Being Human Festival 2021: the word is out! From the announcement:

This year’s Being Human festival will focus on ‘renewal’. Across the humanities we are interested in new ideas, new generations, new ways of doing things, new responses….

Cityscapes are being renewed, with monuments and public history being interrogated and interpreted in new ways. Different ways of living are being considered, different identities are being explored. The pandemic has pushed people all over the world to invent new ways of being social, being professional, and being human.

Of course, ‘renewals’ don’t have to be only contemporary. Renewals can also revisit past times of change or disruption, discoveries that altered our world, or renewing our ideas about the past. They can be about breakthroughs in art, literature, film. They can be moments in which national cultures and identities were reconsidered, reimagined, realigned….

Being Human festival 2021 will take place 11–20 November. Sign up to our mailing list to keep up-to-date with all the latest news.