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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…
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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…