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• The Changing Lives Lab
• The Violent Extremism Lab
• The Ritual, Cohesion and Charisma Lab
• The World History Lab
• The Global Cohesion Lab
• The Social Body Lab
• Passionate football fans are more likely to show KINDNESS towards rival team supporters, study finds
• Calleva Expert Workshop “When Despots Become Deadly”
• Calleva Seminar “Radicalisation and Violent Extremism: Drivers, Trends, Solutions"
• The World History of Ritual Workshop on Ritual Modes
• Keynote lecture: The Role of ‘Human Nature’ in a Transformed Global Economy
• Alumni event - Book talk: 'Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World'
• Keynote speech: 'Radicalisation and Violent Extremism: Drivers, Trends, Solutions'
• Lecture: Is There a Language of Terrorists?
• Panel appearance: Fourth Annual Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) Conference
• Research Presentation at the British Academy Conference 'Resisting Fascism'
• Research presentation at the 2024 Terrorism and Social Media Conference (TASM)
• Lecture: 'Cultivating social cohesion: Insights from gangs, cults, and terrorists'
• Invited talk: 'Tribe: From cults, gangs, terrorists, and football fans to world religions and humanity at large'
• Talk at the Chalke History Festival: 'Inheritance: The evolutionary origins of the modern world'
• Lecture: 'Conformism, religiosity and tribalism: Evolutionary roots of the modern world'
• Public Lecture: RAI Book Launch – The Ritual Animal: Imitation and Cohesion in the Evolution of Social Complexity
• Book event: 'Introducing Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World'
• Workshop: 'Addressing affective polarization and protecting social cohesion in the face of rapid technological change'
• Plenary and Henry Myers lecture: 'Rethinking Ritual: How rituals made our world and how they could save it'
• Conference presentation: 'Improving psychedelic-assisted therapies via the Social Cure'
• Conference presentation: 'Social relationships, poverty, and energetic regulation'
• Presentation of international prize: The Fyssen Foundation
• Distinguished Lecture: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
• The Violent Extremism Lab's analysis of the UK riots
• Changing Lives: tackling penal reform with evidence-based social interventions
• A Colloquium on ‘Liberalism in Crisis’
• CRIC 2024 – The Conference on the Resolution of Intractable Conflict
• World Bank Social Cohesion Seminar: Exploring the effect of global identities on inter-group cooperation
• 1st Global Summit on Terrorism and Political Violence
• Networking Event at the British Academy
• 2nd Calleva Expert Workshop
• The Morality-as-Cooperation Lab
• The 36th Annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference
• This House Believes In A Universal Morality - Cambridge Union
• Heron-Allen Lecture 2025
• RSIS Roundtable on “The Ritual Animal: exploring questions about ritual, human nature, and society"
• RSIS Seminar on “Exploring the Bonds That Unite Us”
• The making and unmaking of humanity