A consortium of university partners in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas contribute time and resources to this unique and innovative venture committed to building new humanist teaching and research capacities at the inter-institutional level, including thematic projects, joint syllabi, classrooms, and field schools. HAB partners believe that educational institutions must reclaim their original responsibility and role in society by participating in the wider socio-economic, cultural, and ecological milieu of which they are a part.

HAB's work involves bringing into dialogue scholars-administrators-practitioners from different continents, focusing on diverse, unexpected, oftentimes transgressive strategies of knowledge production and exchange. HAB has experimented with a variety of formats anchoring intersectional pedagogies like in situ or 'onsite' policy roundtables, graduate schools, practice-based workshops, and exhibitions. The programme supports a variety of academia-society dialogue platforms like a web-based digital storytelling tool, an online conversation series, and multilingual word books for wider dissemination. All such work builds capacities and facilitates the creation of a next generation of narrative researchers and civically grounded pedagogies.

See the "Attachments" section of this page to read the HAB program pamphlet, the Manifesto of the HAB consortium, and our HAB program implementation working paper by IIAS Director Philippe Peycam and HAB Academic Director Aarti Kawlra for the Shaping Asia Network.