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The humanities are indispensable in generating knowledge about society, politics, values, identities, and factors influencing them in the past and the future. Furthermore the formative, humane and civilizing function of the humanities even nowadays is seen as one of the most important reasons for providing opportunities to study them in depth at university.
Yet, these disciplines and their scholars are facing an environment that has rapidly changed over the past two decades. If we want to meet the enormous societal challenges ahead of us, it will be indispensable to make use of the integrative capacity of the humanities in a much more effective and inclusive manner than we have done so far.
In times of crisis the Herrenhausen Symposium "Global Humanities" discusses possible ways ahead for their social positioning in times of many demands and scarce resources.
Speakers and Chairs:
Homi K. Bhabha, USA
Roberto Blancarte, Mexico
Göran Blomqvist, Sweden
David Eastwood, United Kingdom
Barbara Göbel, Germany
Poul Holm, Ireland
Arne Jarrick, Sweden
Anne Jerslev, Denmark
Wilhelm Krull, Germany
Michèle Lamont, USA
Thandi Mgwebi, South Africa
Kerstin Sahlin, Sweden
Suwanna Satha-Anand, Thailand
Dominic Scott, USA
Peter Strohschneider, Germany
Information on participating / attending:
No conference fee. Please register online at https://veranstaltungen.volkswagenstiftung.de/.
Date:
06/16/2014 10:00 - 06/17/2014 15:30
Event venue:
Herrenhausen Palace
Herrenhäuser Straße 5
30419 Hanover
Niedersachsen
Germany
Target group:
Business and commerce, Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Cultural sciences, Philosophy / ethics, Social studies
Types of events:
Conference / symposium / (annual) conference
Entry:
04/25/2014
Sender/author:
Jens Rehländer
Department:
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event47072
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