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Being Human: A Festival of Humanities 2023
Various locations, Nottinghamshire, NG1 2BY
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9th - 18th November | 2023 | Various times
Various Locations
Free
The Being Human festival highlights the ways in which the humanities can inspire and enrich our everyday lives, help us to understand ourselves, our relationships with others, and the challenges we face in a changing world.
Being Human is the UK’s only national festival of the humanities. A celebration of humanities research through public engagement, it is led by the School of Advanced Study at the University of London, the UK’s national centre for the pursuit, support and promotion of research in the humanities. The festival works in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy to support humanities public engagement across the UK.
Every year they help researchers in the humanities – from literature and history, languages and philosophy, art history and classics, and more – produce enjoyable events for public audiences that emphasise working with local communities to share ideas for mutual benefit.
For details of how to book your place on certain events please visit the website link above.
Picasso, Art, and Faith | 16th November
Creativity, Making Meaning and Mental Health | 14th November
Cheesed Off! Nottingham’s Food Riots (1750-1800) | 17th November
Storytelling for Mental Wellbeing | 15th November
Playing with Poetry: Seeing the World Through Viking Rhymes | 11th November
Bears, Beers and Bards | 14th November
Timber! Creative Writing, Poetics, and Feminism | 14th November
Medieval Stories, Saints and Celebrations | 12th November
Rhymes and Reasons of Nottingham’s Multilingualism | 11th November
Laced with Meaning: Memories and Histories of Lace Workers | 18th November
Ward Off the Evil Eye! | 18th November
Shakespeare's Bears: Animals in Shakespearean Drama | 11th November
"Making a World of my Own”: Writing and Experimentation | 10th November
The Art of Belonging - Creating Our Place in our City | 9th & 11th November
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