Events

1. GHI Forum Series

Join us for the 2025 SECOND GLOBAL HUMANITIES FORUM! This session introduces The Good Life: Religions, Philosophies & Sciences pillar inviting participants to explore how religious, philosophical, and scientific ways of thinking and being can foster good lives and good living in an uncertain world.

2nd GHI Forum

·         Title: The Good Life: Religions, Philosophies & Sciences
·         Date: April 11, 10:00–11:30 AM EDT
·         Where: Online (Zoom link and Online Registration HERE)
·         Speakers: Rafal K. Stepien, Simran Jeet Singh, Andreas Ohlemacher, Wiebke Denecke

【Abstract】

How do religious, philosophical, and scientific ways of thinking and being nurture good lives? Taking this as a foundational question, this Forum of the MIT Global Humanities Intitiative is devoted to bringing greater clarity and honesty into our understandings of belief, reason, and human discovery in all its myriad dimensions. Hosted by the MIT Pillar on ‘The Good Life’, the Forum outlines the challenges facing our endeavor, discusses and debates diverse conceptions of the good life stemming from several of the world’s intellectual traditions and devotional practices, explores the experiential potential of engaged scholarship in the first-person, and proposes ways to harvest the meaning-making potentials of religions, philosophies, and sciences in the service of more cosmopolitan modes of inter-personal, inter-communal, and inter-religious human flourishing.

Looking forward to seeing you at our events!

The GHI Team

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MIT Global Humanities Initiative Spring Events 2025

GHI FORUM SERIES

1st GHI Forum

• Title: Cognition, Learning & Human Flourishing
• Date: February 21, 8:00–9:30 AM EST
• Speakers: Jonas Mago, Justus Wachs

2nd GHI Forum

• Title: The Good Life: Religions, Philosophies & Sciences
• Date: April 11, 10:00–11:30 AM EDT
• Speakers: Rafal K. Stepien, Simran Jeet Singh, Andreas Ohlemacher, Wiebke Denecke

3rd GHI Forum

• Title: Public Literacies: Civic Systems, Media & Emotional Intelligence
• Date: May 9, 10:00–11:30 AM EDT
• Speakers: Richard Eberhardt, Gabor Hollbeck, Mikael Jakobsson

4th GHI Forum

• Title: Good Governance in Bad Times
• Date: June 6, 10:00–11:30 AM EDT
• Speakers: Wiebke Denecke, Johannes Makar, Michael Puett

LAUNCH EVENTS:

• Launching the “Legacies for Our Future” Challenge: Celebrate the Planet with Mike Block, and Korean Folk Painting Experience
  • With Kim Jae-Hui, the Consul General of the Republic of Korea in Boston
  • Chung Byungmo, Director of the School of Minhwa (Korean Folk Painting)
  • Kwak Yunmi, Minhwa Artist
    • Time: May 14 2025, 4:00-6:00 PM
    • Location: Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building @ MIT (Building W18: 201 Amherst St, Cambridge, MA 02139)
• CELEBRATE: Launch of the Asian Hub of  MIT’s Global Humanities Initiative at Korea University
  • Location: Korea University, Seoul
  • Date: April 24-25, 2025

SAVE THE DATE:

4th Annual Conference of the MIT Comparative Global Humanities Initiative

• Title: Creating Desirable Legacies for Our Future in an Age of STEM & Big Tech
• Location: Korea University, Seoul
• Date: November 20-21, 2025