News from the Profession
Inspiring Apes: A White Rose Animals Workshop
Date Posted: 06/13/2012
Wednesday 27th June, 2pm - 4.30pm.
University of York, Wentworth College, W/222.
- How does the way we think about apes shape what we know about them?
- How has the cultural status of apes in the West changed over time?
- What can studying ape culture teach us about human evolution?
These and other issues will be explored at a round-table workshop. Come prepared to ask questions and help us answer them!
Speakers:
Ian Redmond (Independent Scholar) From Inspiration to Conservation: Gorillas to Bonobos
Amanda Rees (University of York) Primatological fieldwork: apes and the fieldworker's regress
Richie Nimmo (University of Manchester) Sociology and cultural primatology
Greg Radick (University of Leeds) Kafka's Ape: the Problem of the Real-Life Red Peter
For further information please e-mail to <amanda.rees@york.ac.uk>