Morning General Session

Special Focus Session 1

Special Focus Session 2

Evening Theme Session

8:-8:45  (2-20 min)

Russ Genet – Humanity: The

Chimpanzees Who Would Be Ants

Craig Benjamin –  “The Convergence of Logic, Faith, and Values in the Modern Creation Myth”

10:00-11:20

 “Teaching Big History at the College/University Level”
Cynthia Brown - Chair

Jacquelyn Miller
Alan Wood

     "Global Systems History"

11:40-1:00

 “The Evolution of Religion: "Engaging the outcomes of the 2007 conference"   (Discussion)

Joseph Bulbulia – Chair

Michael Murray,

Jeff Schloss,

Bill Irons

7:30-8:10

Walter Alvarez – “The Character of Big history – A Geological Perspective”

8:45-9:30  (2-20 min)

Cynthia Brown – “Why Don't More Historians Teach Big History?”

Drew Delinger – “ The Poetic Cosmos”

8:20 – 9:00

David Christian – “Some Enchanted Evening: History and Science after the Chronometric Revolution”

Morning General Session

Special Focus Session 1

Special Focus Session 2

Evening Theme Session

8:00-8:45  (2-20 min)

John Irwin

“Following the Energy and Entropy”

Richard Coren

“The Law of Entropy and Information in Evolution”

10:00-11:00

“Critical Thresholds in Human Evolution: From Ape to Artist”

Nick Toth & Kathy Schick - Chairs

Bruce Latimer
Rebecca Cann

Henry Corning

Alan Almquist

Paul Wason
Glenda Griffin

11:10-1:00

“Critical Thresholds”  Continued

7:30-8:10

Carlos Camargo – “Fire and Civilization”

8:45-9:30  (2-20 min)

Nick Toth & Kathy Schick – “Techno-organic Evolution: Human Origins, Technological Innovation, and our Biological-Behavioral Synergy

4:00 pm and 9:00 pm

“Entheogenesis: Awakening the Divine Within”  - special film screening
Rodd Mann  

5:30-6:15  (During Social Time)

Special tool demonstration by Kathy Schick and Nick Toth

8: 20 – 9:00

Stephen Sass – “The Substance of Civilization: Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon”

Morning General Session 1

Morning General Session 2

Morning General Session 3

Evening Theme Session

8:00-8:45  (2-20 min)

Cheryl Genet –  “Science and the Human Spirit

Todd Duncan – “Our Cosmic Context”

10:00-11:10 (3-20 min)

Jack & Linda Palmer – “Transcending Cultural Indoctrination: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff”

Jerome Feldman - "Conversations in Heaven: Council houses and Oratory in Nias, Indonesia and Samoa".

Rob Duisberg – “Toward an Information Morality: Imperatives Derived from a Statistical Mechanics of Meaning”

11:30-1:00  (4-20 min)

Gary Moring  - “Quantum Psychology – Bridging Science and Spirit”

Sheri Ritchlin – “Eastern Sages and the Western Epic: Viewing Cosmos with Both Hemispheres of the Global Brain”

Jeff Jenkins – “Alchemical Ritual Evocation of the Epic of Evolution in our Cellular and Psychic Memory”

Winslow Myers – “Already Living: An Artist’s Perspective on the Evolution of the Human” (leaving on 8^th)

7:30-8:10

John Mears

“Implications of the Evolutionary Epic for our Understanding of Human History”

8:45-9:30  (2-20 min)

Trileigh Tucker – “Contemplatio Ad Amorem Naturae: Contemplative practice in Ecozoic Education

Pauline Le Bel – “Bringing the Universe Story Home”

4:00-5:30

“Islands of Sustainability Panel”

Marc Gilbert – Moderator

Aimee Blom, Dana Beatty, Jon Davidann, Phyllis Frus, Leilani Madison, Carri Morgan, Arthur Whatley

5:30-6:15  (During Social Time)

Pauline Le Bel

8: 20 – 9:00

Chris Corbally  - “An Astronomer’s Faith within an Evolutionary Cosmos”

Morning General Session 1

Morning General Session 2

Special Focus Session 2

Closing Session

8:00-8:45  (2-20 min)

Paul Harris – “Cosmic Epics and Global Ethics: Evolution, Complexity, and Cooperation:

Gregory Mengel – ”The Future is and is not the Past: Ecology of Meaning in an Expanding Universe

10:00-11:10 (3-20 min)

Louis Herman - "Future Primal: An Old-New Politics for Evolving Humanity"

Jane Bramadat  - “Cultural and Religious Evolution”

Fernando Castrillon – “Digital Teleologies, Imperial Threshold Machinic Assemblages , and the Colonization of the Cosmos: A Post- Structuralist Interpretation of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey”

11:30-1:00

“The Evolutionary Epic: Opportunities for Cosmocentric Catholic Doctrine and Practice”

Peter Hess & Linda Gibler - Chairs

Linda Gibler – "Listening to the Voice of the Earth: A Catholic Perspective”

Chris Corbally

Cheryl Genet

Lelani Madison

7:30-7:50

Dwight Collins  -

“The Epic, Sustainability, and the Future”

8:00-8:40

Peter Hess – “Theological Problems and Promises of an Evolutionary Paradigm”

8:45-9:30  (2 20 min)

Josephina Burgos – “The Role of Imagination in the Process of Evolution”

John Wilkinson -  "Beyond Machines: Metaphor in Biology"

8:40-9:00

Pauline Le Bel

“Aloha and the Universe Story”

9:00-9:15

Closing

Cheryl and Russ Genet