Saturday, June 29th

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

Time Location Join Zoom Moderator Presenter Panel
08:30 AM – 09:00 AM Franklin 201 Todd Duncan Hirofumi Katayama Cosmic Humanism, Information-based Ethics, and Complexity – How Do We Guide our Actions?
08:30 AM – 09:00 AM Franklin 216 Lowell Gustafson Nobuo Tsujimura Untold Implications of Origin Story: Evaluating David Christian’s Theory beyond His Intent

Coffee Break
09:00 AM – 09:15 AM

Time Location Join Zoom Moderator Presenter Panel
09:15 AM – 09:45 AM Franklin 201 Todd Duncan Ken Solis Information, Complexity, and Ethics
09:15 AM – 09:45 AM Franklin 216 Lowell Gustafson Davidson Loehr Expanding Perspectives on Religion, in Ordinary Language

Coffee Break
09:45 AM – 10:00 AM

Time Location Join Zoom Moderator Presenter Panel
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Franklin 201 Todd Duncan Dave LePoire Complexity & Ethics
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Franklin 216 Lowell Gustafson Jess Hollenback Symbolic Communication and Trance: Continuities and Discontinuties with Earlier Forms of Information Storage and Retrieval in Nature

Coffee Break
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM

Time Location Join Zoom Moderator Presenter Panel
10:45 AM – 11:15 AM Franklin 201 Todd Duncan Gustavo Lau Identity Cones and Donation to the African Big History Association
10:45 AM – 11:15 AM Franklin 216 Lowell Gustafson Robert Bedeski The American state revealed through fiction: A journey down the river of experience and imagination

Coffee Break
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM

Time Location Join Zoom Moderator Presenter Panel
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Franklin 201 Todd Duncan Andre de Vinck Evolution = Exchange
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Franklin 216 Lowell Gustafson Brian Routon Self-Organizing Small Teams at Scale As a Potential Solution to Some Central Problems of the Moment

Lunch Break
12:00 PM – 01:00 PM

Time Location Join Zoom Moderator Presenter Panel
01:00 PM – 01:30 PM Franklin 201 Todd Duncan Esther Quaedackers New directions in big history teaching and research: Place-based big history
01:00 PM – 01:30 PM Franklin 216 Paul Narguizian Leonid Grinin Geological evolution: some preliminary ideas

Refreshment Break
01:30 PM – 01:45 PM

Time Location Join Zoom Moderator Presenter Panel
01:45 PM – 02:15 PM Franklin 201 Todd Duncan Lowell Gustafson Future Studies of Big History
01:45 PM – 02:15 PM Franklin 216 Paul Narguizian Wendy Curtis Oklahoma’s Dynamic Place within the North American Continent

Refreshment Break
02:15 PM – 02:30 PM

Time Location Join Zoom Moderator Presenter Panel
02:30 PM – 03:00 PM Franklin 201 Todd Duncan Sohan Jheeta Pioneering the Dissemination of Astroscience in Sub-Saharan Africa
02:30 PM – 03:00 PM Franklin 216 Paul Narguizian Cal Hale Change is OK: The Geographic Evolution of Oklahoma

Refreshment Break
03:00 PM – 03:15 PM

Time Location Join Zoom Moderator Presenter Panel
03:15 PM – 03:45 PM Franklin 201 Todd Duncan Emilio Padoa-Schioppa Ecological history of Europe: towards and unfying perspective

Refreshment Break
03:45 PM – 04:00 PM

Time Location Join Zoom Moderator Presenter Panel
04:00 PM – 04:30 PM Franklin 201 Todd Duncan Holy Angel University Students Kapampangan Language: The Place of a Mother Tongue in Globalization
04:00 PM – 04:30 PM Franklin 216 WHA-IBHA Joint Panel Ken Baskin The Tragedy of Francis Bacon: How his Vision of the ‘Empire of Man’ Became Our Existential Nightmare
Lowell Gustafson Complexity and the University
Dave LePoire Perspectives on Flows from Big History

Saturday Close

05:00 PM