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Please note: All are invited to submit a paper or presentation; presenters at the conference will be IBHA members.

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    For panel proposals, use the following fields for the other presenters. If you are not submitting a panel proposal, you can skip this part.

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    What type of presentation do you plan to give?
    Academic PaperPowerpoint PresentationArtistic PerformanceOther

    Please check the all the times of day when we would be able to schedule your presentation. Please note that the times below are EDT (Eastern Daylight time as it is in New York; GMT-4) Please choose the EDT times that would be possible where you will be on July 7 - 9, 2023.
    Time Slots*: (Check all that apply)
    12am midnight1am2am3am4am5am6am7am8am9am10am11am12pm noon1pm2pm3pm4pm5pm6pm7pm8pm9pm10pm11pm

    We would like to group your paper together with others that share your issue or theme. Please select the options that you feel best fit your proposal.
    Categories*: (Check all that apply)
    ClimateWasteRecyclingGovernanceArtificial IntelligenceReligionCollective MemoryComplexityCausalityNetworksCyclesEnergy FlowsGravityThe AnthropoceneEnergy DensityCreative DestructionThe FutureEntropyResilienceThresholdsHierarchyInformationPurpose and MeaningOceansCitizenshipColonizing MarsFreshwaterEducationArtificial IntelligencetranshumanismOtherN/A

    Call for Panels and / or Papers

    Conference Schedule
    This will be a global, on-line conference that will be equally accessible to all time zones. The conference will be hosted, as it was in 2021, over Airmeet, an attractive, user friendly, sophisticated platform designed and administered in India. Presentation times will run straight through over 72 hours from July 7 – 9, 2023. Presenters from everywhere will be able to be scheduled at convenient times of day, with recordings available later for all registered conference participants who are unable to attend in real time.

    Presenters will be asked to send a recorded version of their work by late June. These will be shown during the scheduled time, followed by live roundtables with the presenters and all attendees. Discuss your work with others from around the world in real time.

    Everyone will also be invited to send us longer recordings that permit as fully developed presentations as are needed, These too will be available for conference participants at any time.

    Local In-Person Meetings
    The benefits of in-person meetings will also be available in selected locations. Live presentations and discussions will be part of the conference schedule and broadcast live, as well as recorded for later viewing. See below for the in-person option at Coldigioco, Italy.

    We look forward to your proposal
    We look forward to discussion of your presentation or your paper. Presentations may include music, painting, dance or other expressions. Creativity and imagination in the service of big history are encouraged. Discussion of your paper at the conference may lead you to revise and submit it to the Journal of Big History or Origins: The Bulletin of the IBHA.

    One of the benefits of our association is to develop pleasant and productive relationships. We encourage work with other IBHA members in a panel in which there are a number of papers or other presentations.

    On the proposal page, we will ask you for your name, email address, title of your proposal, a brief description of it, and the range of convenient times of day for you.