We introduce structures called globular multicategories with homomorphism types. We discuss how various collections of “higher category-like” objects can be used to to construct these globular multicategories. We show how to obtain a number of higher categorical structures using this data. We will see that in this setting there is a precise sense in which:

  • types are higher categories,
  • dependent types are profunctors,
  • terms are higher functors,
  • terms in a dependent context are higher transformations,
  • there is a higher category of all types and terms.

This video is part of Masaryk University‘s Algebra seminar.