Dear all

I am looking forward to seeing you all on Wednesday at our first BERG meeting –5.30 pm in the Psychology Common Room (3A94, Cottrell Building).

This will be introductions, social catch up and a show of photos by Peter Hancock from his trip to Shetland. We shall also use this opportunity to take new photos of the group for the BERG website!

We shall also make an effort to finalise the programme which is already looking excellent – thanks to all those who have signed up.

We still have slots free (note that Bethan may move her presentation to December due to popular demand), and are looking for volunteers. Remember that you don’t need a polished talk – you can offer to lead a discussion on a journal paper, or present research ideas etc.

Date	Person Responsible	Speaker and Topic
21 September	Hannah	Introductions – drinks, nibbles, catch up Peter Hancock will show photos from Shetland
28^th September	Hannah	Roman Wittig (presenting) & Cathy Crockford (University of St Andrews) - Social bonds among chimpanzees - physiological evidence
5 October 2A73	Hannah	Andrew Bagnall (Edinburgh) - A visit to Seram Island, Indonesia Change of location – 2A73
12 October (HBS away)
19 October	Jim	Jim Anderson - Monkeys judge reciprocity between humans
26 October	MID-SEMESTER
2 November
9 November (HBS away)	Rob	Rob Burriss - Mate-preference versus mate-choice in humans
16 November	Hannah	Emily Messer (St Andrews) – Squirrel monkey social learning
23 November	Louise	Louise Lock – Chimpanzees’ preferred nesting materials
30 November	Hannah	Bethan Morgan – Chimpanzee conservation
7 December
14 December

Hope to see you on Wednesday, Hannah

Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith
Professor, Behaviour and Evolution Research Group
Psychology, School of Natural Sciences
University of Stirling
Stirling, FK9 4LA
Scotland
Tel: 01786 467674
Fax: 01786 467641
E-mail: h.m.buchanan-smith@stir.ac.uk
http://www.psychology.stir.ac.uk/staff/staff-profiles/academic-staff/hannah-buchanan-smith