INAUGURAL SPEAKER
BRIAN SWIMME - Prof of
Mathematical and
Evolutionary Cosmology, California Institute for Integral Studies
Co-author with Thomas Berry of "The Universe Story"
LUAU SPEAKERS
JOEL PRIMACK (Physics) and
NANCY ABRAMS (Lecturer)- University
of California, Santa Cruz
Co -Authors of "The View from the Center of the Universe"
ALOHA BANQUET
SPEAKER
PETER HESS - Director Faith Project National Center for
Science Education
"Theological Problems and Promises of an
Evolutionary Paradigm"
General and Special Focus Speakers
See Special Focus
page for complete listing of discussion and panel sessions and
participants
See Detailed Agenda page for
conference presentation schedule
Click on names that are underlined below to see personal bio
Walter
Alvarez - Professor of Geology University of California Berkeley
"The Character of Big
History: A Geological Perspective"
Alan Almquist,
Anthropologist, California State University, Hayward.
“Human Origins and Human
Education: Communicating Palaeoanthropology to
Students and the Public”
Rebecca Cann, Anthropologist and human geneticist, University of
Hawaii, Manoa.
“DNA and Divergence: The Molecular
Evidence for Human Origins”
Craig Benjamin - Assistant Professor of History Grand Valley
State University, Grand Rapids MI
“The Convergence of Logic Faith and Values
in the Modern Creation Myth”
Jane Bramadat - Minister First Unitarian Universalist
Church of Victoria, Canada
"Cultural and Religious
Evolution in Particular"
Cynthia
Brown - Professor of History Dominican University of California
San Rafael
“Accounts of the Whole Story Since 1990: A
Look at the Genre”
Joseph Bulbulia - Professor of Religious Studies Victoria
University, Wellington New Zealand
"Where Insight Lies:
Evolution, Self-Deception, and the Prospects for Wisdom"
Josephina Burgos - California Institute for Integral Studies
"The Role of Imagination in the
Process of Evolution"
Carlos Camargo -
Emeritus Clinical Professor Of Medicine, Stanford University School of
Medicine
" Fire and Civilization"
Fernando Castrillon - California Institute for Integral Studies
"Digital Teleologies, Imperial
Threshold Machinic Assemblages and the Colonization of the Cosmos: A
Post-
Structuralist Interpretation of
Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey"
David
Christian - Professor of History California State
University, San Diego
"History Complexity and the
Chronometric Revolution"
Chris
Corbally - Astronomy, Vice Director- Vatican
Observatory, Tucson AZ
“An Astronomer’s Faith within an
Evolutionary Cosmos”
Dwight
Collins - Pres., Collins Family Foundation;
Prof., Sustainable Ops Mngnt, Presidio School of Mngnt,
"The Epic,
Sustainability, and the Future"
Richard
Coren - Emeritus Professor Electrical and Computer
Engineering Drexel University of Pennsylvania
“The Law of Entropy and Information in
Evolution”
Henry
Corning, Artist and sculptor, Corte Madera, California.
“Symbols in Stone, Bone, and
Clay: The Beginnings of Art”
Drew
Delinger - John F. Kennedy University – Social Ecology
“The Poetic Cosmos”
Robert Duisberg - UIEvolution - Senior Research Engingeer
"Toward an Information Morality:
Imperatives Derived from a Statistical Mechanics of Meaning
Todd Duncan - Pacific
University
"Our Cosmic Context"
Jerome
Feldman -
Professor of Art History, Hawaii Pacific University
"Conversations in Heaven: Council
houses and Oratory in Nias, Indonesia and Samoa".
Cheryl
Genet -
Professor of Philosophy, Cuesta College; Director, Orion Institute
“Science and the Human Spirit”
Russell
Genet - Professor of Astronomy and Cosmic
Evolution Cuesta College; Director, Orion Observatory
San Luis Obispo, CA
“Humanity: The Chimpanzees Who Would
Be Ants”
Linda Gibler - Dominican Sister, California Institute for Integral
Studies graduate
"Listening to the Voice of the Earth:
A Catholic Perspective"
Marc Gilbert - National Endowment for the
Humanities Endowed Chair/World History, Hawaii Pacific University
“The Devolution of Revolution: The
Shrinking World of Human Political Change”
Paul
Harris –
Prof. of English - Loyola Marymount University; President, Int. Society
for the Study of Time
"Cosmic Epics and Global Ethics: Evolution, Complexity and
Cooperation”
Louis Herman - Professor of Politics, University of Hawaii
"Future
Primal: An Old-New Politics for Evolving Humanity"
Peter Hess
- Faith Project Director for the National Center for Science
Education (NCSE)
"Theological
Problems and Promises of an Evolutionary Paradigm"
John Irwin - Stanford Linear Accelerator Collider
"Following the Energy and Entropy"
Jeff Jenkins -
California Institute for Integral Studies
"Alchemical Ritual Evocation of the Epic of
Evolution in our Cellular and Psychic Memory"
Bruce Latimer - Human paleontologist, Director, Cleveland Museum of
Natural History.
“Upstanding Apes: The Rise of Bipedalism
and the Hominid Lineage”
Pauline Le Bel -
Screenwriter, novelist, songwriter, and playwright
"“Bringing the Universe Story Home”
Rod Mann - Managing
Director, CMP Group, Inc.
"Entheogenesis: Awakening the Divine Within
John Mears - Associate Professor of History Southern Methodist
University
“Implications of the Evolutionary Epic for
our Understanding of Human History”
Gregory Mengel - California Institute for Integral Studies
"The Future is and is not the Past: The
Ecology of Meaning in an Expanding Universe"
Jacquelyn Miller -
Associate
Provost of Academic Affairs and Associate Professor, Seattle University
Presenting in Big History Special Focus Session
Gary Moring -
California Institute of Integral Studies
"Quantum Psychology-Bridging Science and
Spirit"
Winslow Myers -
Retired Instructor - Bancroft School, Assumption College / Rhode Island
School of Design
"Already Living: An Artist's Perspective on
the Evolution of the Human"
Jack Palmer and
Linda
Palmer
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Jack
- Professor of Psychology, University of Louisiana at Monroe; Linda –
psychology researcher and writer/editor, Jiva Institute
“Transcending
Cultural Indoctrination: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff”
Sheri Ritchlin - California Institute for Integral Studies
"Eastern Sages and the Western Epic:
Viewing Cosmos with Both Hemispheres of the Global Brain"
Stephen Sass - Professor, Materials Science and Engineering;
Cornell University
"The Substance of Civilization: Materials
and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon"
Kathy Schick and Nick Toth -
Profs. of
Anthropology / Cognitive Science / Indiana University;
Co-Drctrs, Stone Age Institute
"Techno-organic Evolution: Human Origins
Technological Innovation and our Biological-Behavioral Synergy"
Trileigh Tucker -
Associate Professor and Director, Environmental
Studies at Seattle University
"Contemplatio Ad Amorem Naturae:
Contemplative Practice in Ecozoic Education
Paul Wason,
Archaeologist, the John Templeton Foundation.
“The Postglacial World: The
Rise of Farming and Civilization ”
John Wilkinson -
Liberal Studies Instructor - Art Institute of California (AICA), San
Francisco
"Beyond Machines: Metaphor in Biology"
Alan Wood -
Professor of History, University of Washington Bothell
"Global Systems History"
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Participant's Bios are presented here in
alphabetical order.
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Nancy Abrams
Lawyer, writer, and former Fulbright scholar
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Nancy Ellen
Abrams is a lawyer, writer, and former Fulbright scholar, with a
long-term interest in the history, philosophy, and politics of
science. While working on the staff of the U.S. Congress, she
co-created a novel method by which government agencies can make
wise policy decisions in cases involving scientific uncertainty,
and she has consulted on this for the Swedish government,
several state governments, and various corporations. Her
articles have appeared in journals, magazines, and books. She
has also released three albums of her songs and performed in
eighteen countries.
Primack and Abrams are co-authors of The View from the Center of
the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos
(Penguin/Riverhead 2006). See viewfromthecenter.com For a
decade, Primack and Abrams have been co-teaching a course at the
University of California Santa Cruz called "Cosmology and
Culture" from which their book developed. They are married and
have a daughter, Samara Bay (samarasworld.com). |
http://viewfromthecenter.com/
mediakit/index.html |
Craig Benjamin
Assistant Professor of History at Grand Valley State University
in West Michigan
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Prior to
taking up an academic career, Craig was a professional musician
and jazz educator for 25 years in Australia. After enrolling at
Macquarie University in Sydney in the early-1990s to pursue a
degree in ancient history, Craig was fortunate enough to become
associated with leading ‘big’ historians David Christian and
Marnie Hughes-Warrington. He subsequently worked for five years
as a teaching assistant for both David and Marnie, teaching big
history to thousands of young Australians. Upon gaining his PhD
in 2003, Craig and his wife Pamela moved to Grand Rapids,
Michigan. At Grand Valley State Craig teaches big history, world
history, ancient Eurasian history and historiography to students
at all levels, from first years to graduates. He is the author
of fifteen published chapters and essays on ancient Central
Asian nomads and world history historiography, and co-editor
(with David Christian and Sam Lieu) of three volumes in the
Brepols Silk Roads Studies Series. In 2007 his book ‘The Yuezhi:
Origin, Migration and the Conquest of Northern Bactria’ was
published by Brepols, as volume XIV in their Silk Roads Studies
series. He is currently working on a big history ‘text book’
with David Christian and Cynthia Stokes Brown. Craig is
passionate about big history, which he has now been teaching
professionally for ten years. |
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Cynthia Brown
Professor Emerita (History) at Domincan University of
Californial |
Cynthia
Stokes Brown is professor emerita at Dominican University of
California. She has written history and biography, including the
American Book Award-winning Ready From Within: Septima Clark and
the Civil Rights Movement, Connecting with the Past, and
Refusing Racism: White Allies and the Struggle for Civil Rights.
With the publication in 2007 of Big History: From the Big Bang
to the Present, her focus is now on encouraging the teaching of
big history. She is currently teamed up with Craig Benjamin and
David Christian to write to the first college textbook in big
history, which McGraw-Hill will publish about 2011. She lives in Berkeley, California. |
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Josefina Burgos
M.A. degree in
Philosophy and Religion
Ph.D. candidate at CIIS
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Born in
Santiago, Chile, Josefina Burgos came to reside in the U.S.A. in
1976 with her son and husband. She lived in Washington, D.C.,
where she approved the Architectural Registration Exam (ARE),
became a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA)
and practiced architecture for sixteen years. She became an
American citizen in 1986. She then moved to San Francisco,
California, where she joined the California Institute of
Integral Studies. There she obtained a master of arts degree in
philosophy and religion. Burgos is currently completing the
dissertation phase of her doctoral studies. In 2003 she
published a short story, Thoughts on a Theme by a Seagull,
in the Newsletter of the Center for Process Studies (CPS) in
Claremont, CA, Process Perspectives, Vol. 26, Number 1, Winter
2002-2003. That same year another of her stories, Adelaide,
was accepted by Process Perspectives and made available as a
paper to the membership of the CPS. In 2006 she was
selected to give a presentation – Meaning in a Post-Modern
Universe -- at the 10th Annual Conference, Exploring the
Boundaries of Experience and Self, organized by the
Consciousness and Experiential Psychology (CEP) Section of the
British Psychological Society, at St. Anne’s College in Oxford,
UK . |
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Carlos
Camargo
Faculty, Stanford Medical School (since 1967)
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Dr.
Carlos Camargo was born in Colombia, South America, and received
his medical degree from the National University in Bogota. He
trained in Internal Medicine at Western Reserve University in
Cleveland, Ohio and in Endocrinology at Stanford University. He
is the Director of the Medical History course and is a three
time recipient of the Kaiser award for Excellence in Teaching.
He has been the Director of the Endocrine Clinic at Stanford and
has done research on adrenal steroids and pituitary diseases. He
is interested in the connection of Medicine and other aspects of
culture and has given courses on the interaction of Medicine
with Art, Religion and Magic throughout history. Dr. Camargo
speaks fluently Spanish, French and Italian and has lectured in
numerous occasions for Stanford Alumni travel-study trips in
Mediterranean countries. His son is a young faculty member at
Harvard Medical School and his daughter is an artist in Japan. |
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Fernando Castrillon
Adjunct
Faculty: Interdisciplinary Studies Department at the California
Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)
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Fernando
Castrillon, Psy.D., earned a masters in sociology from the
University of California and a doctorate in clinical psychology
from CIIS and is a licensed clinical psychologist (CA PSY
24815). He serves as core faculty in the Community Mental Health
Department at CIIS and is the founder and former director of
CIIS' The Clinic Without Walls. Dr. Castrillon is also a
candidate analyst at the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis in
Berkeley, Calif., and is on the editorial boards of the journals
Ecopsychology and Universitas Psychologicas, among others.
His clinical, teaching, and research interests include the
production of subjectivity (both human and more-than-human),
psychoanalysis, community mental health, ecopsychology,
poststructuralist social/cultural theory, schizoanalysis,
liberatory politics, cosmology, entheogens, the impact of
hypervelocity technological change on human psychology and
intersubjectivity, the intersection of critical social theory
and psychology, contemporary approaches to the treatment of
psychosis, xenopsychology, violent political movements, war,
terrorism, and revolution. He recently coedited, with Doug
Vakoch, a special double issue of ReVision, entitled "Ecopsychology."
Dr. Castrillon maintains a private practice in the East Bay and
in San Francisco. |
www.drcastrillon.com
His
dissertation, entitled "Digitizing the Psyche: Human/Nature in
the Age of Intelligent Machines," examines the psychological and
intersubjective consequences of the hyper-digitization of
contemporary Western culture. He is currently coediting, with
Doug Vakoch, an ecopsychology anthology titled "Ecologies of the
Psyche: Transdisciplinary Migrations of Critical Ecopsychology".
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David
Christian
San Diego State University, Professor of
Big History, World Environmental History, Russian History, and
the History of Inner Eurasia
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David
Christian was born in New York, and grew up in Nigeria and
Britain. He completed an undergraduate degree in History at
Oxford University. He took an MA in Russian history at the
University of Western Ontario (Canada), and a D.Phil. at the
University of Oxford on 19th century Russian history. As a
graduate he spent a year in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg)
during the Brezhnev era. From 1975-2000, he taught Russian
history, European history and world history at Macquarie
University in Sydney. He has written on the social and material
history of the 19th century Russian peasantry. He has also
written a history of modern Russia, and a synoptic history of
Inner Eurasia (Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia), from
prehistory up to the time of the Mongol Empire. (He is currently
writing a second volume of that history). David is a member of
the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Royal Holland
Society of Sciences and Humanities. He is on the Executive of
the World History Association, and was one of the editors of the
Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History. He also participated in
the creation of the world history website, World History for Us
All. |
Recent Publications
David Christian and the History of Big History. |
Dwight Collins
Professor of Sustainable Operations Management at the
Presidio School of Management. President of Colbridge & Company
and the Collins Family Foundation.
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Dwight
Collins, Ph.D. teaches Sustainable Operations Management at
the San Francisco based Presidio School of Management. He is the
founder and president of Colbridge & Company. Previously, Dwight
directed Aspen Technology’s Strategic Planning Practice, which
provided strategic planning optimization consulting services to
senior executives. Dwight founded a Semiconductor Industry
Practice at Chesapeake Decision Sciences through which he was
instrumental in devising strategic enterprise planning and
customer order promising systems for several semiconductor
companies. In this time frame, Dwight also implemented supply
chain optimization capabilities for Shaw Industries, the largest
carpet producer in the US, and chemical company Rohm & Haas.
Earlier in his career, Dwight worked as a Senior Operations
Analyst at Exxon Corporation, a Senior Consultant at the
Logistics Management Institute (LMI) (a Washington, D.C. think
tank), and as Captain in the US Air Force. Dr. Collins earned a
BS degree in Engineering Physics, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in
Operations Research, all from Cornell University. |
Collins Family Foundation
www.collinsff.org
Presidio
School of Management
www.presidiomba.org
olbridge and Company
www.colbridgeandco.com
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Christopher
Corbally
Vice Director
of the Vatican Observatory
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Father
Christopher J. Corbally, S.J. oversees the Vatican Observatory's
research group in Tucson, while maintaining contact and
occasional visits to the Observatory's headquarters at Castel
Gandolfo, Italy. He is an Adjunct Associate Astronomer at
the Department of Astronomy, University of
Arizona. He is also a past president of the Institute on
Religion in an Age of Science, which holds a meeting to reflect
on science and religion once a year on a "small but beautiful"
island off Portsmouth, NH. This society has been reflecting on
science and values since 1954 and is a co-publisher of Zygon:
Journal of Religion and Science. |
http://vaticanobservatory.org
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Richard Coren
Emeritus Professor of Engineering from Drexel University
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Richard L.
Coren received the Ph.D. in Physics from Polytechnic Institute
of Brooklyn. After several years in industry he joined the
Electrical and Computer Engineering Dep’t. at Drexel University.
He has over seventy publications, dealing primarily with
ferromagnetic materials, electromagnetic analysis, and
non-traditional education. He has received many awards and
honors and is listed in several “Who's Who” and technology and
Science publications. For the past 10 years his research
interests have changed to mathematical analysis of evolution and
the history of science.
He is the author of three books:
"Basic Engineering Electromagnetics" (Prentice Hall - 1989),
“The Evolutionary Trajectory: The Growth of Information in the
History and Future of Earth” (Gordon and Breach publishers -
1998)
“God and Science Among the Infinities” (BookSurge LLC - 2006)
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Todd
Duncan
Assistant Professor of Physics, Pacific University
Ph.D. in astrophysics, University of Chicago (1997)
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Todd is a
cosmologist in the broad sense of the term. His work is guided
by the theme of looking for meaning in the modern scientific
universe. Science has uncovered remarkable insights that have
profound implications for our perspective on who we are, where
we came from, and where we are going. But it can be difficult to
translate this knowledge into a form that concretely helps us
see ourselves as part of the cosmos. In fact, the scientific
picture of the universe can be alienating, presenting a
challenge to our ability to find a true home for ourselves
within the model of the universe it describes. Todd’s work
focuses on developing ways for people to see a place for
themselves within the context of our scientific understanding of
the universe. Teaching and research form two complementary and
equally important aspects of this "science integration" effort,
which is articulated in the Science Integration Institute (link
to http://www.scienceintegration.org) he helped create. He is
coauthor of the general education text “Your Cosmic Context: An
Introduction to Modern Cosmology” (Addison-Wesley, available
January 2008).
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Faculty web page (link to
http://www.pacificu.edu/
as/physics/faculty/
Todd_Duncan.cfm)
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Jerome Feldman
Art Historian and Professor of Art
History, Hawaii Pacific University
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Jerome Feldman
is an art historian specialized in the arts of Tribal Southeast
Asia and the Pacific Islands. He received his Ph.D. in tribal
art history from Columbia University and has conducted field
studies in remote islands of Indonesia, and Polynesia. He has
studied museum collections in Europe, Asia and America and has
aided in several exhibitions including Ban Chiang Archeological
Exhibition at Hawai`i Loa College, The Eloquent Dead at the
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Nias Tribal Treasures at the Volkenkundig
Museum Nusantara in Delft, and Beyond the Java Sea, a
Smithsonian sponsored traveling exhibition. In 2004 he was the
Slade Visiting Professor at Cambridge University. He has written
books and articles and lectured extensively on Tribal Southeast
Asian, Micronesian and Polynesian art and architecture.
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Cheryl
Genet
Professor of Philosophy at Cuesta College and Director of the
Orion Institute
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Cheryl Linda
Genet earned her doctoral degree in Interdisciplinary Science
and Theology. As director of the Orion Institute’s Science and
Human Meaning program, she focuses her research on scientific
paradigms, cosmological stories, interfaith relations, and
understanding our emerging global community. She taught at
Central Arizona College and more recently at California
Polytechnic State University Osher Institute for Life-Long
Learning. Currently she teaches philosophy at Cuesta
College, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Collins Foundation
Press. |
www.OrionInstitute.org |
Russ Genet
Research Scholar in Residence at California Polytechnic State
University, Professor of Astronomy at Cuesta College, and
Director of the Orion Observatory
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Russell Merle
Genet, PhD, is the author of a dozen books and over one hundred
scientific papers. He observes eclipsing binary stars and
studies cosmic evolution. Russ, who pioneered the world’s first
fully robotic observatory (featured in the PBS special The
Perfect Stargazer), was the 51st President of the Astronomical
Society of the Pacific.
His latest
book, Humanity: The Chimpanzees Who Would Be Ants, tells
the evolutionary story of how we came to be, drawn from the best
science of our time, and suggests possible future scenarios. |
www.OrionObservatory.org |
Linda Gibler
MA and PhD in Philosophy and Religion with an emphasis in
Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness, CIIS.
Masters of Arts in Pastoral Studies at Aquinas Institute of
Theology in St. Louis, MO
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Overwhelmed by
the first Hubble Deep Field picture, Linda, a Dominican Sister
of Houston, became enchanted with the magnificence of the
Universe and intrigued by the image’s significance for a
Catholic understanding of God.
In 1999, she began formal study of cosmology at the California
Institute of Integral Studies. Before her cosmic epiphany, Linda
was the director of social ministry for a parish in Houston
where she coordinated direct services, social outreach, and
social justice programs. She has also served on a hospital
medical ethics board and worked for a Texas agency to insure
health care for indigent women. |
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Paul Harris
Professor of English
Loyola Marymount University
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Paul Harris
received his B.A. in English from McGill University in 1984 and
his Ph.D. in English and Critical Theory from University of
California, Irvine, in 1991. He has taught at Loyola Marymount
University in Los Angeles since 1992. His areas of interest
include the interdisciplinary study of time, literature and
science, and aesthetic approaches to spirituality. He has served
as President of the International Society for the Study of Time
since 2004, and is Co-Editor of the journal SubStance: A Review
of Theory and Literary Criticism. He is Founding Director of the
SynThink Forum at Loyola Marymount, through which he teaches
interdisciplinary courses and holds conferences on themes such
as Nothing, Chaos, Time, Fakes and Forgeries, and Wisdom
Literature. He is currently completing a manuscript entitled
Bergson in the Shadows of Science/Science in Light of Bergson,
and beginning work on a book on Cosmology, Art and Ethics. He is
also writing a series of essays on what he terms "Outsider
Spirituality."
Website:
http://myweb.lmu.edu/pharris/index.htm |
http://myweb.lmu.edu/
pharris/index.htm |
Peter Hess
Faith Project Director for the National Center for Science
Education (NCSE) in Oakland, California.
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Dr. Peter M.
J. Hess - His position as Faith Project Director involves
outreach to churches and other faith communities to promote the
compatibility of evolutionary biology and religious belief.
Peter earned his M.A. in philosophy and theology from Oxford
University, and his Ph.D. in ecclesiastical history from the
Graduate Theological Union. His scholarly work focuses on the
interactions between science and religion in the modern world,
particularly the impact of theology on the Scientific Revolution
(1600-1900) and the response by theologians to discoveries and
new paradigms in the developing sciences. His book on
Catholicism and Science, co-authored with Paul Allen of
Concordia University, will appear in April, 2008 (Greenwood
Press); he is also writing on the religious and ethical
implications of the rapidly approaching end of affordable oil.
Peter has taught theology, philosophy and history since 1980,
and currently teaches in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program at
Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California. A fellow of the
International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR), he is
also an active member of the European Society for the Study of
Science and Theology (ESSSAT), the Center for Theology and the
Natural Sciences (CTNS), and the Metanexus Institute of
Philadelphia. An avid rock climber and volcano mountaineer,
Peter and his wife Viviane have two sons, Michael and Robert. |
Theology Issues
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Louis
Herman
Professor of Politics
University of Hawaii
West Oahu Campus
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Professor
Herman is a political philosopher and head of the political
science program at the University of Hawai`i-West O`ahu. He was
born and raised in South Africa, educated at Cambridge, England
(medicine and the history and philosophy of science), and was
initiated into utopian politics through involvement with the
Israeli Kibbutz movement. He came to Hawaii to get some
philosophical distance from his origins and complete a PhD in
politics. He now returns regularly to his birthplace in South
Africa for his work as executive producer with an international
team on a feature length documentary film Primal Quest, dealing
with the convergence between the ancient shamanic wisdom of the
San Bushman, the hunter gatherers of the Kalahari, and the
latest scientific insights from evolutionary cosmology. His book
manuscript, Future Primal: A Politics Beyond Modernity
provides the background research and vision for the film. He has
also authored articles and papers on related themes. |
Primal Quest
website
http://socrates.uhwo.hawaii.edu/
SocialSci/louisher/LHerman-Quest.html |
Pauline Le Bel
Screenwriter, novelist, songwriter, and playwright
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Pauline Le Bel
has been a fulltime artist for over 30 years – an Emmy-nominated
screenwriter, award-winning novelist, songwriter, playwright,
voice teacher, festival organizer and “evolutionary troubadour”.
She is an experienced actor/singer who has worked professionally
in theatre, film and radio. She was called "a musical instrument
linked to a soul" for her dramatic portrayal of chanteuse, Edith
Piaf, in a play she co-wrote. Her published/produced writing
credits include: a novel, two screenplays (The Song Spinner, a
family movie for Showtime), 4 musicals, a radio drama, songs for
films, 3 CDs of her own songs, and articles for various
publications. Her powerful, earthy voice has been heard in
theatres and concert halls across Canada, in the U.S. and the
U.K. and her poetic, musical interpretation of the universe
story has delighted international audiences. For three years,
she was Artistic Director of Voices in the Sound, an arts and
nature festival she created and organized, and is the author of
a cosmological musical about her home, Bowen Island, Canada. She
is part of a growing community working to integrate art, nature,
science and spirit to support a radical transformation in human
consciousness.
www.suncoastarts.com/paulinelebel.html |
www.suncoastarts.com/
paulinelebel.html |
Winslow Myers
Artist and Studio and Art History Instructor (Retired)
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Winslow Myers
was born in New York City in 1941 and grew up on the Maine
coast. He studied painting with Walter Murch and James Brooks,
and was awarded a Max Beckmann Fellowship at the Brooklyn
Museum. For forty years he taught studio art and art history at
various institutions, including Exeter Academy, the Brooklyn
Museum Art School, and Assumption College. In 2000 a thirty year
retrospective of his paintings and drawings was shown at the
Round Top Center for the Arts in Maine. His work is in various
private and institutional collections. He shows his paintings at
Clarke Galleries, 39 East 72nd St., NYC, Gallery 170,
Damariscotta, Maine,
and on his website,
www.winslowmyers.com . |
www.winslowmyers.com |
Jack Palmer
Professor of psychology at the University of Louisiana at Monroe
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Jack
A. Palmer, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at the
University of Louisiana at Monroe, where he has taught since
1989. Jack and his wife Linda coauthored a text human evolution,
Evolutionary Psychology: The Ultimate Origins of Human Behavior,
published by Allyn & Bacon in 2002. Jack primarily teaches
Neuropsychology, Evolutionary Psychology, and Positive
Psychology. His evolution courses and textbook take the larger
“Evolutionary Epic” perspective, which is somewhat rare in
psychological science. Jack’s current research focuses on
investigations of the effect of rearing experiences (ontogeny)
on adult psychological traits; and the neurological substrates
of moral reasoning. He has been named “Researcher of the Year”
and “Professor of the Year” by his dept. The Palmers are
long-time practitioners of the meditative discipline Sant Mat.
Their daughter works in television and film production on the
West Coast, and their son (now deceased) was a computer
programmer and graphic designer. |
Vita and narrative bio:
About our book, Evolutionary Psychology:
Jiva Institute:
Sant Mat:
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Linda
Palmer
M.S. in Experimental Psychology
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Linda K. Palmer, M.S. is co-author (with Dr. Jack A. Palmer)
of Evolutionary Psychology: The Ultimate Origins of Human
Behavior. Early in life, Linda made her living as an artist.
Later she worked as manager of the Survey Research Institute,
University of Georgia, and editor-in-chief of Edition Naam
publishing. She has served on numerous non-profit boards, taught
psychology at Louisiana universities, and was a therapist in
private practice. In 1998, Linda left academia and spent seven
years in spiritual centers, studying full-time with renowned
mystic, Thakar Singh. She produced over a dozen books from his
discourses, including his last work, Live the Life of Soul.
Linda currently conducts psychological research with Jack,
serves as editor for Jiva Institute, and does freelance editing
and writing. Linda and Jack have a daughter who works in
television and film production; their son (now deceased) was a
computer programmer/graphic designer. |
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Joel Primack
Professor of Physics at the University of California Santa Cruz
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Joel R.
Primack, a professor of physics at the University of California
Santa Cruz, has done foundational research in cosmology. He and
his team use some of the world's biggest supercomputers to
simulate the evolution of the universe, and they compare the
results with observational data. He has recently chaired the
Forum on Physics and Society of the American Physical Society,
as well as the Committee on Science, Ethics, and Religion of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a
coauthor of Advice and Dissent: Scientists in the Political
Arena.
Primack and
Abrams are co-authors of The View from the Center of the
Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos
(Penguin/Riverhead 2006). See viewfromthecenter.com For a
decade, Primack and Abrams have been co-teaching a course at the
University of California Santa Cruz called "Cosmology and
Culture" from which their book developed. They are married and
have a daughter, Samara Bay (samarasworld.com). |
http://viewfromthecenter.com/
mediakit/index.html |
Sheri Ritchlin
Ph.D. - California
Institute of Integral Studies
(CIIS)
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Sheri
Ritchlin's dissertation—The Return of the Sage: A New
Cosmology Meets the Way of Heaven and Earth in the I Ching—was
written under the guidance of Yi Wu, Brian Swimme and Richard
Tarnas. She is the author of One-ing and Dream to Waken
as well as articles for the Institute of Noetic Sciences Review
(Shift), and Parabola Magazine, including an article in
the forthcoming Spring 2008 issue. She is currently at work on
Fields of Light: The 2012 Venus Transit of the Sun.
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Writings, lectures and dream
workshops
www.SheriRitchlin.com |
Stephan Sass
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell
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Stephen L.
Sass, , joined the Cornell faculty in 1967. Received his B.Ch.E.
from the City College of New York in 1961 and his Ph.D. in
Materials Science from Northwestern University in 1966.
Fulbright Scholar at the Technische Hogeschool, Delft, The
Netherland, 1966-67. Fellow of the American Physical Society and
ASM International. In 2001, named a Stephen H. Weiss
Presidential Fellow, a university-wide honor recognizing
“effective, inspiring and distinguished teaching of
undergraduate students”. His research interests include the
structure and properties of internal interfaces in solids and
the development of methods for the fabrication of periodic
surface structures with spacings on the nanometer-length scale.
Has more than 180 technical papers and 3 patents. In 1998
published The Substance of Civilization: Materials and Human
History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon, which was
written to make science and technology accessible to
non-scientists, by putting them into an historical and human
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Brian
Swimme
Ph.D.,
Mathematical Cosmology,
(Gravitational Dynamics)
University of Oregon, 1978 • Evolutionary cosmology, science and
spirituality, the role of humanity in the unfolding story of
Earth.
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Brian Swimme's
research focuses on the evolutionary dynamics of the universe,
the relationship between scientific cosmology and more
traditional religious visions, the cultural implications of the
new evolutionary epic, and the role of humanity in the unfolding
story of Earth and cosmos. In 1998 he founded the international
Epic of Evolution Society, a forum for artists, scientists,
ecofeminists, ecologists, religious thinkers and educators
interested in the new story. He is the author of The Hidden
Heart of the Cosmos (Orbis, 1996), Manifesto for a Global
Civilization (with Matthew Fox) (Bear and Company, 1983),
The Universe is a Green Dragon (Bear and Company, 1984) and
The Universe Story (Harper, 1992) which is a culmination
of a ten-year collaboration with cultural historian Thomas
Berry. Brian's media work includes the video series, Canticle to
the Cosmos and The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos. |
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Alan T. Wood
History, University of Washington Bothell
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Alan Wood is
currently a professor of history at the University of Washington
Bothell, where he was a founding faculty of the new campus in
1990. He served there as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
from 1995-1999, and as Interim Vice Chancellor for Academic
Affairs at the University of Washington Tacoma from 2006-2007.
His academic field is Chinese history, and for the last ten
years he has published in the area of world history. He is
working on a world history for a general audience, tentatively
entitled One World: A Biography of Humankind. His other
books include Limits to Autocracy, World Civilizations
(a co-authored textbook), What Does It Mean to be Human?,
and Asian Democracy in World History. |
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