The Human Worlds Festival was first launched in 2014. Since then, events have taken place every November across the University's campuses and the City of Southampton. Since 2020 the festival includes also an online component with digital activities and events.
For instance, watch our summaries from Human Worlds Festival 2020, 2019 and 2018!
Human Worlds Festival ran from Thursday 12th to Sunday 22nd November 2020.
Since 2020 will go down in history as a year of profound changes, for the first time the Festival was preceded by a month-long series of celebratory events in October for Black History Month and was followed by a month of digital celebrations for LGBT+ History Month in February 2021. Both series were curated in collaboration with few other teams across the University, including the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion team , the BAME Network , the and the (SUSU).
Other events that were hosted under the Festival umbrella included a special night on November 3rd for the U.S. Presidential Election (run by History at the ºÚÁÏÉç and chaired by Dr Christopher Fuller ), a strand of digital events for (run by English at the ºÚÁÏÉç and led by Carol Burns , Head of Creative Writing) and three on pregnancy, motherhood, and childhood (run by Philosophy at the ºÚÁÏÉç and chaired by Professor Fiona Woollard ).
The main events of Human Worlds Festival 2020 were:
The 2019 Human Worlds Festival ran from Thursday 14th to Saturday 23rd November.
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Humanities Late
, a special evening event, that saw the
and
opening to the public outside normal hours on Friday 22 November. The night featured a temporary installation by artist and performer
, inspired by the research of historian
Professor Christer Petley
, a talk by writer
and live performances by composer
Dr Drew Crawford
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. These events took place alongside the main gallery exhibition '
' by internationally renowned artist and
Winchester School of Art
graduate, Haroon Mirza.
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Hands-on Humanities Day
on Saturday 23 November, which took place for the first time at the John Hansard Gallery, City Eye, Nuffield Southampton Theatres (NST City) and
’s Sir James Matthews building, at the heart of the Southampton Cultural Quarter on Above Bar Street. The day brought together internal and external exhibitors passionate about the arts and humanities, including community radio station
FM.
Both Humanities Late and Hands-on Humanities Day were part of the
festival 2019 programme.
Wider Festival
events included:
Watch the following videos to re-discover one of the amazing performances at Humanities Late, ‘Emotional Resonances’.
The 2018 Human Worlds Festival ran between Thursday 15th to Saturday 24th November 2018.
This edition saw a week full of events across the city of Southampton and was concluded by
Hands-on Humanities Day
on Saturday 17th November at the
Avenue Campus
, with activities and workshops for all.
Wider Festival
events included: