Ernst Robert Curtius Lecture mit Wiebke Denecke
Humanities and Social Sciences 2.0: A User Guide
What are the root causes of the undesirable futures we currently keep creating? To tackle today’s daunting challenges, we need critical self-awareness and courage to dare to reimagine and reanimate our communal spaces of research, learning, and personal growth, and of our collective diplomacy and communication, purpose and action. Only a strategic boost of the Humanities and Social Sciences can accomplish this in our STEM-and-Business-driven world. But how can we redesign our Humanities and Social Science disciplines, which are still deeply rooted in the 19th century European nation state, to serve human flourishing in the 21st century?
This lecture sketches a user guide for Humanities and Social Sciences 2.0, proposing a vision that radically expands the study of the human experience on our planet in deep space and deep time, proposes blended STEMAH (STEM & Arts & Humanities) research and pedagogy design, reimagines our disciplines’ pertinence to the grand challenges of today’s world, and develops a methodology of practice that reaches across all sectors of our world’s communities and societies and catalyzes planetary flourishing.
Date: 16.07.2025, 16-18 Uhr (c.t.)
Location:
Tagungsraum des Internationalen Zentrums für Philosophie NRW (IZPH)
Poppelsdorfer Allee 28
53115 Bonn
3. Etage (Aufzug vorhanden)
Eingangsbereich nicht barrierefrei
If possible, please register for the event in advance with sieverdingbeck@uni-bonn.de.
Ernst Robert Curtius Workshop mit Wiebke Denecke
How can I transform my Humanities or Social Sciences field? A Conversation and Makerspace
Please join us for a conversation and hands-on experimenting with how to transform your academic discipline. You can read at your leisure across a collection of recent work by Wiebke Denecke, ranging across East Asian Studies, Classics, Middle Eastern Studies, Philology, Literary Studies, World Literature, Translation Studies, Information Studies, Philosophy, Heritage Studies, Sociology, and a recent manifesto-style special issue on Comparative Global Humanities. We invite you to bring along stimulating materials, questions, and ideas for upleveling your discipline to 2.0!
Date: 17.07.2025, 11-13 Uhr (c.t.)
Location:
Tagungsraum des Internationalen Zentrums für Philosophie NRW (IZPH)
Poppelsdorfer Allee 28
53115 Bonn
3. Etage (Aufzug vorhanden)
Eingangsbereich nicht barrierefrei
If possible, please register for the event in advance with sieverdingbeck@uni-bonn.de.
About Wiebke Denecke:
C. Fang Professor of Chinese and Language and Culture and Professor of East Asian Literatures and Philosophies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Faculty Lead, MIT Global Humanities Initiative
Founding Editor-in-Chief, The Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature, Oxford University Press