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Digital Round Table on the Global Perspectives on the History of the Humanities

On December 5th 2025, the Society for the History of the Humanities is hosting a digital symposium and round table discussion on the global state of the history of the humanities. For the digital event, we have invited speakers from all over the world to give their view on the history (and current state) of the study of literary, historical, cultural, philosophical or linguistic forms of knowledge.
Date
5 December 2025
Time
15:00 -17:30

Place: online (link to be provided at a later date)

Speakers include:

  • Zehra Tonbul (Özyeğin University): History of the humanities from an Ottoman perspective
  • Naomi Nkealah (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg): African perspective
  • Ignacio Sánchez Prado (Washington University in St. Louis): Central American perspective (TBC)
  • Adam Kola (Nicolaus Copernicus University): Central European perspective
  • Irina Podgorny (U. La Plata): South American perspective
  • Kamelia Spassova (Sofia University): East European perspective
  • Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua University): Chinese perspective

Our hope with this digital event is to expand the reach of the history of the humanities as a research field and engage new scholars to questions we believe are globally relevant.

The digital event will be open to all and free to attend. After a round of overviews from prominent scholars, we will moderate a joint discussion and also invite the audience to ask questions.

More information can be found here