Annual Conference
37th Annual Meeting
April 7-10, 2022
Chicago, IL, USA
The 2022 Annual Meeting of the
Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS) will be held
April 7-10, 2022, at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Previous Conferences
36th Annual Meeting (2019)
Palmer House Hilton,
Chicago, IL, USA
April 6, 2019
Keynote: Kevin
Areceneaux, Ph.D., Temple University: "What Can Biopolitics Teach Us about Democratic Representation?"
35th Annual Meeting (2018)
DePaul University,
Chicago, IL, USA
April 4, 2018
Keynote: Michael
Bang Petersen, Ph.D., Aarhus University: "How and Why Disgust Responses Underlie Prejudice"
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34th Annual Meeting (2017)
DePaul University,
Chicago, IL, USA
April 5, 2017
Keynote: Kevin
Smith, Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln: "In Your
Face: Emotional Expressivity as a Predictor of Ideology"
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33rd Annual Meeting (2015)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
October
23-24, 2015
Opening Keynote:
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania: "Sidestepping Rhetorical Quicksand in Debates in the Life Sciences"
Closing Keynote:
Dietram Scheufele, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison: "(New) Public Interfaces in the Life Sciences"
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania: "Sidestepping Rhetorical Quicksand in Debates in the Life Sciences"
Closing Keynote:
Dietram Scheufele, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison: "(New) Public Interfaces in the Life Sciences"
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32nd Annual Meeting (2014)
Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
October
17-18, 2014
Keynote: Gregory
S. Berns, M.D., Ph.D., Emory University: "Neuroimaging
of Sacred Values"
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31st Annual Meeting (2013)
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
October 25-26, 2013
Keynote: Gad Sad,
Ph.D., Concordia University (Montreal, CAN): "The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature"
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30th Annual Meeting (2011)
Garfield Suites Hotel, Cincinnati, OH
October 13-15, 2011
Keynote: Mark van Vugt,
Ph.D., VU University (Amsterdam, NL): "An Evolutionary Theory of Leadership"
29th Annual Meeting (2010)
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
October 14-16, 2010
Keynote: Elinor Ostrom,
Ph.D., Indiana University: "A Polycentric Approach to Climate Change"
27th Annual Meeting (2007)
Garfield Suites Hotel, Cincinnati, OH
October 11-13, 2007
Keynote: Owen D. Jones,
J.D., Vanderbilt University: "Evolution, Primates, Neurons, and Law"
26th Annual Meeting (2006)
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
October 25-26, 2006
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25th Annual Meeting (2005)
The Mayflower Hotel, Washington, DC
August 31 - September 4, 2005
Keynote: Napoleon Chagnon,
Ph.D., University of California – Santa Barbara: "Warfare Among the Yanomano"
24th Annual Meeting (2004)
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago, IL
Sept 2-5, 2004
Keynote: Gary Marcus,
Ph.D., New York University: "Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Create the Complexities of Human Thought"