Morning Keynote

Information Theory and Complexity in Social Evolution

Kyle Harper

Panel One

Measuring Complexity
Ken Solis

Object-oriented ontology and Big History: how do the cosmos, the Earth, life and humanity become “one”?
Daniel Barreiros

Panel Two

What Can Big History Learn from the Dark Matter Problem?
Todd Duncan

The Anthropocene and Big History as a Historical Paradigm
Bernardo Sá

Panel Three

What kind of Universe Do You Want?

Dave LePoire

Agent-based modelling methodologies for the analysis of complex ancient trade systems
Gabriel Ribeiro

Panel Four

Unifying Big History into one science by means of Macrocosmic Quantum Theory
Carl Johan Calleman

Deepening of the World-System Crisis and its potential impact on Destabilization and Environmental Degradation
Anton Grinin

Panel Five

Evolution and Chaos Theory
Nick Hoggard

Social strategies as a response to climate change in 14th Century England and the origins of capitalism
Daniel Vainfas

Panel Six

Exploring energy rate density as a quantitative complexity metric in a big history context
Martin van Duin

Property, exchange and human evolution: an investigation through the lenses of big history
Heitor Groisman

Panel Seven

Complexity Growth Patterns in the Stelliferous Era of Big History. Preliminary Observations
Andrey Korotayev

The Pattern of Agrarian Civilization Survivorship and Its Consequences
Antony Harper

Panel Eight

Emergence of Life: Importance of Formation of Organic Molecules of Life
Sohan Jheeta

Historical evolution: mechanisms, concepts and time
Ernesto Lopez