Humanities Festival – TV Program OKTO TV

In a fascinating conversation with IWM Principal MISHA GLENNY, ISABEL BEHNCKE explains why recreational sex and play are essential tools in managing complex societies. Drawing on her extensive knowledge of our primate cousins ​​(never tell her we’re descended from monkeys – we’re monkeys!), Behncke explains why our two closest relatives, bonobos and chimpanzees, have evolved very different strategies to solve common problems. to solve. While chimpanzees have a patriarchal system that relies on violent conflict to ensure territorial integrity, bonobos evolved a matriarchal hierarchy that emphasizes play and peaceful solutions. Humans have evolved using both of these strategies, and the talk will focus on why playfulness could be the key to our survival. ————- Part of the Vienna Humanities Festival 2024. In 2024 the festival is organized by the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) and Time To Talk (TTT) in collaboration with FALTER, the Open Society Foundations, the City of Vienna, the ERSTE Foundation, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the Wien Museum and the Volkstheater. Read more about the Vienna Humanities Festival here: https://www.humanitiesfestival.at

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