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2025 Spring Events
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 10 am to 11:30 AM EST.…
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MIT GHI hosts its 2nd Forum!
Join us for the 2025 GHI 2nd Forum! This session introduces the 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…
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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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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…