4th MIT Global Humanities Initiative Conference on “STEMAH = The University of the Future” on November 20/21 (KST)

Join the MIT Global Humanities Initiative (GHI) and Korea University to imagine what STEMAH could be and do and help build the basis for the new STEMAH pillar to add to GHI’s nine big-challenge research-and-action platforms!

Once upon a time the study of the natural, human, and social worlds we inhabit belonged to a unified pursuit of knowledge. The modern birthing of sciences and social sciences from the studia humaniora catalyzed the development of sophisticated and highly specialized disciplinary toolboxes that are vital to the functioning of our complex societies and institutions. Yet, in the face of daunting ecological, political, economic, social and biological global challenges we need to continue our bold disciplinary innovation, while also advancing it by recovering the cross-pollination across all knowledge fields. Together we need to prototype knowledge-to-action systems for social transformation that help us build the University of the Future—a space to produce STEMAH research and curricula oriented towards a compass of human flourishing and planetary stewardship, echoing stemma, our “family tree” of human knowledge.

Check out our Visual Abstract attached to get a sense of our scope, goals, and resonance with your interests.

The conference will be held over two days, in hybrid fashion, to allow more colleagues, students, and collaborators from around the world to join on zoom. Day 1 sessions are all open to the public; Day 2 sessions are reserved for members of the MIT Global Humanities Initiative.

Please register for the conference at this link:

Day 1: https://korea-ac-kr.zoom.us/meeting/register/FyJYZEM4TEqI0A-nyFTqhA

Day 2: https://korea-ac-kr.zoom.us/meeting/register/RTfKiwEcRY2lWEZh56f7Tw

When: November 20-22, 2025

Where: Korea University, Seoul (Hybrid)

Co-hosts: MIT Global Humanities Initiative/ Korea University Institute for Global Humanities Research and Collaboration/Korea University Humanities Utmost Sharing System (HUSS)/ Korea University Institute for Sinographic Literatures and Philology