I am delighted to announce that Being Human, the UK’s only national festival of the humanities, will be returning for a fourth year between 17-25 November 2017.

Many of you will know already that Being Human is run by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. It provides as a national platform to share research in the humanities in fun and engaging ways with non-academic audiences. Our festival theme this year is ‘Lost and Found’.

As always, we are offering a number of grants to support public engagement activities across the UK. You can apply for a ‘Small Award’, a ‘Hub Award’, or apply to take part with an event that does not require funding from the festival. Please take a look at our full call for applications for details: www.beinghumanfestival.org/apply.

Last year’s programme was an incredible display of humanities fun (also featuring lots of events in collaboration with scientists, artists, social scientists). You can take a look at the programme here. There are also now a number of case-studies on the website which should be useful if you are thinking of applying.

Need further inspiration? Take a look through our gallery from 2016 events here: https://beinghumanfestival.org/image-gallery/

The deadline for funded applications is 5pm 10 April.

Posted on behalf of Dr Michael Eades, Curator – Being Human festival of the humanities