Science & Cocktails: Why do People Fight?

Monday 27 June 2022

In Tolhuistuin - Club

Doors: 19:30, Main programme: 20:30

Program is half seated, half standing

Science & Cocktails is a series of public talks by scientists with live music and smoky dry-ice chilled cocktails in your hand. This event will be in English. Be the first to know when the next Science & Cocktails Amsterdam event(s) will take place by subscribing to our newsletter.

19:30h: doors open for cocktails
19:45h: Cavolo Nero (live music)
20:30h: Carsten de Dreu (talk)
Event in English, semi-seated

Why do people fight?
Why do people start and support violence against other groups? Why do people attack others? How are game theory and evolution biology used to study such phenomena? How is the choice to attack influenced by hormones? With dwindling resources (due to climate change), can we expect more violence?

Group conflicts – from small-scale riots to interstate warfare – are wasteful to a degree that is hard to overestimate. At the same time, humans have extraordinary capacities to empathize and cooperate to mutual benefit. How can we reconcile these two seeming opposites?

Behavioral scientist Professor dr. Carsten de Dreu focuses in this talk on the reasons humans have to fight and engage in violent conflict. He will consider discoveries in evolutionary biology, social neuroscience and behavioral economics. Answers may give us novel tools to prevent wasteful conflict and promote constructive exchange among human groups.

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Carsten de Dreu
Cavolo Nero

Carsten De Dreu

Carsten De Dreu is a behavioral scientist and professor. He studies the neurobiological, psychological and evolutionary underpinnings of conflict and cooperation in humans. Carsten works at Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam, and is fellow at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, and the University of Oxford. In 2018 he received the Spinoza Award, the highest science award in the Netherlands.

Cavolo Nero

Cavolo Nero is the ingredient for all kinds of Tuscan specialties, but also a six-piece band from Utrecht. The brand new project was born out of love for afrobeat and groove-oriented music. With inspirations such as Nu Guinea, Khruangbin and Jungle By Night they play psychedelic grooves combined with indie and disco elements. Expect a lot of energy and the urge to dance to exotic grooves. The band consists of the members: Chris Walthaus (bass guitar, vox), Jelle Crooijmans (guitar, vox), Sjors Derks (guitar), Boudewijn Snijders (keys, vox), Daan van de Ven (drums), Omar Beganovic (percussion).

Science & Cocktails Amsterdam

Science & Cocktails is an initiative that brings science and entertainment closer together by creating a series of public lectures intertwined with music/art performances and smoky dry-ice chilled cocktails in your hand. Founded in 2010 in Copenhagen, and currently active in Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, and Johannesburg.

This event is an initiative by the Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena (DIEP) with the support of NWA route 2. Science & Cocktails Amsterdam is presented in cooperation with Paradiso Amsterdam and acknowledges the support of New Scientist NL.

How to get to Tolhuistuin

Tolhuistuin (formerly Paradiso Noord) is located at IJpromenade 2 in Amsterdam North. A free ferry is departing from Amsterdam Central Station to Buiksloterweg. Turn left and you’ll walk into Tolhuistuin. For club nights, the rear entrance is used (Buiksloterweg 5C), which can be reached via the Overhoeksplein.

Restaurant
Tolhuistuin also has a restaurant in which you can have a bite before the show. We advise to make a reservation in advance via this website.

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