Southern California Primate Research Forum

About the Forum

The Southern California Primate Research Forum (SCPRF) was founded in 1994 as a way to bring together primatologists, students of primate behavior, and other interested persons for regular exchanges of ideas and information. The Forum meets one Saturday each academic semester for a day-long mini-conference featuring lectures by local and visiting scholars in the fields of primatology and human behavioral origins. We also encourage students from local universities to become involved and present findings from their graduate research. The Forum host rotates among the campuses of any interested southern California college or university, as well as the major zoological parks. Recent hosts have been USC, UC San Diego, UCLA, CSU Fullerton, CSU Long Beach, the Los Angeles Zoo, and the San Diego Zoo. Some meetings have themes, such as primate conservation, Darwinian feminism or the study of primate culture, and we invite speakers from across the US who can address topics that are of interest to local researchers, students, and zoo personnel. A short reports hour allows researchers the chance to disseminate results of ongoing work that may not yet be in print.

Proceeds from the gate donations are used to fund airfares and stipends for future forum speakers.

Manifesto for apes and nature

The authors of the Manifesto (Christophe & Hedwig Boesch, Emmanuelle Grundmann, and Blaise Mulhauser) hope to get 1,000,000 signatories to this call to world governments and NGOs to make primate conservation a top priority. If you support the goal, please consider signing and also forwarding the link.

Program for the Next Forum

The next forum "Which is our inner ape" - bonobos, chimpanzees and gorillas revisited will be held on Saturday 19 April 2008 at CSU Fullerton; speakers are Volker Sommer (UCL), Amy Parish (USC), Sandy Harcourt (UCD), Brian Hare (Duke), and Pascal Gagneux (UCSD)

Programs of Past Forums

Essentials of the programs from past Forums, including some handouts etc.

Contact the Forum organizers

Email Norm Rosen for general information, to ask about upcoming Forums, volunteer to host a Forum, or to pre-register for the next Forum.

Sign up to be on the mailing list

Email Jim Moore to sign up for email and/or hardcopy announcements of future Forums [please include "SCPRF" someplace in your email; a message that says, in total, "please sign me up" is a little ambiguous...]. We'd like to go paperless, so please indicate whether you need hardcopy. [Note: We are having tech difficulties with at least some interfaces [e.g., AOL.com]; if clicking the link doesn't work, please just copy out the address: jjmoore@ucsd.edu ]

Links

A sampler of links from the organizers.

Maps to Forum locations

Note:Because both campuses and Forum locations change, and it isn't always easy to upload current maps, be sure to confirm current locations against dates of the maps available here. We'll make every effort to see these are updated, but ...

: UCSD (April 1998)
UCLA (November 1999)