The theme for the 3rd World Humanities Forum, which will be held in Korea from 30 October – 1 November 2014, is ‘Humanities in the Era of Transformative Science and Technology’.

There is currently an open call for papers related to the following topics:

  • Human life in cyber society
  • “Post-human” mind and body
  • Biologism and humanism
  • The Humanities in the era of scientific/technological revolution
  • Revisiting humanistic critique of science and technology
  • Future-orientated interaction between science and humanities

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 10th May 2014. Papers on other topics may also be accepted as well.

Further information about the event and the call for papers is available on the National Research Foundation of Korea website