‘Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts & Humanities Research Council and the British Academy, Being Human is a national forum for public engagement with humanities research. The 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.’ (TORCH<\/a> website)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The seventh annual festival will run between 12 and 22 November 2020. This year’s theme is ‘New Worlds’. The organisers<\/a> write that this is ‘perfectly timed to reflect on the radical global changes of 2020, from the Covid-19 pandemic to the Black Lives Matter protests and the most important US election in decades.’\u00a0<\/span>This year there will be a series of Being Human Caf\u00e9s, offering the opportunity for people to gather and engage with a researcher, to share ideas and views on the world.<\/p>\n Saturday 21 November 2020, 1-3pm<\/p>\n In the White Rose Circle caf\u00e9, Dr Alexandra Lloyd <\/a>will introduce the White Rose resistance group and their pamphlets, texts inspired by literature and philosophy with quotations from a wide range of sources, from Goethe to Laozi. After a short break, participants will be invited to share a phrase from a creative work that inspires or resonates with them and together we\u2019ll discuss how their phrase could inspire us to create a better world. What does a world look like where this phrase is a guiding principle? What ideas lie behind it? We\u2019ll invite participants to make a poster of their phrase after the event for our website. The event will be moderated by Dr Karolina Watroba<\/a> (University of Oxford).<\/p>\nWhite Rose Circle Caf\u00e9<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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