From April 19 to 22, more than a hundred students of MIS in BJTU Weihai, a joint program between RIT and BJTU, participated in the Global Humanities Conference, a multi-campus academic forum launched by RIT. The students shared their opinions with their peers and professors from RIT’s campuses of Rochester, Dubai, Kosovo. The inspiration for the Conference came to Dr Jude Okpala while working with BJTU-RIT students on BJTU Weihai Campus. According to Prof. Julie Cecchini Cook, Associate Dean of RIT China, the forum aims at an interdisciplinary discussion, with the overarching theme of what it means to be Human in 2021. Student research focuses on cultures and people that have histories of exclusion from creation and exercises of dominant knowledge; on practices that affect subjectivity-formation, like Ethics, Culture, Economics, Translation, Technology etc.
4月19日至22日，美国罗切斯特理工学院首届全球人文大会成功举办。威海校区118名同学通过视频会议的形式与世界各地师生相约云端，就所选研究题目进行交流展示并积极参与相关议题的讨论。
本次全球人文大会旨在对重要人文课题进行跨学科讨论，同学们对全球化、科学、技术、儒家思想、性别和身份认同、语言学及其技术背景、新型冠状病毒、医疗伦理、马克思、经济学等问题开展了深入研究，并进行了出色的汇报展示。
作为多校区融合发展的重要体现，本次大会为同学们提供了与RIT各校区同学交流沟通的机会。威海校区学子积极参与本次大会，展现了校区学子良好的精神风貌和学术精神。
