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.

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.

For more info and the link to the talks, click here.