Big History and Great Transition

GTI Forum

Big History and Great Transition

May 2023

Elaborations

Panel 1

Elaborations

Bummel

Andreas Bummel

Big Citizenship

Bunzl

John Bunzl

Governing a
Shared World

Camakaris

Helen Camakaris

What Evolution
Teaches

Juego

Bonn Juego

The Task of
History

Karlberg

Michael Karlberg

Narratives of
Unity

Keller

Catherine Keller

Our
Multifaceted
World

Murphy

Brian Murphy

From Big History
to Big Action

Patomäki

Heikki Patomäki

Emerging Stories
to Live By

Sampson

Scott Sampson

Cosmo-Local
Awareness

Voros

Joseph Voros

The Power of
the Long View

Zabihi

Selvi Adaikkalam
Zabihi

Zooming Out,
Zooming In

Zalasiewicz

Jan Zalasiewicz

Confronting a
Different World

Interrogations

Panel 2

Interrogations

Anderson

Greg Anderson

Plural Histories

Agozino

Biko Agozino

Decolonizing History

Coole

Diana Coole

Linking Micro
and Macro

de Graaf

John de Graaf

Big Impacts of
Small
Inspirations

Eisler

Riane Eisler

Through-Lines
of Domination

Falk

Richard Falk

Action vs.
Abstraction

Kesson

Kathleen Kesson

Diverse Ways
of Knowing

Lent

Jeremy Lent

Escaping
Modernism

Lindner

Evelin Lindner

Logics of the
Human Story

Sideris

Lisa Sideris

Old Myths,
New Bottles

Singh

Vandana Singh

Beyond Grand
Narratives

Taylor

Angus Taylor

Whither
Agency?

What does the longest arc of history tell us about our global moment? In his opening essay, David Christian explores how the Big History framework illuminates where we are and clarifies what we must do. Panel 1 affirms and expands the framework; Panel 2 raises questions about its utility for a Great Transition.