Learning from Pasts, Shaping Futures
Jun 9, 2018
History of Humanities, Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 2024 THEME: SHARED PASTS FOR SHARED FUTURES; PROTOTYPING A COMPARATIVE GLOBAL HUMANITIES This volume argues for a comparative and global reimagination of the humanities in their intellectual, disciplinary, and larger institutional forms.
The Comparative Global Humanities initiative (GHI) seeks to reinvigorate humanistic learning and education by radically expanding the geographical and temporal reach of the humanistic disciplines. Developing new cross-disciplinary methodologies based on the world’s cultural archives and conceptual vocabularies, this initiative re-imagines the critical relevance of the humanities to the grand challenges of today’s world.
Through a diverse (and growing) community of scholars, students and associates, locally and around the world, we aim to create new modes of knowing, teaching, sharing, and acting. These will contribute to efforts already under way here at MIT to create a wide-ranging cross-disciplinary undergraduate curriculum that equips graduates with the values and critical understanding that will enable to be change-makers and leaders on a planet facing overwhelming challenges.