Joint Events

The Silk Roads have connected civilizations and brought peoples and cultures into contact with each other from across the world for thousands of years, permitting an interaction of ideas and […]

On 18 January 2016, UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Programme organized an information meeting at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris to launch the preparatory process of the World Humanities Conference […]

Ce 21 juin 2016 s’est tenue à l'UNESCO une réunion de présentation de la première la « Conférence mondiale des Humanités » qui aura lieu à Liège du 6 au 12 août 2017.

To launch preparations for the World Humanities Conference, which will be held in Liege from 6 to 12 August 2017, UNESCO convened a presentation meeting for permanent delegations, non-governmental organizations, and specialized media at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 21 June 2016.

Greetings friends and colleagues. Keep reading to go over the most important events, updates, and developments for the IYGU!

Under the auspices of CIPSH, the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences, and UNESCO, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) will host the International South American Humanities Conference in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, from 4th to 7th October 2016.

Liege will host the World Humanities Conference from Sunday, the 6th, to Saturday, the 12th of August, 2017. Co-organized by UNESCO, the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences(CIPSH), and the World Humanities Conference–Liège 2017 Foundation, this congress will gather about 1800 participants from all over the world working in the fields of science, politics, art, and communication, as well as representatives of international, governmental and non-governmental organizations.

Close to 1,800 participants from all over the world will seek to redefine the foundations, roles, and responsibilities of the humanities in contemporary society at the World Humanities Conference, which will take place in the city of Liège, Belgium, from 6 to 12 August.

In early 2019 a process was set in motion by UNESCO, the International Council for Philosophy & Human Sciences (CIPSH), the Humanities for the Environment global observatory network and the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES) to establish a framework enabling the launch of a global sustainability science coalition under the name of BRIDGES, which stands for Building Resilience In Defense of Global Environments and Societies.

At its 207th session, in 207 EX/Decision 42, the Executive Board recommended “that UNESCO’s General Conference, at its 40th session, proclaim 14 January “World Logic Day”, in association with the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH)”.

This conference is specially organized to discuss responses from the Humanities to the current pandemic crisis, imposed by COVID-19.

Cultural and regional dimensions of global sustainability.