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Celebrations In an era of globalization, rituals and popular celebrations live on and become doubly important

• Birth
• Childhood I
• Childhood II
• Adulthood I
• Adulthood II
• Adulthood III
• Death

Learning A tradition several millenniums old: learning at school.

• Antiquity
• The Middle Ages
• 16th Century - 18th Century
• 19th Century
• 20th century

Secrets of aging Some would say that we age as we have lived..

• Future Forecast
• Heart Ages
• Bea
• Charlie
• Maggie
• Sarah
• Thomas
• Nabuco
• How Do You Defy Aging?

Foreign being - Our images of the other Some would say that we age as we have lived..

• Types
• Individuals

Global garden - Reconciling Man and Nature
Nine “commandments” to save the earth

• Do not harm the earth
• Welcoming the gardener's allies
• Encouraging interaction between living beings
• Managing water resources
• Building human dwellings
• Preserving the garden
• Tending the earth
• Doing your share for nature
• Producing without depleting

The great illusion
To what extent can we repair, duplicate, conserve, represent or reinvent the human body?

• Repairing the body
• Duplicating the body
• Preserving the body
• Depicting the body
• Reinventing the body

• Life and death
• Denial of death
• Veneration of ancestors

God'S Millennia
Humans always look for a meaning to life, death and the universe

• Intimations of an afterlife
• Anthropomorphic gods
• The one true god
• Three forms of revealed monotheism
• The creation
• The moral code
• Hope
• What is the face of the one god?
• God speaks to people and people speak to God
• Faith
• Commitment to god
• Renewing one's faith in god
• Meditation

Memory of the 20TH century
Discover traces from life and testimonials by unknown people.

• Love memories
• Family memories
• War memories
• School memories
• Aging memories
• War memories

Metissages Human beings, nature, culture, technology… everything is crossed!

• Metissage languages
• Metissage cultures
• Metissage ancestors
• Metissage man and the machine
• Metissage species
• Metissage reinvented

Everyday religion Expressions of great religions in a multicultural society.

• Buddhism
• Christianity
• Hinduism
• Islam
• Judaism
• Sikhism

SLO 2000
Individuals & statistics: the power of images and numbers.