"A celebration of the life and thinking of Conrad Waddington"
15th-17th April 2016,
Abbazia di Spineto, Sarteano
Tuscany, Italy
Promoted by ABOCA
Il programma
Friday 15th April – Arrival. Informal dinner in the Abbazia cellars
Saturday - Chairman Pat Bateson
9.00 Pat Bateson - Introduction
9.10 Telmo Pievani - Wad, the evolutionist: the relevance of Wad's breadth of interests 40 years later
9.50 Eva Jablonka - The rise of epigenetics
10.30 Coffee
11.00 Steve Jones – Genetic assimilation
11.40 Kevin Laland – Developments in Evolutionary Biology
12.20 General Discussion
12.30 Lunch
14.30 Ulrich Loening – The School of Man-made Future and the Centre for Human Ecology
15.10 Nick Humphrey humphrey@me.com – Consciousness as Art
15.50 Carrie Humphrey (née Waddington) - Mutual influences between my father's work and anthropology
16.30 General Discussion
17.15 Concert in Abbazia Church
20.00
Drinks and Formal Dinner at Abbazia
Sunday 17th November – Chairman Telmo Pievani
9.00 Steven Rose – Wad's anti-reductionism
9.40 Pat Bateson ppgb@cam.ac.uk – Wad's systems approach
10.20 Coffee
10.50 Grazia Marchianò fondoscritti@elemirezolla.it - Behind Appearance and commentary on his book of the same name
11.30 General Discussion
12.30 Lunch
14.30 Visits to Sarteano Castle and Etruscan Museum
18.00 Drinks
19.00 Informal Dinner in the Abbazia cellars
Monday 18th April Departure
Observer participants: Gabriel Offer, Hilary Rose, Francesco Suman, Ettore Camerlenghi.
Grateful thanks to Marilisa Cuccia and Nicola Tagliapietra of Abbazia di Spineto and Massimo Mercati of ABOCA which has funded the meeting.
The proceedings of the workshop will not be published but will feed into to a three-day meeting at the Royal Society and British Academy from 7th to 9th November 2016 with the title:"New trends in Evolutionary biology: philosophical and social science perspectives and implications". Details about registration and speakers will be sent out by the two academies.