Who We Are

We are living in a turbulent age of transition that calls for fundamental changes — not just to policies and socio-economic structures, but at the level of thought itself. The assumptions that have governed modern life are no longer adequate to the world we now inhabit: a world bound together by shared ecologies, economies, and fates, yet still governed by ideas that treat separateness as fundamental. The Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT) exists to help build the intellectual foundations this moment requires.

At the heart of COMIT's research program is the principle of human oneness — the conviction that humanity constitutes a single people inhabiting a single planetary home. Far from contradicting human diversity, this principle contains and expresses it: genuine oneness encompasses the full range of human experience rather than flattening it.

We regard the upheavals of contemporary society as catalysts for developing ways of thinking more adequate to this reality. Toward this end, we work to reframe the dichotomies that have come to characterize modern thought — between unity and diversity, between human prosperity and ecological flourishing, between scientific and spiritual ways of knowing — and to develop frameworks that reflect the principle of human oneness and the demands of an emerging global civilization.

We pursue this aim through four interconnected activities: public conversations and speaker series that open COMIT's inquiries to broader audiences; intensive workshops and consultations where scholars engage in deep collaborative exploration; publishing through Pivot Press, which gives emerging frameworks durable and freely accessible form; and fellowships that accompany early-career scholars developing work grounded in the principle of human oneness. Together, these cultivate a global community of inquiry oriented toward the intellectual transformation this age demands.

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