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- The overall purpose of the Forum is as follows:
- Arrange an international event engaging with the public to disseminate and share achievements in the humanities
- Facilitate a global venue to discuss major agenda items in the humanities and explore ways towards the prosperity of the humanities in Korea
- Offer new orientations for the value and benefits of the humanities exploring the sustainability of human civilization
- To implement programs to meet the various roles of the humanities and social demands
- To promote exchanges among humanities scholars at home and abroad and expand engagement with citizens
- To create a glocal humanities festival venue that combines global and local features
- Forum Overview
- The 4th World Humanities Forum
- Period
- The period from 27 (Thursday) to 29 Oct. 2016 (Saturday)
- Host
- MEST, UNESCO, Suwon City
- Support
- Gyeonggi MICE Bureau
- Organizer
- NRF
- Place
- Suwon City (Ajou University, Gyeonggi Arts Center, Suwon SK Artrium)
- Theme
- The Humanities of Hope
- Forum participants
- Total: 132 persons
- Foreigners: 41 persons
- Koreans: 91 persons
- Number of Participants
- The total number of participants is 3,603
- Forum contents
- Opening ceremony:Plenary Speech, Opening Address, Welcome Address, Congratulatory Address, Opening Declaration
- Keynote lecture:presentation by five world-class scholars
- Parallel Session: four sessions held on the each day simultaneously
- Closing ceremony: screening of sketch video, closing ceremony, etc.
- Linked program: Young Humanist Forum, Round Table, Suwon city Session
- Cultural experience program: Musical Jeongjo, A Night for Writers with Poet Go Un, Hwaseong Haenggung & Korean Traditional Culture