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The Global Humanities Initiative hosts delegation of fifteen faculty members and graduate students from Korea University
On October 22, 2024, representatives of the Global Humanities Initiative (GHI) at MIT and Korea University in Seoul signed a Memorandum of Agreement for academic and educational exchanges and collaborations. This agreement builds on eight years of close academic collaboration between faculty members at MIT and Korea University. Korea University is currently establishing a Global…
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Tristan Brown’s “Laws of the Land” has been awarded the 2024 Fairbank Prize in East Asian History by the American Historical Association
Tristan Brown’s Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China has been awarded the 2024 Fairbank Prize in East Asian History by the American Historical Association. Termed “A groundbreaking history of fengshui’s roles in public life and law during China’s last imperial dynasty,” Laws of the Land shows how the nature of knowledge and knowledge…
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Russian Translation of Professor Denecke’s Book Classical World Literatures: Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman Comparisons is published!
Classical World Literatures: Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman Comparisons Ever since Karl Jaspers’s “axial age” paradigm, there have been a number of influential studies comparing ancient East Asian and Greco-Roman history and culture. However, to date there has been no comparative study involving multiple literary traditions in these cultural spheres. This book compares the dynamics between the…
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Celebrating the Launch of the Hsu-Tang Library
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
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Prototyping a Comparative Global Humanities”: History of Humanities publishes a special issue on Shared Pasts for Shared Futures(co-edited by Wiebke Denecke, Alexander Forte, and Tristan Brown)
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. We seek to expand the geographical scope and temporal depth of inquiry while challenging Eurocentric…