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Happy New Year! I hope all of you had a nice Xmas break and are ready for 2021!<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span> </p>

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I am writing to let you know that our first BERG meeting will take place on Wednesday the 20<sup>th</sup><span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>of January. We will be hosting Dr Jessica Hartel (Kibale Chimpanzee Project; University of North Georgia),

 who will tell us about her conservation work on Kanyawara chimpanzees (please see the abstract attached).<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span> </p>

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We very much hope to see you all during the meeting. We will use MSTeams so you should receive a link to the meeting soon. Below, I also put a list of speakers for January - March.<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span> </p>

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Speaker</td>

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Affiliation</td>

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20-Jan-20</td>

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16:00</td>

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Jessica Hartel</td>

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University of North Georgia</td>

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Landmines in the forest: Assessing and mitigating the threats of snares to wild chimpanzee conservation in Uganda</td>

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27-Jan-20</td>

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Patrick Tkaczynski</td>

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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology</td>

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Maternal effects on offspring development in wild apes</td>

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03-Feb-20</td>

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16:00</td>

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Alexander Georgiev</td>

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Bangor University</td>

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Zanzibar Red Colobus Project (tentative)</td>

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10-Feb-20</td>

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16:00</td>

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TBC</td>

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17-Feb-20</td>

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16:00</td>

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Stefano Kaburu</td>

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University of Wolverhampton</td>

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Human-macaque interactions (tentative)</td>

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03-Mar-20</td>

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16:00</td>

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Laetitia Marechal</td>

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University of Lincoln</td>

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All about that face: facial features as potential drivers for human-primate interactions</td>

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10-Mar-20</td>

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16:00</td>

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Adrian Soldati</td>

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University of Neuchatel</td>

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Audience effects of chimpanzee pant hooting</td>

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17-Mar-20</td>

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16:00</td>

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Jo Setchell</td>

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Durham University</td>

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Decolonising Primatology</td>

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24-Mar-20</td>

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16:00</td>

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Drew Enigk</td>

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University of New Mexico</td>

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Social relationship formation and competition among adolescent and adult wild chimpanzees (Kanyawara, Uganda)</td>

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If you would like to give a talk or to invite someone to present for us, just let us know!</p>

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Best wishes, </p>

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Pawel and Sarah </p>

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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">The University achieved an overall 5 stars in the QS World University Rankings 2020</font></div>

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