Jeonnam National University Humanities Week Event 'Abundant'

Poster for the 16th Humanities Week event. Photo by Chonnam National University.

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Cho Hyung-joo] Chonnam National University has designated the period until the 31st as Humanities Week and has prepared a variety of events.

According to Chonnam National University on the 22nd, the 16th Humanities Week, jointly hosted by the Regional Humanities Center "Nodutdol" of the HK+ Family Community Project Group of the Humanities Research Institute and the Philosophy Research and Education Center with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea, will unfold a humanities feast under the main theme "The Path of Humanities in the COVID-19 Era - Recovery of Daily Life."

This event includes citizen-led programs such as "Connecting People through Books" and the "Selected 100 Poems Recitation," as well as a series of lectures titled "What is a Nation?" that reconsider the meaning of nation and human rights focusing on recent cases of state violence such as the Myanmar and Syria situations. A special lecture on basic income, which has recently become a hot topic in our society, will also be held.

Additionally, the event will create a humanities ecology of "embracing" in life where theory and practice harmonize through programs such as the "Citizen Art School" and "Metaverse Citizen Art Festival," in which citizens participate as creators; "Please Take Care of the Art Humanities Space" (Gong·Bu·Hae), where citizens explore humanities and art spaces; "Humanities Firefly," which empathizes with history by riding the subway; and "Small Humanities," which examines the current state of humanities clubs among Gwangju citizens.

In particular, this year, three BK project groups ? the , the , and the ? will participate and hold a poster presentation event called the "Humanities Academic Successor Generation Poster-Curation Festival." Following this, a "Memory-Community Cultural Festival," featuring projects such as "Spring of Myanmar," "Uzbek Documentary," and "5.18 Interview," planned mainly by graduate students from the , will also be showcased.