IBHA / MWWHA Program Page 1 elcome to the Inaugural Conference of the International Big History Association! The members of the IBHA Board have been exchanging a blizzard of emails over the last year; we are excited to be underway Where in Grand Rapids!
“Teaching and Researching Big History: Exploring a New Scholarly Field” is the first ever International Big History Association conference. We are pleased to be joined by the Midwest World History Association for their 3rd Annual conference entitled, “The Reshaping of Planet Earth: Connections between Humans and the Environment in World History.” Together, Big Historians and World Historians, professors and grad students, scientists and scholars, are exploring the past and the future of the new scholarly field of Big History and the connections between humans and the environment in World History.
We appreciate the untiring work and generous support of our hosts here at Grand Valley State University, which is also the home of the Global Institute for Big History, the current headquarters of the IBHA.
Many people have worked very hard and contributed generously to the work of organizing this conference. We want to thank our wonderful Office Administrator, Leslye Allen, and also Craig and Pamela Benjamin, who have worked very closely with Leslye over the last year. We also want to acknowledge the very generous financial support we have received from Microsoft Research and the ChronoZoom Project, which has allowed us to subsidize the travel costs of several of our overseas delegates; and also from the Big History Project, which has sponsored the opening reception and other programmed events. We are delighted by the close association between the IBHA and both ChronoZoom and the Big History Project.
We are very pleased to be in Grand Rapids for our conference. This is a beautiful city with a rich history and many unique characteristics that make it an attractive place to live and visit. For more information on restaurants you might wish to visit during your stay here, please check http://www.experiencegr.com/things-to- do/restaurants/.
The Opening Reception will be held on Thursday evening at the Grand Rapids Public Museum. This museum offers world-class exhibits on history, nature, cultural heritage, and more. Attendees will have the opportunity to see the 1928 carousel, and catch one of the special Big History shows in the planetarium during the reception festivities.
This is a very exciting event for anyone interested in Big History and World History. The conference will give us all a chance to see some of the many different ways in which Big History is flourishing, and to showcase the many different kinds of research, teaching and creativity that the field is generating. We hope it will also provide many opportunities, both in the formal sessions and in the informal networking, for attendees to discuss where Big History is going, what we need to be working on in the next year or two, what have been our major successes (there are many!), and what are our major challenges. But above all, we hope you will enjoy the conference. Have fun!
David Christian, Fred Spier, Craig Benjamin, Cynthia Brown IBHA Program Committee
IBHA / MWWHA Program Page 1 “The IBHA 2012 conference is intended to be a forum for open, honest, and wide-ranging academic discussions. All views and opinions expressed by participants during the IBHA conference are their sole responsibility. The IBHA does not assume any responsibility and/or liability for facilitating the expression of any views and opinions.”
THURSDAY, AUGUST 2 Welcome to Grand Rapids! 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm | REGISTRATION | Holiday Inn, 310 Pearl Street NW (Lobby)
Registration will be also be available at the Grand Rapids Public Museum lobby from 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm during the Opening Reception, and then continue on Friday at the DeVos Center, Exhibition Hall from 8:00 am - 12:00 pm.
6:00 pm – 8:30 pm | OPENING RECEPTION | Sponsored by the Big History Project Grand Rapids Public Museum, 272 Pearl Street NW
Welcome! The Grand Rapids Public Museum lobby opens at 5:30 for continued registration. The museum doors will open at 6:00 pm for museum viewing or first Planetarium presentation, followed by the Opening Reception that begins at 6:45 pm. After the reception, the 2nd Planetarium presentation will be shown. Please enjoy one of the many restaurants that Grand Rapids has to offer for a wonderful dinner on your own with friends and colleagues.
5:30 pm – 6:00 pm | Welcome and Continued Registration 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm | “Visualizing the Limits of Knowledge” | Robert B. Chaffee Planetarium 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm | Enjoy the Grand Rapids Public Museum 6:45 pm – 8:00 pm | “Reception” (drinks and light passed appetizers)
7:15 pm | “Remarks” Thomas Haas, President, Grand Valley State University David Christian, President, International Big History Association Craig Benjamin, Treasurer, International Big History Association and representative of conference organizing team Tammy Proctor, President, Midwest World History Association Andy Cook, Director, Big History Project Gayle R. Davis, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Grand Valley State University
8:00 pm – 8:45 pm | “Visualizing the Limits of Knowledge” | Robert B. Chaffee Planetarium
Planetarium Presentation
“Visualizing the Limits of Knowledge” | Interactive tour of NASA’s Digital Universe Presented by: David McConville, PhD Candidate, University of Plymouth, Planetary Collegium and President, Buckminster Fuller Institute
IBHA / MWWHA Program Thursday, August 2 Page 2 FRIDAY, AUGUST 3 (Breakfast On Your Own)
8:00 am – 12:00 pm | Registration | Exhibition Hall DeVos Center, GVSU Campus, 401 West Fulton Street, Grand Rapids
9:00 am – 10:30 am | IBHA Session I | DeVos Center
IBHA Panel 1 | Complexity in Big History IBHA Panel 1
Friday, August 3 Chair: David Christian, Professor, Macquarie University, Sydney / WCU Distinguished 9:00 am – 10:30 am Professor, Ewha Womans University, Seoul Room Presenter 1: “Discovery of the Cosmos” | Russell M. Genet, Research Scholar DEV 109D in Residence at California Polytechnic State University, and Adjunct Professor of Astronomy at Cuesta College / San Luis Obispo
Presenter 2: “The Nature and Nurture of Complexity” | William Grassie, Metanexus Institute
Presenter 3: “On the Diversity and Fragility of Complexity in Big History” | Fred Spier, University of Amsterdam / The Netherlands
IBHA Panel 2 | On Pedagogy: Approaches to Constructing and Teaching the Big IBHA Panel 2 History Survey Course Friday, August 3 9:00 am – 10:30 am Chair: Mojgan Behmand, Dominican University of California Room Presenter 1: “Constructing a Survey Big History Course” | Cynthia Brown, Dominican DEV 111D University of California
Presenter 2: “The Case for Awe in Teaching Big History” | Neal Wolfe, Dominican University of California
Presenter 3: “Reflective Writing in the Big History Classroom” | Jaime Castner, Dominican University of California
IBHA / MWWHA Program Friday, August 3, am Page 3 IBHA Panel 3 | Little Big Histories IBHA Panel 3
Friday, August 3 Chair: Craig Benjamin, Grand Valley State University 9:00 am – 10:30 am
Presenter 1: “A(nother) Little Big History of Tiananmen” | Esther Quaedackers, M.Sc., Room University of Amsterdam / The Netherlands DEV 117E
Presenter 2: “The Surfer’s Guide to the Universe: In the Domain of Waves” | Rich Blundell, PhD Candidate, Macquarie University and Founder omniscopic.com
Presenter 3: “Wandering in Search of the Truth – The Importance of Ignorance in Big History” | Jonathan Markley, Associate Professor, California State University Fullerton
IBHA Panel 4 IBHA Panel 4 | But Where’s God in the Story? Big Religion, Models of God and Friday, August 3 Religious Education 9:00 am – 10:30 am
Chair: Cynthia Taylor, Dominican University of California Room DEV 119E Presenter 1: “Big Religion” | Lowell Gustafson, Professor of Political Science, Villanova University, Villanova, PA
Presenter 2: “Teaching and Religious Education in the Light of Big History” | Orla O’Reilly Hazra, PhD Sr. Research Fellow, Xavier Institute for Social Research, St. Xavier’s College / Mumbai, India
Presenter 3: “Big History and Models of God” | Jennifer Morgan, UniverseStories.com
9:00 am – 10:30 am | MWWHA Session I | DeVos Center
MWWHA Panel 1 | Teaching Environmental History MWWHA Panel 1 Presenter 1: “Teaching the Environmental History of Japan” | Tanya S. Maus, Friday, August 3 Wittenberg University 9:00 am – 10:30 am
Presenter 2: “Using Recent Environmental World History Publications in the Classroom” Room | Nikki Magie, Michigan State University (Recipient of MWWHA Graduate Student DEV 121E Award)
Presenter 3: “Changing the Land: Different People, Different Views, Different Uses” | Cynthia Noyes, Olivet College
IBHA / MWWHA Program Friday, August 3, 9 - 10:30 am Page 4 10:30 am – 11:00 am | Coffee Break | Exhibition Hall
Artistic Presentation | Loosemore Auditorium
“And Then There Was You…” | Erika Gronek, M.A., Educational Technologist, Arizona State University
Overview: Erika will discuss the inspiration for and reactions to her children’s book “And Then There Was You…,” and describe the processes used to create it, explore its interpretations and subtext, and discuss potential applications in education.
11:00 am – 12:30 pm | IBHA Session II | DeVos Center
IBHA Panel 5 | On Pedagogy: Approaches to Thresholds, 5, 6, and 7 IBHA Panel 5
Friday, August 3 Chair: Mojgan Behmand, Dominican University of California 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Presenter 1: “Pedagogical Consideration in Teaching Threshold 7: The Agrarian Room Revolution” | Martin Anderson, Dominican University of California DEV 109D
Presenter 2: “Complexity and the Teaching of the 5th Threshold: The Origin and Evolution of Life” | James Cunningham, Dominican University of California
Presenter 3: “Pedagogical Issues and the Teaching of Threshold 6: The Paleolithic Era” | Cynthia Taylor, Dominican University of California
IBHA Panel 6 IBHA Panel 6 | Big History and Ancient World Studies Friday, August 3 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Chair: Lowell Gustafson, Professor of Political Science, Villanova University, Villanova, PA Room DEV 111D Presenter 1: “The Silk Roads and Big History” | Craig Benjamin, Grand Valley State University
Presenter 2: “Evidence and Big History: Classics, Archaeology and Big History” | Peter Edwell, Macquarie University / Sydney, Australia
Presenter 3: “Magic in the Era of Agrarian Civilizations” | Elizabeth Pollard, San Diego State University
IBHA / MWWHA Program Friday, August 3, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm Page 5 IBHA Panel 7 | Thinking on Cosmological Scales IBHA Panel 7
Friday, August 3 Chair: Kathy Schick and Nick Toth (co-chairs), Co-Directors, Stone Age Institute, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Indiana University, Bloomington Room Presenter 1: “Beyond Big History” | Todd Duncan, Director of Science Integration DEV 117E Institute / Physics Instructor, Portland Community College
Presenter 2: “Galactic-scale Macro-engineering: Looking for Signs of Other Intelligent Humanoid Species, as an Exercise in Hope for our own” | Joseph Voros, Senior Lecturer in Strategic Foresight, Swinburne University of Technology / Melbourne, Australia
Presenter 3: “An Experience in Perceiving Cosmological Scales” | Kevin W. Kelley, Infinitaas Creator, Co-Founder, Metanoiaa
IBHA Panel 8 | Big History Perspectives: Learning, Teaching and Experiencing Big IBHA Panel 8 History | Roundtable Friday, August 3 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Chair: Tracy Sullivan, Macquarie University / Sydney, Australia Room Presenter 1: “Flying above the Radar: A PhD Student’s Perspective” | Rich Blundell, DEV 119E PhD Candidate, Macquarie University and Founder omniscopic.com
Presenter 2: “The Explanatory Power of Big History: A Holistic Approach for the University Undergraduate Student” | Ryan Boland, Undergraduate Student, Grand Valley State University
Presenter 3: “A Country Girl Finds Big History” | Cynthia Brown, Dominican University of California
Presenter 4: “Big History, Down Under: An Australian High School Perspective” | Amanda Wriedt, Nossal High School
Presenter 5: “Thinking Big” | Derek Heitman, Green Hills School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
11:00 am – 12:30 pm | MWWHA Session II | DeVos Center
MWWHA Panel 2 | Engaging Students in the World History Classroom: Some MWWHA Panel 2 Reflections | Roundtable Friday, August 3 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Presenter 1: Kate Lang, Instructor Presenter 2: Louisa Rice, Instructor Room Presenter 3: Jessica Ryall, Undergraduate Student Assistant DEV 121E Presenter 4: Derek Schneider, Undergraduate Student Assistant
All presenters from University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
IBHA / MWWHA Program Friday, August 3, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Page 6 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | Lunch Break | Exhibition Hall
12:55 pm – 1:25 pm | Artistic Presentation | Loosemore Auditorium “We Belong” – Time and Place Through the Eyes of Big History Karen Kudebeh, Designer and Producer of Timespirals, Founder of TimeTrace, Inc. Overview: Karen will present visuals that can bridge the worlds of science and art, time and place, past and future. Through this presentation, Karen invites Big History to get even bigger in its scope and impact.
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm | IBHA Session III | DeVos Center
IBHA Panel 9 | Big History and Human Evolution I IBHA Panel 9
Chair: Kathy Schick, Co-Director, Stone Age Institute, Indiana University, Friday, August 3 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Bloomington Room Presenter 1: “The Tyranny of the Prefrontal Cortex” | Jeremy Lent, Independent DEV 109D Scholar
Presenter 2: “Integrating Hominid Evolution into a Big History Perspective on Humanity’s Common Past” | John Mears, Professor of History, Southern Methodist University
Presenter 3: “Big History and Human Evolutionary Studies: New Developments, Discoveries, and Paradigm Shifts” | Nick Toth, Co-Director, Stone Age Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington
IBHA Panel 10 | Big History and Education (Session 1) IBHA Panel 10
Chair: Neal Wolfe, Dominican University of California Friday, August 3 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Presenter 1: “The Big History Account as Support for Behavioral Change toward Room Sustainability” | Dwight Collins, President, Collins Educational Foundation / Core DEV 111D Faculty, Presidio Graduate School
Presenter 2: “Big History and Convergence Education” | Seohyung Kim, Ewha Womans University / Seoul, Korea
Presenter 3: “Focusing - Where do we go from here?” | James Tierney, Social Worker (retired)
IBHA / MWWHA Program Friday, August 3, 12:30 - 3:00 pm Page 7 IBHA Panel 11 | Big History Journeywork: Professional and Personal Paths | IBHA Panel 11 Roundtable Friday, August 3 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Chair: Rich Blundell, PhD Candidate, Macquarie University and Founder omniscopic.com Room DEV 117E Presenter 1: “Iranians Are the New Victorians!” | Mojgan Behmand, Dominican University of California
Presenter 2: “Looking Back at Fragile Spaceship Earth” | Fred Spier, University of Amsterdam / The Netherlands
Presenter 3: “Cosmic Archipelago” | Barry Rodrigue, The Collaborative of Global and Big History, University of Southern Maine
Presenter 4: “Visualizing the Transcalar Imaginary” | David McConville, PhD Candidate, University of Plymouth, Planetary Collegium and President, Buckminster Fuller Institute
Presenter 5: “Crossing a Snowy Divide” | Rich Blundell, PhD Candidate, Macquarie University and Founder omniscopic.com
IBHA Panel 12 | Graduate Students about the Future of Big History | Roundtable IBHA Panel 12
Chair: Esther Quaedackers, M.Sc., University of Amsterdam / The Netherlands Friday, August 3 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Participant: David Baker, PhD Candidate, Macquarie University / Sydney, Australia Room Participant: Isaiah Moose, PhD Candidate, Macquarie University / Sydney, Australia DEV 119E Participant: Tracy Sullivan, Macquarie University / Sydney, Australia Participant: Marcel Koonen, M.Sc. – Software Designer Imaging Systems – Philips Healthcare
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm | MWWHA Session III | DeVos Center
MWWHA Panel 3 | The Environment and Human Developments in World History: MWWHA Panel 3 Three Teaching Ideas Friday, August 3 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Presenter 1: “Comparative Coastal Cities” | Jodi Eastberg, Alverno College Room Presenter 2: “Death Practices and Landscapes” | Jeanne E. Grant, Metropolitan DEV 121E State University
Presenter 3: “Industrial Landscapes and World History” | Tammy M. Proctor, Wittenberg University
IBHA / MWWHA Program Friday, August 3, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Page 8 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Coffee Break | Exhibition Hall
10 minute Introduction Presentation “The Infinitaas Dynamic Visual Timeline: Educating Big Historians to See and Think in Flowing Time” Kevin W. Kelley, Infinitaas Creator, Co-Founder, Metanoiaa /Rachel Bagby, Co-Founder, Metanoiaa
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm | IBHA Session IV | DeVos Center
IBHA Panel 13 | From Visualizing Big History and Complexity to Forming a Global IBHA Panel 13 Ethics Friday, August 3 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Chair: Mojgan Behmand, Dominican University of California Room Presenter 1: “Big History, Big Questions: The Role of the Modern Creation Myth in DEV 109D Forming a Global Ethics” | Lindsey Dean, Dominican University of California
Presenter 2: “Visualizing Complexity: Teaching Industrialization with Charlie Chaplin” | Richard B. Simon, Dominican University of California
Presenter 3: “Visualizing and Creating: Teaching Big History Through Creative Disciplines” | Lynn Sondag, Dominican University of California
IBHA Panel 14 | Mathematics Systems and Complexity in Big History IBHA Panel 14
Friday, August 3 Chair: Russell M. Genet, Research Scholar in Residence at California Polytechnic 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm State University, and Adjunct Professor of Astronomy at Cuesta College / San Luis Obispo Room DEV 111D Presenter 1: “Mathematical Modeling of Biological and Social Phases of Big History” | Andrey Korotayev (presenter), Leonid Grinin, and Alexander Markov (co-authors), Eurasian Center for Big History and System Forecasting, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Presenter 2: “An Exploration of Historical Transitions with Simple System Dynamics Models” | David LePoire, Argonne National Laboratory, Environmental Science Division
Presenter 3: “Life Cycle of an Attractor as a Near-Universal Pattern of Natural and Social Evolution” | Ken Baskin, Fellow, Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence
IBHA / MWWHA Program Friday, August 3, 3:00 - 5:00 pm Page 9 IBHA Panel 15 | Defining Big History Post-Graduate Research| Roundtable IBHA Panel 15
Chair: David Christian, Professor, Macquarie University, Sydney / WCU Friday, August 3 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Distinguished Professor, Ewha Womans University, Seoul Room Participant: David Baker, PhD Candidate, Macquarie University / Sydney, Australia DEV 117E Participant: Isaiah Moose, PhD Candidate, Macquarie University / Sydney, Australia Participant: Rich Blundell, PhD Candidate, Macquarie University and Founder omniscopic.com Participant: Esther Quaedackers, M.Sc., University of Amsterdam / The Netherlands Participant: Shanshan Liu, PhD Candidate, Tsinghua University, China | (presenting via Skype) “Centers and Boundaries from Ancient Times to Modern China: an Analysis from a Big Bang Perspective”
IBHA Panel 16 | Big History and Human Evolution II IBHA Panel 16
Co-Chairs: Kathy Schick and Nick Toth, Co-Directors, Stone Age Institute, Indiana Friday, August 3 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm University, Bloomington Room Presenter 1: “Big Evolution: Two Faces of Humanity’s Shift from the Given to the DEV 119E Made” | Walter Truett Anderson, Past-President World Academy of Art and Science, Author, Independent Political Scientist and Social Psychologist
Presenter 2: “Our own Best Enemy: How Humans Energize their Evolution” | Eelco Runia, Department of History, University of Groningen / The Netherlands
Presenter 3: “Economics as a Physical Science” | Dennis O. Flynn, University of the Pacific (co-author, Jeannette Graulau, Lehman College)
IBHA Panel 17 | Big History and Religion (1) IBHA Panel 17
Chair: Cheryl Genet, Managing Editor of the Collins Foundation Press and Adjunct Friday, August 3 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Professor of Philosophy at Cuesta College / San Luis Obispo Room Presenter 1: “Religion in Big History Courses” | Scott G. Sinclair, Dominican DEV 107D University of California
Presenter 2: “The Poetry of Big History: Readings and Classroom Lessons from The Holy Universe” | David Christopher, Author of The Holy Universe (forthcoming, 2013)
IBHA / MWWHA Program Friday, August 3, 3:30 - 5:00 pm Page 10 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm | MWWHA Session IV | DeVos Center
MWWHA Panel 4 | Incorporating “Borderlands” and “Transnational” Themes into MWWHA Panel 4 World History Survey Courses | Roundtable Friday, August 3 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Chair: William Katerberg, Calvin College Room Presenter 1: Raúl Galván, Milwaukee Public Television and Milwaukee Area DEV 121E Technical College
Presenter 2: William Katerberg, Calvin College
Presenter 3: Andrae Marak, Indiana University — Purdue University, Columbus
Presenter 4: Bill Schell, Murray State University
5:00 pm – 5:30 pm | Artistic Presentation | Loosemore Auditorium “The Infinitaas Dynamic Visual Timeline: Educating Big Historians to See and Think in Flowing Time” Kevin W. Kelley, Infinitaas Creator, Co-Founder, Metanoiaa /Rachel Bagby, Co-Founder, Metanoiaa
Infinitaas is a 4-dimensional visualization platform that takes viewers on a journey through inter-related movements of the Earth, moon, sun, solar system, Milky Way and neighboring galaxies as they move through time. The experience not only allows users to explore and comprehend vast amounts of information and data regarding the human existence, it is an extraordinary tool for visualizing and integrating interdisciplinary scientific information and data, while facilitating an experiential understanding of the history of the cosmos, Earth, life and humanity.
6:00 pm – 8:30 pm | MWWHA Keynote Reception | Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm | Reception | Cocktails and Light Appetizers 7:00 pm – 7:05 pm | Introduction | Tammy Proctor, President, Midwest World History Association 7:05 pm – 7:50 pm | “The Nexus of Incorporating Information and Teaching About the Environment in History” | Lawrence Gundersen (Environmental Historian and Professor, Jackson State Community College, Tennessee) 7:50 pm – 8:10 pm | Q & A Session 8:10 pm – 8:30 pm | “Gerald R. Ford: The Presidency Restored” | Film Viewing
The Gerald R. Ford Museum Exhibits and Gravesite Viewing will be open from 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
IBHA / MWWHA Program Friday, August 3, 3:30 - 8:30 pm Page 11 SATURDAY, AUGUST 4 (breakfast on your own)
The Rapid Bus Service to Allendale Campus - 8:00 am sharp
Meet at Bus Stop on Front Ave under the US 131 overpass between DeVos and Eberhard Center. Buses will arrive at 7:40 am and leave for Allendale at 8:00 am. Buses will arrive at the bus stop on the circle drive (Campus Drive) at the front steps of the Kirkhof Center at approximately 8:30 am.
9:00 am – 10:30 am | IBHA Plenary Session I | Kirkhof Center Room KC 2250 Big History Project Grand River Room Presenter: Andy Cook, Director, Big History Project
Presenter: Bob Bain, Associate Professor, Department of History & School of Education, University of Michigan / Big History Project
Presenter: Deborah Smith Johnston, History Department, Lakeside School
Presenter: Jim Stephens, Big History Coordinator, Denver School of Science and Technology
Big History Project Session Description: The Big History Project course is an introductory social studies course in big history targeting high school students. The course is the “brain child” of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who assembled an outstanding team of technology and education experts to design the course. In this session we will hear about results of the current pilot, which will be expanded to some 50 schools in 2012/13, and to several hundred schools the year after.
10:30 am – 11:00 am | Tea and Coffee Break w/Assorted Pastries | Grand River Room Sponsored by the Big History Project
11:00 am – 12:30 pm | IBHA Plenary Session II | Kirkhof Center Room KC 2250 ChronoZoom | “Making Sense of the Timescales of Big History” Grand River Room Presenters: Roland Saekow, David Shimabukuro, Walter Alvarez, ChronoZoom Lab, University of California, Berkeley | Rane Johnson, Microsoft Research Connections
Session Description: Zoom through time and learn about different techniques and tools for exploring the timescales of Big History with ChronoZoom. ChronoZoom is a free online timeline tool currently being developed by UC Berkeley, Moscow State University in Russia and Microsoft Research. It is available online at http://www.ChronoZoomProject.org. In this session, we will demonstrate the latest features, and ask for your input and ideas. As an open source project, our goal is to make ChronoZoom a great tool for students, teachers and researchers.
IBHA / MWWHA Program Saturday, August 4, am Page 12 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | Lunch Break | Kirkhof Center / Grand River Room
12:55 pm – 1:25 pm | Artistic Presentation | Grand River Room “Enfleshing Big History Through Songs, Parables, and Pilgrimages”| Connie Barlow, TheGreatStory.org Overview: “Big History Parables” are scripted parables featuring talking fish (vertebrates coming onto land), seaweed (origin of land plants), and stars (creation of chemical elements).
1:30 pm –3:00 pm | IBHA Session IV | Honors College and Lake Ontario Hall
IBHA Panel 18 | Big History in Human History IBHA Panel 18
Chair: Elizabeth Pollard, San Diego State University Saturday, August 4 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Presenter 1: “Big Politics” | Lowell Gustafson, Professor of Political Science, Room Villanova University, Villanova, PA HON 218 Honors College Presenter 2: “On Power: George Lucas, Jerry Garcia, and Barack Obama’s Big Black Helicopters” | Richard B. Simon, Dominican University of California
Presenter 3: “’Non-Humans’ Influence on Human History” | Paul Von Ward, Independent Scholar
IBHA Panel 19 | Big History and Education (Session 2) IBHA Panel 19
Chair: Bob Bain, Associate Professor, Department of History & School of Education, Saturday, August 4 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm University of Michigan / Big History Project Room Presenter 1: “First Year Experience “Big History” as the Cornerstone of 21st Century HON 148 Liberal Education” | Mojgan Behmand, Dominican University of California Honors College
Presenter 2: “Big History and Big Teaching: Desegregating Content in the College Curriculum” | Kevin Fernlund, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Presenter 3: “Being Schooled in the Big Picture: Big History as the Framework for the K-12 Social Studies Curriculum” | Brandon Hendrickson, University of Washington
Presenter 4: “Big History and the Secondary Classroom: A 21st Century Approach to Interdisciplinarity?” | Tracy Sullivan, Macquarie University / Sydney, Australia
IBHA / MWWHA Program Saturday, August 4, 12:30 - 3:00 pm Page 13 IBHA Panel 20 | Information in Big History IBHA Panel 20
Chair: Joseph Voros, Senior Lecturer in Strategic Foresight, Swinburne University of Saturday, August 4 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Technology / Melbourne, Australia Room Presenter 1: “Information as a Trans-Disciplinary Concept” | Cameron Gibelyou, LOH 174 Coordinator of Teaching, Programming, and Innovation, University of Michigan / Lake Ontario Hall Multidisciplinary Lecturer and Instructional Consultant
Presenter 2: “Fishing for Aristotle: Artisans, Patrons, and Collective Learning in the Ancient Mediterranean” | Christian Jennings, Assistant Professor of History, Washington and Lee University
Presenter 3: “A Software Designer’s Perspective on Information” | Marcel Koonen, M.Sc. – Software Designer Imaging Systems – Philips Healthcare
IBHA Panel 21 | Big History and Human Evolution III IBHA Panel 21
Chair: James Cunningham, Dominican University of California Saturday, August 4 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Presenter 1: “The Animals of the Spanish Empire: Humans and Other Animals in Big Room History” | Abel A. Alves, Ball State University HON 220 Honors College Presenter 2: “Natural Disasters and Big History” | Karl Benne, Independent Scholar
Presenter 3: “Little Big History and Popular Culture Studies” | Bob Batchelor, School of Journalism, Kent State University
IBHA Panel 22 | Understanding Big History IBHA Panel 22
Chair: Barry Rodrigue, The Collaborative of Global and Big History, University of Saturday, August 4 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Southern Maine Room Presenter 1: “Laws & Rules of Big History Biological and Social Phases” | Leonid LOH 164 Grinin (presenter), Andrey Korotayev, and Alexander Markov (co-authors), Eurasian Lake Ontario Hall Center for Big History and System Forecasting, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Presenter 2: “Understanding Directionality” | Martin Hewson, University of Regina / Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Presenter 3: “On Periodization of the Humankind History” | Sergey N. Grinchenko, Dr. of Technical Sciences, and Julia L. Shchapova, Dr. of Historical Sciences, both of Moscow State M.V. Lomonosov University (MSU) / Moscow, Russia (co-presenting via Skype)
IBHA / MWWHA Program Saturday, August 4, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Page 14 1:30 pm –3:00 pm | MWWHA Session V | Lake Ontario Hall
MWWHA Panel 5 | Humans and the Rest of Nature MWWHA Panel 5
Presenter 1: “Modern Kashmir History and Environment: Water After Partition” | Saturday, August 4 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Lawrence G. Gundersen, Jackson State Community College, University of Memphis, Lambuth, and University of Tennessee, Martin Room LOH 178 Presenter 2: “Pleistocene Overkill? New Findings From Quantitative Global Lake Ontario Hall Analysis” | Paul Jentz, North Hennepin Community College
Presenter 3: “Betrayal of Natural Resources: The Fall of the Angkor and Mayan Civilizations” | Cay Leytham-Powell, Grand View University
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | IBHA Member’s Meeting | Honors College Room HON 150 PM Coffee Served Multi-purpose Room
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | IBHA Session VI | Honors College and Lake Ontario Hall
IBHA Panel 23 | Big History and Education (Session 3) IBHA Panel 23
Chair: Kevin Fernlund, University of Missouri, St. Louis Saturday, August 4 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Presenter 1: “Doing, Learning, Living: The Scope, Value & Potential of Big History” | Room Rich Blundell, PhD Candidate, Macquarie University and Founder omniscopic.com HON 220 Honors College Presenter 2: “Thresholds of Time” (includes short documentary “and then there were Humans”) | Bree Faulkenberg, History Graduate Student, California State University / San Marcos
Presenter 3: “Big History Briefly, Excerpts at the Public Library”| John Hostettler, Mountain View Public Library / Mountain View, CA
IBHA / MWWHA Program Saturday, August 4, 1:30 - 5:30 pm Page 15 IBHA Panel 24 | Big History and the Future IBHA Panel 24
Chair: William Grassie, Metanexus Institute Saturday, August 4 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Presenter 1: “Retrofitting the Future” | Barry Rodrigue, The Collaborative of Global Room and Big History, University of Southern Maine HON 148 Honors College Presenter 2: “Complexity and Consciousness: A Model of Big History Based on Self- organizing Complexity, Incorporating Interiority” | Joseph Voros, Senior Lecturer in Strategic Foresight, Swinburne University of Technology / Melbourne, Australia
Presenter 3: “Beyond Teaching and Research: A Big History Agenda” | Barry Wood, Professor of English, University of Houston
IBHA Panel 25 IBHA Panel 25 | Big History and Religion (2) Saturday, August 4 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Chair: Jennifer Morgan, UniverseStories.com Room Presenter 1: “Evidential Inspiration: The Big Picture on Big History” | Michael LOH 164 Dowd, “The Great Story” Evangelist Lake Ontario Hall
Presenter 2: “Placing Homo Religiosus in Big History” | Philip Novak, Dominican University of California
Presenter 3: “Religion in Big History” | Fred Spier, University of Amsterdam / The Netherlands
IBHA Panel 26 | Collective Learning IBHA Panel 26
Chair: Martin Anderson, Dominican University of California Saturday, August 4 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Presenter 1: “Collective Learning as a Paradigm Idea for Human History” | David Room Christian, Professor, Macquarie University, Sydney / WCU Distinguished Professor, LOH 168 Ewha Womans University, Seoul Lake Ontario Hall
Presenter 2: “The Sogdian Connection: Using Network Science to Understand the Silk Roads” | Isaiah Moose, Macquarie University / Sydney, Australia
Presenter 3: “ Questions, Dynamics, and Future Research Agendas in Collective Learning” | David Baker, PhD Candidate, Macquarie University / Sydney, Australia
IBHA / MWWHA Program Saturday, August 4, 4:00 - 5:30 pm Page 16 IBHA Panel 27 | Walk Through Time | Exhibit to Book to iPhone App IBHA Panel 27
Chair: Michael Babel Saturday, August 4 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Presenter 1: “History of the Walk Through Time” | Geoff Ainscow Room Presenter 2: “Walking Big History Through Locative Media” | Fred Adam LOH 174 Presenter 3: “Big History: a Worldview Revolution” | Michael Babel Lake Ontario Hall Presenter 4: “Big History: a Worldview Revolution” | Lawrence Edwards Presenter 5: “Deep Time Walk: Transformative Integral Education Goes Hiking” | Kat Snow
All presenters are from the Walk Through Time Project
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | MWWHA Session VI | Lake Ontario Hall
MWWHA Panel 6 | Empires and Globalization: Social and Environmental Impacts MWWHA Panel 6
Chair: Pamela Sayre, Henry Ford Community College, Michigan Saturday, August 4 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
th Presenter 1: “Globalization’s 16 Century Birth” | Dennis O. Flynn, University of the Room Pacific LOH 178 Lake Ontario Hall Presenter 2: “Energy, Environment and Social Organization in Major Historical Transitions” | David LePoire, Argonne National Laboratory, Environmental Science Division
Presenter 3: “Comparative Assimilation on the Periphery of Empires: The Tohono O’odham and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands” | Andrae Marak, Indiana University — Purdue University Columbus
IBHA / MWWHA Program Saturday, August 4, 4:00 - 5:30 pm Page 17 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm | Social Hour | The Arboretum (Opportunity to visit the Walk Through Time Exhibit)
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm | Conference Dinner | Kirkhof Center, Grand River Room
7:00 pm | “Welcome” 7:15 pm | “Dinner Served” 8:15 pm | “Big History: A Bridge between Humanities and Sciences” | IBHA Keynote Address by Walter Alvarez, Professor of Geology, University of California Berkeley; introduced by David Christian, President, IBHA 9:30 pm | The Rapid - Buses depart for Grand Rapids
Note: Buses will arrive at the bus stop on the circle drive (Campus Drive) at the front steps of the Kirkhof Center at 9:10 pm and depart around 9:30 pm. Buses will arrive at the bus stop on Front Ave under the US 131 overpass between DeVos and Eberhard Center at approximately 10:00 pm.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 5 (breakfast on your own)
DeVos Center, GVSU Campus, 401 West Fulton Street, Grand Rapids
9:00 am – 10:30 am | IBHA Session VII | DeVos Center
IBHA Panel 28 | Coping with the Learning Curve | Roundtable IBHA Panel 28
Chair: Barry Wood, Professor of English, University of Houston Sunday, August 5 9:00 am – 10:30 am
Participant 1: Cameron Gibelyou, Coordinator of Teaching, Programming, and Room Innovation, University of Michigan / Multidisciplinary Lecturer and Instructional DEV 109D Consultant
Participant 2: Barry Rodrigue, The Collaborative of Global and Big History, University of Southern Maine
Participant 3: Kathy Schick, Co-Director, Stone Age Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington
Participant 4: David Shimabukuro, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley
IBHA / MWWHA Program Saturday Evening Keynote; Sunday Morning Page 18 IBHA Panel 29 | Anthropocene IBHA Panel 29
Chair: John McNeill, Georgetown University Sunday, August 5 9:00 am – 10:30 am
Presenter 1: “Why the Anthropocene Matters on the Scale of Big History” | David Room Christian, Professor, Macquarie University, Sydney / WCU Distinguished Professor, DEV 111D Ewha Womans University, Seoul
Presenter 2: “The Big History of Climate Change” | Dr. Franz Mauelshagen, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities / Essen, Germany
Presenter 3: “The Anthropocene and the Little Ice Age” | Professor Ji-Hyung Cho, Ewha Womans University / Seoul, Korea
IBHA Panel 30 | Cosmic Education: Big History for the Elementary Child IBHA Panel 30
Chair: Cynthia Brown, Dominican University of California Sunday, August 5 9:00 am – 10:30 am
Presenter 1: “The Match Between Montessori’s Cosmic Education and Big History: A Room General Introduction” | Michael Duffy and D’Neil Duffy (both), M.Ed., Montessori DEV 117E Author, Consultant, Teacher/Trainer, Center for Montessori Teacher Education, New York / Instituto Nueva Escuela, Puerto Rico
Presenter 2: “The Timelines of Light, Life and Humans” Traditional Montessori Keys for the Elementary Aged Child” | Dr. John Fowler, Denison Montessori, Denver, Colorado; Adjunct Professor TIES/Endicott Graduate Programs
Presenter 3: “Teaching Big History to the Elementary Age Child Through Storytelling” | Jennifer Morgan, UniverseStories.com
Presenter 4: “Once Upon a Time…There was a Story to be Told” | Jos Werkhoven, (former) Montessori Teacher, Director, Trainer, Developer Educational Material, Publisher
IBHA / MWWHA Program Sunday, August 5, 9:00 - 10:30 am Page 19 IBHA Panel 31 | Big History and Education (Session 4) IBHA Panel 31
Chair: Bob Bain, Associate Professor, Department of History & School of Education, Sunday, August 5 University of Michigan / Big History Project 9:00 am – 10:30 am Room Presenter 1: “The 3C’s and the 3E’s: Teaching the Themes of Communication and DEV 119E Energy in Big History to Secondary School Students” | Deborah Smith Johnston, History Department, Lakeside School
Presenter 2: “Transdisciplinary Learning System “EVOLSH” | Julia Scherbina, Coordinator of Project “EVOLSH”
Presenter 3: “Big History: Problems of Teaching” | Sergey N. Grinchenko, Dr. of Technical Sciences, Moscow State M.V. Lomonosov University (MSU) / Moscow, Russia (presenting via Skype)
9:00 am – 10:30 am | MWWHA Session VII | DeVos Center
MWWHA Panel 7 | Primary Sources and Secondary World History Standards: An MWWHA Panel 7 Oxymoron? Sunday, August 5 9:00 am – 10:30 am Presenter 1: “Primary Sources and Secondary World History Standards: An Oxymoron?” | Thomas W. Barker, University of Kansas Room DEV 121E
10:30 am – 10:45 am | Coffee Break | Exhibition Hall
10:45 – 11:15 am | Artistic Presentation | Loosemore Auditorium “The Infinitaas Dynamic Visual Timeline: Educating Big Historians to See and Think in Flowing Time” Kevin W. Kelley, Infinitaas Creator, Co-Founder, Metanoiaa /Rachel Bagby, Co-Founder, Metanoiaa
IBHA / MWWHA Program Sunday, August 5, 9:00 - 11:15 am Page 20 11:15 am –12:45 pm | IBHA Session VIII | DeVos Center
IBHA Panel 32 | Big History and Education (Session 5) IBHA Panel 32
Chair: Lowell Gustafson, Professor of Political Science, Villanova University, Sunday, August 5 11:15 am – 12:45 pm Villanova, PA Room Presenter 1: “Big History and Multidisciplinary Education” | Cameron Gibelyou, DEV 109D Coordinator of Teaching, Programming, and Innovation, University of Michigan / Multidisciplinary Lecturer and Instructional Consultant
Presenter 2: “The Universal Breakthroughs of Big History: Developing a Unified Theory for Integrative Research and Global Education” | Ken Gilbert, Independent Scholar
Presenter 3: “An ‘Expanding Text-iverse’ Approach to Big History Learning and Teaching Materials” | Joseph Voros, Senior Lecturer in Strategic Foresight, Swinburne University of Technology / Melbourne, Australia
IBHA Panel 33 | Regional Perspectives on Big History IBHA Panel 33
Chair: Barry Rodrigue, The Collaborative of Global and Big History, University of Sunday, August 5 11:15 am – 12:45 pm Southern Maine Room Presenter 1: “Big History and Americanists: A Needed Conversation” | Ian Carr DEV 111D McPherson, Saint Louis University
Presenter 2: “The Educative and Prognostic Implications of Big History” | Akop Nazaretyan, Director, Eurasian Center for Big History and System Forecasting / Moscow, Russia
Presenter 3: “The Prospects of Big History in China” | Sun Yue, Global History Center, School of History, Capital Normal University / Bejing, China
IBHA / MWWHA Program Sunday, August 5, 11:15 am - 12:45 pm Page 21 IBHA Panel 34 | Big History and Human Evolution IV IBHA Panel 34
Chair: Russell M. Genet, Research Scholar in Residence at California Polytechnic Sunday, August 5 11:15 am – 12:45 pm State University, and Adjunct Professor of Astronomy at Cuesta College | San Luis Obispo Room DEV 117E Presenter 1: “Peacemaking in Big History: Tracing Humanity’s Efforts for Peace” | Hope Benne, Adjunct Professor of History, Salem State University
Presenter 2: “Homo sapiens as Homo Symbolicus: Humaniations on the Transformative Powers of symbolic Inheritance and Symbolization” | Jess Hollenback, Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse
Presenter 3: “Mechanoevolution: An Examination of the Coevolution of Humans and Technology” | Bradley Layton, University of Montana College of Technology
IBHA Panel 35 | Big History and Religion (3) IBHA Panel 35
Sunday, August 5 Chair: Fred Spier, University of Amsterdam / The Netherlands 11:15 am – 12:45 pm
Presenter 1: “Religion and the Religious Temperament in Scientific History”| David Room Blanks, Associate Professor, The American University in Cairo / Cairo, Egypt DEV 119E
Presenter 2: “Big History and the Religious Perspective” | Stephen Satkiewicz, National Coalition of Independent Scholars (NCIS)
IBHA / MWWHA Program Sunday, August 5, 11:15 am - 12:45 pm Page 22 11:15 am –12:45 pm | MWWHA Session VIII | DeVos Center
MWWHA Panel 8 | Metaphors, Theology, and Philosophy in Environmental History MWWHA Panel 8
Sunday, August 5 Presenter 1: “Reflections About Tasks We Are Facing for Understanding and 11:15 am – 12:45 pm Explaining the Mokken Success and Our Failure” | Karl Benne, Independent Scholar Room Presenter 2: “Vengeance or Justice: How Poseidon and Zeus’ Responses to Odysseus’ DEV 121E Violation of Xenia Demonstrates a New Worldview” | Jason J. Hansen, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Presenter 3: “Humanity’s Changing Metaphors of Nature” | Jeremy Lent, Independent Scholar
Presenter 4: “France and Late Joseon Korea: Religion and Imperialism” | Carl H. Sobocinski, Yonsei University / Republic of Korea
12:45 pm -1:45 pm | Lunch Break | Exhibition Hall
1:10 pm – 1:40 pm | Artistic Presentation | Loosemore Auditorium “The Poetry of Big History: Readings and Classroom Lessons from The Holy Universe” | David Christopher, Author of The Holy Universe (forthcoming, 2013) Overview: David will use excerpts from his book and introduce the Big History narrative through the literary and poetic lens of the storyteller.
1:45 pm – 3:15 pm | IBHA Session IX | DeVos Center
IBHA Panel 36 | Big History and Human History IBHA Panel 36
Chair: Jonathan Markley, Associate Professor, California State University Fullerton Sunday, August 5 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm Presenter 1: “From Hunters to Ranchers, and Beyond: The Experience of Indian and Room Metis Communities during a Period of Transition in the Northern Borderlands of the DEV 109D American West” | Robert R. Foxcurran, Independent Historian
Presenter 2: “Limiting Understanding: Dogmas, Doctrine, and Big History” | Jonathan White, Grand Valley State University
Presenter 3: “A Conceptual Analysis of Big History’s Claims to Systematicity and Systematic Methodology” | Robert Drury King, Associate Professor, Sierra Nevada College, Nevada
IBHA / MWWHA Program Sunday, August 5, 11:15 am - 3:15 pm Page 23 IBHA Panel 37 | Big History and Education (Session 6) IBHA Panel 37
Chair: Rich Blundell, PhD Candidate, Macquarie University and Founder Sunday, August 5 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm omniscopic.com Room Presenter 1: “Big History Beads: A Flexible Pedagogical Method” | Jonathan DEV 111D Cleland-Host, Materials Scientist (HSC) / Adjunct, Saginaw Valley State University
Presenter 2: “Regarding Relations: How to Organize in Relation with Everything” | Anne-Marie Poorthuis, Eigentijdse Verbindingen
Presenter 3: “Big History and 3rd Culture: A Student’s Perspective” | Duncan Ross, Dominican University of California
IBHA Panel 38 | Evolutionary Approaches to Big History IBHA Panel 38
Chair: Andrew Peterson, University of Hawaii Sunday, August 5 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm
Presenter 1: “Empirical Proof of the Continuity and Common Principle of Major Room Events of Big History” | Richard L. Coren, Emeritus Professor, Drexel University DEV 117E
Presenter 2: “Generous Genes and the Tree of Life” | Cathy Russell, Epic of Evolution.com
Presenter 3: “From the Big Bang to the World Wide Web: A Framework for Approaching Big History” | Kathy Schick, Co-Director, Stone Age Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington
IBHA Panel 39 | How a Trilobite Managed Water to Colonize Earth: Undergraduate IBHA Panel 39 Students’ Little Big Histories Sunday, August 5 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm Chair: Esther Quaedackers, M.Sc., University of Amsterdam / The Netherlands Room Presenter 1: “Geology from a Big History Perspective” | Melanie During DEV 119E
Presenter 2: “Willful Waters” | Hans van Twuiver
Presenter 3: “Understanding Colonialism” | Annaliese Dempsey (presenting via Skype)
All presenters are from the University of Amsterdam / The Netherlands
IBHA / MWWHA Program Sunday, August 5, 1:45 - 3:15 pm Page 24 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm | MWWHA Session IX | DeVos Center
MWWHA Panel 9 | Revolutions and State Politics: Their Influence on MWWHA Panel 9 Environmental History Sunday, August 5 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm Presenter 1: “The Brazilian Revolt and the Popular Front: A Case Study in Worldwide Interconnectedness of Soviet Policy” | Anthony Fox, University of Wisconsin-Eau Room Claire DEV 121E
Presenter 2: “Birds, Rice, and Farming: The Impacts of Transnational Law on Local Rice Farmers in Valencia, Spain, 1980-2000” | Sarah R. Hamilton, University of Michigan (Recipient of MWWHA Graduate Student Award)
Presenter 3: “Making History: The 2011 Egyptian Uprising and its Historical Antecedents” | Lindsey Rindo, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Presenter 4: “The Asante and the ‘Eight Great Roads’” | Benjamin Wendorf, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
3:15 pm – 3:30 pm | Coffee Break | Loosemore Auditorium
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Wrap-Up Session | Loosemore Auditorium
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm | After Glow Reception | Exhibition Hall
Thank you for participating and making this a successful conference!
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A B C D E F G H To Downtown Allendale
AVE. Building Key 40TH LAKE MICHIGAN DR. To Grand Rapids
1 Alumni House & Visitor Center (AH) ...... E1
2 Au Sable Hall (ASH) ...... F5
3 Alexander Calder Fine Arts Center (CAC) ...... G6 1
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8 Children’s Enrichment Center (CC)...... C5 A ER M E NT 9 The Commons (COM) ...... F4 C 66 E P I C E U V 10 The Connection (CON) ...... E7 61 S 47 Lot A R E E S IN 11 Cook Carillon Tower...... E5 D V F A R 12 Cook–DeWitt Center (CDC) ...... E5 E. 53 16 Lot B2 D C R 13 James M. Copeland Living Center (COP) ...... F3 S . T 52 17 14 Richard M. DeVos Living Center (DLC) ...... G2 A 2 D G B 15 Fieldhouse (FH) ...... E3 IU 77 M . Lot D 14 H R 15a Recreation Center (RC)...... E4 A D 54 62 16 Football Center (FC) ...... C2 42 DR Lot B1 17 Edward J. Frey Living Center (FLC)...... G2 . 34
Grand Valley Apartments (GVA): W. RAVINE CENTER 59 18 Benzie...... F9 76 28 33 Lot C West Lot C Lot 71 19 Keweenaw...... F9 D1 35 20 Mackinac...... F9 Tennis 21 Oakland ...... F8 Courts 22 O ce ...... F9 13 60 65 3 23 Tuscola ...... F8 R 73 E 24 Wexford ...... F8 Lot E S I . D 25 Grand Valley State Univ. Arboretum...... F5 Laker E 31 R D 43 N . 26 Great Lakes Plaza...... F5 Softball C R Diamond 15 E 27 Henry Hall (HRY)...... E4 D
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29 29 Icie Macy Hoobler Living Center (HLL)...... G4
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43 44 31 Kelly Family Sports Center (KTR) ...... D3
30 (KC) 32 Russel H. Kirkhof Center ...... E5
33 William A. Kirkpatrick Living Center (KRP) ...... G3 4 9
34 Robert Kleiner Commons (KLC)...... F2 Laker Lot F 55 Grand River and
Baseball E 75 35 Grace Olsen Kistler Living Center (KIS) ...... F3 Grand Valley G 36 Lake Huron Hall (LHH)...... F5-6 Diamond LA 57 Boathouse IL S 41 (LHM) V U 37 Lake Michigan Hall ...... F6 Lot G P Little Mac (LOH) M
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46 Meadows Learning Center (MLC)...... A5 D R Lot M 47 Multi-Purpose Facility (MPF) ...... C2 Lot K . Lot 48 Mark A. Murray Living Center (MUR)...... F7 DR. N
40 49 Glenn A Niemeyer East Living Center (NMR)...... F-G7 R DE 70 50 Glenn A Niemeyer Honors Hall (HON)...... F7 AL 50 C 51 Glenn A Niemeyer West Living Center (NMR) ...... F7 10 48 49 52 North Living Center A (NLA) ...... F2 51 53 North Living Center B (NLB)...... G2 7
(NLC) 54 North Living Center C ...... G2 D Lot P R 55 Arnold C. Ott Living Center (OLC) ...... G4 40 . 56 Outdoor Recreation & Athletic Fields...... B-C5 57 Seymour & Esther Padnos Hall of Science (PAD) F4 Lot J 74 58 Performing Arts Center (PAC) ...... E-F6 59 Robert C. Pew Living Center (PLC)...... G3 60 William F. Pickard Living Center (PKC)...... G3 0 250 500 1,000 66 Public Safety (in Service Building)...... E2 PIERCE ST. 61 Ravine Apartments (RA)...... D2 Map Scale in Feet WT 62 Ravine Center (RC) ...... D2 67 6 8 63 Kenneth W. Robinson Living Center (ROB) ...... F3 Map Legend Parking Key 64 Seidman House (SH)...... F6 4 65 Bill & Sally Seidman Living Center (SLC)...... G3 University Buildings 66 Service Building (SER) ...... E2 00 Admissions Parking 67 South Apartment C (SAC) ...... F8 Parking Lots 24 21 23 Faculty/Sta Parking 68 South Apartment D (SAD) ...... F9 State Highway 69 South Apartment E (SAE)...... E9 69 20 Handicap Parking (SUB) Main Roads 70 South Utilities Building ...... G7 68 22 Loading Zone 71 Dale Sta ord Living Center (STA)...... H3 Minor Campus Roads 72 Student Services Building (STU)...... F4-5 Residential Parking 73 Maxine M. Swanson Living Center (SWN) ...... H3 Pathways/Sidewalks 19 Student Parking 9 74 Ronald F. VanSteeland Living Center (VLC) ...... F7 18 IBHA / MWWHA Program Arboretum (with Walkway) Page 26 75 Ella Koeze Weed Living Center (WLC) ...... F4 Lot R Visitor Parking 76 West Living Center A (WLA) ...... F3 Pond Map by Christopher J. Bessert • 3/2012 (Rev. 17) 77 West Living Center B (WLB)...... F2 To Fillmore St www.chrisbessert.org (616) 878-4285 78 James H. Zumberge Library (JHZ) ...... F5 42ND AVE. and Jenison ©2005, 2012 Grand Valley State University RobertRobert C.C. PewPew GrandGrand RapidsRapids CampusCampus A B C D E F G H BRIDGE TO 196 Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences Inset ST. GERALD R. FORD FREEWAY 196 1
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Parking 13 FRONT AVE. 10 Peter F. Secchia Hall (SRH)...... B7 DeVos Ramp C 11 L. William Seidman Center (2012) ...... xx Lot 5 River Eberhard 12 Winter Hall (WIN) ...... B7-8 5 MOUNT VERNON Lot Pedestrian Bridge B D Parking Facilities 5 5 14 13 DeVos Lot ...... B5-6 Seward 14 Eberhard Lot...... C-D6 Lot 5A E 5 6 15 Front Lot ...... B-C9 WINTER W. 19 8 16 Fulton Lot...... D7 FULTON 2 ST. 7 17 Mount Vernon Lot...... C8 6 18 SecchiaMONROE AVE. Lot...... B7 . W. FULTON E ST. 19 Seward Lot...... OTTAWA AVE. A-B6 V Admiral A 10 20 Seward Parking Ramp (SPL) ...... A-B5
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FRONT Feet GELOCK PL. GELOCK Map by Christopher J. Bessert • 12/2011 (Rev. 9) www.chrisbessert.org (616) 878-4285 EMPEROR ST. ©2005, 2011 Grand Valley State University The IBHA and MWWHA would like to thank Microsoft Research Connections for generously provid- ing the conference bags for our delegates. We would also like to thank Karen Christiansen and Berkshire Publishing for providing copies of David Christian’s book, This Fleeting World to all our delegates; and advertising sponsorships from University of California Press, The New Press, and Wiley-Blackwell.
We would like to thank the attendees that have supplied their work and books for display at the confer- ence and encourage you to take the time to look at the books on exhibit in the Exhibition Hall during the conference. Among the larger displays exhibited and shared are the “Walk Through Time Project” to be housed at Grand Valley State University’s Arboretum for a limited time; the “Mural of Time,” a visual Big History in one scenic glance, shared by Stuart Silverstone; and TimeSpirals, shared by Karen Kudebeh of TimeTrace, Inc.
The IBHA would like to thank Nancy Crowe for her design of the IBHA logo and Lowell Gustafson for his work on this program. The MWWHA would like to thank Nay Aung, College of St. Scholastica Class of 2013, for designing the new MWWHA logo.
Note: MWWHA presenters are encouraged to submit their papers to Middle Ground Journal, published by the MWWHA, after the conference at http://www2.css.edu/app/depts/HIS/historyjournal/.
DeVos Center, GVSU
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