Human Ethology Film Archive
     
    of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft fuer Naturforschung


    Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt  -  Section Palaeoanthropology  
    Senckenberganlage 25  D-60325 Frankfurt / Main  phone +49 - (0) 69 - 7542-1298   www.senckenberg.de  


     
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    July 2018

     


     

     

     

    Life Cycle & Everyday Life in Evolutionary Perspective


    18th Annual Meeting of the interdisciplinary MVE List "Human Behavior in Evolutionary Perspective"
    at the Human Ethology Film Archive


     
     

     

     
    The MVE List is an interdisciplinary network of scientists interested in the topic of "Human Behavior in Evolutionary Perspective". The Website of the MVE List (http://www.mve-liste.de), where interested scientists may register, offers opportunities for exchange and co-operation. Every year a MVE conference is held, each with a different focus and at a different location. This year's Annual Meeting is arranged by the Human Ethology Film Archive.

     

     

     


     

    TOPIC 2018: LIFE CYCLE & EVERYDAY LIFE • KEYNOTES • "COMPARING APPLES" • REGISTRATION • ACCESS • ACCOMMODATION
      • IRENAEUS EIBL-EIBESFELDT  -  RETROSPECT & TRIBUTE •  

     

     


     

    2nd CALL FOR PAPERS: 
    MVE ANNUAL MEETING 2018 IN FRANKFURT / MAIN

    "LIFE CYCLE  &  EVERYDAY LIFE"
     

     

     


       

     

     

    Location:  Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Human Ethology Film Archive
    Date:  September 21 - 23, 2018
    Topic:  Life Cycle & Everyday Life
    Organizer:  Anke Kuper

     

     

     


     
    IRENAEUS EIBL-EIBESFELDT  -  RETROSPECT & TRIBUTE

    On the occasion of the death of Irenaeus Eibl-Eibesfeldt on 2 June 2018 we dedicate an additional session of the meeting to him and to his life and work, as an opportunity for the colleagues, who accompanied his works, to look back and pay tribute.

    Contributions by: Christoph Antweiler, Barbara Fruth, Gabriele Herzog-Schroeder, Gottfried Hohmann, Anke Kuper, Wulf Schiefenhoevel, Christa Suetterlin, and others.
     

     

     

     

     

     


    TOPIC:
    LIFE CYCLE & EVERYDAY LIFE IN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE

     

     


    This year's MVE meeting focuses on human day-to-day life and individual life histories. Daily routines, work and movement, the psychic und physical demands of different ways of life and different phases of life, and their variability are significant aspects of human evolution.

    Our evolution is the history of our work. Every day, all its life, an animal is busy with food acquisition, social and reproductive work, and regeneration. In humans, the proportions of each of these tasks in a day's routine, the kind of activities, the respective energetic expenditure, and the cognitive, emotional and physical demands involved vary greatly - over the course of human history, between different groups, between different individuals and in different phases of life. What are the human-specific essential patterns and how do they contribute to the interaction of biocultural evolution?

    What do we know about day-to-day-life in the history of human-environment interaction, about work, leisure and rest, about working and regeneration times and workloads, about psychic and physical demands and health, about posture and motor skills, mobility or radii of action? How do work rhythms and biological rhythms interact? Which aspects of daily activity in different phases of life of an individual leave permanent traces in the body? What is the explanatory potential offered by new approaches and methods, e. g. in genetics and epigenetics, or the integration of actor-centered concepts into the analysis of evolutionary processes? What are the connections between the characteristics of everyday life, life cycle and ontogeny? Which part does cultural variability play in this context? What are the effects of differences in challenges across specific phases of life such as childhood and youth, or pregnancy? How do cognitive and motor development interact? Which cognitive, emotional, and social processes accompany and affect work and movement? What role do communication, co-operation and division of labor play? And, last but not least, how does our evolutionary make-up make itself felt under contemporary conditions of everyday life and work?

    We hope for a broad range of subjects and insights into current research from various disciplines!
    As always, submissions from all other areas of the evolutionary behavioral sciences are welcome.

    We look forward to your contributions!                                                    Extended submission deadline: August 15, 2018

     

     

     

     

     


    INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

     

     


     
    Prof. Dr. Wulf Schiefenhoevel

    "Modern models of the past and dramatic change: On Anthropology und Medicine of the Eipo"

    Wulf Schiefenhoevel is Head of the Human Ethology Group at the MPIO, Starnberg-Seewiesen, and Professor of Human Ethology at the Institute of Psychology, University of Innsbruck. First Fieldwork in New Guinea 1965/66, since then ongoing research projects, mainly with Eipo in the Highlands of Papua province, Indonesia, on medical and anthropological issues; since several years in collaboration with Marian Vanhaeren (CNRS and University of Bordeaux) on ethnoarchaeological issues. Together with Martin Bruene editor of the "Oxford University Press Handbook of Evolutionary Medicine" (in press).

    Wulf Schiefenhoevel's Homepage at the MPIO

     

     


     
    Prof. Dr. Ursula Wittwer-Backofen

    "The Urban Challenge - Health indicators of environmental stress and adaptation throughout humankind"

    Dr. Ursula Wittwer-Backofen is a Professor in Biological Anthropology at the Medical Faculty at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She studied Biology, Physical Anthropology, Chemistry and near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Berlin (Freie Universität), Mainz and Heidelberg.
    Her main topics are in evolutionary history of health and disease, interactions between humans and their environment, human adaptability, and forensic anthropology. She got her experience as a research assistant in the Anthropological Departments of the Universities of Mainz and Gießen, where she later received her venia legendi for Human Biology/Anthropology in 1998. Her work modeling ancient population environment history by demographic and biological mixed methods approaches was amplified by her work at the Max Planck Institute of Demographic Research in Rostock.
    Since 2002 she is a full Professor in Biological Anthropology at the Medical Faculty in Freiburg. Her special interest is in interdisciplinary approaches to bridge the gaps between Life Sciences and Humanities, documented in her major role in the MSc Program of Interdisciplinary Anthropology and as a founding director of the Freiburg University Centre for Medicine and Society with a strong interest in Global Urban Health. She is a network leader of the Pan University Network of Global Health where her research activities include the complexity of mother and child health indicators.

    Ursula Wittwer-Backofen's Homepage at the University of Freiburg

     

     


     

     

     


    SESSION "COMPARING APPLES: OLD AND NEW METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS"

     

     


    A special session at this year's meeting will focus on methodological concerns. Following the guiding question "Whom and what do we study, ... and how, ... and whom and what do we not study?" we particularly want to discuss the interpretive claims, significance and possible biases of common methodological practice in the scientific disciplines working with humans.

    Possible topics are basic methodological questions or problems arising from specific methods in research, such as: characterization and demarcation of units of investigation; the significance of cross-cultural research and problems related to it; the reception of methodological deficiencies and the scope of their impact; research artefacts due to ethnocentrism and gender bias; authenticity in field work and laboratory research; sample representativeness; problems emerging from online research and internet analyses; research obstacles such as intercultural misinterpretation, purposeful research or hidden agendas, ethical considerations, and alike.

    We see this session as a colloquium-like forum for open discussion including both the presentation of topics and the opportunity to discuss methodological issues from your own research. Key subjects of debate will arise from the submitted contributions. Presentations should be in PechaKucha format (max. 20 slides, 20 sec. each), so that there will be enough time for discussion.

    We look forward to your contributions!                                                    Extended submission deadline: August 15, 2018

     


     


     

     

     

    REGISTRATION

     

     


    Registration for the conference is now possible. Before registering for the conference, please first become a member of the MVE List by registering on the homepage of the MVE (http://mve-liste.de). You will find the login button on the left. After the login, you will find a new menu button saying "Tagungsanmeldung" in the navigation menu on the left. Please click this button. Now you can fill in the form to register for the conference. Under the item "my bookings" you can change or complete your registration at any time. You can also change your conference submission (presentation or poster). If you have any problems, please use the contact form on the left.

    The conference will be held in German and English. Your presentations and posters can thus be in either English or German. If you wish to give your talk in German, your presentation slides may be in English, and vice versa. Even if you intend to give your talk in German, it is possible to submit your contribution in both English and German, so that internet search engines can find and display your submission.

    Last submission deadline: August 15, 2018

     

     


     

     

     


    CONFERENCE FEES

     

     


    As for the previous conferences, conference fees depend on the position held, so that young researchers in particular can afford to attend. Conference fees are 60,- € for holders of a full position, 30,- € for holders of a half position (50%), and 15,- € for students. Payment must be made in cash at the first day of the conference.

     

     


     

     

     


    CONFERENCE VENUE & ACCESS

     

     

     

     

     


    Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt     
    Senckenberganlage 25, D-60325 Frankfurt am Main, phone +49 - (0) 69 - 7542 0, www.senckenberg.de  
    Human Ethology Film Archive, Anke Kuper, phone +49 - (0) 69 - 7542 1298, akuper@senckenberg.de 

    Conference room:
    Arthur-von-Weinberg-Haus, "Green Lecture Hall", Entrance: Robert-Mayer-Str. 2

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    Public transport in Frankfurt         Travel information RMV

    S-Bahn (suburban train) lines S3, S4, S5 and S6 - "Westbahnhof" station (12 min. walk)
    U-Bahn (underground train) lines U4, U6 and U7 - "Bockenheimer Warte" station (5 min. walk)
    Straßenbahn (tram) line 16 - "Bockenheimer Warte" stop  (5 min. walk)
    Bus lines 32 and 36 - "Bockenheimer Warte" stop (5 min. walk) and line 75 - "Senckenbergmuseum" stop

    From the central railway station "Hauptbahnhof":
    Take the U-Bahn (underground train) line U4 to "Bockenheimer Warte" station (2 stops, 4 min.)

    Taxi call  +49 - (0) 69 - 733 030   or   +49 - (0) 69 - 3650 65000   or   +49 - (0) 69 - 4800 8928
    taxi stand at "Bockenheimer Warte"


    By Car

    Arriving from the South or East:
    Drive across the motorway-junction "Frankfurter Kreuz" till "Westkreuz Frankfurt", then take the motorway A648 (towards "Stadtmitte" - B8/44) until Frankfurt Fair (Messe), turn left in the roundabout (towards "Ginnheim / Eschersheim" - B8/40). You will find the museum after 500 metres on the left.

    Arriving from the North or West:
    Drive across the motorway-junction "Nordwestkreuz Frankfurt" on motorway A66 (direction "F-Miquelalle / Stadtmitte"), turn right before the end of the motorway (towards "Hauptbahnhof / Messe" - B8/40), and follow the course of the street "Zeppelinallee". You will find the museum after 2 kilometres on the right.

    Parking
    Parking garage "Congresscenter Messe Frankfurt" (Maritim Hotel); Theodor-Heuss-Allee 3-5
    Parking garage "Messeturm"; Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 49
    Parking garage "WestendGate"; Hamburger Allee 2


    Due to construction works, there are no marked disabled parking spots at the moment. Please contact us before visiting the museum. We will organize a parking spot for you. A wheelchair is available if needed. Please contact any of our staff.

    Guide dogs are allowed in the museum.

     

     


     

     

     


    OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATION

     

     


    Due to a great demand, hotel rooms in Frankfurt should be booked as soon as possible!
    Some hotels offer early bird discounts, some update prices on a daily basis. Low-priced hotels and private B&B offer rooms from about € 35,00.
    If requested, we can provide a list with more hotels. Please contact: akuper@senckenberg.de

    NB: The city of Frankfurt charges a tourist tax for overnight guests on private trips (€ 2.00 per day). The tax is not charged for business trips, so please state your business address and reason of stay when booking the hotel.


    Hotels within walking distance

    Art-Hotel Robert Mayer
    Robert-Mayer-Str. 44, 60486 Frankfurt a. M., phone: +49 (0) 69 - 970 9100, info@arthotel-frankfurt.de, www.arthotel-frankfurt.de  
    Single room from € 86,00, Double room from € 97,00, Weekend: Single room: € 57,00, Double room: € 72,00, rates per night/room, excl. breakfast; 1 breakfast € 7,00

    Fleming's Hotel Frankfurt - Hamburger Allee
    Hamburger Allee 47-53, 60486 Frankfurt a. M., phone: +49 (0) 69 - 201 7410, frankfurt.hamburgerallee@flemings-hotels.com, https://www.flemings-hotels.com/hotels-residences/frankfurt/flemings-hotel-frankfurt-hamburger-allee/hotel
    Single room from about € 86,00 incl. breakfast, rates at request

    Hotel Corona Garni GmbH
    Hamburger Allee 48, 60486 Frankfurt a. M., phone: +49 (0) 69 - 77 9077, info@hotel-corona.de, http://www.hotel-corona.de/
    Single room from € 69,00; Double room: € 89,00, rates per night/room, incl. breakfast

    Novum Hotel Imperial Frankfurt
    Sophienstraße 40, 60487 Frankfurt a. M., phone: +49 (0) 69 - 719 158 80, frankfurt.hamburgerallee@flemings-hotels.com, https://www.novum-hotels.com/hotel-imperial-frankfurt
    Single room from € 46,00, Double room from € 54,00, rates per night/room, excl. breakfast; 1 breakfast € 10,90 - 12,90

    aCasa Bed&Breakfast Gästehaus
    Varrentrappstr. 49, 60486 Frankfurt a. M., phone: +49 (0) 69 - 97 98 88 21, info@hotel-acasa.de, http://www.hotel-acasa.de/
    Single room from € 59,00, Double room from € 79,00, Weekend: Single room from € 49,00, rates per night/room, excl. breakfast; 1 breakfast € 6,00 - 9,00


    Hostels

    Youth hostel "Haus der Jugend" (DJH)
    Deutschherrnufer 12, 60594 Frankfurt a. M., phone: +49 (0) 69 - 6100 150, info@hellofrankfurt.de, http://www.jugendherberge-frankfurt.de/en/sleeping/prices/
    Dorm from € 20,00, Single room € 43,00, rates per Person for DJH/HI-members, non-members € 3,50 extra per night, incl. breakfast

    Frankfurt Hostel
    Kaiserstr. 74, 60329 Frankfurt a. M., phone: +49 (0) 69 - 2475 130, info@frankfurt-hostel.com, http://www.frankfurt-hostel.com
    Dorm from € 25,00, Single rooms available, rates per Person, incl. breakfast

     

             

     

     


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