Workshops & Symposia
COMIT convenes scholars and practitioners in small, intensive gatherings oriented around specific questions. These settings (workshops, seminars, and multi-day symposia) are where the research program develops most deeply: candid exchange, shared purpose, and the quality of sustained attention that larger public events rarely allow.
How We Gather
Consultation
We gather around shared questions rather than finished papers, so that ideas are tested and refined together rather than simply presented.
Conditions for insight
Small groups, unhurried time, and shared meals and music. The atmosphere of a gathering shapes what becomes possible within it.
Returning over time
Gatherings build on one another, so relationships and questions carry forward instead of ending with a single event.
Past Gatherings
Fellows' Gathering at Texas A&M
COMIT fellows and directors gathered at Texas A&M University to discuss new projects and emerging areas of inquiry, and to build relationships with like-minded scholars and potential partners. The visit included a lecture by Kerilyn Schewel on her book Moved by Modernity at the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research.
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Seminar on Human Oneness
This transdisciplinary seminar gathered an international group of leading thinkers to reconsider how we understand our oneness as human beings, working through the tensions between unity and diversity, universalism and justice, the secular and the sacred, and human beings and the natural world.
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What is Civilization? Envisioning the Future of Humanity
Scholars from China, India, Pakistan, Nepal, the UAE, and the USA explored how to reclaim and reimagine the idea of civilization for an age of deep interconnection, examining the crisis of modern civilization, interfaith relations, the spiritual dimensions of progress, and humanity's collective future.
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