University of California, Irvine
Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences (IMBS) and Center for Global Peace
and Conflict Studies (CGPACS)
Present
Friday April 13, 2018, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and Saturday April 14, 2018, 9:30 a.m.
- 4:45 p.m.
Duncan Luce Conference Room, SSPA 2112
Friday, April 13
10:00AM Opening Remarks: Jean-Paul Carvalho & Stergios Skaperdas
10:10AM Peter Richerson, UC Davis, Cultural Group Selection Play an Essential Role in Explaining Human Cooperation: A
Sketch of the Evidence
10:50AM Cristina Moya, UC Davis, How did culture change human reasoning about groups?
11:30AM Break
11:50AM Robert Akerlof, University of Warwick, Group Identity
12:30PM Lunch Break
2:00PM Michael McBride, UCI, Identity and the Escalation of Conflict
2:40PM Deborah Hall, ASU, Costly Signaling, Group Identity, and Perceptions of Trust
3:20PM Break
3:40PM Christian Dippel, UCLA, Leadership and Social Norms: Evidence from the Forty-Eighters in the Civil War
4:20PM Jared Rubin, Chapman University, The Cultural Transmission of Trust Norms: Evidence from a Lab in the Field on a Natural
Experiment
5:00PM Adjourn
Saturday, April 14
9:30AM Jeff Kopstein, UCI, Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust
10:10AM Mohamed Saleh, University of Toulouse, Taxing Unwanted Populations: Fiscal Policy and Conversions in Early Islam
10:50AM Break
11:10AM Cailin O'Connor, UCI, Discrimination and Collaboration in Science
11:50AM Lunch Break
1:30PM Vicky Fouka, Stanford University, From Immigrants to Americans: Race, Status and Assimilation during the Great Migration
2:10PM Mark Koyama, George Mason University, Geopolitics and Asia's Little Divergence: State Building in China and Japan After
1850
2:50PM Break
3:10PM Jean-Paul Carvalho, UCI, Religious Identity
3:50PM Conference Discussion with Larry Iannaccone, Chapman University
4:30PM Closing Remarks
4:45PM Conference Adjourns