Gyeongsang National University Humanities City Jinju Project Group Hosts the 16th Humanities Week

Diverse Events Including Humanities Lectures, Academic Conferences, Experiential Learning, Performances, and Exhibitions

Humanities Week Poster [Image source=Gyeongsang National University]

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] The ‘Humanities City Jinju Project Group,’ jointly promoted by Gyeongsang National University and the Humanities City Jinju Project Group along with Jinju City, will hold the ‘16th Humanities Week’ event from the 25th to the 29th under the theme ‘The Path of Humanities in the COVID-19 Era - Recovery of Daily Life.’

Humanities City Jinju is promoting projects under the slogan ‘Humanities Embracing Jinju,’ commercializing itself as a ‘Humanities Historical and Cultural City’ and enabling citizens to take a step closer to communication, healing, and a life of companionship.

As part of this, ‘Humanities Week’ is a humanities festival held annually at the end of October by the Humanities City Jinju Project Group in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation of Korea.

The project group has prepared a variety of humanities programs including lectures, academic conferences, experiential learning, performances, the Equity Literature Festival in conjunction with the local literature festival, book concerts, and exhibitions, both online and offline, to provide healing with citizens exhausted by COVID-19.

Due to concerns over the spread of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), Humanities Week will inevitably start with an opening address by Professor Jang Man-ho, the head of the project group, at 7 p.m. on the 26th and continue for one week.

Key programs include a lecture and book talk by Kim Young-taek, CEO of Dalgeurian, titled ‘Community Media Healing through Communication,’ Indiwriter Myung Ro-jin’s ‘With Corona, Let’s Go Together through Humanities,’ and poet Kim Yong-taek’s ‘Reading the World through a Single Tree,’ among various other events.

Jang Man-ho, head of the Humanities City Jinju Project Group, said, “With With Corona approaching, we have prepared various programs so that Jinju citizens can have a healing time to return to daily life through humanities and arts,” adding, “Although some events have been inevitably postponed to November due to the COVID-19 situation, we hope many Jinju citizens will participate.”

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