- GHI Forum Series
Join our online 2025 GHI Forum Series to hear about GHI’s research and action plan for each pillar from our pillar coordinators, explore common passions and interests, and discuss how you can join our efforts and particular projects.
We convene each month on a mid-month Thursday or Friday from 8 am to 9.30 am EST.
1st GHI Forum
- Title: A Journey into Presence, Practice, and Complexity
- Date: February 21, 8:00–9:30 AM EST
- Speakers: Jonas Mago, Justus Wachs
2nd GHI Forum
- Title: Good Governance in Bad Times
- Date: March 28, 8:00–9:30 AM EST
- Speakers: Wiebke Denecke, Johannes Makar, Michael Puett
3rd GHI Forum
- Title: The Good Life: Religions, Philosophies & Sciences
- Date: April 11, 8:00–9:30 AM EST
- Speakers: Rafal K. Stepien, Simran Jeet Singh, Andreas Ohlemacher, Wiebke Denecke
4th GHI Forum
- Title: Public Literacies: Civic Systems, Media & Emotional Intelligence
- Date: May 9, 8:00–9:30 AM EST
- Speakers: Richard Eberhardt, Gabor Hollbeck, Mikael Jakobsson
2. GHI Comparative Global Dialogues
Join GHI members of our Area Expert hub, as they join GHI project leaders in comparatively exploring a particular research topic across millennia of human experience on our planet. Our Dialogues series will be kicked off in May.
3. Launch events
- Launching MIT GHI’s “Legacies for Our Future” Challenge
With Grammy® Award-Winning multi-style cello player, composer, singer, and educator Mike Block
And Byungmo Chung, Director of the School of Minhwa (Korean Folk Painting), Seoul
(mid-May)
- Why and How to Build Regional Area Expertise in a Global Age: MIT’s Global Humanities Initiative Launches its Asian Hub at Korea University
- Location: Korea University, Seoul
- Date: 24-25 April, 2025
4. 4th Annual Conference of the MIT Comparative Global Humanities Initiative.
- Title: “Creating Desirable Legacies for Our Future in an Age of STEM & Big Tech”
- Location: Korea University, Seoul
- Date: 20-21 November, 2025