Friday, June 28th

Note: All posted times are in US Central Daylight Time (CDT)

If you have any questions/comments/concerns about this schedule, please notify Heathe Kyle Yeakley at heathe.yeakley@bighistory.org.

Registration Opens

08:00 AM

Keynote

“Information Theory and Complexity in Social Evolution”

Kyle Harper

09:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Time Location Join Zoom Moderator Presenter Panel
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Franklin 201B Lowell Gustafson Ken Solis Measuring Complexity
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Franklin 221 Paul Narguizian Daniel Barreiros Object-oriented ontology and Big History: how do the cosmos, the Earth, life and humanity become “one”?

Coffee Break
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM

Time Location Join Zoom Moderator Presenter Panel
10:45 AM – 11:15 AM Franklin 201B Lowell Gustafson Todd Duncan What Can Big History Learn from the Dark Matter Problem?
10:45 AM – 11:15 AM Franklin 221 Paul Narguizian Bernardo Sá The Anthropocene and Big History as a Historical Paradigm

Coffee Break
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM

Time Location Join Zoom Moderator Presenter Panel
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Franklin 201B Lowell Gustafson Dave LePoire What kind of Universe Do You Want?
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Franklin 221 Paul Narguizian Gabriel Ribeiro Agent-based modelling methodologies for the analysis of complex ancient trade systems/td>

Lunch Break
12:00 PM – 01:00 PM

Time Location Join Zoom Moderator Presenter Panel
01:00 PM – 01:30 PM Franklin 201B David LePoire Carl Johan Calleman Unifying Big History into one science by means of Macrocosmic Quantum Theory
01:00 PM – 01:30 PM Franklin 221 Ken Solis Anton Grinin Deepening of the World-System Crisis and its potential impact on Destabilization and Environmental Degradation

Refreshment Break
01:30 PM – 01:45 PM

Time Location Join Zoom Moderator Presenter Panel
01:45 PM – 02:15 PM Franklin 201B David LePoire Nick Hoggard Evolution and Chaos Theory
01:45 PM – 02:15 PM Franklin 221 Ken Solis Daniel Vainfas Social strategies as a response to climate change in 14th Century England and the origins of capitalism

Refreshment Break
02:15 PM – 02:30 PM

Time Location Join Zoom Moderator Presenter Panel
02:30 PM – 03:00 PM Franklin 201B David LePoire Martin van Duin Exploring energy rate density as a quantitative complexity metric in a big history context
02:30 PM – 03:00 PM Franklin 221 Ken Solis Heitor Groisman Property, exchange and human evolution: an investigation through the lenses of big history

Refreshment Break
03:00 PM – 03:15 PM

Time Location Join Zoom Moderator Presenter Panel
03:15 PM – 03:45 PM Franklin 201B David LePoire Andrey Korotayev Complexity Growth Patterns in the Stelliferous Era of Big History. Preliminary Observations
03:15 PM – 03:45 PM Franklin 221 Ken Solis Antony Harper The Pattern of Agrarian Civilization Survivorship and Its Consequences

Refreshment Break
03:45 PM – 04:00 PM

Time Location Join Zoom Moderator Presenter Panel
04:00 PM – 04:30 PM Franklin 201B David LePoire Sohan Jheeta Emergence of Life: Importance of Formation of Organic Molecules of Life
04:00 PM – 04:30 PM Franklin 221 Ken Solis Ernesto Lopez Historical evolution: mechanisms, concepts and time

Reception
05:30 PM – 08:30 PM

Keynote
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Mary Evelyn Tucker
Ecological Civilization in China and Beyond