Please click here for the program for the 2012 Inaugural Conference of the IBHA. Please click here for a picture of (almost) all the conference participants.
“The Lucky Little Seaweed”: A Big History Parable by Mark McMenamin (edited by Connie Barlow)
Full script downloadable at: http://thegreatstory.org/seaweed.pdf
More downloadable parables at: http://thegreatstory.org/parables.html
David Christian: Collective Learning: Why the Anthropocene Matters.
Annaliese Dempsey: Understanding Colonialism
Michael and D’Neil Duffy: Cosmic Education & Big History
Todd Duncan: Beyond Big History – The value of a cosmic perspective, a narrative version
Melanie During: Geology driving evolution.
Bree Faulkenberg: Thresholds of Time http://www.csusmhistory.org/faulk006/
Robert Foxcurran: Northern Borders
Cameron Gibelyou: Big History and Synthetic Thinking
Ken Gilbert: The Universal Breakthroughs of Big History, text for powerpoint
Sergey Grinchenko: On Periodization of the Humankind History, Big History – problems of teaching
Lowell Gustafson: Big Religion.
Brandon Hendrickson & Lee Rottweiler: Big Spiral History
Bradley Layton: Mechanoevolution: An Examination of the Coevolution of Humans and Technology
Jeremy Lent: The Tyranny of the Prefontal Cortex, blog
Esther Quaedackers: A(nother) Little Big History of Tiananmen
Anne-Marie Poorthuis: In relationship with everything
Duncan Blake Ross: Big History, Pedagogy & Third Culture: A Student’s Perspective
Julia Scherbina: Evolsch: evolution is the logical core of this teaching system + model of school education, http://www.evolscheducation.com/en
Tracy Sullivan: Big History and the Secondary Classroom: A 21st Century Approach to Interdsiciplinarity?
Jim Tierney: Focusing: Where Do We Go From Here?
Joseph Voros: "Galactic-scale macro-engineering: looking for signs of other intelligent species, as an exercise in hope for our own", http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/229556
--- "Complexity + consciousness: a model of Big History based on self-organising complexity, incorporating consciousness", http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/229485
--- "An 'expanding text-iverse' approach to Big History learning and teaching materials", http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/229528
Erika Gronek: And Then There Was You