Researchers and public to explore what it means to be human

The University of Glasgow is hosting an event to participate in Being Human, the UK's first national festival of the humanities, which involves a weekend of performance, installation, film, and discussion focusing on the human condition in complex and diverse relation with all that is more-than-human, ranging from animals, to ruins, to water. Only Human? is made possible by a grant from the festival organisers, the School of Advanced Study, University of London, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. The University of Glasgow has been awarded funding to hold the event during Being Human festival week, 15 - 23 November 2014. Only Human? will champion the excellence of humanities research being undertaken in Scotland and help to demonstrate the vitality and relevance of this today. Selected from over 100 applications, the grant will help the university bring together researchers and the local public to engage with their own interpretation of the humanities. Only Human? will be part of a national programme of activities which aim to inform, extend and ignite contemporary thinking and imagination around the humanities. Professor Murray Pittock, Vice Principal of the College of Arts said: "Glasgow's contribution lies at the core of our College of Arts' strategy in making the humanities part of every research question.