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 Back to Glance |
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
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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
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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
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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
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