Conferences

2023 Conferences:

• NSS North American Annual Conference. May, 2023 at RSH, Ann Arbor, MI.
  Are you missing your colleagues? What have you been doing during these past months and years? Are you interested in sharing your work? Your vision of our future work? What are the questions we carry concerning the future and the next 100 years of Anthroposophical study and research in the natural sciences? 

2022 Conferences:

• Dancing with Polarities – The Human Being between Nature and Technology
  October 6 – 9, 2022, at the Goetheanum. See flyer here.

2021 Conferences:

• Monthly Colloquia based on the NSS Goetheanum Autumn Conference Oct. 1-4, 2020: The Climate Needs Our Change? (Use this LINK for more information about the October 2020 Conference). For more information, see this page.
• Evolving Science at the Goetheanum. 

Oct. 7-10, 2021: From Living Thinking to Living with Nature – Approaches, Challenges, and Perspectives of a Sustainable Science. 

The zoom link for guests who want to attend regularly (CHF 120 regular fee / CHF 90 reduced rate – for the whole conference) needs to be booked here: https://science.goetheanum.org/en/conferences-colloquia/evolving-science-2021/translate-to-en-livestream-online-ticket

2020 CONFERENCES:

• NSS Annual Conference October 1-4 at the Goetheanum (in German) on Climate. Click HERE for registration for the conference or for the post-conference English translations and discussion cafes.
• Summer Geology Conference July 30 – August 1, Bancroft, ON. Conference moved online. Reports forthcoming. Flyer 

2019 CONFERENCES:

• Annual Conference took place November 13-17 at Rudolf Steiner House, Ann Arbor, MI. Click for schedule, flyer, or recordings.
  • Theme: What is the Earth asking of Us? The Human Soul and the Earth in Crisis. A Working Conference: Changing our Thinking about Climate Change.

2018 CONFERENCES:

• The Annual Conference took place November 7-11 at Threefold Educational Center, Chestnut Ridge, NY. For videos of the presentations by Dr. Peter Heuser, click 2018 Conference Lecture Recordings.

2017 CONFERENCES:

• Annual NSS Conference was held November 9-13 in Ann Arbor, MI. A pre-conference lecture was given on the evening of Nov. 8.
  • THEME: CW 323 Interdisciplinary Astronomy.

• The Science Section 2017 Summer-University.
  Program brochure: https://ds.goetheanum.ch:7001/sharing/nw5S0DOzx
  Date: August 20 – September 1, 2017
  Location: Lötschental and Dornach
  Theme: Colour in the Elements; Elements of Colour
  Languages: English and Chinese Mandarin
• Evolving Morphology Conference at the Research Institute of the Goetheanum in Dornach, 4 – 8 October 2017. In the dawn of epigenetic inheritance, the phenotype regains a prominent position in evolutionary thinking, as traits acquired during the lifetime of individual organisms can be passed on to further generations. It is time to reconsider concepts leading towards an understanding not only of the survival – which has been well established – but the arrival of the fittest. For this reason, we look forward to celebrating the 200-year anniversary of the publication of Goethe’s notebooks under the title Zur Morphologie (On Morphology), with a conference. Format: 20-minutes (approximately 15 min. for presentation and 5 min. for discussion). Contributions in either German or English are welcome.
  The link for online submission is:
  http://www.forschungsinstitut.ch/en/conferences-colloquia/evolving-morphology-17/contributions/
  Registration: link.  The conference will be held in both German and English.

Past Conferences:

2016:

• 2016 Annual Meeting of The North American Geology Group: Asking The Granite Itself About Its Origin, A Dialogue with Manifestations of Goethe’s Archetypal Rock within the Coastal Maine Lithotectonic Block Dates: 3pm Tuesday, August 23rd to 3pm Sunday, August 28th (Goethe’s Birthday). Location: Water Research Institute in Blue Hill, Maine. Conference Details and registration.
• Annual NSS Conference was held December 1-4 in Ann Arbor, MI. Invitation. Conference agenda, housing, registration TBA.

2015:

• • Picture Forming Methods, Nov. 18-22, Chicago, IL. Conference Report. Article by John Barnes on Picture Forming

• • Evolving Science, International Conference of the Science Section at the Goetheanum, 9/30 – 10/4. Conference Report. Also a workshop report.

• The Delicate Balance of GAIA, 8/6 – 8/10, Bear River, Nova Scotia

2014: “The Path Towards Understanding the Imponderable in Nature: Enlivening Our Understanding through Color” in Portland, OR.

• Conference Report
• Conference Announcement
• Conference Schedule

2013: “Humanness and Animalness: Pathways to Experiencing the Invisible within the Visible” at The Nature Institute in Harlemville, NY.

2012: “The Threefold Principle in the Human and Animal Organism with a Focus on Recursion: Cultivating Metamorphic Thinking” with Mark Riegner, in Chicago, IL.

2011: “Experiencing Moving, Forming and Rhythm In Water Flow: An Approach to the Fluid Event of Water” at the Water Research Institute in Blue Hill, ME.

2010: “A Study of the Spherical and Radial Principles in the Human and Animal Systems, with a Focus on Horns and Antlers” in Chicago, IL.

2009:“Metamorphosis and Imagination”in Chicago, IL..

2008: “The Art of Research: Cultivating Feeling as an Organ of Perception for Scientists” in Portland, OR.

2007: ”Metamorphosis in Embryology” at Life Forms Studio in Amherst, MA.

2006: “About the Formative Forces in the Plant: A Study of the Fslower” in Portland, OR.

2005: “About the Formative Forces in the Plant: A Study of the Leaf” in Portland, OR.