World Humanities-Culture Festival 2013

‘Humanities on the Silk Road Then and Now’

●OVERVIEW

Event Name : World Humanities-Culture Festival 2013

Main Theme : ‘Humanities on the Silk Road – Then and Now’

Dates : Octover 28th(Mon.) ~ 30th(Wed.), 2013

Venue : Hotel Hyundai Gyeongju, Gyeongju City, Republic of Korea

Hosted by : Ministry of Education of Korea, Province of Gyeongsanbuk-do

Organized by : National Reasearch Foundation of Korea

●THEME

‘Humanites on the Silk Road Then and Now’

Gyeong-ju, the host city of the 2013 Humanaties Festival, is Silla’s ancient city of 1000 years, a repository of Korea’s ancient culture and the principal site where the remains of the civilization exchanges between the East and the West are retained in all their richness.

Considering such humanistic charateristics and historical significance of the city, the ‘2013 Humanities Festival’ aims to put in humanistic retrospect and prospect the manifold civilizations and exchanges that bloomed on the Silk Road.

Also connected to the main theme of the ‘2013 Humanities Festival’, ‘The Humanaties on the Silk Road – Then and Now’, is the 2013 Istanbul-Gyeong-ju World Culture Expo that is to be held in Istanbul with the theme ‘Road, Encounter, and Companionship.’ Illuminating the 2013 Istanbul-Gyeong-ju World Culture Expo with a streak of the humanities, the 2013 Humanities Festival will also serve as a place of culmination for the Expo that aims for a new, 21^st century culture Silk Road.