Being Human Festival launch
Members from the School of Creative Arts and Research and Enterprise team attended the launch of the Being Human Festival in central London last Tuesday, 4 November.
To showcase the University of Hertfordshire's programme, Dr Kaja Franck presented her research in a storytelling session led by storyteller Olivia Armstrong.
Being Human is the UK’s national festival of the humanities. A celebration of humanities research through public engagement, it is led by the University of London's School of Advanced Study(Opens in new window) 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(Opens in new window) and the British Academy(Opens in new window) to support humanities public engagement across the UK.
The University of Hertfordshire has been chosen as one of the five Hubs. Our programme explores identities that straddle boundaries and places that slip between borders. Listen to local folklore tales, explore horror films behind the scenes, or make a sculpture out of found materials. By drawing on the county’s rich heritage of film, literature and fairy tales, these events will allow communities to uncover old stories and tell new ones.
To find out more about the programme of events at the University of Hertfordshire hub, go to https://www.beinghumanfestival.org/being-human-hertfordshire