Saturday, July 86 amCivic EngagementAdalberto Codetta’Big History’ and “Global Civics”

Day

Time EDT

Panel

Presenter

Title
Friday, July 7 7 – 9 am Log in, please contact lowell.gustafson@bighistory.org with any questions.
Friday, July 7 7 – 9 am Round table. Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others.

Friday, July 7

9 – 10:15 am

Opening

Keynote

 Daniel Barreiros

Fred Spier

Welcome!

How did
humanity get itself into its current ecological
predicament?

Friday,
July 7

10:30 – 12:15

Complexity in Big History

David LePoire

Complexity Workshop

Lowell
Gustafson

Emergent Complexity:
A Rationale for the University

Andrey Korotayev

Patterns of complexity
growth in the Big History.
A preliminary quantitative analysis
Friday, July 7 12:15 – 12:30 Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others.
Friday, July 7 12:30 – 1:15 pm Concepts and Applications Introduced by Lowell Gustafson
Gustavo Lau Some Applications of a Big
History Concept
Friday, July 7 1:15 – 2:45 pm Complexity Concepts,
Education & Applications		 Panel Chair: Andrey Korotayev

Ken Baskin

The Practical Application of
Complexity Science to Enhance Big History

Mark Ciotola

Resource-Based Predecessor
and Parallel Schools of Thought to Big History

Paul Narguizian

Big History: Integrating
Complexity in Biology Education

Friday, July 7

2:45 – 4:15

Complexity and Civilization

Panel Chair: Lowell Gustafson

Tony Harper

The Interaction Between
Complexity And Entropy Over Human History As
Exemplified By Changes In Urbanization

Stephen Satkiewicz

Social Complexity and War
from a Big History Perspective
Friday, July 7 4:30 – 5:30 pm Gravitational Waves Introduced by Lowell Gustafson
Amber Stuver Probing to the Depths of the Universe with Gravitational Waves
Friday, July 7 5:30 – 7:00 Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. Hosted by David LePoire
Friday, July 7 7 – 9 pm Big Socioeconomic History Panel Chair: Daniel Barreiros

Daniel Vainfas

Class, Commerce and Climate:
an investigation on a set of circumstances for the rise of capitalism in 15th
century England

Felipe Blois

Civilization and Technology:
antientropic concepts, tools and consequences

Bernardo Nery

The question of property and
trade: cognition, behavior and human evolution
Friday July 7 9 – 9:15 pm Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. Hosted by Daniel Barreiros.

Friday, July 7

9:15 pm

Big History of
Collective Memory and Religion

Nobuo Tsujimura
Kenji Ichikawa

Introduction
Layered Structure of Little Big History
― Case Study of Enoshima, Japan
Friday, July 7 Following Kenjo Ichikawa’s presentation and discussion, please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. Hosted by Nobuo Tsujimura.
Saturday July 8
Saturday July 8 2:00 am (EDT) Finite Resources, Infinite Greed: Deconstructing the Infrastructural Progress in the Philippines
Panel Chair: Ma. Rubeth R. Hipolito
Lady Mary Felizziety J. Daguay Godwin C. Pring Juan Gabriel C. Simbulan

Saturday, July 8

7 – 9 am –

Science, Environment and Society – STEAM
Education and Big
History in Hong Kong

Aidan Wong

Alexis Lau

Rachel Oser
Saturday, July 8 9 – 10:30 am Mega & Microbial
Evolution		 Panel Chair: Andrey Korotayv

Leonid Grinin

Megaevolution: Its Main and Transitional Phases

Anton Grinin

Viruses and Evolution

Leonid Grinin

Chemical Evolution in Big
History
Saturday, July 8 10:30 – 10:45 am Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. Hosted by Andrey Korotayev
Saturday, July 8 10:45 am – 12:15 pm Where are we going? Panel Chair: Ken Solis

Nick Nielsen

Big History for ETI:
Recognizing Parochial and Non-Parochial Forms of Complexity

Alexander Panov

Big History in the Galaxy:
risks of contacts with alien civilizations

Marc
Widdowson

The last stop on the cosmic
journey: an estimated time of arrival
Saturday, July 8 12:15 – 12:30 Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. Hosted by Ken Solis

Saturday,
July 8

12:30 –
1:30 pm

 Introduced by David LePoire
Peter Turchin Keynote
Speaker		 Cliodynamics: History
as Science
Saturday, July 8 1:30 – 1:45 Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. Hosted by David LePoire
Saturday, July 8 1:45 – 3:15 pm Complexity of
Complexity
Periodization		 Panel Chair: Paul Narguizian

Max Barnett

6 Steps to the Anthropocene:
Mapping Complexity from Foragers to the Anthropocene

Nick Hoggard

Complexity in the Thirteen
Threshold Theory of Evolution

David LePoire

Complexity and Entropy in
Cosmic Development including the Cosmic Web and Initial Conditions

3:30 – 5:00 pm

The Biohistory of Feminism

Abel A. Alves

Carol Blakney
Saturday, July 8 7 – 9 pm War, Politics, and Big History: between
structure and contingency		 Panel Chair: Daniel Barreiros

Beatriz Pimentel,
Daniel Vainfas

Chimpanzee behaviour and Clausewitzian war: differences and similarities in the realms of politics and conflict

Walter Silva

The Evolutionary Roots of Warfare and Its Ecological Conditions

Daniel Barreiros

 Social Classes and Social Cognition in Capitalism: The Enmeshment of Social Institutions and Human Ethology
Saturday, July 8 9 pm – 11 pm New Visions Nobuo Tsujimura The “Big Twist”: For making big history multicultural and multinatural
S Darshan The Awakening of Common Consciousness: AGI and the Transition to a Resource-Based Economy
Spencer Striker Empires & Interconnections for iPad | Challenging Students with Wicked Problems in History
Saturday, July 8 11 pm Reflections on Colonization and Globalization as Neutralizing Factors of Filipino Culture
Panel Chair: Ma. Rubeth R. Hipolito
Lorenzo Miguel N. Guarin John Matthew C. Sausora
Sunday, July 9
Sunday, July 9 7:15 – 8:45 am The Manifestation of Greed in Consumer Electronics: A Filipino Big Historian’s Analysis of Resource Scarcity
Panel Chair: Ma. Rubeth R. Hipolito
Rhod Railey T. De Vera Kirsten Dwayne A. Dizon Fritzgerald Gonzales
Sunday July 9 9 – 10:30 am Digital and AI
Perspectives		 Panel Chair: Andrey Korotayev

Sergy
Grinchenko

Big History in the Digital Perspective

Ekaterina Sashienko

Evolutionary prospects for
the development of AI

Andrey M.
Burovsky

The most general patterns of
Big History
Sunday July 9 10:30 – 10:45 Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. Hosted by Andrey Korotayev

Sunday July 9

10:45 am – 12:45 pm

Stories,  Language,
and Ultimate Reality

 Jenna Thompson Enlarging Our Map of Reality: Exploring
the Threshold Between Thoughts and Words

John Hasse

The Nexus of Storytelling and Collective
Learning: A symbiotic spark for human emergence

Todd Duncan

Fundamental Physics and Big History:
Exploring Perspectives on Ultimate Reality
Sunday, July 9 12:45 – 1:00 Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. Hosted by David LePoire

Sunday July 9

1:00  – 1:30 pm

Human Rights

Daniel Barreiros
Rob Grace

Introduction
Human Rights: A Big History Perspective
Sunday July 9 1:30 – 3:00
pm		 Cosmic Reconsiderations Panel Chair: Paul Narguizian

  Barry Borgerson Conquering Automatic Human Activities to Construct Threshold 9
Tyler Volk
and Gregg Henriques		 A framework toward a Big History 2.0
Ken Solis Cosmic
Evolution – A Critical Appraisal of Energy Rate Density

3:00 – 4:00

Members’ Meeting

IBHA Members

Sunday July 9

4:00 – 5:30 pm

Emerging Big History

 Gustavo Lau

An Abstract Data Type inspired by Big History
David LePoire
Anonymous Contributions of AI to Big History

5:30 – 7 pm

Conclusion

Andrey Korotayev, David LePoire,
Daniel Barreiros

7:00 – 9:00
pm

Big History
Authors’ Roundtable

David
Christian, Ursula Goodenough, Barry Wood, David LePoire,
Lowell Gustafson
Sunday, July 8 Following the authors’ roundtable, please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. Hosted by Daniel Barreiros