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From the Winter 2026 IBHA Emergence Newsletter If there were ever a candidate for the most unlikely hero in Big History, it might be the neutrino. Neutrinos are famously elusive. They have an incredibly small [...]

  Congratulations to David Christian for being the Top Influential Historian (2010-2020). AI did the data collection and analysis based on criteria set by Academic Influence. (And Honorable Mention in History for Andrey Korotayev)

The Winter 2026 IBHA Emergence Newsletter has been published. In it you will find: New Directions Symposium recordings and synopsis (by Lucy Laffitte) Recent webinar video recording and a new Big History playlist Networking: IBHA Groups, ISSS, Congratulations to David Christian Highlights of [...]

Recorded Video: https://youtu.be/LG5IrN_AQZU Webinar: Tuesday, Jan 20, Noon ET Exploring Energy Rate Density as a Quantitative Complexity Metric Martin van Duin

On November 5, 2025, the International Big History Association was pleased to host a webinar by Sabin Roman, of the Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge, [...]

Join us to learn more about collapse of complex societies! Modeling the Collapse of Complex Societies We invite you to the webinar that will be held via Zoom on Wednesday, November 5th, at noon ET [...]

We invite you to view videos about big history that are available on the IBHA YouTube Channel.

Mary Evelyn Tucker, the Co-Director of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, presents a keynote address on Ecological Civilization and Traditional Chinese Thought at the 2024 International Big History Conference.

Forthcoming Issue on Asia and Big History in the Journal of Big History: https://jbh.journals.villanova.edu/