{"id":1673,"date":"2020-10-27T11:31:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T11:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:47:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:47:05","slug":"being-human-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/being-human-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Human 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dundee University is once again a key part of Being Human, the UK\u2019s national celebration of the humanities. The festival takes place between the 12<sup>th<\/sup> and 22<sup>nd<\/sup> of November, with the theme built around \u201cThe Lunar City\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/10\/EgA1MnqXoAAqSFO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1676\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/10\/EgA1MnqXoAAqSFO-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"715\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/10\/EgA1MnqXoAAqSFO-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/10\/EgA1MnqXoAAqSFO-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/10\/EgA1MnqXoAAqSFO-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/10\/EgA1MnqXoAAqSFO.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite the ongoing need for social distancing and Covid-19 restrictions, over 200 workshops, screenings, talks as well as readings will take place across the whole of the UK. Dundee University will take part by hosting socially distanced in-person events at the DCA and Dundee Science Centre alongside online events.<\/p>\n<p>The programme will kick off with lunar story-telling, a day in the life of an astronaut, poetry, comic book launches, crafts, an exploration of Dundee\u2019s Moon Hoax as well as a private screening of Moon.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Daniel Cook from Dundee University\u2019s English department speaks about the events, \u201cThe Being Human festival is always a highlight in our calendar as we explore Dundee\u2019s connections with great writer, thinkers and doers. This year we\u2019ll be heading to the moon and back, figurately speaking \u2013 taking you from lockdown to countdown, as it were.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The festival itself is led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London and is funded by the Arts &amp; Humanities Research Council and the British Academy.<\/p>\n<p>Keep an eye out on the blog for more updates about the event or have a look at the Being Human website:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beinghumanfestival.org\/organiser\/university-of-dundee\/\">https:\/\/beinghumanfestival.org\/organiser\/university-of-dundee\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dundee University is once again a key part of Being Human, the UK\u2019s national celebration of the humanities. The festival takes place between the 12th and 22nd of November, with the theme built around \u201cThe Lunar City\u201d. Despite the ongoing need for social distancing and Covid-19 restrictions, over 200 workshops, screenings, talks as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":1676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","category-literature","category-science"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6395,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions\/6395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}