Abstract

Cultural biology is an underexplored field of study that combines a suite of theory and methods from Anthropology and Biology to understand past and current human-other animal interfaces, their cultural relationships, individual choices, interspecific communication and social learning, and co-constructed ecologies. This talk will highlight the novel field of cultural biology, the ideas behind it, and the many outstanding questions.

Short Bio

Malene Friis Hansen is an AIAS-AUFF Fellow and an affiliated researcher at ECONOVO, Aarhus University. She is a member of the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group, Section on human-primate interactions and a member of the IUCN SSC Ecotourism and Species Conservation group. Malene combines research and practice, Anthropology and Biology through the study and conservation of human-macaque interfaces in Southeast Asia, focusing especially on the behaviours and cultures that humans and macaques construct together to coexist.

What is an AIAS Seminar?

The AIAS Seminar Series is a session of seminars held by the AIAS fellows, AIAS Visiting or Tandem Fellows or by other speakers proposed by the fellows. In each seminar, a fellow will present and discuss her/his current research and work-in-progress to an interdisciplinary audience for 30 minutes, closing off with 30 minutes for questions, comments and discussion.

All seminars are in-person and held in English. To attend online, please contact Cecilie Horshauge at cecilie@aias.au.dk by 9:00am on the day of the seminar as the latest to request a link.