| List of Main Lecturers and Organizers,
the 3rd Siberian Indian Summer School on Human Ethology, (HESISS2004),
September 19th-28th, 2004, Novosibirsk - Tomsk - Irkutsk
Frank Salter, Lecturer and International
Organizer (Australia,
Germany)
Michael McGuire, Lecturer (USA)
Harald.Euler, Lecturer (Germany)
Kevin MacDonald, Lecturer (California)
Bobbi Low, Lecturer (USA)
ZhannaReznikova, Lecturer (Russia)
Uri Plusnin, National Organizer (Russia),
the Institute for Philosophy and Low (Novosibirsk)
ArcadyPutilov, Trans-Siberian Organizer, the Research Institute
for Molecular Biology and Biophysics (Novosibirsk)
Olga Lisichenko, Local Organizer, the Novosibirsk State
Medical Academy
Alexander Ksenz, Local Organizer,
the Tomsk State
University
Eugene Ineshin, Local Organizer, the IrkutskState University
Frank Salter
Frank K. Salter
is a political ethologist with the Max Plank Society, in Andechs,
Germany,
and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Urban Ethology in Vienna. He began studying political phenomena
from a biological perspective in Australia,
continuing in Germany
in collaboration with Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Wulf Schiefenhövel,
and Karl Grammer. The results of his research on social power
in command hierarchies were summarized in the monograph Emotion
in command: A naturalistic study of institutional dominance
(OUP 1995). Research now focuses on ethnic solidarity and
competition. Subsequent publications include: Ethnic Conflict
and Indoctrination: Altruism and Identity in Evolutionary
Perspective (co-edited with Eibl-Eibesfeldt; Berghahn,
1998); Risky Transactions: Trust, Kinship, and Ethnicity
(edited text; Berghahn, 2002); On Genetic Interests. Family,
Ethny, and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration (monograph;
Peter Lang Publishers, 2003); Welfare, Ethnicity, and Altruism:
New Data and Evolutionary Theory (edited text; Frank Cass,
2004). Dr. Salter is secretary of the International
Society for Human Ethology. He is the founder of the series
of schools on human ethology held in Russia
and Eastern Europe that began in 2001 and included Moscow
in 2001 and Novosibirsk
in 2002. In particular, in the years 2002-2003 he was the
international organizer of several Summer Schools on Human
Ethology in Russia (see the Summer Schools on Human
Ethology in Putschino and the 1st,
2nd and 3rd Siberian Indian Summer Schools
on Human Ethology in Novosibirsk on this web-site
for more detail).. His summer school lectures in 2002 were:
(1) The ethology of command and obedience; (2) Social
technology theory: Culture and instinct, and (3) Social
technology and ethnic conflict. In the 2nd Novosibirsk school, in September 2003, his lecture
was titled: "Genetic interests: Theory, strategies,
and ethics". In 2004 his topic will be: The Success
of Inclusive Fitness Theory as a Heuristic of Ethnic Solidarity
in Contemporary Industrial Societies.
Harald Euler
Harald
A. Euler (http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb7/psychologie/pers/euler/),
a professor of psychology from the University of Kassel, Germany,
since 1974, began his studies in Bonn,
Germany, and completed them as a Fulbright student
at Washington
State University
in 1972, with a major in experimental and animal psychology
and a minor in philosophy, guitar, and modern dance. Dissatisfied
with the behavioristic approach to the analysis of human behavior
he started to adopt an evolutionary approach in psychology
when the topic of human emotions began to interest him in
the early 80s while he edited a German handbook on emotions,
against strong resistance by academic peers who tended to
reject or even vilify evolutionary analyses of human behavior.
Since then Prof. Euler has dealt with various topics
in evolutionary psychology, especially family relations, heterosexual
relations, aggression, and sperm competition, has published
in both German and American journals, is satisfied with the
increased acceptance of evolutionary thinking in German psychology,
and is best known for his publications on discriminative grandparental
solicitude. Outside academia he is known for his research
on the relations between kids and horses and his book on why
girls like horses, apart from his many apperances on German
television on various juicy topics (e. g. love and sex) of
evolutionary psychology. The second research interest of Prof.
Euler covers stuttering and its therapy. The Kassel
Stuttering Therapy is a precision fluency approach with computer-aided
biofeedback which shows good long-term maintenance in a large
sample of treated clients. Together with colleagues from the
medical faculty of the University
of Frankfurt
he is currently investigating short- and long-term therapy
effects with fMRI. On the upcoming school his lectures’ topics
will be: (1) Family Relationships I: Discriminative care
by grandparents, aunts, and uncles; (2) Family Relationships
II: Grandparent-parent relationships and the riddle of the
mother-in-law; and (3) Family Relationships III: How
important is genetic paternity? Better test it?
Michael McGuire
Michael McGuire,
M.D., is Professor of Psychology and Biobehavior Sciences,
a member of the Brain Research Institute, and Director of
the Non-Human Primate Laboratory at the University
of California (Los Angeles). He is also Research Director
of the Gruter Institute for Low and Behavioral Research.
His research interests are focused on evolutionary approaches
to social behavior. The publications include the books: The
Saint Kitts Vervet, Reconstruction in Psychoanalysis,
Ethological Psychiatry, and Darwinian Psychiatry.
He was the founding editor of the journal Ethology and
Sociobiology from 1979. Prof. McGuire participated
in the 2nd Siberian Indian School
on Human Ethology with the lectures: Status, information,
and physiology: 1. The history of a finding, 2.
Where the finding led, and 3. Current outlook. On
the upcoming school he will give the lectures on: (1)
Can the neurosciences inform ethology - Part 1; (2) Can the
neurosciences inform ethology - Part 2; and (3) Can the neurosciences
inform ethology - Part 3.
Kevin MacDonald
Kevin K.B. MacDonald (http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd/) is a professor
of the California State University-Long Beach (Department
of Psychology). He received his PhD in Biobehavioral Sciences
in 1981 at the University
of Connecticut (Dr. Benson E. Ginsburg, Advisor) and worked
as a post-doctoral fellow in 1981-1983 at the University of Illinois
under supervising of Dr. Ross Parke. His is mainly interested
in application of evolutionary approach to research in the
field of personality, human development, and sexual, family
and national relationships. The major publications of Prof.
MacDonald are Sociobiological Perspectives on Human
Development. New York: Springer-Verlag,
1988. (Editor); Social and Personality Development: An
Evolutionary Synthesis. New York:
Plenum (1988); Mechanisms of sexual egalitarianism in Western
Europe. In: Ethology and Sociobiology,
11, 195–238, (1990). A People that Shall Dwell Alone:
Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy. Westport, CT:
Praeger. (1994); Evolution, the Five Factor Model, and
Levels of Personality. In: Journal of Personality
63, 525–567, (1995); The Establishment and Maintenance
of Socially Imposed Monogamy in Western
Europe. In: Politics and the Life Sciences,
14, 3–23, (1995); Evolution, Culture, and the Five-Factor
Model. In: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 29,
119–149, (1998); Separation and Its Discontents: Toward
an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism. Westport, CT:
Praeger, (1998); The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary
Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual
and Political Movements. Westport,
CT: Praeger (paperback version:
Bloomington,
IN: 1stbooks Library, 2002); Evolutionary
Perspectives on Human Development, 2nd edition.
Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage (in co-authorship with Burgess, R. L., 2004). Evolutionary
Perspectives on Human Development, 2nd edition.
Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage. (Edited with Hershberger, S., 2004). On the upcoming
school he will present the lectures entitled: 1.) Evolutionary
Personality Psychology: 2.) Evolutionary Psychology
and General Intelligence as a Non-Modular, Domain-General
Adaptation: and 3.) Group Evolutionary Strategies and
the Psychology of Ethnocentrism
Bobbi S. Low
Bobbi Low is
Proffessor of the School
of Natural Resources
and Environment (University of Michigan, USA).
Her lecture courses discuss vertebrate somatic and reproductive
strategies (foraging, migration, group living and social behavior,
mating and parental behavior), behavioral ecology of humans,
especially in the context of resource competition and acquisition,
and applications of optimization and game theory, etc. In
2002 Prof. Low was elected on the post of President
of Human Behavior and Evolution Society. She is a member of
editorial board of 4 peer-reviewed international journals
(Politics and the Life Sciences, Human Nature,
Human behavior and Evolution, and Michigan Quarterly
Review). Her publications include several books: Why
Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior. (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2000); Institutions, Ecosystems, and
Sustainability (New York: Lewis Publishers. co-edited
with R. Costanza, E. Ostrom, and J. Wilson, 2001); and Family
Patterns In Nineteenth-Century Sweden: Variation in Time and
Space (Swedish Demographic Database Monograph #6: 1‑157,
co-authored with Alice L. Clarke, and K. Lockridge, 1991).
The preliminary titles of her lectures on the upcoming schools
are: # 1. The evolution and consequences of human sex differences;
# 2. The evolutionary ecology of demography; and #
3. The evolutionary ecology of warfare.
Zhanna Reznikova
Zhanna
Reznikova is a behavioral ecologist, Professor of the
Novosibirsk State University
(Department of General Biology and Ecology), head of the Research
Team at Institute for Animal Systematic and Ecology (Laboratory
of Insect Ecology). Zhanna Reznikova is an expert in application
of information theory to study of complex communication in
animals. Her original researches are mostly aimed on the intricate
questions of inter-relations between competitors and symbionts
in insect communities. She is an author of several books including
a monograph Interspecies Inter-Relations in Ants, and
3-volum textbook on comparative psychology (Intelligence
and Language, Between a Dragon and a Fury, and War
and Piece in Species and Populations). She gave a talk
on the 2nd Summer School on Human Ethology
(Puschino): Dialog with Black Box: Different Approaches
for Studying Animal Communication, and on the 2nd
Siberian Indian School on Human Ethology: Social learning
in bipeds, quadrupeds, hexapods, octopods, and decapods. The
preliminary title of the talk of Prof. Reznikova on
the upcoming school in Novosibirsk is Tool use: effective tool for
studying animal intelligence but not so effective to separate
man from beast. Her talk will be followed by the talks
of her former PhD students: Task allocation in social insects:
the role of social and individual experience (Dr. Tatyana
Novgorodova), and Should killers go to school? Insight
from insects (Dr. Sofia Panteleeva).
Uri Plusnin
National Organizer (Russia),
the Institute for Philosophy and Low (Novosibirsk),
(see textbook projects this web-site for more detail)
Arcady
Putilov
Arcady
Putilov is a chronobiologist associated with the Research
Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics (Novosibirsk). He is an expert
on rhythmic phenomena in living nature. The results of his
early researches were summarized in the monograph Systemforming
Function of Synchronization in the Living Nature (1987).
Along with more recent scientific articles on chronobiology
in peer reviewed international journals, he published a book
appealing to lay audience of Russian-speaking readers (”Larks”,
“Owls” and Other…, 1987, 1st Edn., and 2003,
2nd Edn.). For more than 12 years, Dr. Putilov
is a member of editorial board of Biological Rhythm Research
(Former Journal of Interdisciplinary Cycle Research).
He is lecturing at the Novosibirsk State
University and Classical
Institute (Novosibirsk), and working
on the textbook on evolutionary psychology (see textbook
projects on this web-site for more detail). In 2002 he
has launched the Siberian Indian Summer Schools on Human
Ethology, and he has participated in the 2nd
Summer School on Human Ethology (Puschino near Moscow, 2002) with the lecture entitled Chronobiology
and Evolutionary Psychology of Seasonal Depression.
Olga Lisichenko
Local Organizer, the Novosibirsk State Medical
Academy
Alexander Ksenz
Local Organizer, the Tomsk State
University
Eugene Ineshin
Local Organizer, the Irkutsk State
University
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