Mission
Statement
The Ewha Institute for the Humanities was officially formed on August 1, 2007 by incorporating six research institutes in the College of Liberal Arts. Its main focus is to actively face and address what is now being termed as the “crisis of humanities.” With its basis of a long legacy of past humanities research endeavors, EIH will lead Trans-Humanities research.
With the perspective of humanities, EIH looks at various current issues in cultural changes transgressing the boundaries. EIH proposes Trans-Humanities as a new paradigm to overcome the limits of preceding humanities studies with the confidence that it will produce appropriate knowledge for the 21st century.
To enrich humanities research and to establish an academic hub for humanities discourses:
- Creating humanistic knowledge socially practicable
- Training experts in humanities studies
- Disseminating humanistic knowledge nationally and globally
- Leading the worldwide discourses of humanities
To execute the agenda: “Trans-Humanities: Reimagining and Reconstructing the Human Sciences”
- To develop academic capability of professional researchers in the field of humanities
-To build a digital archive on subjects of war, family, diaspora, ecology, (post)industrialization, and colonization
-To create education programs for the public
-To network with (inter)national research institutes
- To open forums and special lectures with world-renowned scholars
- To hold academic conferences
- To publish Korean/English journals, a series of books, and single volumes |
Korea