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