Deeptime Network | Lowell Gustafson | Activity https://dtnetwork.org/our-members/lgustafs/activity/ Activity feed for Lowell Gustafson. Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:29:26 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=9.1.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 cb11f9c6a3f1e5c3222e1cd58cfc724a Lowell Gustafson wrote a new post, Video Presentations from IBHA Conference https://dtnetwork.org/?p=272400 Sun, 16 Jul 2023 14:25:18 -0400 Relive the 2023 meeting of big historians.

]]> 0 3d85c1c65883fade160f4a9b7e73f129 Lowell Gustafson added the event Big History and Global Evolution https://dtnetwork.org/activity/p/42666/ Sun, 16 Jul 2023 08:10:50 -0400 0 f6ddaf0d4323e004637dc0978e96bda0 Lowell Gustafson added the event Big History Conference: July 7 - 9 https://dtnetwork.org/activity/p/41251/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 22:24:42 -0400 0 727f2050de3ab1962968cc09eef2e878 Lowell Gustafson added the event Energy: The Currency of the universe? https://dtnetwork.org/activity/p/39682/ Sat, 19 Nov 2022 19:49:35 -0500 0 59af765d7494eda3e0bac47ece46afe0 Lowell Gustafson wrote a new post, Science, Religion, and Deep Time https://dtnetwork.org/?p=262585 Mon, 11 Jul 2022 15:27:40 -0400 New book just published

Science, Religion and Deep Time
(2022) Edited By Lowell Gustafson, Barry Rodrigue, David Blanks. Routledge.This book examines the meaning of religion within the scientific, […]

]]> 0 d0109f30209b6841d30a46d7d558d36f Lowell Gustafson wrote a new post, Videos of 2021 IBHA Conference https://dtnetwork.org/?p=255384 Fri, 06 Aug 2021 14:26:44 -0400 These are videos of the entire 2021 IBHA conference.

]]> 0 142eceb4c0092e8e8d9511ae610f749e Lowell Gustafson added the event 2021 IBHA (on-line) Conference: August 1 - 5 https://dtnetwork.org/activity/p/31186/ Sat, 17 Jul 2021 15:59:56 -0400 0 8b2cfbab93d552e7cebad51fb2432676 Lowell Gustafson added the event Two Webinars: The Story of Life and The Evolution of War https://dtnetwork.org/activity/p/30962/ Wed, 02 Jun 2021 16:35:27 -0400 0 cd9394a769b5613832fef67b2ee3911f Lowell Gustafson added the event The Story of Life https://dtnetwork.org/activity/p/30696/ Fri, 23 Apr 2021 23:29:59 -0400 0 3f052fcf43d78bbb3d7815f19ca1112e Lowell Gustafson wrote a new post, The Story of Life https://dtnetwork.org/?p=252676 Thu, 22 Apr 2021 20:18:20 -0400 Please join us for a presentation on
The Story of Life

by
Dr. Paul Narguizian
College of Natural & Social Sciences
Department of Biological Sciences
California State University,
Los Angeles

Tuesday, […]

]]> 0 6437ee23b6a7cd1d4d2f566d3d3a06c8 Lowell Gustafson wrote a new post, The Indian Subcontinent and Climate Change: A Big History Perspective https://dtnetwork.org/?p=251050 Sun, 14 Feb 2021 22:04:33 -0500 Saturday, 27 February 2021: 3:30 – 5:30 pm IST (Indian Standard Time)  or 5 am EST in the US.  Register at https://forms.gle/ewp9myWMtN8Ajk8r6

 

]]> 0 9f0a42a4d79b78c5aaa8f8e5b9a122c4 Lowell Gustafson wrote a new post, Origins: The Bulletin of the IBHA, Volume XI Number 1 https://dtnetwork.org/?p=251051 Sun, 14 Feb 2021 22:04:12 -0500

]]> 0 a15b02cadffb0600520a1fc67a0717af Lowell Gustafson wrote a new post, Mergence: Newsletter of the International Big History Association https://dtnetwork.org/?p=250894 Sat, 06 Feb 2021 15:17:00 -0500 A Big History Praxis by Heikki Patomaki, essay by Ken Baskin, What Imogene Drummond is reading, Frontiers by J.N. Nielsen,  Jaynavi Pandya interviewing Orla O’Reilly Hazra, Hirofumi Katayama, Javier Collado […]

]]> 0 c6a58d2dbd57a1fd1f96ad945d365e55 Lowell Gustafson wrote a new post, Origins Volume X Issue 6 https://dtnetwork.org/?p=249068 Wed, 25 Nov 2020 14:36:38 -0500 My Cosmic Story: The Dark Energy by Noha Tarek
Please click on this link (a pdf version is here) for this profound personal reflection of a journey into big history by a graduate st […]

]]> 0 0045d625e853b1f0d76237af4daacc9a Lowell Gustafson wrote a new post, Big History and a Coming of Age Story https://dtnetwork.org/?p=248283 Sun, 18 Oct 2020 22:22:46 -0400 Incorporating the deep future into big history helps to produce a coming of age story to complement an origin one. Presented by Lowell Gustafson to the 2020 Globalistics International Conference and the Fourth […]

]]> 0 d1594f19b38517fd54eb388903e65b4f Lowell Gustafson wrote a new post, Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing https://dtnetwork.org/?p=246333 Tue, 09 Jun 2020 15:27:49 -0400 A conversation with Sam Mickey, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim, editors of Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing, with Lowell Gustafson, President, International Big History Association […]

]]> 0 4f12126abb4aaf6d443458e1eb4353cf Lowell Gustafson wrote a new post, The Illusionists https://dtnetwork.org/?p=246335 Tue, 09 Jun 2020 15:26:18 -0400 In this creative short story, The Illusionists, Lacy Loar-Gruenler shares her account of how Kurt Gödel and Albert Einstein “murdered” time. Or did they?

The text is available at […]

]]> 0 bb3638aab4f3c7bffc2089876f166bbd Lowell Gustafson wrote a new post, Origins Vol X Issue 4 https://dtnetwork.org/?p=246249 Mon, 18 May 2020 15:26:12 -0400 In this creative short story, “The Illusionists,” Lacy Loar-Gruenler shares her account of how Kurt Gödel and Albert Einstein “murdered” time. Or did they? The text is available here.

2021 Con […]

]]> 0 27466284fb53b8dca7c785309ba86517 Lowell Gustafson wrote a new post, Origins: The Bulletin of the IBHA, Volume X (Number 3) https://dtnetwork.org/?p=245997 Thu, 07 May 2020 15:09:35 -0400 Corona Verse, by Nanette Fondas
Big History in the Italian middle schools: a manifesto against knowledge fragmentation, by Paolo Vismara, YouTube presentation, Big History Italia

Take a […]

]]> 0 09fbd7c1a9925e7ff075042413a332e7 Lowell Gustafson wrote a new post, Origins: The Bulletin of the IBHA, Volume X Number 1 https://dtnetwork.org/?p=244882 Sat, 07 Mar 2020 14:41:39 -0500 The Bulletin of the IBHA, Volume X Number 1

]]> 0 d31f5c6618a1503ef25c8fe75b445f14 Lowell Gustafson updated new location at Bryn Mawr, PA, USA https://dtnetwork.org/activity/p/24822/ Sat, 11 Jan 2020 08:16:02 -0500 0 f4f87bd36ca2c01fd7fb5faa7086d2a1 Lowell Gustafson wrote a new post, Origins: The Bulletin of the International Big History Association https://dtnetwork.org/?p=241093 Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:12:51 -0400 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 […]

]]> 1 3571677c3410d8df91077366d8b6d207 Lowell Gustafson added the event Changing the World: Community, Science, Engagement and Big History https://dtnetwork.org/activity/p/22638/ Wed, 19 Jun 2019 23:01:25 -0400 0 abc4f33c85423e88049b7f032eaba08e Lowell Gustafson added the event 2020 IBHA Conference in India https://dtnetwork.org/activity/p/22084/ Sun, 03 Feb 2019 01:56:38 -0500 0 57b4fe75ba77e189939aec9bb0e9844b Lowell Gustafson added the event Gravitational Waves https://dtnetwork.org/activity/p/22083/ Sun, 03 Feb 2019 00:23:53 -0500 0 30816eece55b9be6a2644e63c257882f Lowell Gustafson added the event Seeing the Birth Pangs of the Big Bang with Cosmic Background Radiation https://dtnetwork.org/activity/p/22080/ Sat, 02 Feb 2019 16:43:55 -0500 0 a4236e126fc9f0948e8cba77112af34e Lowell Gustafson added the event Black Holes https://dtnetwork.org/activity/p/22079/ Sat, 02 Feb 2019 16:17:00 -0500 0 5718d4be192493db3c0ba0ed288c19a0 Lowell Gustafson wrote a new post, Emergent Universe Oratorio https://dtnetwork.org/?p=228631 Sun, 30 Dec 2018 21:18:50 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 f8fd6847e6e5ef7d27aca7a99b66599f Lowell Gustafson wrote a new post, Origins: Volume IX Issue 2 https://dtnetwork.org/?p=228629 Sun, 30 Dec 2018 21:07:27 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 338eaa1900b81c206c61ce8edfd5a435 Lowell Gustafson added the event Life in the Universe 2019: Big History, SETI and the Future of Humankind https://dtnetwork.org/activity/p/21975/ Fri, 28 Dec 2018 13:24:16 -0500 0 a2012c9ba3618f01f30536ef764064f6 Lowell Gustafson wrote a new post, Nature's Artistic Narrative https://dtnetwork.org/?p=19092 Sun, 06 Aug 2017 07:52:55 -0400 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 tr […]

]]> 0 76d7629aded274669b657590fa69aa89 Lowell Gustafson wrote a new post, Origins: The Bulletin of the International Big History Association https://dtnetwork.org/?p=18564 Sat, 27 May 2017 05:15:08 -0400 This page has links for all of the issues of Origins: The Bulletin of the International Big History Association.

]]> 0 2f6a41d2e835036fc9c9cbaad05e84ec Lowell Gustafson posted a new activity comment http://wptaverncommunity.wefoster-platform.co/resource/journey-of-the-universe-mooc-courses-offered-by-yale-university-2/#comment-3274 Fri, 19 Aug 2016 18:15:48 -0400 Looks wonderful; I am recommending this to my students!

In reply to - Jennifer Morgan wrote a new post, Journey of the Universe MOOC Courses Offered by Yale University New Online Classes Open to the Public “Journey of the Universe: A Story for Our Times” In the fall of 2016 Mar […] ]]> dd7d47fcfdc95c77a3b92e926a61d54f Lowell Gustafson wrote a new post, The Origin and Fate of the Universe http://wptaverncommunity.wefoster-platform.co/?p=15163 Fri, 19 Aug 2016 18:04:54 -0400 September 14, 2016, 4:30 Connelly Center Cinema; Villanova University
David Chuss, Department of Physics
“How did the Universe begin?” is one of humanity’s oldest questions. Though the approach to this quest […]

]]> 0 8f5d75f967a0eb3bb35c17b721bda07e Lowell Gustafson wrote a new post, Big History, Political Identity, and Cosmopolitan Citizenship http://wptaverncommunity.wefoster-platform.co/?p=14027 Wed, 06 Jul 2016 14:25:43 -0400 This paper explores how Big History affects political identity and ideas of security. It is for the 2016 IBHA conference. Comments, suggestions, and criticisms are welcomed!

]]> 0 bd2fb314a37dff4229807a586e7d43b9 Lowell Gustafson wrote a new post, Big History and Religion: The Ties that Bind http://wptaverncommunity.wefoster-platform.co/?p=14024 Wed, 06 Jul 2016 12:17:36 -0400 My paper on this topic for the 2016 IBHA conference; comments, suggestions, and criticisms are welcome!

]]> 0 4f1cba90b0d89cee4ce464a19771ea6f Lowell Gustafson wrote a new post, Bulletins of the International Big History Association http://wptaverncommunity.wefoster-platform.co/?p=13710 Tue, 21 Jun 2016 11:39:12 -0400 Origins, the bulletin of the International Big History Association, highlights the many activities, projects, and reflections that IBHA members and friends have on Big History.

]]> 1 50097bd55eff4a95793c7615c1e6a2b3 Lowell Gustafson wrote a new post, I Am Life (Science for Students) http://wptaverncommunity.wefoster-platform.co/?p=4694 Fri, 04 Sep 2015 08:09:46 -0400 Jennifer Joy is an artist who presents various types of performances about science and Big History. Her collaborator, beatbox/hip hop artist Benu Muhammad and she are putting together a podcast/audio series about […]

]]> 0 f7e60f607925cccdb9ede2fde633a788 Lowell Gustafson replied to the topic Is the universe a "living system"? in the forum Deeptime Network Forum http://wptaverncommunity.wefoster-platform.co/forums/topic/is-the-universe-a-living-system/page/18/#post-4388 Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:21:50 -0400 If a non-biologist can jump in here . . . .   I too am fascinated by a single cell being able to sense light, food, or danger.  Some have flagellum that permit “purposeful” movement.  It seems as though we start here and move along a spectrum of increasingly complex sensory / response capabilities.  But earth does not try to get out of the way whe…[Read more]

]]> 0 53922daacb822ece3c415062d5cb55d3 Lowell Gustafson added the event Cosmic Evolution: From Big Bang to Humankind: Eric J. Chaisson https://dtnetwork.org/activity/p/2732/ Sat, 20 Jun 2015 10:12:46 -0400 0 6265d91f0661b9bbfa60a035d4cf1d01 Lowell Gustafson replied to the topic Is the universe a "living system"? in the forum Deeptime Network Forum http://wptaverncommunity.wefoster-platform.co/forums/topic/is-the-universe-a-living-system/page/3/#post-3993 Mon, 20 Apr 2015 10:17:29 -0400 Thanks so much to Jennifer for hosting this fascinating exchange of views as we struggle to understand and articulate our best current understandings of these complex topics.The discussion about the specific meaning  of metabolism is helpful.  Jennifer also reminds us of Eric Chaisson’s idea of energy densities.As you remember, his estimated powe…[Read more]

]]> 0 3313b8b0abfcdd7552587538f1d0f5e7 Lowell Gustafson replied to the topic Is the universe a "living system"? in the forum Deeptime Network Forum http://wptaverncommunity.wefoster-platform.co/forums/topic/is-the-universe-a-living-system/#post-3930 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 01:40:16 -0400 Thanks Duane.Are there any differences between black holes or systems of galaxies and a prokaryote cell, and if so, what are they?  Are there any differences between what is seen as the consciousness of the universe and how people think, and again, if so, what are they.  I’m looking for ways of making distinctions.Best,Lowell

]]> 0 04c5c7cba73664be5c685cf8689c6fdf Lowell Gustafson posted a new activity comment http://wptaverncommunity.wefoster-platform.co/resource/table-of-contrasts-between-dead-and-living-universe-paradigms-2/#comment-140 Fri, 03 Apr 2015 13:50:58 -0400 Thanks for these comments, Davidson. Duane refers to much important information. Qualified and limited conclusions from available evidence regarding pre- or extra-biological evidence, and distinctions about different periods and phenomena, are important. The use of words like living and conscious for the universe before biology or outside of it…[Read more]

In reply to - Duane Elgin wrote a new post, Table of Contrasts Between Dead and Living Universe Paradigms A table showing a series of striking differences between a dead and a living universe perspective. ]]> 40292e93c6a5642a7f0ced2ebd4c61af Lowell Gustafson replied to the topic Big History and Religion in the forum my forum new one http://wptaverncommunity.wefoster-platform.co/forums/topic/big-history-and-religion/#post-3889 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 08:00:19 -0400 Thanks for this, Davidson.  What you are saying about empathy, inclusive structure, and the increasing complexity of social nature does seem to me to get at the heart of how to reframe what religion can mean in our time.  

]]> 0 c02b76fbe73a124c0290957961135734 Lowell Gustafson added the event Journey of the Universe https://dtnetwork.org/activity/p/2081/ Wed, 18 Mar 2015 00:03:00 -0400 0 b0fae6eb24f213b3929dcea30fa8bc61 Lowell Gustafson added the event Journey of the Universe https://dtnetwork.org/activity/p/2080/ Tue, 17 Mar 2015 23:59:13 -0400 0 aee7c6e71bd2b4b83425e58624778a2f Lowell Gustafson added the event From Star Gazing to Sustainability https://dtnetwork.org/activity/p/1898/ Wed, 28 Jan 2015 07:22:30 -0500 0 2e335ac75ef2cc8b0640ab5df507177e Lowell Gustafson wrote a new post, Shakespeare in the Cave: A Big History of Art http://wptaverncommunity.wefoster-platform.co/?p=3632 Sun, 28 Dec 2014 19:19:26 -0500 Shakespeare in the Cave: A Big History of Art is a creative practice project emanating out of Rich Blundell’s PhD dissertation on the transformative learning that can happen through engaging with the Big History […]

]]> 3 8b12b55493be8547230e09d791dc6991 Lowell Gustafson added the event From Star Gazing to Sustainability https://dtnetwork.org/activity/p/1784/ Mon, 15 Dec 2014 22:50:57 -0500 0 8a5e5f170026d22d2fb96ddedfad911b Lowell Gustafson wrote a new post, Origins, IV 04 (International Big History Association Newsletter) http://wptaverncommunity.wefoster-platform.co/resource/origins-ibha-newsletter/ Mon, 21 Apr 2014 21:00:46 -0400 Origins highlights the many activities, projects, and reflections that IBHA members have on Big History.

Volume IV, Number 4, “Towards a Theory of Big History” by David Blanks, “Big History’s Greatest L […]

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