Friday, October 6th at 6pm ET / 10pm GMT

Seminar: The Complexity of Language: Scale as a Conceptual Hook with Nick Enfield

1.5 hour free seminar and Q&A session

September 30th

Apply to the Atlas Hugged Reading Group

A new reading group centered around David Sloan Wilson's novel, Atlas Hugged.

September 28th, 12-1pm ET

Examined Lives: Family Conflict (Session 37)

Family Conflict: How does genetic relatedness help explain family conflicts?

August 24th, 12-1pm

Examined Lives: Evolutionary Aesthetics (Session 36)

What is the role of evolutionary theory in explaining aesthetics in nature and in human culture? How might we explain our own aesthetic experiences?

Friday September 22 at 6p ET / 3p PT

Seminar: Regenerating Sonora

Free webinar presented by Christopher Casillas.

Friday November 10 at 12p ET / 10a MT

Seminar: Leading Change in Ourselves for Our World

Free webinar presented by climate scientist, Heidi Steltzer.

Wednesday, August 30th at 12pm ET

Research Seminar: Organizational Development as Generative Entrenchment with Cody Moser and Paul Smaldino

Research Seminar and Q&A with the Speakers

July 28 at 10:30 AM EDT & August 8 at 7:30 EDT

Introduction to Cohering Community

Free Introductory sessions for the Cohering Community experiential learning lab.

July 28 at 10:30 AM EDT & August 8 at 7:30 EDT

Introduction to Cohering Community

Free Introductory sessions for the Cohering Community experiential learning lab.

Thursday, July 27th, 12 - 1pm ET

Examined Lives: Adaptive Fictions (Session 34)

Monday June 26 at 7p EDT

Regenerating the Earth with ProSocial Introduction Webinar

Attend an introductory webinar to learn more about Regenerating Earth with ProSocial learning journey.

Thursday June 29, 12-1pm ET

Examined Lives: Human Synchrony (Session 33)

How does synchrony- the matching of actions in time with others- shape the human experience?

Wednesday, June 21st at 6pm ET

Wellbeing in Organized Groups: From Rule Governance to Value Based Governance with Ramona A. Houmanfar

Free Research Seminar and Q&A

Thursday, July 13th at 12pm ET

Introduction to ProSocial Spirituality

Free online introduction to ProSocial Spirituality's spiritually-grounded approach to cultural evolution

Wednesday May 31st at 6pm ET

Research Seminar: The Behavioural Science of ProSocial World Part II

1.5 hour Free Research Seminar and Q&A

Wednesday May 24th at 12pm ET

Boston Area Research Initiative: Integrating Data and Research with Community with Kimberly Lucas and Daniel T. O’Brien

Free Research Seminar and Q&A

May 25th, 12-1 PM ET

Examined Lives: War (Session 32)

Each month in Examined Lives we have lively discussions about cutting-edge developments in—and applications of—evolutionary thinking.

Thursday May 4th and Friday May 5th

Integrating the Human Sciences to Scale Societal Responses to Environmental Change: A Workshop

Free Workshop from the National Academies of Science

Friday, May 12th at 12pm ET

Seminar: Doughnut Economics, from a Radical Idea into Transformative Action with Carlota Sanz Ruiz

Free Seminar with Q&A

Wednesday, May 17th 6pm ET

Research Seminar: The Behavioural Science of ProSocial World Part I

1.5 hour Free Research Seminar and Q&A

Friday, May 5th 6pm ET

Seminar: Sharing Resources and Sharing Risk with Athena Aktipis

Lessons from Small-scale Societies and Biological Collectives about How to Manage Catastrophic Risk- 1.5 hour Free Seminar and Q&A

Friday April 28 at 5p EST / 21 UTC - Sunday April 30 at 4p EST / 20 UTC

Complexity Adventures Unconference: ProSocial World, Earth Regenerators, Deep Transformation Network, and WEALL Network Collaboration

Free unconference exploring the intersection of Prosocial and complexity amongst multiple organizations

Friday, April 14th at 2:30pm ET / 6:30 pm UTC

UMass Amherst Lecture: Multilevel Cultural Evolution with David Sloan Wilson

PERI will cohost a public lecture with David Sloan Wilson, President, Prosocial World and SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus Binghamton University

Friday, April 21st at 6pm ET / 10pm UTC

Seminar: Prosocial Planet: Guiding the Evolution of Social-Ecological Development with Erle Ellis

Free Seminar with Q&A

Friday, September 15th at 12pm ET

Seminar: Our Tribal Future: Using ProSocial to Overcome Evolutionary Mismatch in 21st century communities

Free seminar and Q&A sponsored by the ProSocial Commons

Wednesday, April 12th at 1pm GMT // 9am ET

Curriculum Overload: Empowering Students as Community Scientists in the Search for Higher Concepts

Free 1.5 hour Seminar and Q&A

Friday, April 7th 6pm ET / 11pm UTC

Seminar: Prosocial and the Professions

Free seminar and Q&A sponsored by the ProSocial Commons

THURSDAY, APRIL 27TH, 12-1PM ET / 4-5PM UTC

Examined Lives: The Execution Hypothesis and the Evolution of Morality (Session 31)

Wednesday, April 12th at 12pm ET

Research Seminar Series: Dual Inheritance Theory and a Theoretical Examination of the Symbotype-Phenotype Relationship - Part 2

Free Seminar and Q&A

Wednesday April 5th at 6pm ET

Research Seminar Series: Dual Inheritance Theory and a Theoretical Examination of the Symbotype-Phenotype Relationship - Part 1

Free Seminar and Q&A

Tuesday March 28th at 6pm ET

Prosocial Commons Book Club: How Indigenous Thinking Can Change the World

ProSocial Commons Book Club: Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Change the World, by Tyson Yunkaporta

Thursday March 23 12pm ET / 5pm UTC

ProSocial in the Workplace A ProSocial Commons Learning-to-Action Group

Free Introductory Meeting for ProSocial in the Workplace, a new Prosocial Commons Learning-to-Action Group

Friday, May 19th 12pm ET

Seminar: Embracing Interdependence: Toward a Multi-Level Theory of Coordinated Change with Jody Hoffer Gittell

Free seminar and Q&A sponsored by the ProSocial Commons

Monday, May 1 5:15pm ET / 10:15pm UTC

EvoS Seminar Series: Hormones in Milk, Primarily Cortisol, and Impacts on Infant Development

Free seminar talk with Q&A

Monday, April 17 5:15pm ET / 10:15pm UTC

EvoS Seminar Series: Technological Origins: Behavioral Evolution Across the Plio-Pleistocene

Free seminar talk with Q&A

Monday, March 27 5:15pm ET / 10:15pm UTC

EvoS Seminar Series: Time Travel in Experimental Evolution

Free seminar talk with Q&A

Monday, March 20 5:15pm ET / 10:15pm UTC

EvoS Seminar Series: Evolution of Sociality and Multilevel Selection (including spiders)

Free seminar talk with Q&A

Monday, March 13 5:15pm ET / 10:15pm UTC

EvoS Seminar Series: Trade-offs That Shape Our Genomes: Surviving Starvation and Microbes

Free seminar talk with Q&A

Thursday, March 16th, 12-1pm ET / 4-5pm UTC

Examined Lives: Positive Evolutionary Psychology (Session 30)

In our next Examined Lives on Positive Evolutionary Psychology we will explore what evolutionary psychology has to tell us about happiness.

Friday, March 24th at 6pm ET / 11 pm GMT

Seminar: Becoming Prosocial From the Inside Out: Adapting Prosocial Applications Using a Multilevel Framework That Nests the Individual in Their Group

Free seminar and Q&A sponsored by the ProSocial Commons

Friday, March 10 6pm ET / 11pm UTC

Seminar: "Interspirituality" and Upshifting Global Prosocial Behavior with Kurt Johnson

Free seminar and Q&A session sponsored by the ProSocial Commons

Friday, March 3 12pm ET / 5pm UTC

Seminar: The Forever Green Partnership: A Multi-level System for Regional Diversification of Agriculture with Nick Jordan

Free seminar and Q&A session sponsored by the ProSocial Commons

Friday, March 17 12pm ET / 5pm UTC

Seminar: Integrating Principles and Practices for Healthy Power-Sharing with Cecile Green

Free seminar and Q&A session sponsored by the ProSocial Commons

Friday, January 27th at 6pm ET / 11 pm GMT

Seminar: Facing the Dark History of Evolutionary Science: The Role of the Individual in Learning How to Evolve on Purpose with Steven C. Hayes

Free seminar and Q&A

Thursday, February 16 12pm ET / 5pm UTC

Examined Lives: Dual Inheritance Theory (Session 29)

In humans, genes and culture are intertwined streams of inheritance. Ours is a story of Dual Inheritance.

Friday, February 10th 6pm ET / 11 pm UTC

Seminar: The Role of Cooperation in the Evolution of Cooperatives with Tim Waring

Free seminar and Q&A sponsored by the ProSocial Commons

Friday, February 17th 12pm ET / 5pm UTC

Seminar: Music, Pleasure, and Culture: Soundly Organized People in a Musically Organized Hunter-Gatherer Civilization with Jerome Lewis

Free seminar and Q&A session sponsored by the ProSocial Commons

January 30th 1pm ET / 6pm UTC

A New Economic Paradigm for People and Planet

Can we re-define and re-design economics to respond more effectively to the complex collective challenges facing us now, and in the future?

February 3rd 12pm ET / 5pm UTC

Seminar: Egalitarian Societies with Jerome Lewis

Free 1 hour seminar with Q&A

January 27th at 12pm ET / 5pm UTC

Seminar: The State of Prosocial World with David Sloan Wilson

Free Seminar and Q&A from President David Sloan Wilson