Durham Cultural Evolution Research Centre
@durhamdcerc.bsky.social
DCERC is a highly interdisciplinary research centre using evolutionary models to study cultural change and diversity. Based at Durham University, England.
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🚨 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION 🚨
#EHBEA2026 will be held in Leiden!
Do not forget to submit your abstract before December 15th in order to attend and share your research!
More in the official account:
@ehbea2026.bsky.social
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#EHBEA2026 will be held in Leiden!
Do not forget to submit your abstract before December 15th in order to attend and share your research!
More in the official account:
@ehbea2026.bsky.social
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📢 Call for abstracts!
🚀 The time has come — abstract submission for #EHBEA2026 is officially OPEN since this week! 🎉
🗓 Submission Nov 1st – Dec 15th
📝 300 words
🧠 Important: Make an OpenReview account before submitting — it takes time!
👉 www.ehbea2026.com
🚀 The time has come — abstract submission for #EHBEA2026 is officially OPEN since this week! 🎉
🗓 Submission Nov 1st – Dec 15th
📝 300 words
🧠 Important: Make an OpenReview account before submitting — it takes time!
👉 www.ehbea2026.com
Overview | EHBEA2026
www.ehbea2026.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
🚨 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION 🚨
#EHBEA2026 will be held in Leiden!
Do not forget to submit your abstract before December 15th in order to attend and share your research!
More in the official account:
@ehbea2026.bsky.social
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#EHBEA2026 will be held in Leiden!
Do not forget to submit your abstract before December 15th in order to attend and share your research!
More in the official account:
@ehbea2026.bsky.social
👇👇👇
Abstract submission for CES 2026 in Rabat has been extended to 30th November! @ces2026.bsky.social
The deadline has been extended - there is still time to get your abstracts in to join us in Morocco!
The submission deadline for #CESRabat has been extended to 30 November
@ces2026.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
@ces2026.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Abstract submission for CES 2026 in Rabat has been extended to 30th November! @ces2026.bsky.social
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Sustainable education should include Indigenous knowledge
"In our research with hunter-gatherer communities in the Global South, we see that participation in education often undermines Indigenous knowledge systems and cultural integrity."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"In our research with hunter-gatherer communities in the Global South, we see that participation in education often undermines Indigenous knowledge systems and cultural integrity."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sustainable education should include Indigenous knowledge - Nature Human Behaviour
Formal education systems rarely include the knowledge and skills of hunter-gatherer societies. This can lead to cultural erosion and knowledge decline. For education to be both high quality and sustai...
www.nature.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Sustainable education should include Indigenous knowledge
"In our research with hunter-gatherer communities in the Global South, we see that participation in education often undermines Indigenous knowledge systems and cultural integrity."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"In our research with hunter-gatherer communities in the Global South, we see that participation in education often undermines Indigenous knowledge systems and cultural integrity."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We are pleased to announce that throughout Open Access Week, from 20 – 26 October, all Royal Society journal content is freely available. Explore our journals here: royalsociety.org/Journals/ #OAWeek #OAWeek25
October 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
We are pleased to announce that throughout Open Access Week, from 20 – 26 October, all Royal Society journal content is freely available. Explore our journals here: royalsociety.org/Journals/ #OAWeek #OAWeek25
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🚨 AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
For the first time, EHBEA is giving an award for this members who excel in public outreach and communication of the evolutionary human sciences
📣 📣 📣
Deadline: December 19, 2025
Check the form below 👇
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
For the first time, EHBEA is giving an award for this members who excel in public outreach and communication of the evolutionary human sciences
📣 📣 📣
Deadline: December 19, 2025
Check the form below 👇
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
EHBEA-Public-Communication-Award-nomination-form 2026.docx
2026 EHBEA Excellence in Public Communication award Nomination Form Please submit this application form by e-mail to the EHBEA Secretary ehbea.secretary@gmail.com Next Deadline: 5pm (GMT), 19th DEC...
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October 15, 2025 at 8:51 AM
🚨 AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
For the first time, EHBEA is giving an award for this members who excel in public outreach and communication of the evolutionary human sciences
📣 📣 📣
Deadline: December 19, 2025
Check the form below 👇
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
For the first time, EHBEA is giving an award for this members who excel in public outreach and communication of the evolutionary human sciences
📣 📣 📣
Deadline: December 19, 2025
Check the form below 👇
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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🚨𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗮𝘀𝘁𝘀!
www.ehbea2026.com is now live for our 2026 European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association (EHBEA) conference in Leiden (NL🇳🇱) Check for 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻, first 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 & the [𝗔𝗜]𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸!
🗓️ 14–17 Apr 2026 | CBEN pre-conf 14 Apr
📍Pesthuis
#EHBEA2026
www.ehbea2026.com is now live for our 2026 European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association (EHBEA) conference in Leiden (NL🇳🇱) Check for 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻, first 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 & the [𝗔𝗜]𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸!
🗓️ 14–17 Apr 2026 | CBEN pre-conf 14 Apr
📍Pesthuis
#EHBEA2026
Overview | EHBEA2026
www.ehbea2026.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
🚨𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗮𝘀𝘁𝘀!
www.ehbea2026.com is now live for our 2026 European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association (EHBEA) conference in Leiden (NL🇳🇱) Check for 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻, first 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 & the [𝗔𝗜]𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸!
🗓️ 14–17 Apr 2026 | CBEN pre-conf 14 Apr
📍Pesthuis
#EHBEA2026
www.ehbea2026.com is now live for our 2026 European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association (EHBEA) conference in Leiden (NL🇳🇱) Check for 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻, first 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 & the [𝗔𝗜]𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸!
🗓️ 14–17 Apr 2026 | CBEN pre-conf 14 Apr
📍Pesthuis
#EHBEA2026
Congratulations to all the prize winners! Especially to our own Sally Street for her course on the Cultural Evolution of Music!
We're pleased to announce and congratulate the winners of the Advancing Cultural Evolution Course Design Awards! This competition recognises leading educators in the field of cultural evolution and their existing efforts to advance its teaching.
We have 7 winners and 2 runners up (listed below):
We have 7 winners and 2 runners up (listed below):
October 13, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Congratulations to all the prize winners! Especially to our own Sally Street for her course on the Cultural Evolution of Music!
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Know someone whose excellence in research and contributions to the CogSci community should be recognized? Nominate them to be a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society!
Deadline: Nov 1
More info: cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows/
Deadline: Nov 1
More info: cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows/
The CogSci Society is accepting nominations for 🌟Fellows of the Society🌟
Fellows are individuals whose research has exhibited sustained excellence and had sustained impact on the #CogSci community.
Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows/ and submit your nomination until November 1st!
Fellows are individuals whose research has exhibited sustained excellence and had sustained impact on the #CogSci community.
Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows/ and submit your nomination until November 1st!
October 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Know someone whose excellence in research and contributions to the CogSci community should be recognized? Nominate them to be a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society!
Deadline: Nov 1
More info: cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows/
Deadline: Nov 1
More info: cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows/
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@sriucl.bsky.social is HIRING 2 permanent Lecturers 🚀 in #QuantitativeSocialScience!
It comes with smart and lovely colleagues🌟, a central London office, and many big ideas and questions 🧐
Apply now! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
It comes with smart and lovely colleagues🌟, a central London office, and many big ideas and questions 🧐
Apply now! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
@sriucl.bsky.social is HIRING 2 permanent Lecturers 🚀 in #QuantitativeSocialScience!
It comes with smart and lovely colleagues🌟, a central London office, and many big ideas and questions 🧐
Apply now! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
It comes with smart and lovely colleagues🌟, a central London office, and many big ideas and questions 🧐
Apply now! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Congratulations again to @emilymljeffries.bsky.social and all the other @ehbea.bsky.social award winners!
Back in April, I was lucky enough to win the Best Student Long Talk award at EHBEA 2025 @ehbea.bsky.social @peerj.bsky.social have a new blog up all about the conference awardees, which features a little bit about me. A big well done to all the other awardees. peerj.com/blog/post/11...
PeerJ Award Winners at EHBEA 2025 | PeerJ Blog
peerj.com
September 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Congratulations again to @emilymljeffries.bsky.social and all the other @ehbea.bsky.social award winners!
🚨New paper!🚨 (And don't forget, it's not too late to apply for a PhD supervised by Lynda www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...)
September 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
🚨New paper!🚨 (And don't forget, it's not too late to apply for a PhD supervised by Lynda www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...)
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Come and work with us!
Assistant Professor in Psychology (Fixed Term, Maternity Cover)
Please share!
jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/c54c4570...
Assistant Professor in Psychology (Fixed Term, Maternity Cover)
Please share!
jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/c54c4570...
Assistant Professor in Psychology Ref: 40866 (Fixed Term, Maternity Cover) - Job page - University of Sussex Job Search
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September 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Come and work with us!
Assistant Professor in Psychology (Fixed Term, Maternity Cover)
Please share!
jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/c54c4570...
Assistant Professor in Psychology (Fixed Term, Maternity Cover)
Please share!
jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/c54c4570...
Abstract submissions are open for CES 2026! The deadline is 16th November. Make sure to follow @ces2026.bsky.social for updates.
📌 Submission formats include:
• Standard talks (15–20 minutes)
• Lightning talks (around 5 minutes)
• Poster presentations
• Thematic sessions (3–4 related presentations on a common theme)
• Standard talks (15–20 minutes)
• Lightning talks (around 5 minutes)
• Poster presentations
• Thematic sessions (3–4 related presentations on a common theme)
September 22, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Abstract submissions are open for CES 2026! The deadline is 16th November. Make sure to follow @ces2026.bsky.social for updates.
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📢 Apply to our (2-year) research fellowships at @iast.fr
Join a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and indisciplinary group of scholars in Toulouse, walkable/cyclable pink city of chocolatines in the South of France.
Deadline: November 15, 2025.
www.iast.fr/research-fel...
Join a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and indisciplinary group of scholars in Toulouse, walkable/cyclable pink city of chocolatines in the South of France.
Deadline: November 15, 2025.
www.iast.fr/research-fel...
Research Fellowships
Each year, IAST invites applications for post-doctoral Research Fellowships, which offer candidates an opportunity to devote themselves full-time to their research at the start of their careers. Fello...
www.iast.fr
September 22, 2025 at 7:44 AM
📢 Apply to our (2-year) research fellowships at @iast.fr
Join a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and indisciplinary group of scholars in Toulouse, walkable/cyclable pink city of chocolatines in the South of France.
Deadline: November 15, 2025.
www.iast.fr/research-fel...
Join a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and indisciplinary group of scholars in Toulouse, walkable/cyclable pink city of chocolatines in the South of France.
Deadline: November 15, 2025.
www.iast.fr/research-fel...
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⏳4 weeks left! Submissions for the CogSci Mind Challenge close Oct 17!
Make a 5-min video answering: “How do different minds (i.e. different groups of humans, animals, artificial systems) learn language, if at all?”
💰Prizes up to $1000!
Learn more at cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-mind-...
Make a 5-min video answering: “How do different minds (i.e. different groups of humans, animals, artificial systems) learn language, if at all?”
💰Prizes up to $1000!
Learn more at cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-mind-...
September 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
⏳4 weeks left! Submissions for the CogSci Mind Challenge close Oct 17!
Make a 5-min video answering: “How do different minds (i.e. different groups of humans, animals, artificial systems) learn language, if at all?”
💰Prizes up to $1000!
Learn more at cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-mind-...
Make a 5-min video answering: “How do different minds (i.e. different groups of humans, animals, artificial systems) learn language, if at all?”
💰Prizes up to $1000!
Learn more at cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-mind-...
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👇 interview on collaborative (research 🧪) cultures
Thanks to @humboldt-foundation.de for funding my work on cooperative subsistence across cultures, w/ @sheinalew.bsky.social, and my network at @durhamdcerc.bsky.social: @mandolinguist.bsky.social @amandinevisine.bsky.social @chimpanzeve.bsky.social
Thanks to @humboldt-foundation.de for funding my work on cooperative subsistence across cultures, w/ @sheinalew.bsky.social, and my network at @durhamdcerc.bsky.social: @mandolinguist.bsky.social @amandinevisine.bsky.social @chimpanzeve.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
👇 interview on collaborative (research 🧪) cultures
Thanks to @humboldt-foundation.de for funding my work on cooperative subsistence across cultures, w/ @sheinalew.bsky.social, and my network at @durhamdcerc.bsky.social: @mandolinguist.bsky.social @amandinevisine.bsky.social @chimpanzeve.bsky.social
Thanks to @humboldt-foundation.de for funding my work on cooperative subsistence across cultures, w/ @sheinalew.bsky.social, and my network at @durhamdcerc.bsky.social: @mandolinguist.bsky.social @amandinevisine.bsky.social @chimpanzeve.bsky.social
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The count down starts for #CESRabat! Follow @ces2026.bsky.social and join us May 11-13 next year for an exciting meeting in Rabat, Morocco.
Massive thanks to the #CESRabat organising committee:
Sarah Alami (co-chair)
Mathieu Charbonneau (co-chair)
Zachary Garfield
Edmond Seabright
Massive thanks to the #CESRabat organising committee:
Sarah Alami (co-chair)
Mathieu Charbonneau (co-chair)
Zachary Garfield
Edmond Seabright
September 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
The count down starts for #CESRabat! Follow @ces2026.bsky.social and join us May 11-13 next year for an exciting meeting in Rabat, Morocco.
Massive thanks to the #CESRabat organising committee:
Sarah Alami (co-chair)
Mathieu Charbonneau (co-chair)
Zachary Garfield
Edmond Seabright
Massive thanks to the #CESRabat organising committee:
Sarah Alami (co-chair)
Mathieu Charbonneau (co-chair)
Zachary Garfield
Edmond Seabright
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💡 Explore how practices from distributed, open-source software can make science more professional, open, and collaborative! Attend the “Science as amateur software development” lecture by Prof. Dr. @rmcelreath.bsky.social on Wed 17 Sept, 9:00.
👉 Register here: www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS...
👉 Register here: www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS...
September 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
💡 Explore how practices from distributed, open-source software can make science more professional, open, and collaborative! Attend the “Science as amateur software development” lecture by Prof. Dr. @rmcelreath.bsky.social on Wed 17 Sept, 9:00.
👉 Register here: www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS...
👉 Register here: www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS...
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PhD post! 2 students sought to join the BIRES project, taking a body image intervention developed in Nicaragua and Colombia and examining how (and if!) It can be adapted in other LatAm and African youth.
Please share with your students.
#PsychSciSky
#Anthropology
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Please share with your students.
#PsychSciSky
#Anthropology
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
September 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
PhD post! 2 students sought to join the BIRES project, taking a body image intervention developed in Nicaragua and Colombia and examining how (and if!) It can be adapted in other LatAm and African youth.
Please share with your students.
#PsychSciSky
#Anthropology
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Please share with your students.
#PsychSciSky
#Anthropology
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Apply now to study at Durham! Not only would you be working with Sheina or Lynda, both fantastic scholars, but you'd be part of a department with a thriving PGR community, and a member of DCERC!
@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised!
3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution
2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.
Please share and apply!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution
2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.
Please share and apply!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Fees and Funding - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
September 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Apply now to study at Durham! Not only would you be working with Sheina or Lynda, both fantastic scholars, but you'd be part of a department with a thriving PGR community, and a member of DCERC!
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Woo new paper! Cross-cultural investigation into maternal responses to infant distress
How babies are soothed may be more important than how quickly, which vary cross-culturally
w/Carlo Vreden & team in #DevelopmentalPsychology!
Open-access link + thread 👇
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
How babies are soothed may be more important than how quickly, which vary cross-culturally
w/Carlo Vreden & team in #DevelopmentalPsychology!
Open-access link + thread 👇
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
September 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Woo new paper! Cross-cultural investigation into maternal responses to infant distress
How babies are soothed may be more important than how quickly, which vary cross-culturally
w/Carlo Vreden & team in #DevelopmentalPsychology!
Open-access link + thread 👇
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
How babies are soothed may be more important than how quickly, which vary cross-culturally
w/Carlo Vreden & team in #DevelopmentalPsychology!
Open-access link + thread 👇
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Can't believe it's already been a whole year since we hosted the CES 2024 Conference here at Durham! Such a fantastic week hearing about diverse and fascinating research @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social 1/4
September 9, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Can't believe it's already been a whole year since we hosted the CES 2024 Conference here at Durham! Such a fantastic week hearing about diverse and fascinating research @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social 1/4
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Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants
The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
September 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
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The Wenner-Gren Foundation is now accepting proposals for our Spring 2027 symposium.
Deadline: October 10, 2025.
wennergren.org/article/call...
Deadline: October 10, 2025.
wennergren.org/article/call...
Call for Proposals, Wenner-Gren Symposium 2027
The Wenner-Gren Foundation is now accepting proposals for our Spring 2027 symposium.
wennergren.org
September 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The Wenner-Gren Foundation is now accepting proposals for our Spring 2027 symposium.
Deadline: October 10, 2025.
wennergren.org/article/call...
Deadline: October 10, 2025.
wennergren.org/article/call...