Invited Talks

 

 

--Invited Speaker. Spaces of Identity International Conference, Zagreb, November, 2009

 

--Symposiast.  Symposium on Liberty and the Family.  Liberty Foundation. Cleveland, Ohio, August 2009.

 

--Speaker. Symposium on the Anniversary of Darwin’s 200th Birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species.  University of Kentucky, October 2009.

 

--Symposiast. Society for the Study of Evolution, 2009 Education Symposium. The EvoS Consortium: Expanding Evolutionary Theory Beyond the Biological Sciences in Research and Higher Education. Moscow, Idaho. June 2009.

 

--Keynote Address.  Symposium on “Why the Humanities Matter.”  Symposium arranged by the Narrative and Cognition Working Group at Ohio State University.  November 2008.

 

--Invited talks on “The Rape of Troy” and “Literature, Science, and a New Humanities.” Purdue University. November 2008.

 

--Invited talks on “The Rape of Troy” and “Literature, Science, and a New Humanities.”  Wabash College.  November 2008.

 

--Invited Speaker.  Interdisciplinary Workshop on "Beyond Postmodernism: Integrating the Humanities and the Natural Sciences," University of British Columbia, September 2008

 

--Symposiast. Beyond Belief II: Enlightenment 2.0.  October 2007.

--Keynote Address. Workshop on Evolution and Literature.  Leiden University, December 2007.

--Literature, Science, and a New Humanities.  University of Antwerp, December 2007.

--On Theory, Method, and Ethos: Toward a New Paradigm in Literary Study.  First International Symposium on Evolution and Literature.  Auckland University. December 2006.

 

--The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative  Binghamton University, Evolutionary Studies Program, April 2005

 

 

 

 

                                                                                        

 

    Talks

    Collaborations with Students Marked with *

 

 

Toward a New Humanities.  Human Behavior and Evolution Society, June 2006.

 

Graphing Jane Austen.  With Joseph Carroll, John Johnston, and Daniel Kruger.Human Behavior and Evolution Society, June 2006.

 

Individual Differences in the Achievement of Evolutionarily Relevant Goals in Victorian Novels.  With Joseph Carroll, John Johnston, and Daniel Kruger. Human Behavior and Evolution Society, June 2005.

 

Human Mate Preferences: A Clarification, Refinement, and Test of the Standard Evolutionary Model.  Human Behavior and Evolution Society, June 2005.

 

*The Puzzle of Human Female Beauty: A Theoretical Refinement and Empirical Test.  Human Behavior and Evolution Society, June 2005. (Co-authored with thirty St. Lawrence University undergraduate students, presented with Amy Gardiner).  Human Behavior and Evolution Society, June 2005.

 

 Individual Differences in the Achievement of Evolutionarily Relevant Goals in Victorian Novels.  With Joseph Carroll, John Johnston, and Daniel Kruger.  Human Behavior and Evolution Society, June 2005.

 

*World Literature's Missing Daughters:  The Discovery of a Cross-Cultural Universal?  Eastern Psychological Association, March 2005 (Poster presentation co-authored with three St. Lawrence University undergraduate students)

 

* Romantic Love: Culturally Specific or Cross-Culturally Universal?  Eastern Psychological Association, March 2005 (Poster presentation co-authored with three St. Lawrence University undergraduate students)

 

*The Beauty Double Standard in World Folk Tales.  Eastern Psychological Association, March 2005 (Poster presentation co-authored with three St. Lawrence University undergraduate students) 

 

*Content Analysis, Human Nature, and Deviation from the Norm in Victorian Novels.  Human Behavior and Evolution Society, July 2004 (co-authored with Joseph Carroll, University of Missouri, and 12 St. Lawrence University undergraduates). 

 

*The Sexual Double Standard in Multicultural Context: Results of an Empirical Search for the Virgin/Whore Dichotomy.  Eastern Psychological Association, April 2004. (Poster presentation co-authored with three St. Lawrence University undergraduates) 

 

*The Physical Attractiveness Stereotype in Cross-Cultural Folk Tales.  Eastern Psychological Association, April 2004. (Poster presentation co-authored with three St. Lawrence University undergraduate students) 

 

*Sex Differences in Mate Choice Criteria are Reflected in Cross-Cultural Folktales and in Western Literature.  Eastern Psychological Association, April 2004. (Poster presentation co-authored with three St. Lawrence University undergraduate students)

 

*World Literature's Missing Daughters: Folk Tales,    Quantitative Methods, and the Nature and Nurture of Gender.  North Eastern Modern Language Association, March 2004.  (co-authored with 12 St. Lawrence University undergraduate students).                  

 

*The Heroine with a Thousand Faces:  Universal Trends in the Characterization of Female Folk Tale Protagonists.  Modern Language Association, December 2003. (co-authored with Carly Drown, St. Lawrence University undergraduate student) 

 

*Testing Evolutionary Hypotheses with Literary Data:  Toward a Darwinian Literary Science.  Human Behavior and Evolution Society, June 2003 (co-authored with 2 St. Lawrence University undergraduate students)

 

*Universal Patterns of Characterization in Literature Across Geographic Regions and Levels of Cultural Complexity: Literature as a Neglected Source of Psychological Data.  St. Lawrence University Festival of Science, April 2003 (co-authored with 3 St. Lawrence University undergraduate students)

 

*Patterns of Characterization in World Literature: Results of an Empirical Content Analysis.  St. Lawrence University Undergraduate Conference on Literature in English, March 2003 (co-authored with 3 St. Lawrence University undergraduate students) 

 

*Universal Patterns of Characterization in World Literature:  Results From an Empirical Content Analysis.  North Eastern Modern Language Association, March 2003.  (co-authored with 12 St. Lawrence University undergraduate students) 

 

Ritual Combat in Homer's Iliad.  International Society for Human Ethology, August 2002.   

 

Universal Traits of Female Protagonists and Antagonists in World Folktales.  Human Behavior and Evolution Society, June 2002. 

 

*The Heroine with a Thousand Faces: Images of the Heroine in Traditional Narratives. Mid-Western Conference on Film, Language, and Literature, April 2002.  (co-authored with 15 St. Lawrence University undergraduates)  

 

Male Biased Sex Ratios in the Homeric Epics: An Evolutionary Perspective.  Society for Literature and Science, October 2001.

 

The Vicious Circle:  Male-Biased Juvenile Sex Ratios and Homeric Violence.  Human Behavior and Evolution Society, June 2001.

 

An Exploration of the Per-Incident Rape-Pregnancy Rate.  Human Behavior and Evolution Society, June 2001. (co-authored with Tiffani Gottschall)