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CBEN & MVE 2024 IN MAASTRICHT

Published 12/04/2024

PLACE: School of Business and Economics (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
DATE: 24 & 25 October 2024 (with a pre-conference on October 23)

For this year’s CBEN and MVE joint meeting, we are excited to invite you to Maastricht. We would like this to be a meeting where scholars from a broad range of disciplines share their work at the interface of cognition, decision-making, behavior, and evolution. The 2024 meeting will be a joint meeting with CBEN’s German sister network MVE. 2024 marks CBEN’s 10th and MVE’s 25th anniversary, making this a ‘doubly special’ occasion. Moreover, we prefix the meeting with a pre-conference on Wednesday, October 23, honoring Eckart Voland‘s 75th birthday.

The theme for 2024 will explore economic, psychological, and biological perspectives on the ‘dark’ sides of behavior, such as exploitation, violence, discrimination, criminal and antisocial behavior, conflict and war. How come that we as humans are those social animals that became uniquely cooperative, cultural, and civilized? How come that, at the exact same time, we are our own worst enemy, dehumanizing, subjugating, exploiting, and aggressing each other? And, most importantly: How can we prevent the conflicting interests permeating all human societies from escalating into segregation, suppression, violence, and war? These and related questions shape the program and will be addressed by the plenary speakers.

Plenary speakers

Ingela Alger (Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse)
Subhasish M. Chowdhury (University of Sheffield)
Faye Thompson (University of Exeter)
Ingo Zettler (University of Copenhagen)

(The abstracts for the plenary talks will be published on this website at the start of June.)

For this year’s meeting, we particularly welcome submissions for presentations related to the meeting’s theme; nonetheless, presentations on other topics that fall into CBEN’s and MVE’s broader scope are very welcome, too. We encourage submissions that use empirical approaches, mathematical modeling, agent-based simulations, or a combination of these. The meeting will offer an excellent opportunity for researchers who share these interests (including PhD candidates and postdocs) to present their work and network with one another in a stimulating and relaxed atmosphere. While CBEN has been brought to life with the aim to strengthen the local community of Dutch and Belgian researchers working in these areas, we warmly invite scholars from other countries to join us as well.

Abstract submission

For this year’s meeting, we welcome abstract submissions for presentations. For your submission, we require a 400-word abstract to be divided into the following sections: Motivation, Method, Results, and Conclusion, with a maximum of 100 words each.

You can submit your abstract over this website.

Deadline for submissions: June 17.

Registration

We will notify you about the acceptance of submissions and open the registration on July 29.

Venue

The conference will take place at the School of Business and Economics (SBE) in Maastricht (Tongersestraat 53, 6211 LM Maastricht, Netherlands).

The venue is a 25-minute walk from Maastricht Central Train Station and close to the historical center of the city, with various options for accommodation in the surrounding area.

We plan to arrange discounts for conference participants at hotels in Maastricht, all within walking distance of the conference venue. These discounts will be shared via email and on this website when registration opens.

Contact

For questions or additional information, please contact the organizers at cben.2024.maastricht@gmail.com.

Organizers

Hannes Rusch and Lennart Reddmann, with invaluable support from Elke Lucas.