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Agenda   
                                      Agenda-at-a-Glance
             
            Pre-Conference  Getting Acquainted with Each Other & the Islands (Optional)
     
Wednesday, January 2   Optional activities
    Thursday, January 3   Optional activities (during the day)
          Opening Evening   E Komo Mai (Welcome)
    Thursday, January 3
  
Evening Reception, Welcomes, Celebrating the Story, and Inaugural Presentation

                              Part One    Science's Story
         Friday, January 4   The Epic Story as Science and History
    Saturday, January 5  
The Epic Story of Humanity

                Intermission    Relax and Refocus
       Sunday, January 6
  
Optional activities / Luau Buffet, Evening Presentations 

                      Part Two    Humanity's Response

      Monday, January 7  
The Epic, Art, Culture, and Meaning
     Tuesday, January 8   The Epic, Spirituality,
Ethics, and the Future
          Post-Conference   Saying Aloha to Each Other and the Islands (Optional)
Wednesday, January 9   Linger with friends or enjoy optional activities.  
                                       
Informal Aloha Lunch and Dinner

Detailed Agenda
(Click Here for a printable version with all speakers and special focus participants)

 

Pre-Conference - Getting Acquainted with Each Other & the Islands (Optional)

Come early, enjoy pre-conference camaraderie, and island sightseeing. There are many optional activities and tours that conference participants can arrange and enjoy. Assistance in organizing and arranging tours and activities will be provided by conference organizers and the Makaha Resort staff. Transportation can be arranged to any destination - even just a trip to Waianae for local shopping or dining.  Participant's guests are welcome at social events, tours, & activities throughout the conference. Local activities include swimming, golfing, hiking, ukulele lessons, hula lessons, beach trips, and loafing!

Wednesday, January 2

Plan an all day tour, a half-day tour or activity, or just relax at the Makaha resort

12:30   Get acquainted no-host luncheon
            (if you are not out sightseeing!)
  5:30   Sunset social hour
  6:30   No-host dinner           
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Thursday, January 3 (Day)

Plan an all day tour, a half-day tour or activity, or just relax at the Makaha resort

12:30   Get acquainted no-host luncheon
            (if you are not out sightseeing!)
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Opening Day - E Komo Mai  (Welcome)

Thursday, January 3 (Evening)

5:00-5:30   Sunset social time (name tags and welcome packets)
5:30-6:45   No host buffet dinner
6:45-7:30
   E Komo Mai dessert reception
                   Courtesy of Pronto Professional Seminars - Mahalo!
7:30-9:00   Welcomes - Hawaii State Senator, Les Ihara Jr., Dwight Collins,    
                                            Russ and Cheryl Genet
                        Celebrating the Universe's Story in Hawaii - Pauline Le Bel
                        and Evening Inaugural Speaker
            
           Brian Swimme - co-author of The Universe Story


    9:00 - ?   Pau Hana social time                          
                                                                           
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Name tags and welcome packets will be available at the social time and reception

Pau, pronounced pow, hana means “finished work”

Part One - Science's Story

Friday, January 4     The Epic Story as Science and History

  8:00-  9:30
    General Sessions
  9:30-10:00    Break and Refreshments
10:00 - 1:00    Special Focus Sessions (with breaks)
                            "Teaching Big History"
                            "The Evolution of Religion"
 
    1:00-5:30
    Open Space and Free Time

   
5:30-6:15    Sunset social time
    6:15-7:30
    No-host dinner
   7:30- 9:00    Evening Theme Presentations
                            Walter Alvarez - "The Character of Big History:
                                                         A Geological Perspective"
                            David Christian - "Some Enchanted Evening:
                                                         History and Science after the
                                                         Chronometric Revolution"
         9 :00-?    Pau Hana social time                      

                                                                                              Back to Glance
Saturday, January 5    The Epic Story of Humanity
 
  8:00-  9:30
    General Sessions
  9:30-10:00    Break and Refreshments
10:00-  1:00    Special Focus Sessions (with breaks)
                             "Critical Thresholds in Human Evolution"
 
    1:30-5:30    Open Space and Free Time

    4:00-5:30    Film Screening - "Ethneogenisis"
    5:30-6:15
    Sunset social time
    6:15-7:30
    No-host dinner
   7:30- 9:00    Evening Theme Presentations
                           Carlos Camargo - "Fire and Civilization"
                           Stephen Sass - "The Substance of Civilization"
         9 :00-?    Pau Hana social time  

                                                                                               Back to Glance

Intermission - Relax and Refocus

Sunday, January 6 (Daytime Off)

           12:30   Discussion and sharing no-host lunch
                        (if you are not out sightseeing!)


    5:00-5:30   Sunset social time
    5:30-7:30   Hawaiian Luau Buffet
                       Entertainment courtesy of the Orion Institute and Orion Observatory - Mahalo!
    7:30-9:00   Evening Presentation -
Joel Primack & Nancy Abrams
                          
 
"The View from the Center of the Universe"
   
 
         9:00- ?   Pau Hana social time
                                                                        Back to Glance

Part Two - Humanity's Response

Monday, January 7    The Epic, Art, Culture, and Meaning
                                  

  8:00-  9:30    General Sessions
  9:30-10:00    Break and Refreshments
10:00-  1:00    General Sessions (with breaks)
                          
 
   1:00-5:30
     Open Space - Free Time

    4:00-5:30    Islands of Sustainability Panel
   
5:30-6:15    Sunset social time
    6:15-7:30
    No-host dinner
   7:30- 9:00    Evening Theme Presentations
                           John Mears - "Implications of the Epic for our
                                                  Understanding of Human History"
                           Chris Corbally - "An Astronomer's Faith within an
                                                   an Evolutionary Cosmos

         9 :00-?    Pau Hana social time  

                                                                          
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Tuesday, January 8  The Epic, Spirituality, Ethics, and the Future

   8:00-  9:30    General Overview
   9:30-10:00    Break and Refreshments
 10:00-11:20    General Sessions
 11:30-1:00      Special Focus Session

                             "Opportunities for Cosmocentric Catholicism"
   1:00-5:30
      Open Space and Free Time

     5:30-6:15    Sunset social time
     6:00-7:30    Aloha Buffet Dinner
     7:30-9:00    Evening Presentations -
                         Saying Aloha and Looking to the Future
                            Dwight Collins -
"The Epic, Sustainability, and
                                                       the Future
                            Peter Hess -
“Theological Problems and Promises
                                                   of an Evolutionary Paradigm”          
                            Pauline Le Bel -
"Aloha and the Universe Story"

     9:00-9:15    Closing Remarks - Russ and Cheryl Genet
         9:15 - ?    Pau Hana social time
                                                                          
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Post-Conference (Optional) - Saying Aloha to Each Other and the Islands

Wednesday, January 9

Plan an all day tour, a half-day tour or activity, or relax at the Makaha resort
 
12:30   Aloha no-host luncheon
            (if you are not out sightseeing!)
  5:30   Sunset social hour
  6:30   No-host aloha dinner            
 

Back to Glance