Amman: The First International Conference on Humanities: Challenges and Opportunities, held at the Middle East University, was officially launched under the auspices of the Chairman of the University’s Board of Trustees, Senator Dr. Yacoub Nasereddin, in the presence of the University’s President, Prof. Salam Al-Mahadin, Vice President of the Board of Directors, Dr. Ahmad Nasereddin, college deans, faculty members, and a gathering of students.
It is worth noting that the conference is organised by the Faculty of Arts and Educational Sciences and will be held until Tuesday, April 30, 2024, at the university campus. It will involve the participation of dozens of researchers and academics from several countries, namely Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Egypt.
In this respect, Dr. Nasereddin emphasised that this conference is a response to the vision of His Majesty King Abdullah II Bin Al-Hussein towards education, which for His Majesty is a national priority that requires a comprehensive review of curricula, methods, tools, and educational facilities. In particular, the university’s strategy now aligns with His Majesty’s seventh discussion paper, which asserts that nations cannot rise without education. This can be observed in the manner in which education serves to facilitate the development of countries towards a knowledge economy, as well as in its role in the investment of human energies.
He clarified that the time has come to reform the educational paths in dealing with the challenges imposed on us by contemporary human civilisation about the true value of the human being in the world of technology, artificial intelligence, the fourth industrial revolution, and the complex changes in human relations within the family and society, pointing out that the values of education are an integral part of the principles of the state, which is base in determining its position on the current regional developments on the importance of realising the rights of its people, especially the rights of the Palestinian people, especially their right to self-determination and establishing their independent state on their land with Jerusalem as its capital, Al-Quds Al-Sharif.
According to the Head of the Scientific Committee of the conference, Vice Dean of the College of Arts and Educational Sciences, Prof. Dr. Mohammed Hamza, in the presence of the Dean of the College, Prof. Ahmed Moussa, the conference aims to investigate the challenges facing the humanities, promote knowledge integration between the different fields of the humanities, cope with the developments in the humanities, and adopt future visions that develop the humanities curricula and transform them into digital curricula.
In his address to the conference, delivered by the Head of the Department of Educational Technology, Dr. Ahmed Tabiya, he highlighted that the preparations for this conference commenced a year ago, with the themes and objectives being formulated by a scientific committee comprising 36 scientists and experts in various branches of the humanities from local and international universities.
Additionally, 34 papers were submitted by 61 male and female researchers, whose research will be published in journals classified within the Scopus rules.