Being Human Festival - Paris, 17th-24th November

Friday 17th Nov to Friday 24th November is the annual Being Human Festival, a nationwide event in Britain celebrating the Humanities, which has become international thanks to the University of London Institute in Paris.

This year the theme of the Festival is Lost and Found and ULIP is hosting two events:

Friday 17^th November from 6pm (Lecture Theatre), Missing Persons: a creative workshop in which you can contribute to and learn more about the mapping project that we have been running with some asylum seekers and refugees living in the Paris area. Through a range of workshops, some with ULIP students, we have explored how people with only very limited knowledge of Paris, of the languages used in the city and perhaps even of how to use maps, manage their way around. How do place names and metro names in particular help build a map, what sort of names do we hold on to, and what can we find in them? This is an opportunity to bring your own experience and creativity to bear in discovering the words and photographs from other horizons that converge in Paris.

To read more about the project: https://ulip.london.ac.uk/events/missing-persons-lost-and-found-paris

Or on the ULIP blog: https://ulip.london.ac.uk/news/what-name

Wednesday 22^nd November, from 6pm (Lecture Theatre), Voices from the ‘Jungle’, a presentation and discussion with some of the people who contributed and edited the story collection Voices from the ‘Jungle’. Stories from the Calais Refugee Camp, published by Pluto Press in 2017. We have all heard of some of the miseries and violence that have made Calais and the gateway to the UK one of the harshest places in Europe. Come along to hear more directly from people who have lived and worked there, offering those caught in the traps of forced migration and European directives the chance to express themselves. You’ll also be able to see the work produced on Friday 17^th of November.

To read more: https://ulip.london.ac.uk/events/voices-jungle

Refreshments will be served. Posters will be made and readings heard. We hope you’ll join the movement and this moment of celebration of our collective possibilities and our shared past.