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)

Additionally, three special guest speakers have agreed to give talks at the pre-conference in honor of Eckart Voland’s 75th birthday on Wednesday, October 23:

Judith Burkart (Evolutionary Cognition Group, University of Zurich)
Lars Penke (Biological Personality Psychology Group, Georg August University Göttingen)
Andreas Koenig (Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University)

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.

Program

The framework schedule for this year’s CBEN looks as follows.

Wed 23-10: Pre-conference, 13:00–17:00
Thu 24-10: CBEN, 09:00–09:30 Registration, 09:30–17:00 Keynotes & Talks, 18:30 Conference Dinner
Fri 25-10: CBEN, 09:00–16:30 Keynotes & Talks

Detailed program (preliminary, Sept. 29, 2024): click here.

Abstract submission

The deadline for submitting your abstract to the CBEN & MVE 2024 joint meeting has passed. For urgent requests, please contact the organizers.

Registration

Registration is closed.

Registration fees are:

CBEN & MVE 2024 joint meeting on October 24 & 25: €25.00*
Pre-conference on October 23: free
Optional social dinner on October 24: €70.00

Registration was possible until September 22, 2024.

Please note that due to room capacity constraints, the pre-conference is limited to 35 attendees, and the main meeting to 75 attendees.

*Thanks to funding by the Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), PhD, Master, and Bachelor students from Maastricht University are exempt from paying the registration fee.

New Investigator Award

At this year’s CBEN & MVE joint meeting we will honour a promising early-career researcher with the CBEN New Investigator Award. To be eligible, nominees must have attended at least one CBEN conference before 2024 and should be current PhD candidates or have obtained their PhD within the last seven years. If you meet the requirements and would like to be considered for the NIA, you can indicate your interest and submit your CV (including a list of publications) via the abstract submission form.

Venue & Accommodation

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 have arranged discounts for conference participants at several hotels in Maastricht, all within walking distance of the conference venue. Please use the code “CBEN” for bookings between October 23 and October 26 at the following hotels:

Please note that the discounts are limited to 10 rooms per hotel and are available on a first come, first serve basis.