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[Apologies for cross-posting] To allow every one to apply in best conditions, the deadline for submitting abstracts to the satellite session "Evolution of Cultural Complexity", to be held at the Conference on Complex System 2018, has been delayed to June the 15th. The direct link to submit is : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecc2018 For more information please see the call for abstract below and the webpage : https://ccs18.bsc.es , and don't hesitate to contact us directly. Best regards, Simon Carrignon & Sergi Valverde. ============== We are pleased to announce a call for abstracts for our session on “Evolution of Cultural Complexity” at the annual “Conference on Complex System”. The Conference on Complex System will takes place this year in Thessaloniki, Greece, from the 23rd to the 27th of September. The satellites will take place between the 26th and 27th of September 2018. Human sociocultural evolution has been documented throughout the history of humans and earlier hominins. This evolution manifests itself through development from tools as simple as a rock used to break nuts, to something as complex as a spaceship able to land man on other planets. Equally, we have witnessed evolution of human population towards complex multilevel social organisation. Although cases of decrease and loss of this type of complexity have been reported, in global terms it tends to increase with time. Despite its significance, the conditions and the factors driving this increase are still poorly understood and subject to debate. Different hypothesis trying to explain the rise of sociocultural complexity in human societies have been proposed (demographic factor, cognitive component, historical contingency…) but so far no consensus has been reached. Here we raise a number of questions: 1. Can we better define sociocultural complexity and confirm its general tendency to increase over the course of human history? 2. What are the main factors enabling an increase of cultural complexity? 3. Are there reliable way to measure the complexity in material culture and social organisation constructs, that is? 4. How can we quantify and compare the impact of different factors? 5. What causes a loss of cultural complexity in a society? And how often these losses occurred in the past? In this satellite meeting we want to bring together a community of researchers coming from different scientific domains and interested in different aspect of the evolution of social and cultural complexity. From archaeologists, to linguists, social scientists, historians and artificial intelligence specialists - the topic of sociocultural complexity transgresses traditional discipline boundaries. We want to establish and promote a constructive dialogue incorporating different perspectives: theoretical as well as empirical approaches, research based on historical and archaeological sources, as well as actual evidences and contemporary theories. Submissions will be made by sending an abstract in PDF (maximum 250 words) via Easychair here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecc2018 . The deadline for abstract submission is on the 1st of June 2018. The contributions to this satellite will be evaluated by the scientific committee through a peer review process that will evaluate the scientific quality and the relevance to the goal of this session. Notification of accepted abstracts will be communicated as soon as possible. Please find more details on the following website: https://ccs18.bsc.es/ We strongly encourage you to participate Spread the word Regards, ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the SIMSOC list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=SIMSOC&A=1