Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich delivers a speech during the celebrations for the 1000th anniversary of St. Sofia Cathedral in central Kiev, Ukraine, Sept. 24, 2011. St. Sofia Cathedral was listed as a UNESCO World heritage site in 1990.
Younger social scientists engage in the ISSC-Belmont Forum Agenda-Setting Workshop, June 2011.
The social sciences, which were dominated by western universities for a long time, are gaining ground in Asia and in Latin America, according to a report by the International Social
It is a cruel fact that in the last 15 years the Humanities and the Social Sciences have been severely affected by the dire need to respond to the obvious deficit in engineering, natural scientific, informational and managerial needs.
The International Social Science Journal (ISSJ), founded by UNESCO in 1949, is published quarterly. Its purpose is to bridge diverse communities of social scientists, working in different problems and disciplines and in different parts of the world.
Launch of the book, China’s Creation and Origin Myths: Cross-Cultural Explorations in Oral and Written Traditions, edited by Mineke Schipper, Ye Shuxian and Yin Hubin (Boston and Leiden: Brill Publishers 2011).
In The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature, two of the world’s leading sinologists, Victor H. Mair and Mark Bender, capture the breadth of China’s oral-based literary heritage.
The first meeting of the Steering Committee of the International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) took place in the UNESCO World Heritage City of Weimar (Germany) on 4-5 March, 2011.
The workshop is hosted by the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China, in cooperation with the International Training Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region, and made possible through the generous support of the Government of China. Additional funding is provided by the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund and UNESCO’s Regular Programme.
Nagoya, Japan13-14 December 2010 ISSC-CIPSH General Assembly Joint Scientific SymposiumNagoya, Japan 13-14 December 2010 Changing Nature – Changing Sciences?The Challenges of Global Environmental Change for the Social Sciences and the
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