1996 ALFRED CONFERENCE

In July, 1996, Research Committee # 12 along 
with the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 
co-sponsored a conference on current research in 
biology and politics at Alfred University (Alfred, NY, USA).  
Conferees came from many countries--including Canada, 
the United States, Belgium, Israel, Russia, Germany, 
the Netherlands, Great Britain, and Australia.  
Conference papers will be published as Volume 5 in 
the JAI Press series, "Research in Biopolitics."  

Papers presented include the following:  

Peter Corning, "Bioeconomics of Biopolitics"; 

J-P Rushton, "Will Canada and the US Break up 
like the USSR?"; 

Edward Miller, "Eugenics: The Choice of Futures"; 

Frank Salter, "Beyond Analogy"; 

Glendon Schubert, "Oral Argument in Supreme 
Court Decision-Making"; 

James N. Schubert and Steven A. Peterson, "The 
Impact of State AIDS Policy on the Epidemic"; 

Vidu Soni, "A Biopolitical View of Workplace 
Diversity"; 

Albert Somit, "Darwinism, Dominance, and 
Democracy"; 

J. David Ivers, "Early Adult Socialization of 
Political Leadership"; 

Patrick Stewart, "Decision-making under 
Uncertainty: Emotions and Heuristics"; 

Michael Tweed, "Comparing Approaches to 
Human Coalition Behavior"; 

Steven A. Peterson and Robert J. Maiden, 
"Changing Health Status and Political 
Participation among Older Americans"; 

Fran Moran, "The Biopolitics of Class"; 

Elliott White, "The Balkanized Global Village"; 

Patrick Peritore, "Biology and Culturalism"; 

Arlen Carey and Lauressa Nelson, "Human 
Nature, Biocultural Evolution, and Distributive 
Policy: Insights from an Analysis of the 
NIH Research Budget."  

The European Sociobiological Society also met 
concurrently with APLS and Research Committee 
# 12.  For further information about that conference, 
please e-mail Vincent Falger (click on his name below).