CBEN & MVE 2024
CBEN & MVE 2024

CBEN & MVE 2024 

PLACE: School of Business and Economics (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
DATE: 24 & 25 October 2024 (with a pre-conference on October 23)

For this year’s CBEN and MVE joint meeting, we are excited to invite you to Maastricht. We would like this to be a meeting where scholars from a broad range of disciplines share their work at the interface of cognition, decision-making, behavior, and evolution. The 2024 meeting will be a joint meeting with CBEN’s German sister network MVE. 2024 marks CBEN’s 10th and MVE’s 25th anniversary, making this a ‘doubly special’ occasion. Moreover, we prefix the meeting with a pre-conference on Wednesday, October 23, honoring Eckart Voland‘s 75th birthday.

The theme for 2024 will explore economic, psychological, and biological perspectives on the ‘dark’ sides of behavior, such as exploitation, violence, discrimination, criminal and antisocial behavior, conflict and war. How come that we as humans are those social animals that became uniquely cooperative, cultural, and civilized? How come that, at the exact same time, we are our own worst enemy, dehumanizing, subjugating, exploiting, and aggressing each other? And, most importantly: How can we prevent the conflicting interests permeating all human societies from escalating into segregation, suppression, violence, and war? These and related questions shape the program and will be addressed by the plenary speakers.

Plenary speakers

Additionally, three special guest speakers have agreed to give talks at the pre-conference in honor of Eckart Voland’s 75th birthday on Wednesday, October 23:

  • Judith Burkart (Evolutionary Cognition Group, University of Zurich)
  • Lars Penke (Biological Personality Psychology Group, Georg August University Göttingen)
  • Andreas Koenig (Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University)

Registration

Registration is possible until September 22, 2024.  

CBEN & MVE 2024 joint meeting on October 24 & 25: €25.00*
Pre-conference on October 23: free
Optional social dinner on October 24: €70.00

Please note that due to room capacity constraints, the pre-conference is limited to 35 attendees, and the main meeting to 75 attendees. Spots will be allocated on a “first come, first served” basis. If you want to attend but registration is no longer possible, please contact us via email.

*Thanks to funding by the Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), PhD, Master, and Bachelor students from Maastricht University are exempt from paying the registration fee. 

Program

The preliminary schedule for this year’s CBEN looks as follows. A detailed program will be made available after registrations are complete.

  • Wed 23-10: Pre-conference, 13:00–17:00
  • Thu 24-10: CBEN, 09:00–09:30 Registration, 09:30–17:00 Keynotes & Talks, 18:30 Conference Dinner
  • Fri 25-10: CBEN, 09:00–16:30 Keynotes & Talks

Both Thursday and Friday will begin and end with one-hour keynote sessions.

Accommodation

We have arranged discounts for conference participants at several hotels in Maastricht, all within walking distance of the conference venue. Please use the code “CBEN” for bookings between October 23 and October 26 at the following hotels:

Please note that the discounts are limited to 10 rooms per hotel and are available on a “first come, first served” basis.

Contact

For questions or additional information, please contact the organizers at cben.2024.maastricht@gmail.com.