Arrival in Erice - After dinner reception at the marsala room (San Rocco)
Thursday 4, May
Session #1
9:00 - Welcome by the Directors of the School and the course's organizers
09:10-09:25 - Stefano Parmigiani (University of Parma, IT)
: The Ettore Majorana Foundation and 50 courses of The International School of Ethology
09:25-09:40 - Paola Palanza (University of Parma, IT)
: 1973: A crucial year for Ethology
09:40-09:55 - Christian Agrillo (University of Padova, IT)
: 50 years of the Italian Society of Ethology
Opening Lecture
10:00-11:00 - Key lecture #1: Larry Young (Emory University, USA)
: On the origins of diversity in mating systems and social behavior
11:00-11:30 - coffee break
11:30-11:45 - Carosi, M.
: "Wellbeing": the essential individual dimension of animal welfare
11:45-12:00 - Lanzoni, G.
: The eco-pedagogical relevance of ethology from Konrad Lorenz to the present day
12:00-12:15 - Gamba, M.
: Lesson learned from behind the screen: what we understood of novel approaches to the study of behaviour while developing BORIS, BEHATRIX and DORIS
12:15-12:30 - Castracani, C.
: Ethology by the people: citizen science as a useful tool for animal behaviour research
12:30-12:45 - Frigerio, D.
: The greylag goose as a model for complex social systems: 50 years Konrad Lorenz Research Center
13:00-15:00 - Lunch break
Session #2
15:00-15:20 - Greetings by SIE Past Presidents ; Enrico Alleva (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma, IT)
: Ethology in Italy
15:20-16:20 - Key lecture #2: Giorgio Vallortigara (Trento University, IT)
: Imprinting: (more than) 50 years after
16:20-16:35 - Gioiosa, L.
: Sex in the animal facility: an ethological perspective
16:35-16:50 - Mainardi,E. Peccerillo,C.
: The sterile insect technique and sexual behaviour: the case of Bagrada hilaris (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)
16:50-17:20 - Coffee Break
17:20-17:35 - De Agrò, M
: : Emergent behaviors in a virtual jumping spider, using artificial neural networks and evolutionary algorithms
17:35-17:50 - Chelini, G.
: Neuroethology and system neuroscience join forces: automated segmentation of the mouse body language to study emotional behaviors
17:50-18:05 - Quigley, C.
: Computational ethology: what is it and what has been achieved so far?
18:15-19:00 - Posters session
Friday 5, May
Session #3
09:00-09:20 - Greetings by SIE Past Presidents ; Stefano Parmigiani (University of Parma, IT)
: Konrad Lorenz and the foundation of Ethology
09:20-10:20 - Key Lecture #3: Leonida Fusani (University of Vienna, Austria)
: The study of courtship displays: From sketch pads to motion capture
10:20-10:35 - Cini, A.
: 50 years of "selfish herd": insights from tropical social wasps
10:35-10:50 - Loconsole, M.
: A stranger is better than a bad friend: four-day-old domestich chicks (Gallus gallus) value the quality of social interaction in affiliative responses
10:50-11:20 - coffee break
11:20-11:35 - Padberg, M.
: Don't You (Forget About Me) Investigating the Development of the Social Memory Effect in Great Apes
11:35-11:50 - Berlinghieri, F.
: Parental predator exposure affects offspring boldness and laterality
Key Lecture #5
12:00-13:00 - Key Lecture #4: Pier Francesco Ferrari (CNRS Lyon, France)
: New Frontiers in Neuroethology of Primate Social Behavior
13:00-15:50 - Lunch and Poster
Sessione #4
15:30-15:50 - Greetings by SIE Past presidents ; Elisabetta Visalberghi (CNR, IT)
: Primate's thoughts
15:50-16:50 - Key lecture #5: Michael Beran (Georgia State University, USA)
: Knowing One’s Own Mind: Metacognitive Monkeys, Confident Chimpanzees
16:50-17:20 - coffee break
17:20-19:00 - General Discussion
: ROUND TABLE - Where is Ethology going?