Upcoming Events
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October 20-22, 2025
Eureka Spring, Arkansas
ZAMM 2025: The Next Generation
Join us in Eureka Springs for an exciting conference about the science, medicine, art and culture of managing apocalyptic risks, in collaboration with the Nightmare in the Ozarks Film Festival. This year's theme is "The Next Generation," broadly conceived. We'll cover topics including future shaping, decision making, and the role of science fiction stories and games in helping us to imagine and achieve desired futures. We’ll be asking questions like: Should we colonize space? Are we really doomed by AI? Should kids be more protected or more free?
We will also explore the zombification of education and learning, the uncertain and technofuturist challenges posed by AI and environmental collapse, and how horror can help ensure the next generation not only survives but thrives. Expect conversations on delayed adulthood, pro- and anti-natalism, intergenerational conflict and cooperation, intertemporal choice, and cultural evolution—along with discussions of science fiction and horror overlap, populationism, and what social insects can teach us about long-term resilience and cooperative survival. We'll tackle the ethics of AI and tech, including resistance to exploitative and opaque systems, and the limits of deep learning. We’ll also look at how cultivating curiosity about our uncertain future can help us face our fears and manage the risks we are facing.
Abstract submission is now open for all topics related to zombies, the apocalypse, and anything related to our theme for this year. Don't forget to stay for the Nightmare in the Ozarks Film Festival (Oct 22-25), and the Eureka Springs Zombie Crawl (Oct 25) featuring cross-over events with ZAMM and plenty of opportunities for apocalyptic fun including a special performance from The Apocalypse Roadshow. Registration opens soon!
Learn more: www.zombiemed.org
Past events
Innovative. Interdisciplinary. Impactful.
October 15-18, 2020
What is a Zombie?
The Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Alliance defines a zombie as "An individual whose physiology and behavior are (fully or partially) under the control of a genetically distinct individual or population of individuals."
For more info, visit the conference website: click here
January 6-10, 2020, ASU
At the ASU Interdisciplinary Study of Cooperation Winter School, students will discover the fundamental processes underlying cooperation in diverse systems. The lectures and seminars are taught by leading cooperation researchers from diverse disciplines including Psychology, Evolutionary Biology, Anthropology, Sociology and Computational Modeling. To learn more, click here.
ASU Cooperation and Conflict Symposium
May 2, 2019, ASU
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. To learn more and see the video recorded talks, click here.
October 18-21, 2018, ASU
Our first Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Meeting (ZAMM) took place in the Fall of 2018, at Arizona State University. To view the video recorded talks, click here.
ISEEC 2017 Conference
December 7-10, 2017, ASU
Our fourth bi-annual ISEEC conference was themed "Resistance, Resilience and Robustness" and focused on the evolutionary and ecological processes underlying cancer. ISEEC welcomed scientists from different disciplines, including but not limited to oncology, cell biology, evolutionary biology and mathematics. More details about the society and its events are available on the ISEEC website.
Fitness Interdependence Workshop
February 17 - 18, 2017, Saguaro Lake Ranch
This two-day workshop brought together leaders in cooperation theory, social psychology, and evolutionary biology to discuss fitness interdependence and helping behavior.
ASU Cooperation and Conflict Symposium
February 16, 2017, Arizona State University
The ASU Cooperation & Conflict Symposium invites diverse scholars from around the world to come together with ASU faculty to address the most pressing questions in cooperation theory through interdisciplinary dialogue.This year’s question: How do large-scale systems solve the problem of detecting, controlling and eliminating cheating? Learn more and watch talks from the symposium here and read about the symposium on ASU Now.
The Human Generosity Project Annual Meeting
January, 2017
The Human Generosity Project Annual Meeting brings together the entire HGP team, including anthropologists, psychologists and computational modelers for a two-day intensive meeting. See more about this here.
