28.4703, Confs: Linguistics & Literature/South Korea

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-4703. Thu Nov 09 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.4703, Confs: Linguistics & Literature/South Korea

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Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2017 10:58:52
From: LeeEun Kim [whforum at nrf.re.kr]
Subject: 5th World Humanities Forum

5th World Humanities Forum 
Short Title: WHF 

Date: 31-Oct-2018 - 02-Nov-2018 
Location: Busan, Korea, South 
Contact: LeeEun Kim 
Contact Email: whoffice3 at nrf.re.kr 
Meeting URL: http://worldhumanitiesforum.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature 

Meeting Description: 

The World Humanities Forum was initiated and coordinated in 2011 by the
Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea, through the National Research
Foundation of Korea, UNESCO and with a local government in Korea. The forum
was held annually in 2011 and 2012, and has continued biennially thereafter.
It aims to provide an international arena to discuss and enhance the role and
contribution of the Humanities in the age of rapid changes. The forum itself
has grown into an international gathering where interdisciplinary research is
possible, not only in the humanities, but in other fields such as the
sciences, social sciences and arts. Acting as a platform for scholars all over
the world to hold in-depth discussions in the humanities, the forum will
continue to work in collaboration with other disciplines.

The 5th World Humanities Forum

Co-organized by:
Ministry of Education, Republic of Korea (MOE)
National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Korean National Commission for UNESCO

The Human Image in a Changing World 

The theme for the 5th World Humanities Forum is “The Human Image in a Changing
World.” The very purpose of humanities research is to study humans, but the
image of humans however, has gone through on-going changes not only throughout
different time periods but also according to the various local situations.
Therefore it is important that we primarily capture human images and then
document the characteristics of the human images from past to present in
various academic and ordinary lives. 

The theme of “The Human Image in a Changing World” seeks to examine the
imbrications of human images across time and space, in order to redefine the
ways in which humanities have been envisioned, particularly to visualize the
various ways in which humanities engage with the cultural processes in the
past, present, and future. Literature, visual arts, and new media have always
taken the leading and guiding role in representing the human image as imagined
and understood by the public. Historians have frequently been at the forefront
of analyzing the dynamics of differences in human images in the continuum of
time. Philosophers have generated profound yet varying discourses on how human
images have been thought differently in terms of a philosophical relationship
with nature, gender, and bodies. The emergence of the robotic industry and
artificial intelligence demands investigation in order to recognize the human
image, especially in the 21st century. Above all, it is crucial to discover
human images as they are, and reflect them thoughtfully from various insights.

All humanities research, in its essence, explores human images that have
evolved over time. It is the fundamental premise of our humanities research to
understand the changing human images of today. We hope to explore and share
distinctive human images, and hence develop new directions of humanities
research for future generations.

Funding:

The World Humanities Forum will provide full support for flight and
accommodation for the period of the Forum to all authors invited to present at
the Forum.

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