International Big History Association

2023 IBHA Conference
2023-07-07 - 2023-07-09
Link to Airmeet site, home of the conference.
Conference 2023 Information
The 2023 IBHA Conference Theme on
Humanity on a Finite Planet: A Big History Perspective
The discipline of big history throws light on the achievements and challenges in the present and possibilities for the future by analyzing the biological, social, political and economic history of the homo sapiens in the context of the geological, climatological, environmental, and evolutionary history of the planet earth and the cosmological history of the solar system and the universe.
At this point in time, the human civilization is at a crossroads. The choices we collectively and individually make in the next decade or so will lock humanity into either a destructive or a sustainable pathway for our species. In big history terminology, we may have just entered or are about to enter a new threshold. While in the past, humans have progressed largely by following their survival and adaptation instincts, now as a global civilization, collectively we have a better understanding of the complex web of reality around us and therefore are in a position to make informed choices towards a desirable destiny.
We now know that we are living on a complex planet with highly interconnected planetary systems but finite material resources. Through the combined processes of biological evolution (a natural planetary process) and technological revolution (a human-induced process) we have become the ‘top predator’ in the food as well as materials chain on the planet. The concept of planetary boundaries – which are key planet-level processes that govern the stability and resilience of the earth in a form required to sustain humanity – was introduced by Johan Rockstrom, Will Steffen and collaborators in 2009 and further refined over the years.1 As per the current data available at least four of the nine processes are no longer in the ‘safe operating region’. In other words, at least some of the critical ‘Holocene’ conditions under which humanity thrived and progressed, no longer exist on the planet. The most widely discussed examples are global warming and loss of biodiversity.
However, from another perspective, over the past few centuries, we have also seen great strides in improving the quality of human life in terms of health and life expectancy, as well as the ways and means available to manifest, express and share human creativity and innovation in various forms. There are also innumerable localized examples of human communities achieving respectable quality of life in harmony with the localized planetary processes.
Where do we go from here? How do we put to use the positive outcomes of human endeavours to combat the potential negative outcomes? What should be the new direction given to human knowledge systems to ensure an equitable and sustainable human civilization that is more mindful of the limits as well as potentials of the planet earth and the solar system? What does the new planetary normal mean for the philosophical and spiritual frameworks developed by humans so far? How do we deal with the psychological impacts of the transformative change (either destructive or constructive)? Will the upcoming technological developments like human-AI interface, genetic modification, space travel, nanomaterials, etc., harm or help humanity? The conference will focus on exploring these and similar questions through multidisciplinary lenses.

Complexity: Big History Studies from Russia
2023-04-16 03:00 - 05:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom, Russian Federation
Registration: To sign up, please send an email to the OBHM <bighistorymovement@gmail.com> with your name, affiliation, and email address by the end of Friday April 14 in your local time. For security, we share the link to join the webinar only with those who are registered on the day before it.

Registration: To sign up, please send an email to the OBHM <bighistorymovement@gmail.com> with your name, affiliation, and email address by the end of Friday April 14 in your local time. For security, we share the link to join the webinar only with those who are registered on the day before it.

Complexity: Big History Studies from Russia
2023-04-16 03:00 - 05:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom, Russian Federation
Registration: To sign up, please send an email to the OBHM <bighistorymovement@gmail.com> with your name, affiliation, and email address by the end of Friday April 14 in your local time. For security, we share the link to join the webinar only with those who are registered on the day before it.

IBHA Chat, 3/29, 9 pm est
2023-03-29 21:00 - 22:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom, Russian Federation
To help maintain contacts or meet others in the IBHA even before our July 2023 conference, please join us for informal discussions about anything regarding big history that you are thinking about. We cordially invite all who share our interest in big history to join us on Airmeet (similar to Zoom) on March 29. Since our members are in such a variety of time zones we are offering two times on that day – at 9 AM ET and at 9 PM ET. There will be an IBHA “host” to moderate a lively discussion among all that attend. So please grab a cup of coffee, a glass of wine or beer or whatever, and tell us your thoughts!

The links to attend the meetings are below.
Hope to see you there.
The IBHA Board

https://www.airmeet.com/e/abb80f90-afa3-11ed-8ced-2f1595423c83 , 9 am EST (Host: Daniel de Pinho Barreiros)
https://www.airmeet.com/e/ce0bbf00-afae-11ed-a696-b1b07624da35 9 pm est (Host: Dave LePoire)

If you are not sure what time that is for you, you can use tools like the Time Zone Calculator to find out.

Chat Room, 3/29, 9 am est
2023-03-29 09:00 - 10:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom, Russian Federation

UTOK Consilience Conference 2023
2023-03-17 08:00 - 2023-03-18 17:00 (America/New_York)
Dr. Gregg Henriques is Professor of Graduate Psychology at James Madison University; he is the author of “The Tree of Knowledge System: A New Map for Big History,” Vol. 3 No. 4 (2019): Journal of Big History and founder of the Theory Of Knowledge Society. That society is sponsoring the UTOK Consilience Conference 2023 on March 17 and 18.

Everybody's Story
2023-03-08 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom, Russian Federation
Ursula Goodenough will tell us Everybody’s Story, which is central to the just released second edition of her book:
The Sacred Depths of Nature
How Life Has Emerged and Evolved
Her presentation and book provide accurate, accessible, and poetic accounts of the emergence and evolution of life.
They lift up the synergies between a religious naturalist orientation and traditional and indigenous religions.
They suggest ways to explore these accounts for their religious potential along interpretive, spiritual, and moral/ethical axes.
They explore ecomorality and introduce a deeper emphasis on human evolution and the environment.
The event is free to all and available through Airmeet, which is a little different from Zoom. Please go to https://www.airmeet.com/e/292fd650-abb3-11ed-9563-c136b7b45add You will be asked for your email address. Please submit that and then go to your email to get the link to the event that will come from Airmeet.
“Ursula Goodenough argues passionately, wisely and even lyrically for a new, modern, scientifically-informed world view that can tell us both about the Universe we inhabit and the moral rules we need to inhabit it well. This is a wonderful account of the history of life by a great biologist. It invites us to find in modern science the profound sense of wonder and belonging, and the deep ethical sense present in all the world’s religious traditions.”
David Christian History, Macquarie University, author of Origin Story: A Big History of Everything

Philippine - Asian Big History Conference
2022-12-06 08:00 - 2022-12-07 17:00 (Asia/Manila) | Zoom, Russian Federation
Please find attached the program flow for the upcoming International Big History Conference, the poster, and the registration link for dissemination
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdTCLzJqIF6g2JzMtZoOWH6Nwm9Fe984IbmDe2AHvpOgCljNg/viewform

Energy: The Currency of the universe?
2022-12-05 22:00 - 23:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom, Russian Federation
Energy flows have been central to the epic of evolution and big history for many years. In this presentation, Maximillian Barnett examines them in light of new research. He is a PhD Student working under Professor David Christian in the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Maximillian is a member of the International Big History Association and is part of a global research group which focuses on how understandings of the past can be used to inform approaches to present and future global challenges. He has recently presented papers entitled: “Breaking the Cycle: Alternative Complexity Outcomes for Human Societies” and “The Weights and Measures of World History.” He currently teaches and aids in curriculum development in the fields of law and world history. He graduated with a Masters of Research in History and writes on the fields of demography, geography, anthropology, world history, and futures studies. The current working title for his PhD is The Fork in the Road: Mapping Alternative Responses of Human Societies to the Threat of Collapse.
The presentation will be live on December 5 at 10 pm EST (New York), 2 pm AEDT (Sydney), and 6 am MSK (Moscow) at https://www.airmeet.com/e/27f07160-644a-11ed-a9d6-47ba9a728a8a. We will be using Airmeet for this presentation, which is what we used for our 2021 conference and will be using again for the 2023 IBHA conference. It is similar to Zoom in some aspects and a little different in others. When you click on the link, you will be asked for your name and email address. After you submit those, go to your email and click on the link that Airmeet automatically sends you. You will then be able to log in. Max will begin his presentation at 10 pm EST after which we can all join discussion tables.

Evolution and Social Complexity
2022-11-14 14:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom, Russian Federation
Please join us for a webinar on Evolution and Social Complexity on November 14 at 2 pm EST.
To be live then at https://youtu.be/SAJ2_EO1tmI
Organized by the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Big History in the Philippines
2022-08-20 02:00 - 04:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom, Russian Federation
San Guillermo Church and the Filipino Life:
Faith and Filipino Resiliency through the lens of Big History
Holy Angel University, Angeles City Pampanga, Philippines
What lessons can be derived from a 446-year-old church known as San Guillermo in Bacolor Pampanga in the Philippines? From its construction by the Augustinian friars in the 1500s, it was rebuilt numerous times after a series of natural disasters. Currently covered with lahar to almost half its original height, it remained a bastion of Filipino heritage, and to a greater extent, the Filipino life, resiliency and faith. After the Mt. Pinatubo eruption in 1991, many chose to go to San Guillermo through the upper windows. The locality decided to preserve the current state of the church as it signifies their strong standing faith in terms of hardships and their undying spirit to glorify the Divine Providence for His sustenance to them. As big historians, we attest that faith is tied to many aspects of a Filipino’s life. The various physical manifestations of our history also resonate who we are as human persons and as a nation. Take a peek at our rich and vibrant culture. Witness that behind a charming Filipino smile lies a Filipino warrior.
Let us hear it from a team of young and passionate students from Holy Angel University; the biggest private Catholic university in the central region of Luzon island, Philippines. Let us take a peek at their story as Angelites, as big historians, and as Filipinos.
Presenters:
Team Leader: Nikkson C. Cayanan — First Year, Bachelor of Science in Accountancy
Team Members: Chandrelle David — First Year, Bachelor of Science in Accountancy
Trisha N. Llanos — First Year, Bachelor of Science in Accountancy
Jasmine Rose D. Manansala — First Year, Bachelor of Science in Accountancy
John Aaron M. Saripe — First Year, Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
Snyrrah Nicolle Anne L. Torres — First Year, Bachelor of Science in Accountancy

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What is Big History?
Beginning about 13.8 billion years ago, the story of the past is a coherent record that includes a series of great thresholds. Beginning with the Big Bang, Big History is an evidence-based account of emergent complexity, with simpler components combining into new units with new properties and greater energy flows.
The Beginning of Space and Time in Our Universe
In the first moments after the Big Bang, the universe is thought to have been so hot and dense that matter could only exist in the form of a soup of quarks and gluons. (What explains the Big Bang itself? We still need to figure this out to our satisfaction.) As the universe expanded and cooled, matter could take on new forms, including the first protons and neutrons, followed much later by neutral atoms. Though the early universe was almost perfectly uniform, slight non-uniformities existed from the beginning, and over cosmic time gravity has enhanced those non-uniformities, pulling matter from less dense regions into more dense regions. This has produced the large-scale structure of the universe that we see today, including galaxies, galaxy clusters, and superclusters.Within galaxies, gravity causes the collapse of gas clouds to form stars, which combine atomic nuclei to produce heavier elements through nuclear fusion. Before the first stars formed, the universe contained only hydrogen, helium, and small amounts of lithium (created in the first minutes after the Big Bang, when the universe as a whole was still hot enough to sustain fusion). But massive stars create carbon, oxygen, and all manner of heavier elements through fusion all the way up to iron. When these stars run out of fuel and explode as supernovae, the huge amounts of energy released often allow for the formation of even heavier elements like gold, uranium, and others. The heavy-element-enriched gas propelled outward by a supernova mixes with pre-existing gas and dust clouds, which may then collapse under gravity’s influence to form second-generation stars. Because first-generation stars had created heavy elements, these were available for gravity to form rocky or terrestrial planets.
The Beginning of Our Solar System and Earth
The formation of our own Sun and Earth took place about 4.6 billion years ago. The Solar System is located in one of the Milky Way’s outer spiral arms, known as the Orion Arm or Local Spur. We are between 25,000 and 28,000 light years from the center of the Milky Way galaxy, which consists of a few hundred billion stars. We are traveling around that center at a rate of about 220 kilometers per second, completing one revolution every 225- 250 million years. Over the past 4.6 billion years, the Earth has seen many chapters in its own history, with changes in atmosphere, the appearance and continual reformation of land masses through plate tectonics, and many other transformations.
The Beginning and Evolution of Life
Elements and molecules on the Earth formed various combinations in a process of chemical evolution, although exactly how still eludes us. About 4 billion years ago, some of them formed membranes, gained access to additional chemicals and energy that became metabolism, and became able to reproduce with variation. What is called life then began its own highly uneven process of evolution, sometimes becoming more complex and diversified. Major transitions led to such features as cell nucleii, photosynthesis, intentional motion, multicellular specialization and cooperation, heads, backbones, four limbs, and many other features.The rise of mammals following the extinction of dinosaurs some 65 million years ago led to the emergence of hominids. Eventually Homo sapiens emerged 200,000 years ago. Bipedal, largely hairless, large- brained, and with opposable thumbs, humans developed symbolic and imaginative language, inherited a social nature, and made ethics explicit.
The Beginning and Development of Culture
Through our culture, humans shaped some of the natural forces from which we emerged. We added hunting to scavenging and gathering. Beginning about 70,000 years ago, we left our African home and migrated throughout the globe, crossing Beringia into the Americas some 20,000 years ago (though the precise date is still heavily debated). We formed bands, kinship groups, villages, chiefdoms, cities, nations, and empires. Our species crossed other major thresholds with the emergence of agricultural states, the burning of fossil fuels, and the recent entrance into an information-rich, digital era.We have fought many wars among ourselves and brought about environmental degradation and resource depletion. These and other problems threaten the quality and even survival of our species. We face a current crisis and a possible loss of complexity. Over 99% of the species that have ever existed are now extinct. No complex species is likely to survive intact for more than a few million years; we will be lucky if we survive that long.
Can Big History Help Us Now?
2015 was the warmest year since modern record-keeping began in 1880, according to a new analysis by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. 2021 joined the list of the seven warmest years on record, according to the UN weather agency, and was also the seventh consecutive year when the global temperature has been more than 1°C above pre-industrial levels; edging closer to the limit laid out under the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
Does Big History provide a narrative that can help nurture the development of the empathy and cooperation that are part of our social nature? Can humans form a more perfect human community as we continue to create a more complex society than has existed before? Or will our current levels of social complexity face inexorable demise?
The Long Term Future
Whatever the answers to these questions, any species still surviving on Earth a few billion years from now would be well-advised to hop a spaceship to another solar system. Those still on Earth will face a much hotter sun. About 5 billion years from now, the Sun will run out of hydrogen fuel in its core and will grow into a red giant, evaporating the oceans and possibly engulfing the Earth. The Sun will eventually eject its outer layers, leaving behind its core, a white dwarf that will cool and fade over trillions of years. Meanwhile, other galaxies may keep racing away from our own Local Group of galaxies, perhaps leaving us with a sky devoid of the images of distant galaxies that have contributed so much to our understanding of the universe and the cosmic context of the Earth.Have other universes already existed? Will there be more universes after ours has ended? Are there an infinite number of universes, perhaps with some even sharing our space?
We need your help to help find the evidence to answer these and many other questions – and to draw on the lessons learned to help solve our problems now.
Resources about Big History

Benjamin, Craig, Esther Quaedackers, and David Baker, co-editors. (2021) The Routledge Companion to Big History. Routledge Taylor and Francis
Brown, Cynthia Stokes (2007). Big History: From the Big Bang to the present. New York: The New Press.
Chaisson, Eric (2006). Epic of Evolution: Seven ages of the cosmos. New York: Columbia University Press.
Christian, David (2004). Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Christian, David; Craig Benjamin, and Cynthia Brown. (2014) Big History: Between Nothing and Everything. McGraw-Hill Education.
Gustafson, Lowell, Barry Rodrigue, David Blanks, co-editors. (2022) Science, Religion and Deep Time. Routledge Taylor and Francis.
Rodrigue, Barry, Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev, co-editors, From Big Bang to Galactic Civilizations: A Big History Anthology. Delhi: Primus Books, 2015–2016. Three-volumes, series ISBN: 978-93- 84082-45- 1.
Volume I, Our Place in the Universe: An Introduction to Big History. Delhi: Primus Books, 2015. ISBN 978-93- 84082-45- 1
Volume II, Education and Understanding: Big History around the World. Delhi: Primus Books, 2016. ISBN 978-93- 84082-73- 4.
Volume III, The Ways that Big History Works: Cosmos, Life, Society, and our Future. Delhi: Primus Books, 2016. ISBN 978-93- 84082-74- 1
Spier, Fred (2015). Big History and the Future of Humanity, Second Edition. Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., Malden, MA, Wiley-Blackwell.
Volk, Tyler (2017). Quarks to Culture: How We Came to Be, New York, Columbia University Press.

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The Evolution of the Universe, Life, and Humankind
2022-08-17 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom, Russian Federation
A Most Improbable Story: The Evolution of the Universe, Life, and Humankind
by Steven J. Theroux Please join us on Wednesday, August 17 at 10 am (New York time) over Zoom at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81260036126?pwd=[REDACTED] for Steven Theroux’s presentation, whose topic is also that of his just published book. His book and preseentation to us is a “Big History” of the evidence regarding how we came to be. It briefly explores philosophical thought and how our past might affect our future. The text summarizes different perspectives, including the strengths and weaknesses of each. The genesis of our planet is explored, especially the circumstances that must exist for complex life to arise. This journey highlights the history of life, the emergence of simple lifeforms, and the evolution of complex creatures, including humans. The book concludes with a discussion of why other humanoids went extinct while our species achieved dominance. The author considers potentialities awaiting humankind and our planet.This is the first “Big History” written from the perspective of a biologist.

The first “Big History” written from the perspective of a biologist
Summarizes multiple perspectives of history
Documents the unique conditions for the emergence of life
Speculates on the future

Please note that Chapter 12, which is entitled “The Genesis of Behaviorally Modern Homo sapiens. A Cognitively Advanced Human That Can Reflect Upon Its Existence”, is available to read via the open access platform established by Taylor and Francis.

Steven J. Theroux was Professor and Chair of the Natural Sciences department at Assumption University in Massachusetts. He currently teaches Genetics and Biology of Cancer at Harvard University and Assumption University
The webinar will be moderated by
Dr. Paul Narguizian
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
California State University, Los Angeles

A Most Improbable Story: The Evolution of the Universe, Life, and Humankind
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter|22 pages
Introduction
Perspective Matters, But Perspective Isn’t EverythingPart Part I|87 pages
The Making of a Habitable WorldChapter 1|18 pages
In the Beginning
The Genesis of the Universe
Chapter 2|12 pages
The Life and Death of a Star
Chapter 3|13 pages
The Milky Way
A Goldilocks Galaxy
Chapter 4|13 pages
The Galactic Cradle
Chapter 5|27 pages
The Inimitable Earth
Part Part II|175 pages
The Emergence of Life From a Lifeless World
Chapter 6|27 pages
Let There Be Life
The Rise of the Prokaryotes
Chapter 7|26 pages
Evolution
The Generator of Life’s Diversity
Chapter 8|19 pages
The Rise of the Superkingdoms
Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya
Chapter 9|12 pages
Partnering Up
The Journey From Single-Cell Eukaryotes to Multicellular Animals
Chapter 10|21 pages
The Blossoming of Terrestrial Life
Chapter 11|18 pages
The Emergence of the Genus Homo
Earth’s First Humans Come Into Being
Chapter 12|25 pages
The Genesis of Behaviorally Modern Homo sapiens
A Cognitively Advanced Human That Can Reflect Upon Its Existence
(Available for free download; please click here.)
Chapter 13|21 pages
The Future of Life on Earth
Abstract

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Steven Theroux’s Publications & Editorships

cancer biologygeneticsmolecular biology

TITLE

CITED BY

YEAR

The epidermal growth factor receptor is covalently linked to ubiquitin.
Z Galcheva-Gargova, SJ Theroux, RJ Davis
Oncogene 11 (12), 2649-2655

166
1995

Spinal muscular atrophy disrupts the interaction of ZPR1 with the SMN protein
L Gangwani, M Mikrut, S Theroux, M Sharma, RJ Davis
Nature cell biology 3 (4), 376-383

146
2001

Signaling crossroads: the function of Raf kinase inhibitory protein in cancer, the central nervous system and reproduction
J Klysik, SJ Theroux, JM Sedivy, JS Moffit, K Boekelheide
Cellular signalling 20 (1), 1-9

132
2008

The cytoplasmic zinc finger protein ZPR1 accumulates in the nucleolus of proliferating cells
Z Galcheva-Gargova, L Gangwani, KN Konstantinov, M Mikrut, …
Molecular biology of the cell 9 (10), 2963-2971

89
1998

Raf kinase inhibitory protein knockout mice: expression in the brain and olfaction deficit
S Theroux, M Pereira, KS Casten, RD Burwell, KC Yeung, JM Sedivy, …
Brain research bulletin 71 (6), 559-567

65
2007

Signal transduction by the epidermal growth factor receptor is attenuated by a COOH-terminal domain serine phosphorylation site.
SJ Theroux, DA Latour, K Stanley, DL Raden, RJ Davis
Journal of Biological Chemistry 267 (23), 16620-16626

53
1992

Gene encoding the 5.7-kilodalton chlorosome protein of Chloroflexus aurantiacus: regulated message levels and a predicted carboxy-terminal protein extension
SJ Theroux, TE Redlinger, RC Fuller, SJ Robinson
Journal of bacteriology 172 (8), 4497-4504

42
1990

Increased oncogenic potential of ErbB is associated with the loss of a COOH-terminal domain serine phosphorylation site.
SJ Theroux, C Taglienti-Sian, N Nair, JL Countaway, HL Robinson, …
Journal of Biological Chemistry 267 (12), 7967-7970

30
1992

Mutational removal of the major site of serine phosphorylation of the epidermal growth factor receptor causes potentiation of signal transduction: role of receptor down-regulation.
SJ Theroux, K Stanley, DA Campbell, RJ Davis
Molecular Endocrinology 6 (11), 1849-1857

29
1992

Rapid screening of cloned DNA fragments for specific mutations.
SJ Theroux, RJ Davis
Nucleic acids research 20 (4), 915

5
1992

Protein-tyrosine kinase activity of alternate protien products of the Drosophila Dsrc28C locus
SJ Theroux, SC Wadsworth
FEBS letters 311 (1), 1-6

3
1992

Assembly of Chlorosomes during Photosynthetic Development in Chloroflexus aurantiacus
TE Redlinger, SJ Theroux, DL Driscoll, SJ Robinson, RC Fuller
Molecular Biology of Membrane-Bound Complexes in Phototrophic Bacteria, 275-284

2
1990

The Genesis of Behaviorally Modern Homo sapiens: A Cognitively Advanced Human That Can Reflect Upon Its Existence
SJ Theroux
A Most Improbable Story

2023

A Most Improbable Story: The Evolution of the Universe, Life, and Humankind
SJ Theroux
CRC Press

2022

Grants and Awards
NIH Academic Research Enhancement Grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to study the Regulation of the EGF-Receptor
Nominated by Assumption College for the 2011 Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching U.S. Professor of the Year Award.
2013 Assumption College President’s Award for Excellence in Service
Outstanding Mentoring of Students by Junior Faculty, Assumption College, 1998

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Big History Webinar from Japan
2022-08-07 08:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom, Russian Federation
Big History Thought, Research, and Education:
The First Global Big-History Webinar from Japan
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88589622743?pwd=[REDACTED]
Host: International Big History Association (IBHA)
Co-Host: Oberlin Big History Movement (OBHM)
This event is part of the IBHA’s series of webinars and part of the OBHM’s Big History Collegium based in J.F. Oberlin University, Tokyo.
Date: Sunday August 7th 2022
Time: 21:00–24:00 in Tokyo / 7–10 AM in Quito / 8–11 AM in NY / 9 AM–12 PM in Brasilia, Buenos Aires / 1–4PM in Yaoundé / 2–5 PM in Rome, Madrid, Amsterdam / 3–6 PM in Moscow, Helsinki, Ankara / 5:30–8:30 PM in New Delhi / 7–10 PM in Ho Chi Minh City / 8–11 PM in Beijing, HK, Taipei, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore / 9 PM–12 AM in Seoul / 10 PM–1 AM in Sydney
Venue: Zoom
Language: English (No translation into Japanese)
Participation: Free and Open to All
Release: This webinar will be recorded and uploaded on the IBHA’s YouTube channel later
Moderator: Yuri MATSUZAKI (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
◯ Opening Addresses (10 mins)
From the Host (3 mins) – Daniel BARREIROS (IBHA)
From the Co-Host (3 mins) – Hirofumi KATAYAMA (OBHM)
◯ Part 1: Big History Thought (40 mins)
Talk 1 (15 mins) – Hirofumi KATAYAMA (J.F. Oberlin University) “Cosmic Humanism: Beyond Julian Huxley’s evolutionary humanism”
Talk 2 (15 mins) – Hideki IWAKI (Soka University) “Islam and Big History: Islamic Wisdom for Peace and Coexistence”
Qs & As (10 mins)
◯ Part 2: Big History Research (40 mins)
Talk 3 (15 mins) – Nobuo TSUJIMURA (Institute for Global and Cosmic Peace) “A Forgotten Big Historian: Saburo Kitagawa and his vision of Synthetic Natural History”
Talk 4 (15 mins) – Kenji ICHIKAWA (Aletheia Shonan High School) “A Little Big History of Silicon”
Qs & As (10 mins)
― Break (10 mins) ―
◯ Part 3: Big History Education (60 mins)
Talk 5 (15 mins) – Martin ROBERT (Kyoto University) “The first Big History course for STEM freshmen in Japan: Why and how?”
Film + Talk 6 (35 mins) – Satoko LEE (Society for Chimukui) “Walk 46 Kilometers along Tamagawa Aqueduct with Learning 4.6 Billion-Year Earth History”
Qs & As (10 mins)

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