Event details What kind of relationships can we have with the dead? How does grief change the experience of time? What impact does grief have on how we experience our bodies? What kinds of loss, other than bereavements, do we …
When a Chapter Ends: The experience of grief and loss Read More »
Event details Ramayana is a world-famous epic that celebrates the Hindu god Ram and his life. In North India, Ramayana is the basis for Diwali, the festival of lights, where everyone celebrates the victory of good over evil. Ramayana always …
Award-winning author Helen Benedict and Syrian writer and refugee Eyad Awwadawnan provide us with a rare insight into the lives of refugees as they share powerful stories of resilience, suffering and hope. Join Helen and Eyad for a rare insight …
MAP OF HOPE AND SORROW: STORIES OF REFUGEES TRAPPED IN GREECE Read More »
Event details Are you interested in food, health and the environment? Researchers from the University of York who are at the forefront of food are joined by people working with food everyday and young people passionate about changing our failing …
FixOurFood: Sustainable, healthy and tasty food for all Read More »
Event details Join us for an afternoon of energetic, crafty, puzzling, scientific and historical fun with University of York postgraduate students and staff at this year’s Festival Family Fun Afternoon. Interact with robots, learn about food and climate change, immerse …
Event details For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming …
How to be Lucky is an interactive workshop and play that is the result of dozens of interviews with Re-settled Syrians and with their UK support workers. We share and explore with our audiences the physical and psychological realities of …
HOW TO BE LUCKY (AN INVISIBLE MAN PRODUCTION) YORK THEATRE ROYAL Read More »
Join our panel of experts as they examine what a multidisciplinary, global approach to health issues really means. About this event Five new human diseases appear each year and three of them are of animal origin, including Ebola and Covid-19. …
Event details Five new human diseases appear each year and three of them are of animal origin, including Ebola and Covid-19. In fact, around 60% of all infectious diseases come from animals. A growing human population, deforestation and degradation of …
Event details Every society in the history of humanity has lived with religion. But when did humans develop spiritual thought? What is religion’s evolutionary purpose? And - in our increasingly secular world - why has it endured? Join evolutionary psychologist …