Being Human festival 2017 pocket preview

HUMAN A FESTIVAL OF THE HUMANITIES

LOST & FOUND pocket preview

Being Human 2017 Funding awards

Introduction The Being Human festival is back, and we are delighted to return in 2017 with a programme of activities responding to our new theme of ‘lost and found’.

When we started out in 2014 our vision was to create a national festival that drew together some of the most exciting research in the humanities and present it in ways that challenged perceptions, sparked imaginations, and inspired curiosity and collaboration.

The festival is led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the British Academy. We oversee a competition which allocates small grants to act as catalysts for projects across the UK. These grants are small, but offer crucial support to ambitious, innovative, and inspirational projects that will take humanities research to new audiences.

This pocket preview is a guide to the activities funded by Being Human in 2017.

It includes our five festival hubs in Belfast, Dundee, Swansea, Glasgow and Nottingham, alongside over 40 small awards made to researchers. From ‘Bass in the attic’ to the history of British wrestling, there is huge depth and variety across these awards, just as there is across the humanities.

There are still more events to be announced for the 2017 festival, with some treats and surprises in store. We hope that this little guide piques your interest.

We are delighted, as always, to be able to offer them our support.

The Being Human team

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Festival hub Scotland

University of Dundee hub

Jonathan Swift at 350: lost and found The world’s greatest satirist, Jonathan Swift, turns 350 years old in November 2017. Lost amid a series of fantastical places, the narrator of his most famous work, Gulliver’s Travels, enthrals everyone he meets with his adeptness in lying (“the thing which is not”) – storytelling, in short. Through a series of hands-on activities and immersive events centred on ‘tall tales’ in the City of Discovery, Jonathan Swift at 350: lost and found engages with the extraordinary legacy of a man who found wondrous and shocking perspectives on being human like no one else could.

Programme highlights Telling tall tales - This creative writing workshop will look at the history of telling tall tales, taking advantage of Dundee’s unique strength in its comics and creative writing programme.

Gullible Travels: a pantomime - This highly irreverent and topical retelling of Gulliver’s Travels from the perspective of Lemony Gullible (along with characters and plots stolen from other well-known works of fiction) will engage the audience’s collective participation in the time-honoured traditions of British pantomime.

Lemuel Gulliver’s the world of the wee - A day of talks and demonstrations themed around the minutiae of the natural world. Marvel at the invention of the microscope and its impact on human perception, explore the human body on scales like never before, and gaze in wonder at the delights of all creatures great and small.

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Festival hub Scotland

University of Glasgow hub

Finding Glasgow: hidden secrets and lost meaning Join the University of Glasgow and rediscover people, places and stories you thought you knew. Glasgow comes to life with curiosity and creativity as a special series of events takes you from prehistoric art to the futuristic worlds of science fiction. With art, poetry, music, films, exhibitions and more, you’re invited to explore familiar worlds in unfamiliar ways.

Programme highlights Lost, abandoned and forgotten - Through film and photography, audiences will be introduced to the subculture of urban explorers who find ‘beauty in decay’ and seek to reawaken desolate places by photographing Glasgow’s abandoned buildings.

Fantasy Scotland – a night at the museum - The Hunterian Museum will come to life with interactive stalls, displays and researchers discussing the role of museums in fantasy literature. Live performances, talks and screenings will draw on themes from popular fantasy literature and film.

Hidden tongues and missing sounds - People are naturally curious about language, eager to compare words, pronunciations, and expressions with those who speak other languages or have a different accent. These workshops will use creative approaches and portable ultrasound to explore language and create novel ways for the public to explore the way they speak.

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Small awards Scotland

University of Aberdeen Home and abroad

Scotland’s friendship with Poland is long and enduring. From as far back as the 15th century there were Scots trading and settling in Poland. These roundtable discussions and entertainment evenings explore notions of heritage, identity and citizenship between eastern Europe and Scotland in a post-Brexit UK, concluding with traditional Polish music. They will bring humanities research to people in a way that relates to their communities and personal experiences of integration.

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Festival hub Northern Ireland

Queen’s University Belfast hub Belfast celebrates the humanities

Our Northern Irish hub hosts an exciting and highly diverse programme inspired by this year’s festival theme of ‘lost and found’.

Events include workshops, screenings and discussions on topics as wide-ranging as aesthetic living, kidney transplantation, hearing loss, comets, ageing, conflict, teenage girls on screen and histories of the First World War.

Programme highlights In search of Halley’s comets: Anglo-Saxons’ visions of modern science - Aiming to understand how the Anglo-Saxons perceived astronomical phenomena, this event combines medieval history with astrophysics. Listen to the sounds of comets, explore astronomical photographs, look at manuscripts from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and learn about an undiscovered planet in our solar system.

Storytelling from conflict - This event will explore the Prisons Memory Archive, a collection of films made during the Northern Ireland conflict. Capturing prisoners and people working in the prison system, they show the impact of the conflict on everyday life and builds a rich tapestry of the story of the prisons, while revealing how storytelling from a conflicted past in a contested present can contribute to understanding the ‘other’ in a divided society.

Queer visions of peace - This event delves into the role of the arts and humanities in building a more inclusive and peaceful post-conflict society, specifically relocating those ‘lost’ voices and visions of LGBTQ people in Northern Ireland’s social and political narratives.

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Small awards Northern Ireland

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Festival hub Wales

Swansea University hub Voices, faces and places

Our Welsh hub features creative and interactive activities on a diverse range of subjects. Rediscover Egyptian amulets and guardian demons, uncover family histories relating to the British empire, make faces and stories, take multilingual snaps, play the role of a CIA or MI6 agent and even have a medieval makeover. Audiences can have their voices heard through ‘Gogglebox Cymraeg’ and an open mic evening of poetry and song , or discover lost and new voices in this multilingual city.

Programme highlights Refugees refinding home - In this event, children will create stories through words, drawings and film based on things they have lost and found – a toy, a place, an idea, a favourite thing. Voices and faces will be experienced and reimagined as refugee stories become oral histories, families unlock their past and new artistic voices / changing faces are showcased.

Making faces: beauty lost and found - Looking at how appearance and disfigurement have affected people’s lives in the past, this event investigates what meaning these experiences may have for us in today’s world. Interactive elements also include a medieval makeover and an implicit bias test.

The pharaoh’s curse: a murder mystery - Join this murder mystery trail back to the ancient Egyptian pharaohs and the curse believed to inflict those who disturb a mummy’s tomb.

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Small awards Wales

University of South Wales

Lost and found: recollecting popular music memories in Merthyr Tydfil Through workshops, performances and a public debate, this project investigates the history of popular music in the town of Merthyr Tydfil, between 1955 and 1975. The project uses a specially devised memory box, to facilitate community members to construct digital stories, that will consequently be used to produce a series of dramatic adaptations with school children in the town. Both the digital stories and dramatic renditions will be showcased and discussed in a final live public event.

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Small awards Northern England

Durham University

Who do you think we were?

Food and singing are two of the most approachable ways to talk about the past. These events, aimed at all ages, involve local singers and musicians who will help to offer a sensory journey of discovery from the ancient world to now. Discover medieval food, particularly the earliest collection of culinary recipes in western Europe, and sing recently discovered traditional local songs. Songs and recipes are taken from medieval manuscripts found at Durham Cathedral.

Manchester Metropolitan University Paradise lost

Asian artists in Manchester present a trailblazing series of ‘happenings’ to explore partition and the complexities of relocated identities and cultures. This innovative series to mark the 70th anniversary of the partition of India, will take place in community and cultural locations around the city and follows the Manchester International Festival event, Imagined Homelands.

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Small awards Northern England

Newcastle University

Paths across the water – sailing between Tyneside and the West Indies The reputation of Tyneside as the ‘whitest’ region in the country hides its proud maritime heritage and history of international migration.

This live oral history project explores the routes, histories and personal accounts that link the Caribbean to Tyneside. From slavery and the West Indian sailors who fought in two world wars, to the north-eastern sailors who travelled to the West Indies and those who loved and lived with them.

Sheffield Hallam University

Lost and found Shakespeare (and company) Was Shakespeare the only genius of his generation? At a time of soul-searching about national identity post Brexit, it can be argued that our national poet and foremost of the great canonical writers, is more important than ever. This performance features scenes from Shakespeare’s surviving texts – and the works of some of his oftenforgotten contemporaries such as Marlowe, Peele, and Marston – and questions how literary canons are formed and taste is set. This is the first performance of some of these texts in nearly 400 years!

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Small awards Northern England

University of Chester Sensing the past

The sensory experience of past landscapes is often lost to us. These events will encourage audiences to rediscover how past peoples smelt, touched, handled, saw and tasted their environment. Each talk is led by an expert and have an interactive element based around one of the five senses. From the taste of prehistoric foods, to visual identities of Chester and the role of touch in the botanic classroom, there will be something for everyone to get their senses into.

University of Hull

Hubert Nicholson and ‘Sunk Island’: a novel place reclaimed Hull-born novelist Hubert Nicholson’s powerful but largely forgotten 1956 novel Sunk Island is set on the site of a lost medieval village. Join a guided walk around the reclaimed land associated with the novel followed by a Yorkshire tea (including local cheese and cakes) in Holy Trinity Church, and the first public reading of J Michael Walton’s dramatisation of Sunk Island. An exhibition on Hubert Nicholson, the history and geography of the island, and local recollections (oral and photographic) of the 1953 east coast flood will invite further reflection on the actual Sunk Island’s unique geography.

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Small awards Northern England

University of Manchester Sleep: lost and found

Britain is in the grip of a sleep crisis with children suffering from poor physical and mental health due to sleep loss. This exhibition and day of activities examines its causes and consequences by showcasing historical approaches to sleep in the early modern world, often dubbed a ‘golden age’ of sleep. Families will learn how to sleep better by comparing their sleep behaviours with the bedrooms and bedtime routines of their ancestors, and by speaking to experts at the event.

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Small awards Northern England

University of Northumbria Hidden histories

Why are lost local histories and rediscovering traditional crafts so important to us? This 19th-century knitting workshop includes a talk from researchers about the recaptured passion for the lost art of hand-crafting. It will end with the group working together to knit a blanket using instructions from 19th-century pattern books.

Meanwhile, the Vagabonds Cycling Club examines the history of cycling in Tyneside through a volunteer-led, oral history project, which collected photographs and cycling ephemera of older cyclists.

With the participation of a local youth organisation, it will tour lost cycling routes in Tyneside, finding memories of the clubs’ older members via QR codes en route.

University of Sheffield

Lost and found in Sheffield and beyond What did people drink at King Midas’ funeral feast? Do diaries have a therapeutic purpose for writers under mental strain? Meet researchers who have found something in the course of their research. From an SS Officer’s diary found secreted within the upholstery of a chair in Amsterdam, to medieval literary texts, plays, songs and objects that once belonged to someone in the past. Share your losses and celebrate their findings in this day-long event that includes performances of ‘lost songs’ from musicals.

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Small awards Northern England

University of Sunderland and University of Northumbria Lost and found: mapping the borders

How are places or landscapes a reflection of culture, and how can culture shape the landscape? These events explore the cultural geography and contested history of the Scottish/English borderland.

A new digital app will map the literary and linguistic clues found in the poems of James Hogg, a glass mapmaking workshop explores the changing landscape found in the historical maps of the Scottish Borders and an exhibition of contemporary artworks examines the rich visual culture of this unique region.

University of York Telling the bees

How did the honey bee get her sting? This performance lecture will take you through the past, present and future of bees and beekeeping. Together with youth theatre company GrowTheatre, we’ll share stories of the important and fascinating honey bee. This performance combines drama and interactive tasks to help you explore different aspects of our research. You’ll discover what a Beespoon is, how the honey bee got her sting, and get a glimpse into possible futures for our bees.

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Festival hub Midlands

University of Nottingham hub

How to lose and find yourself in words ‘How to lose and find yourself in words’ is a brief guide to writers, writing, reading and storytelling across languages for the citizens of Nottingham and those who are inspired to visit us.

Being Human 2017 sees the University of Nottingham join forces with Nottingham Trent University and Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature to offer a cross-city approach to delivering our UNESCOinspired mission of how to build a better world with words.

Programme highlights The telephone box - For many, the rise of the mobile phone means that the telephone box is now obsolete. But phone kiosks are increasingly being transformed into book exchanges, art galleries, prayer booths, cafés and even aquariums. Working with contemporary users of old telephone boxes, and exploring representations in literature and film, these events will help participants write stories about the lost voices that continue to rattle down the line.

Hungry for words: let’s talk over coffee about food - Café conversations held across Nottingham will explore men’s relationship with food. Over a bite to eat, men will be invited to tell their own stories about food and encouraged to explore their attitudes to self-esteem, exercise, starving and feasting, their bodies, gender relations and many others.

Images in translation - What ideas might we gain about another culture from reading that particular literature? What images might form in our minds when we encounter certain books from different places? This printing workshop will explore these ideas through translated works and image-making.

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Small awards Midlands

De Montfort University

British wrestling: history and resurgence In 1988, after its cancellation on ITV, it seemed that British wrestling had died. Recently, however, there has begun an unlikely resurgence.

British wrestling now leads the world; shows sell out in minutes, local athletes are admired worldwide. This event charts the fall and rise of the sport through a collection of artistic encounters – a training workshop, a discussion event, and two wrestling matches, with responses from artists, scholars and fans.

Open University

Lost and found books and their readers Exploring lost and found books in literary history, this treasure hunt will take place in multiple venues, with a book waiting to be ‘found’ in each venue. The book hunt will include talks and discussion around these hidden literary treasures, building on two AHRCfunded projects – the Reading Experience Database and the Reading Communities project.

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Small awards Midlands

University of Birmingham Babbling beasts

A group of friendly furry animals are searching for treasures at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. They are feeling lost and need your help! Can you rescue them by telling a story to guide them through the museum? Join poet Roz Goddard, games designer John Sear, and reading researcher Danielle Fuller, for a workshop on creative writing and digital game building. Or, come and meet the beasts and discover their stories in the week after the workshops.

University of Birmingham London: a labyrinth of loss

Discover how objects can shed light on the hidden history of the growing metropolis. This interactive walking journey from Holborn to Bishopsgate will take you back in time and bring to life illicit 18th-century practices of reclaiming stolen goods. Explore how a lawful and regulated system developed in the 19th-century. Examine the original evidence and draw your own conclusions. Look at various means of recovering what has been lost, including efforts to restore lost children to distraught parents and the extraordinary affection expressed for lost animals. This walk will be of interest to anyone who loves London’s history or who has lost something they loved.

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Small awards Midlands

University of Birmingham

Sovereignties of Birmingham

It was one of the most searched words on Google last year, but what exactly is sovereignty? Is it taking back control? Is it legitimacy? How does it shape our local and national history, past, present and future?

Join us for a series of pop up events that explore this topical notion through the lens of Birmingham, the city where Theresa May gave her 2016 Brexit speech in support of reclaiming sovereignty back from the EU.

University of Northampton Leather at lunchtime

Northampton was historically the centre of Britain’s leather and shoe trades, and is the home of the National Leather Collection. This event is a fascinating opportunity to discover the history of leather, its unique properties and many unexpected uses. Come to our pop-up exhibition to hear lunchtime talks, handle objects and make your own leather crafts.

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Small awards Southern England

Canterbury Christ Church University

Walking rediscovered cities in Russell Hoban’s ‘Riddley Walker’ and the Anglo-Saxon Andreas On this interactive walking tour you will uncover the hidden postapocalyptic landscapes of Canterbury through the narratives of Russell Hoban’s science fiction classic Riddley Walker, set in a Kent of the future following nuclear devastation, and the Anglo-Saxon poem Andreas, set in the ruins of a Roman city peopled by devilworshipping cannibals. Over a thousand years separate the writing of these works of literature, but together they have much to tell us about the enduring power of ruinous urban landscapes on the popular imagination.

Goldsmiths, University of London Sound: lost and found

Are you listening? This heritage coastal walk from West Bay to Bridport, Dorset, is an interactive activity focused on sound and listening. Participants will seek out and record hidden sounds along the coastal route – from inside objects, underwater and electromagnetic sounds. The recordings will be used to help create the Lost and Found Symphony, a large-scale musical work to be produced during a live, improvised performance that evening.

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Small awards Southern England

London Metropolitan Archives

Healing through archives: a voyage into the past What do we mean by hidden history? Who controls the story? These events explore the history of Somali migration to the UK. Beginning with imperialism and continuing with current instability and conflict, they explore the Somali presence and living histories of east London, home of many in the Somali community for over 150 years.

Participants will be invited to do a ‘Hido Raac ’ heritage walk visiting sites where Somali sailors lived and worked and discover the area’s rich maritime history. Weaving workshops, object handling sessions and discovery workshops will explore the clues we find to people’s lived experience, past and present.

Queen Mary University of London A sense of belongings

What makes you feel at home? What would you feel lost without?

Through interactive activities, walking tours and film screenings we will explore people’s feelings about their belongings. Join us to find out how objects can unlock creativity and what is behind their hold over our feelings of being lost or found, whether in everyday situations or when leaving for a new home, whether seeking fortune or escaping fear. Events include: Point of arrival: Sam Selvon’s Waterloo Station; Emotional objects: from lost amulets to found photos; and The inspiration machine: games and constraints for creative writing.

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Small awards Southern England

Queen Mary University of London The great Yiddish parade

‘The great Yiddish parade’ is a re-enactment of a demonstration by Jewish immigrant workers in Victorian Whitechapel. Join a band of klezmer musicians and singers performing newly discovered Yiddish protest songs in their original setting, and find out about east London’s forgotten heritage of protest in poetry and song from musicologist Vivi Lachs and literary historian Nadia Valman.

Royal Holloway, University of London Adapt live

Veteran television crew now in their 70s and 80s are reunited with old TV kit once used in the 1960s and 1970s. They demonstrate and use this old kit, engage in live Q&As and invite the audience to come and have a go, in a rare television history event aimed at bringing old television production back to life, and helping a wider audience to understand how telly was made in the past. ‘Adapt live’ also aims to share findings from the Adapt project and invite the general public to help with research around how the filmed material and findings may be used and useful to a wide ranging audience.

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Small awards Southern England

Southampton Solent University

Let’s get lost, and found, and lost again. Southampton as the Situationist city This series is an opportunity to discover individual and collective stories linked to the city of Southampton through images, sounds, objects and spaces. They include artist talks, walking tours, interactive installations, a symposium, a workshop, and will directly involve the audience through the co-creation of a group exhibition. Through art interventions and activities questioning the subtle boundary between absence and presence, visitors will learn about and experience hidden narratives, unusual places and stories.

UCL

A refugee child in London: on WG Sebald’s novel ‘Austerlitz’ Today, images and stories of child refugees, lost and found across Europe and beyond, challenge and haunt us. Our talks, discussion and film engage with this urgent topic through one of our century’s greatest novels, W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz (2001), which is about a child who comes to London on a Kindertransport from Nazi-occupied Prague. The novel recounts the search for his, and Europe’s, lost past, and what he finds. We present this book in an extraordinary setting evocative of its meditations on knowledge and remembering.

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Small awards Southern England

University of East Anglia

Losing and finding home: refugee history, memory and culture These events champion Norfolk’s tradition as a place of sanctuary and volunteer humanitarianism, and bring the international dimensions of the current refugee crisis to sites across Norwich and beyond.

Using exhibitions, dialogues, workshops, film and performance, the event will explore what might be lost and found for those forced to become refugees: citizenship, homes, languages, culture and identities. Posing questions about local, community and individual responsibility, it will also provide platforms to engage with and challenge political stakeholders.

University of East Anglia Explosive stories

This event brings creative writing together with volcanology to explore the significant role played by storytelling in recovery from, and resilience to volcanic hazard. The event explores the role of the imagination in relation to human experiences of risk, how these stories are transmitted, and what we can learn from them at this time when human populations are at increased risk from natural hazards.

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Small awards Southern England

University of Essex Tattoos and travel

The process of selecting and experiencing tattoos is profoundly related to identity. People who have experienced the process of body modification and who wear and display their tattoos can be said to be performing identity. Travel is often integral to tattooing, from its origins in nautical and seafaring cultures to today’s holiday tattoos.

This event discusses the meaning of tattoos and invites the audience to talk about their own experiences.

University of Exeter

Thinking through fragments A live game in three parts, challenging players to resist oversimplification of our complex world and focus on what the past can really teach us. The game, a performance of a segment illustrating political realism vs political idealism, and a closing debate will help participants rediscover past events so as to make sense of a rapidly changing world, especially with respect to the dynamics of ‘might and right’ and the workings of power.

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Small awards Southern England

University of Lincoln

Women, the West End and the Western Front Join us on this engaging literature walk from the West End to Westminster and discover the lost stories and voices of women workers during World War One. Through unexpected encounters along the route, you’ll meet female toymakers, translators, entertainers and medics, and find out how varied and vital women’s labour was to the war effort and the suffrage campaign. The walk is a collaboration between Naomi Paxton from Parliament’s Vote 100 project, and feminist production hub, Scary Little Girls.

University of Oxford

Lost late - night at the museums The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) has teamed up with the University of Oxford’s Museum of Natural History and Pitt Rivers Museum for ‘Lost late: night at the museums’ – a special late-night opening to explore lost and found worlds across humanity.

Join us for exciting live performances of dance and music, digital installations, workshops and interactive talks. The museums will come alive for a whole evening with researchers on the themes of lost and found, surrounded by their fantastic collections.

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Small awards Southern England

University of Portsmouth

Disappearing acts

What does Muhammad Ali, Orson Welles and Charles Dickens have in common? The answer is magic. These site specific events explore Charles Dickens’ career as an amateur conjuror and the influence of magic on his writings. Further events investigate the disappearance (and reappearance) of lost people and places of Portsmouth, exploring the fascinating stories of a mysteriously missing couple and Portsmouth’s oldest (and most haunted) house.

University of Reading

Telling ‘lost stories’: a flower for Oscar Wilde Are stories ever truly lost, and what can we do to find them again?

This programme of events on Oscar Wilde celebrates how humanities researchers can work with community groups and allow their stories to be heard. It asks how innovative methods of storytelling can help people to find and pay attention to hidden or lost voices. Local action group, SupportU, will also talk about its documentary and exhibition project on the 1957 Wolfenden Report.

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Small awards Southern England

University of Reading

‘Home’ and ‘War Child’

These events will examine the lost and untold stories of children who were evacuated during the second world war to reflect on the untold stories of children who have been displaced by conflict. Through community dance, the events will work with teenagers from migrant bakcgrounds to interrogate barriers regarding Englishness, the rural, and official heritage.

University of Sussex

Black poets everywhere: a theatrical lecture This theatrical lecture will explore the exceptional life of Dutch academic Rosey Pool, and her relationships with prominent black writers like Langston Hughes – the most lauded poet of the Harlem Renaissance – crime writer and Parisian exile Chester Himes, and poet and playwright Owen Dodson, using her papers housed at the University of Sussex Special Collections.

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Small awards Southern England

University of the West of England

Looking for Archie: Cary Grant’s Bristol Cary Grant, Hollywood’s most dry and dapper gentleman, was born Archibald Leach in Bristol in 1904. Many Bristolians are unaware that he grew up here and continued an enduring relationship with the city, returning often, well into his seventies. This walking tour retraces Archie’s home town haunts, and uncovers Bristol’s hidden cinema history, in the places where it actually happened.

University of Westminster Bass in the attic

Focusing on black British music and sound system culture, ‘Bass in the attic’ will uncover and re-value the hidden memorabilia we may have lying around – and reconnect individuals and families to their musical heritage. Through an intergenerational investigation of music within the household, attendees are invited to identify and discuss family mementos that trigger their musical memories. Bring the kids, phone granddad, tell auntie. These events will be warm, lively and conversational.

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Small awards Southern England

University of Westminster

Found theatre and poetry: disrupting the everyday The tiny Soho Poly Theatre was a radical icon. Forty years later, is Soho still a hotbed of performance and resistance? This series of events examines the potential of the arts to disrupt and re-categorise our daily lives. Deriving directly from research into London’s Soho Poly Theatre, an important radical fringe venue of the 1970s and 1980s, and partly taking place in its original space – what is now University of Westminster – these events explore how the artistic experiments of the past can help us to meet cultural challenges today.

Victoria and Albert Museum

The queer allure of Art Deco

The V&A will lead an archival visit and illustrated talk looking at original prints, drawings and designs in the Museum’s collection by queer artists from the Art Deco period, particularly George Barbier and Erté, as well as Cecil Beaton and the iconic Bright Young Things.

The talk will be followed by a screening in the British Galleries cinema featuring excerpts from filmed productions of the era including stunning Erté designs in the 1921 Rudolph Valentino film, Camille.

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The Being Human festival team Professor Sarah Churchwell, festival director Dr Michael Eades, festival curator and manager Jo Chard, festival coordinator Dr Amanda Phipps, festival assistant Charlotte Bell, festival assistant Booklet produced by: Being Human festival School of Advanced Study, University of London Page 3 © Shanti Hesse / Shutterstock Page 6 View of the Grampian Mountains, public domain via Wikimedia Commons Page 7 Lloyd Sturdy © University of London Page 9 Bayeux Tapestry, Scene 32: men staring at Halley’s Comet, public domain via Wikimedia Commons Page 11 Being Human 2016, Swansea University event, Heroes and villains: drawing your dreams and

demons, © Swansea University Page 13 Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (c.1412–1416), public domain via Wikimedia Commons Page 16 The Sleeping Beauty by John Collier (1921), public domain via Wikimedia Commons Page 19 Bee collecting pollen, public domain via Wikimedia Commons

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