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SUMMARY:The Evolution of the Universe\, Life\, and Humankind
DESCRIPTION:A Most Improbable Story: The Evolution of the Universe\, Life\, and Humankind\nby 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=NTRHVEF0Y3ROSG5Yb0l5YXpscEw2Zz09 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.\n\nThe first “Big History” written from the perspective of a biologist\nSummarizes multiple perspectives of history\nDocuments the unique conditions for the emergence of life\nSpeculates on the future\n\nPlease 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. \n\n\nSteven 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\nThe webinar will be moderated by\nDr. Paul Narguizian\nProfessor\nDepartment of Biological Sciences\nCalifornia State University\, Los Angeles \n\n\nA Most Improbable Story: The Evolution of the Universe\, Life\, and Humankind\nTABLE OF CONTENTS\nChapter|22 pages\nIntroduction\nPerspective Matters\, But Perspective Isn’t EverythingPart Part I|87 pages\nThe Making of a Habitable WorldChapter 1|18 pages\nIn the Beginning\nThe Genesis of the Universe\nChapter 2|12 pages\nThe Life and Death of a Star \nChapter 3|13 pages\nThe Milky Way\nA Goldilocks Galaxy \nChapter 4|13 pages\nThe Galactic Cradle \nChapter 5|27 pages\nThe Inimitable Earth \nPart Part II|175 pages\nThe Emergence of Life From a Lifeless World \nChapter 6|27 pages\nLet There Be Life\nThe Rise of the Prokaryotes \nChapter 7|26 pages\nEvolution\nThe Generator of Life’s Diversity \nChapter 8|19 pages\nThe Rise of the Superkingdoms\nBacteria\, Archaea\, and Eukarya \nChapter 9|12 pages\nPartnering Up\nThe Journey From Single-Cell Eukaryotes to Multicellular Animals \nChapter 10|21 pages\nThe Blossoming of Terrestrial Life \nChapter 11|18 pages\nThe Emergence of the Genus Homo\nEarth’s First Humans Come Into Being \nChapter 12|25 pages\nThe Genesis of Behaviorally Modern Homo sapiens\nA Cognitively Advanced Human That Can Reflect Upon Its Existence\n(Available for free download; please click here.) \nChapter 13|21 pages\nThe Future of Life on Earth\nAbstract \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInternational-Big History-Association is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.\nTopic: A Most Improbable Story: The Evolution of the Universe\, Life\, and Humankind\nTime: Aug 17\, 2022 10:00 Eastern Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/81260036126?pwd=NTRHVEF0Y3ROSG5Yb0l5YXpscEw2Zz09 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSteven Theroux’s Publications & Editorships\n\n\n\ncancer biologygeneticsmolecular biology\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTITLE\n\nCITED BY\n\nYEAR\n\n\n\n\nThe epidermal growth factor receptor is covalently linked to ubiquitin.\nZ Galcheva-Gargova\, SJ Theroux\, RJ Davis\nOncogene 11 (12)\, 2649-2655\n\n166\n1995\n\n\nSpinal muscular atrophy disrupts the interaction of ZPR1 with the SMN protein\nL Gangwani\, M Mikrut\, S Theroux\, M Sharma\, RJ Davis\nNature cell biology 3 (4)\, 376-383\n\n146\n2001\n\n\nSignaling crossroads: the function of Raf kinase inhibitory protein in cancer\, the central nervous system and reproduction\nJ Klysik\, SJ Theroux\, JM Sedivy\, JS Moffit\, K Boekelheide\nCellular signalling 20 (1)\, 1-9\n\n132\n2008\n\n\nThe cytoplasmic zinc finger protein ZPR1 accumulates in the nucleolus of proliferating cells\nZ Galcheva-Gargova\, L Gangwani\, KN Konstantinov\, M Mikrut\, …\nMolecular biology of the cell 9 (10)\, 2963-2971\n\n89\n1998\n\n\nRaf kinase inhibitory protein knockout mice: expression in the brain and olfaction deficit\nS Theroux\, M Pereira\, KS Casten\, RD Burwell\, KC Yeung\, JM Sedivy\, …\nBrain research bulletin 71 (6)\, 559-567\n\n65\n2007\n\n\nSignal transduction by the epidermal growth factor receptor is attenuated by a COOH-terminal domain serine phosphorylation site.\nSJ Theroux\, DA Latour\, K Stanley\, DL Raden\, RJ Davis\nJournal of Biological Chemistry 267 (23)\, 16620-16626\n\n53\n1992\n\n\nGene encoding the 5.7-kilodalton chlorosome protein of Chloroflexus aurantiacus: regulated message levels and a predicted carboxy-terminal protein extension\nSJ Theroux\, TE Redlinger\, RC Fuller\, SJ Robinson\nJournal of bacteriology 172 (8)\, 4497-4504\n\n42\n1990\n\n\nIncreased oncogenic potential of ErbB is associated with the loss of a COOH-terminal domain serine phosphorylation site.\nSJ Theroux\, C Taglienti-Sian\, N Nair\, JL Countaway\, HL Robinson\, …\nJournal of Biological Chemistry 267 (12)\, 7967-7970\n\n30\n1992\n\n\nMutational removal of the major site of serine phosphorylation of the epidermal growth factor receptor causes potentiation of signal transduction: role of receptor down-regulation.\nSJ Theroux\, K Stanley\, DA Campbell\, RJ Davis\nMolecular Endocrinology 6 (11)\, 1849-1857\n\n29\n1992\n\n\nRapid screening of cloned DNA fragments for specific mutations.\nSJ Theroux\, RJ Davis\nNucleic acids research 20 (4)\, 915\n\n5\n1992\n\n\nProtein-tyrosine kinase activity of alternate protien products of the Drosophila Dsrc28C locus\nSJ Theroux\, SC Wadsworth\nFEBS letters 311 (1)\, 1-6\n\n3\n1992\n\n\nAssembly of Chlorosomes during Photosynthetic Development in Chloroflexus aurantiacus\nTE Redlinger\, SJ Theroux\, DL Driscoll\, SJ Robinson\, RC Fuller\nMolecular Biology of Membrane-Bound Complexes in Phototrophic Bacteria\, 275-284\n\n2\n1990\n\n\nThe Genesis of Behaviorally Modern Homo sapiens: A Cognitively Advanced Human That Can Reflect Upon Its Existence\nSJ Theroux\nA Most Improbable Story\n\n\n2023\n\n\nA Most Improbable Story: The Evolution of the Universe\, Life\, and Humankind\nSJ Theroux\nCRC Press\n\n\n2022\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nGrants and Awards\nNIH Academic Research Enhancement Grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to study the Regulation of the EGF-Receptor \nNominated by Assumption College for the 2011 Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching U.S. Professor of the Year Award. \n2013 Assumption College President’s Award for Excellence in Service \nOutstanding Mentoring of Students by Junior Faculty\, Assumption College\, 1998 \n\n\n\nMembers of the IBHA are committed to the widest possible availability of this presentation; it is open at no cost to all over Zoom. To support the programing of the IBHA and participate in our association\, please consider joining and in making a donation.
URL:https://bighistory.org/event/the-evolution-of-the-universe-life-and-humankind/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Russian Federation
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SUMMARY:Big History in the Philippines
DESCRIPTION:San Guillermo Church and the Filipino Life:\n Faith and Filipino Resiliency through the lens of Big History \nHoly Angel University\, Angeles City Pampanga\, Philippines \nWhat 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. \nLet 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. \nPresenters: \nTeam Leader:    Nikkson C.  Cayanan — First Year\, Bachelor of Science in Accountancy \nTeam Members:  Chandrelle David — First Year\, Bachelor of Science in Accountancy\nTrisha N.  Llanos — First Year\, Bachelor of Science in Accountancy\nJasmine Rose D.  Manansala — First Year\, Bachelor of Science in Accountancy\nJohn Aaron M. Saripe — First Year\, Bachelor of Arts in Psychology\nSnyrrah Nicolle Anne L.  Torres — First Year\, Bachelor of Science in Accountancy \n\n\n\n\n\nInternational-Big History-Association is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.\nTopic: San Guillermo Church and the Filipino Life\nTime: Aug 20\, 2022; 2 pm Philippine time; 02:00 Eastern Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/85952101545 \n  \n  \n\n\n\nWhat is Big History?\nBeginning 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. \nThe Beginning of Space and Time in Our Universe\nIn 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. \nThe Beginning of Our Solar System and Earth\nThe 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. \nThe Beginning and Evolution of Life\nElements 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. \nThe Beginning and Development of Culture\nThrough 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. \nCan Big History Help Us Now?\n2015 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. \nDoes 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? \nThe Long Term Future\nWhatever 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? \nWe 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. \nResources about Big History\n\nBenjamin\, Craig\, Esther Quaedackers\, and David Baker\, co-editors. (2021) The Routledge Companion to Big History. Routledge Taylor and Francis\nBrown\, Cynthia Stokes (2007). Big History: From the Big Bang to the present. New York: The New Press.\nChaisson\, Eric (2006). Epic of Evolution: Seven ages of the cosmos. New York: Columbia University Press.\nChristian\, David (2004). Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History. Berkeley: University of California Press.\nChristian\, David; Craig Benjamin\, and Cynthia Brown. (2014) Big History: Between Nothing and Everything. McGraw-Hill Education.\nGustafson\, Lowell\, Barry Rodrigue\, David Blanks\, co-editors. (2022) Science\, Religion and Deep Time. Routledge Taylor and Francis.\nRodrigue\, 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.\n     Volume I\, Our Place in the Universe: An Introduction to Big History. Delhi: Primus Books\, 2015. ISBN 978-93- 84082-45- 1\n     Volume II\, Education and Understanding: Big History around the World. Delhi: Primus Books\, 2016. ISBN 978-93- 84082-73- 4.\n     Volume III\, The Ways that Big History Works: Cosmos\, Life\, Society\, and our Future. Delhi: Primus Books\, 2016. ISBN 978-93- 84082-74- 1\nSpier\, Fred (2015). Big History and the Future of Humanity\, Second Edition. Chichester\, West Sussex\, U.K.\, Malden\, MA\, Wiley-Blackwell.\nVolk\, Tyler (2017). Quarks to Culture: How We Came to Be\, New York\, Columbia University Press.\n\n\n\n\nFor more information\, including becoming an IBHA member\, please visit us at https://bighistory.org/
URL:https://bighistory.org/event/big-history-in-the-philippines/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Russian Federation
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SUMMARY:Evolution and Social Complexity
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a webinar on Evolution and Social Complexity on November 14 at 2 pm EST. \nTo be live then at https://youtu.be/SAJ2_EO1tmI \n Organized by the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
URL:https://bighistory.org/event/evolution-and-social-complexity/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Russian Federation
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SUMMARY:Energy: The Currency of the universe?
DESCRIPTION: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. \n 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.  \nThe 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.
URL:https://bighistory.org/event/energy-the-currency-of-the-universe/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Russian Federation
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SUMMARY:Philippine - Asian Big History Conference
DESCRIPTION:Please find attached the program flow for the upcoming International Big History Conference\, the poster\, and the registration link for dissemination\nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdTCLzJqIF6g2JzMtZoOWH6Nwm9Fe984IbmDe2AHvpOgCljNg/viewform
URL:https://bighistory.org/event/philippine-asian-big-history-conference/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Russian Federation
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Everybody's Story
DESCRIPTION:Ursula Goodenough will tell us Everybody’s Story\, which is central to the just released second edition of her book:\nThe Sacred Depths of Nature\nHow Life Has Emerged and Evolved\nHer presentation and book provide accurate\, accessible\, and poetic accounts of the emergence and evolution of life.\nThey lift up the synergies between a religious naturalist orientation and traditional and indigenous religions.\nThey suggest ways to explore these accounts for their religious potential along interpretive\, spiritual\, and moral/ethical axes.\nThey explore ecomorality and introduce a deeper emphasis on human evolution and the environment. \nThe 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. \n“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.” \nDavid Christian History\, Macquarie University\, author of Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
URL:https://bighistory.org/event/everybodys-story/
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SUMMARY:UTOK Consilience Conference 2023
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://bighistory.org/event/utok-consilience-conference-2023/
CATEGORIES:Conference,Zoom
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SUMMARY:Chat Room\, 3/29\, 9 am est
DESCRIPTION: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!\n\nThe links to attend the meetings are below.\nHope to see you there.\nThe IBHA Board\nhttps://www.airmeet.com/e/abb80f90-afa3-11ed-8ced-2f1595423c83 \, 9 am EST (Host: Daniel de Pinho Barreiros)\nhttps://www.airmeet.com/e/ce0bbf00-afae-11ed-a696-b1b07624da35  9 pm est (Host: Dave LePoire)\n\nIf you are not sure what time that is for you\, you can use tools like the Time Zone Calculator to find out.
URL:https://bighistory.org/event/chat-room-3-29-9-am-est/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Russian Federation
CATEGORIES:Chat
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SUMMARY:IBHA Chat\,  3/29\, 9 pm est
DESCRIPTION: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!\n\nThe links to attend the meetings are below.\nHope to see you there.\nThe IBHA Board\n\n\nhttps://www.airmeet.com/e/abb80f90-afa3-11ed-8ced-2f1595423c83 \, 9 am EST (Host: Daniel de Pinho Barreiros)\nhttps://www.airmeet.com/e/ce0bbf00-afae-11ed-a696-b1b07624da35  9 pm est (Host: Dave LePoire)\n\n\nIf you are not sure what time that is for you\, you can use tools like the Time Zone Calculator to find out.
URL:https://bighistory.org/event/ibha-chat-3-29-9-pm-est/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Russian Federation
CATEGORIES:Chat
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SUMMARY:Complexity: Big History Studies from Russia
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://bighistory.org/event/complexity-big-history-studies-from-russia/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Russian Federation
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:Complexity: Big History Studies from Russia
DESCRIPTION: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.\n \nRegistration: 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.
URL:https://bighistory.org/event/complexity-big-history-studies-from-russia-2/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Russian Federation
CATEGORIES:Event Category One,Webinar,Zoom
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SUMMARY:2023 IBHA Conference
DESCRIPTION:Link to Airmeet site\, home of the conference.\nConference 2023 Information \nThe 2023 IBHA Conference Theme on\nHumanity on a Finite Planet: A Big History Perspective\nThe 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. \nAt 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. \nWe 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. \nHowever\, 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. \nWhere 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.
URL:https://bighistory.org/event/2023-ibha-conference/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240628
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SUMMARY:2024 IBHA Conference
DESCRIPTION:We look forward to seeing you in person at our 2024 conference from June 28 to 30\, where we can discuss all of our latest work on the cosmos\, Earth\, life\, humanity – as well as exoplanets\, astrobiology\, the multitude of life forms\, culture\, and the potential of a multiverse – throughout all of the known past as well as in what we might reasonably expect in the future. \nWe have in the past met in an entirely on-line conference (2023)\, a hybrid on-line / in-person conference in India (2021)\, and in-person conferences in Pennsylvania (US\, 2018)\, the Netherlands (2016)\, California (US\, 2014)\, and Michigan (US 2012). \nThe center of North America is another great place to discuss big history. The geology of Oklahoma is formed by Carboniferous rocks in the east\, Permian rocks in the center and towards the west\, and a cover of Tertiary deposits in the panhandle to the west. The panhandle of Oklahoma is also noted for its Jurassic rocks as well. Cretaceous sediments are found in the south east. There are also some areas with older outcrops dating back to Cambrian\, and even one area of Precambrian igneous rocks. The Great Salt Plains are the remains of an ancient inland sea. The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is a world class\, state-of-the-art natural history museum with wings about flora and fauna\, the evolution of life\, and the peoples of Oklahoma from precolumbian times to the present. The First Americans Museum presents the many nations of Oklahoma.  The Oklahoma City Science Museum\, Museum of Art\, Zoo\, and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum\, add more opportunities. And have fun at the Hurricane Harbor Water Park! \nThe conference will take place at the beautiful and well equipped NCED Conference Center & Hotel\, which is just 3 miles from the heart of the University of Oklahoma campus. It has a 60\,000 square foot fitness center with unique amenities including 4\,000 square foot weight and cardio room and heated pool. Rooms are reasonably priced at $114 per night\, which includes breakfast. The conference fee will be $325\, which includes a Friday welcome reception\, as well as lunches on Friday\, Saturday\, and Sunday. \nMost importantly\, we will all have the opportunity to present\, discuss\, and listen to each other’s work on the fascinating field of big history\, reconnect with old friends and meet new ones! \nA call for papers and registration information are forthcoming\, but be sure now to put this on your calendar!
URL:https://bighistory.org/event/2024-ibha-conference/
LOCATION:NCED Hotel & Conference Center\, 2801 East State Highway 9\, Norman\, Oklahoma\, 73071
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Free Webinar: August 21\, 2024.  Big History Systems Evolution
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Evolutionary mechanisms enabled humans to irreversibly transform Earth systems\, culminating in the present-day\, globally connected\, system of Anthropocene systems. Because Anthropocene systems are highly interdependent and dynamically evolving\, often with accelerating rates of cultural and technological evolution\, the ensuing family of societal challenges (e.g.\, climate change and impacts\, renewable energy\, adaptive infrastructure\, disasters\, pandemics\, food insecurity\, biodiversity loss\, sustainability\, resilience and equity) must be framed and addressed in an integrated manner. To catalyze the required societal transformations\, an evolutionary\, system-of-systems (evoSoS) convergence paradigm is needed to coordinate strategic interventions across multiple systems and scales. The new paradigm requires a major transformation in our approach to science and engineering and includes an evoSoS computational framework\, evoSoS decision-support system and evoSoS pedagogy. A new generation of Anthropocene systems integrators is needed to create a meta-discipline that spans all the disciplines associated with societal challenges of the Anthropocene. \nBio: John Little received a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cape Town and an MS and PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of California\, Berkeley. He is currently the Charles E. Via\, Jr. Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg\, Virginia. His earlier research focused on process dynamics in environmental systems but has now broadened to Anthropocene systems. John has been a visiting professor at University of Sydney\, Australia\, Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)\, Switzerland\, Tsinghua University\, China\, National Cheng Kung University\, Taiwan\, University of Granada\, Spain\, Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment\, France\, and University of La Rochelle\, France.
URL:https://bighistory.org/event/free-webinar-august-21-2024/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Jan 20\, noon ET: Exploring Energy Rate Density
DESCRIPTION:Please join us! \nWebinar: Tuesday\, Jan 20\, Noon ET \nExploring Energy Rate Density as a \nQuantitative Complexity Metric \nMartin van Duin \nZoom Link:  https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89923901081?pwd=BRDfjPcNo1AUmeGMHUJZIIguAIcPzl.1
URL:https://bighistory.org/event/webinar-jan-20-noon-et-exploring-energy-rate-density/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260201T150000
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SUMMARY:Teaching a Big History of Iron: Building and Running a Cross Disciplinary Course
DESCRIPTION:Iron is at the heart of so much big history. Massive stars fuse hydrogen and helium into heavier elements\, until they begin to form iron\, at which point a supernova explodes. Along with all the other elements\, iron is burst out into space\, where\, in our case\, it was added to the accretions that formed Earth. Much of it sunk deep into the Earth\, providing a magnetic shield that protects us from solar winds. Some of it rusted into beautiful bands of rock that can be enjoyed in many geological sites like the US Painted Desert. It is crucial in how our blood transmits oxygen throughout the body. It has been central to the building of skyscrapers\, bridges\, and much more.This webinar will discuss our experience designing and teaching a Big History of Iron course listed across four disciplines: History\, Biology\, Anthropology\, and Geology\, and taught in four coordinated sections at Jacksonville State University\, in Alabama\, USA. We will begin by outlining the administrative and institutional groundwork required to create and approve a genuinely cross disciplinary course\, including coordination across departments and course listing within the university. We will then turn to the practical execution of the course itself\, discussing course structure\, shared themes\, coordination among instructors\, relevant local sites we visited as a class\, and what worked\, as well as what we learned\, in teaching Big History collaboratively across the natural sciences\, social sciences\, and humanities.Presented by:Dr. Helen Kaibara-HistoryDr. Jimmy Triplett-BiologyDr. Kathryn Catlin-AnthropologyDr. Ross Martin-GeologyZoom link forthcomingThe image is of a Toluca iron meteorite (coarse octahedrite\, class IA). Toluca is a group of iron meteorites found in Jiquipilco\, Mexico near Toluca. The meteorites probably crashed into Earth more than 10\,000 years ago. For centuries\, Mexican people living near the meteorites used them as a source of metal for various tools. They were first described by conquistadores in about 1776. The total known mass is about 3 tons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toluca_(meteorite)
URL:https://bighistory.org/event/teaching-a-big-history-of-iron-building-and-running-a-cross-disciplinary-course/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Russian Federation
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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