This year’s festival is taking place nationally 17 – 25 November 2017. Being Human is led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London in partnership with the Arts & Humanities Research Council and the British Academy.
Broadening horizons – Being Human 2017
25 June, 2017Read more >By Sarah Churchwell | Our festival director talks about this year’s festival in context, our upcoming programme and our theme ‘lost and found’. This post also includes a sneak peek of some of this year’s events.
I came from Egypt on foot
9 January, 2017Read more >By Dr Anna-Louise Milne | During the Autumn, a number of translation laboratories took place with migrants and refugees living in Paris. The material from these became the focus for an exhibition during the festival.
Being social: Being Human day 9
26 November, 2016Read more > Being Human came to a close yesterday with an explosion of creativity and humanities fun across the UK. Welcome to day nine of Being social, where we hand over our blog to social media and reveal what’s been happening...
Being social: Being Human day 8
25 November, 2016Read more >Tweets from yesterday’s humanities feast! Physics met Philosophy in Gastrophysics, people learnt about sex, love and robots in Sheffield, and Exeter listened to stories from Syria in the beautiful Exeter Cathedral.