 Anne H. Weaver ( Santa Fe , New Mexico )
“Post-Pleistocene Brain Evolution: A Chronological Framework Integrating Genetic, Morphological and Behavioral Evidence”
5:00-5:30 Francys Subiaul ( George Washington U. )
“Mosaic Cognitive Evolution”
5:30-5:45 Discussion: William Kimbel (Institute of Human Origins & Arizona State U. )
7 PM DINNER (SPECIAL REGISTRATION REQUIRED ) Alumni Hall , Indiana Memorial Union (1 st Floor). Music by Dave Bruker jazz trio, with special guest performer, Ralph L. Holloway, on trumpet!
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SATURDAY, APRIL 28 th Symposium sessions, Whittenberger Auditorium (1 st Floor, IMU)
8:00 am Scott W. Simpson ( Case-Western U. ), Sileshi Semaw (Stone Age Institute & Indiana U. ), Jay Quade ( U. of Arizona ), and Ralph L. Holloway ( Columbia U. )
“New Evidence of Brain Size and Growth in Homo erectus from Afar Regional State , Ethiopia ”
8:30 Daniel P. Buxhoeveden (U. South Carolina )
“Micro-Vertical Organization in the Cortex: A Template for Change”
9:00 J.W.K. Harris ( Rutgers U. ) and David Braun ( U. of Capetown )
“Changing Hominid Foraging Strategies in the Plio-Pleistocene: Implications for Understanding Human Brain Evolution from a Case Study in the Lake Turkana Basin ”
9:30 Dominique Grimaud-Hervé (Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris ) and David Lordkipanidze (National Museum of the Republic of Georgia )
“The Brain of Dmanissi’s Hominids, Georgia ”
10:00 COFFEE BREAK
10:30 Dietrich Stout ( University College , London ) and Nicholas Toth and Kathy Schick (Stone Age Institute & Indiana U. )
“ The Neural Correlates of Early Stone Age Tool-Making: Evolutionary Implications”
11:00 Emiliano Bruner (Istituto Universitario di Scienze Motorie, Rome )
“The Evolution of the Parietal Cortical Areas in the Human Genus: Between Structure and Cognition”
11:30 Jason A. Kaufman, J. Michael Tyszka, and John M. Allman (California Institute of Technology)
“Evaluating White Matter Pathways in Fixed Ape Brains with High-Field Diffusion MRI”
12:00-12:15 Discussion: Leslie Aiello (Wenner-Gren Foundation)
12:15-2:00 LUNCH BREAK
2:00 pm James K. Rilling and Todd M. Preuss ( Emory U. )
“Searching for Human Brain Specializations with Structural and Functional Neuroimaging”
2:30 Tom Schoenemann ( U. of Michigan , Dearborn )
“The Meaning of Brain Size: The Evolution of Conceptual Complexity”
3:00 Katerina Semendeferi, Nicole Barger, and Natalie Schenker ( U. of California , San Diego )
“Brain Reorganization in Humans and Apes”
3:30 COFFEE BREAK
4:00 Chet C. Sherwood ( George Washington U. )
“Brain Reorganization Writ Small: Tales from Histology”
4:30 Michael S. Yuan ( Columbia U. ), Douglas C. Broadfield ( Florida Atlantic U. ) and Ralph L. Holloway ( Columbia U. )
“Holloway’s Hypothesis and Syntheses of Human Brain Evolution”
5:00 Discussion: William Kimbel (Institute of Human Origins & Arizona State U. )
5:15 Final Remarks
DINNER (LIMITED SEATING, SPECIAL REGISTRATION REQUIRED )
6:15 to 6:30 Those registered for the finale reception and dinner at the Stone Age Institute board buses in front of the Indiana Memorial Union .
6:30 pm Buses depart from front of IMU Hotel lobby for reception and special dinner at the Stone Age Institute. Music by Rob Turner, well-known soloist and chamber musician, baroque flute and recorder, with violin and cello. Return to IMU Hotel by bus ca. 10 pm .
