Abstracts and Bios of Presenters

Day

Time

Panel

Presenter

Title

Friday, July 7

9 – 10:15 am

Opening

Keynote

Daniel Barrerios

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 Kortayev

Patterns of complexity growth in the Big History.
A preliminary quantitative analysis

Friday, July 7

12:30 – 1:15 pm

Concepts and
Applications

Gustavo Lau

Some Applications of a Big History Concept

Friday, July 7

1:15 – 2:45 pm

Complexity Concepts,
Education & Applications

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

Daniel Berreiros

World-Systems, complexity and the suppression of entities: a bioethical and political warning

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

Gavitational Waves

Amber Stuver

LIGO: Detecting Billion Old Gravitational Waves

Friday, July 7

7 – 9 pm

Big Socioeconomic History

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

Daniel Barreiros

Social Classes and Social Cognition in Capitalism: The enmeshment of Social Institutions and Human Ethology

Friday, July 7

9:15 pm

Big History of
Collective Memory and Religion

Kenji Ichikawa

Layered Structure of Little Big History
― Case Study of Enoshima, Japan

Saturday, July 8

8 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

Leonid Grinin

Megaevolution: Its Main and Transitional Phases

Anton Grinin

Viruses and Evolution

Leonid Grinin

Chemical Evolution in Big
History

Saturday, July 8

10:45 am – 12:15 pm

Where are we going?

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

12:30 –
1:30 pm

Peter Turchin

Keynote
Speaker

Cliodynamics: History as Science

Saturday, July 8

1:45 – 3:15 pm

Complexity of
Complexity
Periodization

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

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

International Order and Cognitive Evolution: a Big History approach to the Concert of Europe (1815-1848)

Sunday July 9

9 – 10:30 am

Digital and AI
Perspectives

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

10:45 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

1:00  – 1:30 pm

Human Rights

Rob Grace

Human Rights: A Big History Perspective

1:30 – 3:00
pm

Cosmic
Combinations

Tyler Volk

Combination and Complexity

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

TBA

TBA

5:30 – 7 pm

Conclusion

Andrey Korotayev, David LePoire, Daniel Barreiros

7:00 – 9:00
pm

Big History
Author’s Roundtable

David Christian, Ursula Goodenough, Barry Wood, David LePoire,
Lowell Gustafson