Julia Cissewski
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
tel.: +49 (341) 3550 - 315
fax: +49 (341) 3550 - 333
e-mail: cissewskieva.mpgde
About
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.
Curriculum vitae
University education
| 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" |
Positions held
| 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) |
Teaching
| 1999 - 2003 | University of Leipzig |
| 2002 | University of Leipzig |
| 2001 - 2004 | University of Leipzig Lecture "Introduction to linguistics" |
Research Interest
Animal cognition and social behaviour, language evolution.
Fieldwork
| 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) |
Professional memberships and related activities
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.
Publications and presentations
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.