University of Helsinki
Presentation: Tamás Dávid-Barrett: Social Network Effects of Falling Fertility, Urbanisation, and Migration
Time: Tuesday 5th March at 4 pm to 6 pm
Place: University of Helsinki: Unioninkatu 35, ground floor, seminar room sh 114
Tamás Dávid-Barrett is an evolutionary behavioural scientist, whose research asks what traits allow humans to live in large and culturally complex societies. He is especially interested in the architecture and regulation of social networks, and the evolutionary origins of social network building traits. Tamás is a professor at the Centro de Investigación de Complejidad Social at the Universidad del Desarollo in Santiago de Chile, teaches economics at Trinity College, University of Oxford, is affiliated with the Institute für Weltwirtschaft in Kiel, Germany, and Väestöliitto in Helsinki. Tamás recently finished his manuscript on the coming female millennium, entitled ‘Matriocracy’.
Welcome to listen and discuss, no preregistration required!
Open Moodle platform for seminar can be found here: https://moodle.helsinki.fi/course/view.php?id=31386
Edward Westermarck (1862-1939) is a founding father of Finnish sociology and one of the world’s first evolutionary sociologist whose scientific thinking was a century ahead of its time. Westermarck seminar gathers together researchers and students interested in evolutionary research from different disciplines. Cross-disciplinary seminar is open to all.
Contact:
Antti Tanskanen
Mirkka Danielsbacka