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The Global Humanities Initiative (GHI) launches its YouTube Channel!
The Global Humanities Initiative (GHI) is proud to announce the launch of its YouTube channel! Search “Global Humanities Initiative” on YouTube to watch recordings of our latest events, including the launch of the Korea University Global Humanities Institute, Asia’s hub of the MIT Global Humanities Initiative. Discover inspiring talks, global collaborations, cutting-edge ideas and more…
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The Global Humanities Initiative (GHI) co-hosts 2025 KU-MIT GHI Forum
The MIT Global Humanities Initiative (GHI) hosted the 2025 KU-MIT Global Humanities Initiative (GHI) Forum to commemorate the 120th anniversary of Korea University on April 24–25 at Cinema Trap, Korea University’s Media Hall. The forum was organized under the theme “Catalyzing Human Flourishing in Uncertain Times” at the proposal of MIT GHI and served as…
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The Global Humanities Initiative (GHI) hosts its Panel Series: Humanisms & Renaissances Across World History—A Timely & Casual Conversation
What does it mean to speak of renaissance in the plural? That question animated a roundtable hosted by MIT’s Global Humanities Initiative on 21 March 2025, which brought together five scholars to explore the humanities beyond the familiar contours of the European canon. Under the title Humanisms & Renaissances Across World History, the event challenged…
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The Global Humanities Initiative co-hosts a invited talk by Professor Rosario Hubert titled Disoriented Disciplines: China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literature.
On February 10, 2025, MIT’s Comparative Global Humanities initiative (GHI) hosted a invited talk by Professor Rosario Hubert titled Disoriented Disciplines: China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literature. Co-hosted with the MIT Global Mediations Lab, Literature at MIT, and MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing, the event featured Professor Koichi Hagimoto (Professor of Spanish and…
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The Global Humanities Initiative hosts its Third Annual Conference on “What is the Business of the Humanities?”
MIT’s Comparative Global Humanities initiative (GHI) hosted its Third Annual Conference on What is the Business of the Humanities? on November 8 & 9, 2024, at Dominican University of California. Co-hosted with the Francoise O. Lepage Center for Global Innovation at Dominican University of California, and its director, Wayne de Fremery, the Initiative convened scholars and…