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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 this year’s events.

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 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...

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.

By Professor Maiken Umbach | We asked the University of Nottingham’s festival advocate a few question about their programme Cultures of hope and fear, which explores Nottingham as a crucible of religions and peoples from around the world.

Day seven of Being social is a jam-packed post featuring events from across the country covering old age, people getting spooked in Liverpool and brilliant live drawings on creativity and the mind.