Julia Cissewski

Julia Cissewski gained a Master's degree in Romance, English studies and Economics from the University of Leipzig in 1998. Since then she has been working as assistant to the director and department administrator at MPI-EVA. Her responsibilities include budgetary and personnel matters and managing the guest program. Her own research is in the areas of animal cognition and language evolution.

1991 - 1994	University of Leipzig Romance and English studies, Economics, Russian Certificate "Akademisch geprüfter Fachübersetzer für Wirtschaftsrussisch"
1995 - 1996	Universidad de Salamanca, Spain Linguistics, Economics, Medicine
1996 - 1998	University of Leipzig Diploma in Romance and English studies and Economics Certificate "Akademisch geprüfter Fachübersetzer für medizinisches Englisch"

2015 - present	Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture Department administrator and assistant to Prof. Richard McElreath (director)
1998 - 2015	Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Department of Linguistics Department administrator and assistant to Prof. Bernard Comrie (director)

1999 - 2003	University of Leipzig Language course "Medical Spanish"
2002	University of Leipzig Proseminar "Selected questions in hispanic linguistics"
2001 - 2004	University of Leipzig Lecture "Introduction to linguistics"

Animal cognition and social behaviour, language evolution.

Juli-August 2004	Tanjung Puting National Park (Kalimantan Tengah Province, Indonesia)
Juli-August 2005	Tanjung Puting National Park (Kalimantan Tengah Province, Indonesia)
Juli-August 2006	Tanjung Puting National Park (Kalimantan Tengah Province, Indonesia)

Gesellschaft für Primatologie 
International Society for Gesture Studies 
Primate Society of Great Britain

Orang-Utans in Not e.V. (president) 
Wild Chimpanzee Foundation – Germany e.V.

Cissewski, Julia: What's the point? Pointing from a comparative perspective. Talk presented at the Anlang meeting, Leipzig, January 28, 2003.

Cissewski, Julia and Biruté M. Galdikas: Gestural communication in wild orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) of Tanjung Puting National Park, Indonesia – an ongoing study. Poster presented at the Fifth International Conference on the Evolution of Language, Leipzig, March 31 - April 3, 2004.

Herrmann, Esther, Brian Hare, Julia Cissewski and Michael Tomasello: The origin of human temperament: Differences in the response to novelty among great apes and human children. Poster presented at the SRCD Biennial Meeting, Denver, CO, April 2-4, 2009.

Herrmann, Esther, Brian Hare, Julia Cissewski and Michael Tomasello (2011): A comparison of temperament in nonhuman apes and human infants. Developmental Science 14(6), 1393–1405, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01082.x

Cissewski, Julia and Christophe Boesch: How great apes can do without language. Poster presented at the Fourteenth Conference of the Gesellschaft für Primatologie (GfP), Leipzig, February 11 - 13, 2015.

Cissewski, Julia and Christophe Boesch: The role of 'natural meaning' in great ape communication. Poster presented at the Spring Meetingof the Primate Society of Great Britain (PSGB), Roehampton, London, April 9 - 10, 2015.

Cissewski, Julia and Christophe Boesch: Population-specific semantic shifts: A case of social learning in wild chimpanzee populations? Poster presented at the Winter Meeting of the Association for the Study of Animal Behavior (ASAB), London, December 3 - 4, 2015.

Cissewski, Julia and Christophe Boesch (2016): Communication without language: How great apes may cover crucial advantages of language without creating a system of symbolic communication. Gesture 15(2), 224-249, DOI: 10.1075/gest.15.2.04cis

Cissewski, Julia (2017): 3 1/2 Fragen an ... Die Zeit, CHANCEN Brief, 7 September 2017. PDF

Cissewski, Julia, Lydia Luncz and Christophe Boesch: Ground-nest building in wild chimpanzees in Taї National Park: non-social behavior and group-specific gesture. Poster presented at the Winter Meeting of the Primate Society of Great Britain (PSGB), London, November 28 - 29, 2017.

Cissewski, Julia (2017): Die Orang-Utans retten – und uns selbst. fairquer. Sächsische entwicklungspolitische Zeitschrift (39), 29 - 30.