MIT Comparative Global Humanities
Listen to Wiebke Denecke and Lucas Klein sketch their pioneering vision for bringing the world’s classical literatures to today’s readers, in an interview with Oxford’s Tian Yuan Tan:
Interview panel for the launch of the Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature (OUP) at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), May 30 2024
Our vision was featured in Inside Higher Ed. Steven Mintz, a history professor at the University of Texas at Austin, featured our vision of the initiative in his article “Internationalizing the Humanities: Can the Humanities’ Future be Global and Comparative?” on the future of the Humanities.
Denecke was interviewed by MIT News about the international and interdisciplinary study of the humanities at MIT. During the interview, she emphasized the initiative’s mission, stating, “To create more equal societies in the present, we need to create more equality for other places and other pasts — and learn from all the riches and lessons they have to offer.” [more]