Thursday 10 October to Sunday 1 December 2024
Various Locations
What is Adventures in Consciousness?
Adventures in Consciousness is a season of over 20 incredible events produced by the Cultural Programme. It brings together an impressive range of academics, artists, performers, writers and activists to explore consciousness and what it means to be human in a complex world. From 10 October to 1 December, a programme of events will welcome the wider community to engage with the conversation on consciousness, widening access to University research.
Developed alongside University academics, the season has five symposium days exploring consciousness through different lenses: Sleep, Perception, Health, Flourishing and the Planet.
Further events of the season will feature comedian Ruby Wax, poet Lemn Sissay, composer Max Richter’s 90 Minutes of Sleep and the UK premiere of Evolver – a VR journey inside the human body narrated by Cate Blanchett.
The interdisciplinary approach to this season is rooted in the principles of medical humanities, a field that explores the relationship between health, society and the human experience. Medical humanities situates medicine, disease and human bodies within their political, social, historical, ethical and cultural contexts. Most profoundly, medical humanities understands medicine and health as bound together with the human. The Adventures in Consciousness season captures this intellectual diversity, offering a range of events that cut across the sciences, technology, humanities and creative arts – demonstrating how deeply medicine and health are intertwined with our understanding of what it means to be human.