The International Big History Association Conference is coming up in July 2020. Here are links to articles in this latest edition of Origins, the bulletin of the IBHA. Big History: What Is It and Why Should We Narrate It? by Priyadarshini Karve 2020 IBHA Conference information; Guidebook Video recordings of presentations from SETI / Big […]
This blog uses the original exodus event as a model for the exodus from our current world into the climate change world that is quickly closing in upon us.
The Emergent Universe Oratorio, composed by Sam Guarnaccia and performed by the Main Line Symphony Orchestra at the St. Thomas of Villanova Church as part of the 2018 International Big History Conference. bighistory.org/members/conferences/2018-2/2018-conference-schedule/ Full program is at: ibha.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/Conference2018/OratorioProgram.pdf The IBHA is grateful for the support from: Big History Project Thomas Berry Foundation President of Villanova […]
My Big History Experience in Amsterdam by Benjamin Baumann Last year, Benjamin studied big history for his master’s degree at the University of Amsterdam. It was an experience that changed his life forever, he writes here. International Symposium on Life in the Universe 2019 Big History, SETI and the Future of Humankind CALL for PAPERS […]
Lowell Gustafson, “Nature’s Artistic Narrative.” Journal of Literature and Art Studies, October 2017, Vol. 7, No. 10, doi: 10.17265/2159-5836/2017.10.000 Many people have devoted their professional lives to translating and understanding the artistic narrative told by light, stones, bones, and blood. There is still much we do not understand about the epic saga told by nature […]
Bees were here with the dinosaurs. Their relationship with flowers is 130 million years old. Paleolithic cave drawings all over the world show figures climbing ladders to get to the honey guarded by buzzing bees. People have written rapturously about their fascination of bees and their love of honey since the alphabet was invented. But […]
This page has links for all of the issues of Origins: The Bulletin of the International Big History Association.
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Beginning with people’s interest in their ancestors, this blog returns us to our beginning on Earth and in the stars. This blog makes good use of quotes from authors who have expressed these realities memorably. It ends with our call to reinvent ourselves within the primacy of the Universe.
We can see deep time, and gain perspective from its daily presence, in the rock structures we travel by and through. The vast, open book of history that is now Utah is an excellent way to ponder Thomas Berry’s vision of the meaning of deep time. In these very challenging days, he offers us a […]
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