LAUNCH of Global Humanities initiative Website & INVITATION to 3rd Annual Conference on “What is the Business of the Humanities?”

We are delighted to announce the launch of the website for the Global Humanities initiative (GHI). Check who we are, what we aim for, and what projects we are currently pursuing. Visit us at the website below & consider joining an ongoing project for MITHIC proposals in preparation (check out the “Ongoing Projects” for brief project pitches and contact): https://comparativeglobalhumanities.mit.edu/

Moreover, we are delighted to invite you to our 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, we convene scholars and leaders from Higher Education, business, and philanthropy to explore and reimagine the “Business of the Humanities” in today’s business-and-STEM-driven world. How can we expand the cognitive & creative, ethical & social, playful & healthful contributions of the humanities to our world and its pressing challenges, beyond their traditional role as producer of scholars and educators? What new leadership roles could humanities graduates and scholars play in our societies? What should the “Business of the Humanities” include today? How can we reimagine the humanities in order to create a shared future for our world’s communities? A future that realigns people’s, scholars’, and governments’ attention, intention, and agency, with tools of human making, namely the humanities, STEM, and business?

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

Please register here: https://www.globalinnovation.info/event-details/the-business-of-the-humanities-online-registration-1

We warmly welcome colleagues and students who share our enthusiasm for “Learning from Pasts, Shaping Futures!” and are interested in joining any of our pillars and projects, our proposing new ones of their own. Please contact our Program Coordinator, Johann Noh (noh1214@mit.edu).

With best regards,

Wiebke Denecke & the GHI team