The ASU Interdisciplinary Cooperation Initiative brings together scholars from across the disciplines who are joined by a shared interest in understanding the fundamental principles that drive cooperation. We hold workshops and working group meetings with faculty in and outside of ASU, organize a biannual Cooperation and Conflict Symposium, and the Interdisciplinary Study of Cooperation Winter School taught by world-renowned cooperation researchers. In addition to supporting the interdisciplinary study of cooperation, we also support broader ventures to cultivate cooperation among the disciplines.
The Cooperation & Conflict Symposium addresses pressing questions in cooperation theory through interdisciplinary dialogue.
At the Interdisciplinary Study of Cooperation Winter School, students discover fundamental processes underlying cooperation across systems.
The Interdisciplinary Cooperation Working Group is a forum for ASU faculty to share ideas, questions and solutions.
How do we tell what is real and what is not? In ASU’s 2nd Cooperation and Conflict Symposium, researchers from across ASU and around the world will come together to address the question of how we tell fact from fiction, and how the availability of huge amounts of information can both help and hinder our capacity to determine what is real.
The guy at work who contributes squat to a team project. The one who develops alligator arms every time the check arrives. The people you’ve had for dinner 20 times who always show up empty-handed.
Does it make you feel any better that ants, bees and wasps suffer from similar company?
The Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Meeting is an evolutionary biology meeting turned interdisciplinary conference analyzing the undead. This includes real-life "zombification" and preparing for the extreme environments of a zombie apocalypse in order to adapt complex, jargon-filled science into a more digestible and fun format.
