[BERG] BERG meeting, 20 January

Dear BERGers, Happy New Year! I hope all of you had a nice Xmas break and are ready for 2021! I am writing to let you know that our first BERG meeting will take place on Wednesday the 20th 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). 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. Date Time Speaker Affiliation Presentation topic (tentative) 20-Jan-20 16:00 Jessica Hartel University of North Georgia Landmines in the forest: Assessing and mitigating the threats of snares to wild chimpanzee conservation in Uganda 27-Jan-20 16:00 Patrick Tkaczynski Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Maternal effects on offspring development in wild apes 03-Feb-20 16:00 Alexander Georgiev Bangor University Zanzibar Red Colobus Project (tentative) 10-Feb-20 16:00 TBC 17-Feb-20 16:00 Stefano Kaburu University of Wolverhampton Human-macaque interactions (tentative) 03-Mar-20 16:00 Laetitia Marechal University of Lincoln All about that face: facial features as potential drivers for human-primate interactions 10-Mar-20 16:00 Adrian Soldati University of Neuchatel Audience effects of chimpanzee pant hooting 17-Mar-20 16:00 Jo Setchell Durham University Decolonising Primatology 24-Mar-20 16:00 Drew Enigk University of New Mexico Social relationship formation and competition among adolescent and adult wild chimpanzees (Kanyawara, Uganda) If you would like to give a talk or to invite someone to present for us, just let us know! Best wishes, Pawel and Sarah ________________________________ The University achieved an overall 5 stars in the QS World University Rankings 2020 UK Sports University of the Year 2020 (Times Higher Good University Guide) The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.