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June 6, 2025 @ 10 am | MIT GHI hosts its 3rd Forum!
Dear colleagues, students, and friends, Join us for the 2025 GHI 3rd Forum! This session introduces the GHI Pillar Good Governance in Bad Times, in particular the project Comparative Diplomacies for Global Governance. The coordinators of the pillar invite participants to explore how we might study models of governance that have historically promoted cooperation, human flourishing, and social justice, with new…
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May 14, 2025 | Celebrate Global Humanities @ MIT for a Better World
Join us on our journey toward building a better world! The Global Humanities Initiative (GHI) was born in 2021 with the goal of creating an MIT-based worldwide community that works globally towards reinvigorating humanistic learning and education by radically expanding the geographical scope and temporal depth of humanistic disciplines, thereby reimagining their critical relevance to the grand challenges…
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April 11, 2025 | MIT GHI hosts its 2nd Forum!
Join us for the 2025 GHI 2nd Forum! This session introduces The Good Life: Religions, Philosophies & Sciences pillar inviting participants to explore how do religious, philosophical, and scientific ways of thinking and being foster good lives in an uncertain world. 2nd GHI Forum 【Abstract】 How do religious, philosophical, and scientific ways of thinking and being nurture good lives?…
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March 26, 2025 | MIT GHI co-hosts Studies on al-Andalus in the Contemporary World
On March 26, 2025, Profs. Nasser Rabbat and Margery Resnick will hold an event at the International Institute in Madrid, Spain to bring together experts across the field of Islamic Iberia and to set the stage for further global activities in this sphere. This meeting of experts in the fields of architecture, music, art history,…
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March 21, 2025 | MIT GHI Panel: Humanisms & Renaissances Across World History—A Timely & Casual Conversation
You are cordially invited to join a globe-spanning conversation on Humanisms & Renaissances across world history sponsored by the MIT Comparative Global Humanities Initiative (GHI) and Ancient and Medieval Studies (AMS). CONVERSATION TOPIC: Humanism is a belief system or attitude that appreciates the agency of human beings in this world. Proponents of humanism believe that humans have…