The IBHA Members' Newsletters highlight the many activities, projects, and reflections that IBHA members have on Big History.
In Volume III Number 8 of the International Big History Association Newsletter, we are pleased to highlight:
- the recent publication of Big History: Between Nothing and Everything,
- the First Big History Student Research Conference,
- the IBHA Board Elections,
- Teaching Big History,
- The Universe Verse Kickstarter Campaign, and the
- Call for Papers: 2014 IBHA Conference.
Volume III Number 7 highlights Joseph Voros’ review of Al Gore’s book, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change,
notice of the 2014 IBHA Conference at Dominican University of California,
and the highly anticipated first edition of Big History: Between Nothing and Everything
by David Christian, Craig Benjamin, and Cynthia Brown!
Volume III Number 6 highlights:
the work of Barry Rodrigue, the IBHA International Coordinator, with East Asian scholars (on pages 1 - 10),
an essay on "Big History and Big Politics" by Lowell Gustafson, who is the IBHA Secretary (pages 11 - 24),
the Students’ Big History Research Conference at the University of Amsterdam in June (pages 25-26),
the August 2014 IBHA Conference at the Dominican University of California (page 27),
and the highly anticipated first edition of Big History: Between Nothing and Everything by David Christian, Craig Benjamin, and Cynthia Brown, available August 30, 2013 (page 28)!
Volume III Number 5 highlights the Big History program at the Institute of World and
Global History, Ewha Womans University and its director, Seohyung Kim,
Melanie Aranka Dominique During’s painting, “Eye Catcher,”
Michael and D’Neil Duffy’s piece on the IBHA for Montessori Life,
Craig Benjamin address to award winning GVSU stiudents and faculty,
and the forthcoming text from McGraw-Hill: Big History: Between Nothing and Everything!
Volume III Number 4 highlights IBHA Board Member, Walter Alvarez of the University of California, Berkeley (pp 1-5).
Roland Saekow gave presentations on ChronoZoom in China (p 6).
Dana Visalli has taught Big History in Afghanistan (pp 7-9).
Metanexus is sponsoring the One Day Universe (p 10) and
IBHA member Jennifer Morgan gave the keynote address, telling the Big History story to the American Montessori Conference attended by 3,000 (pp 11-12).
Volume III Number 3 features an essay on sustainability in China by Sun Yue (pp. 1- 4),
two book reviews by Cynthia Brown (p. 5),
notices of Metanexus’ One Day Universe ( p. 6),
a new book by Akop P. Nazaretyan(pp. 7-9),
a collage of images presented by Leslye Allen of a Grand Valley State University Big History trip (pp. 10-20 ),
and the Graduate Student Big History Research Conference (p. 21).
Volume III Number 2 highlights one of the pioneers of Big History, Dr. John A. Mears of Southern Methodist University, the Big History Summer Institute, held each year at Dominican University of California, and concludes with a reminder about the First Students’ Big History Research Conference and a conference wrap - up session montage put together by Leslye Allen.
Volume III Number 1 highlights Sun Yue of the Global History Center at Capital Normal University in Beijing, China and Melanie During, who studies Big History at the University of Amsterdam,
Volume II Number 9 highlights Neal Wolfe of Dominican University of California and Constance van Hall and the Big History program at Roland Holst School in Hilversum in the Netherlands.
Volume II Number 8 highlights Ken Gilbert and Tracy Sullivan.
Volume II Number 7 highlights Cathy McGowan Russell's work on "Generous Genes and Teaching the Big History of Life" as well as reflections by David Christian and Fred Spier on our inaugural conference in Michigan last month. We have a few of the wonderful pictures of the conference taken by Nathan Everett. Please note the call for papers from The International Society for the Study of Time for its Fifteenth Triennial Conference on "Time and Trace," June 30 - July 6, 2013. And we conclude with a chance to order IBHA t-shirts.
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Volume II Number 6 highlights the timespirals of IBHA member Karen Kudebeh and the forthcoming volume, From Big Bang to Global Civilization: A Big History Anthology, co-edited by Barry Rodrigue, Leonid Grinnin, and Andrey Korotayev, to be published in 2013 by the University of California Press.
Volume II Number 5 highlights information about the August IBHA conference and the first in a series on graduate study of Big History, featuring David Baker.
Volume II Number 4 begins with a note from our President, David Christian. We follow this with a piece on the newly launched, revised version of Chronozoom, information about the August 2012 IBHA conference, and conclude with a note on IBHA member Connie Barlow.
Volume II Number 3 features Russell M. Genet of California Polytechnic State University and Cuesta College, and an Interview with William Grassie, the founder of the Metanexus Institute
Volume II Number 2 highlights The Stone Age Institute of Indiana University, Bllomington, IN and Nicholas Toth and Kathy Schick.
Volume II Number 1 highlights the First Year Experience in Big History program at Dominican University of California
Volume I Number 6 highlights Michael Duffy, D’Neil Duffy, Jennifer Morgan, and James Lu Dunbar.
Volume I Number 5 highlights Eric J. Chaisson and Nobuo Palette Tsujimura.
Volume I Number 4 highlights Cameron Gibelyou and Barry Wood.
Volume I Number 3 highlights the Center in Moscow for the study of Big History and Systems Forecasting as a part of the Institute of Oriental Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences).
Volume I Number 2 highlights IBHA member Erika Gronek, children's Big History book author.
Volume I Number 1 of the newsletter highlights Lawrence A. Husick.