Do you want to live forever? Do you want other people to?: Ignite Your Mind at Being Human Festival 2015

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Being Human Festival 2015 - the UK’s only national festival of the humanities.

Ignite Your Mind is a one night event at the Ring O Bells pub in Bath. It brings together University of Bath researchers and the local community to celebrate being human.
Speakers will enlighten the audience with fascinating overviews of their research, but they must do so in just 5 minutes, using 20 slides which auto-advance every 15 seconds!

Topics covered will range from psychology, health, and politics to social policy, education, and economics.

The presentation by Jakob Borrits Sabra, Ph.D. Student, "Do you want to life forever? Do you want other people to? is about Human existence in the digitally connected 21st century, and how it involves uploading parts of our lives onto the internet. When we die, our life remains on the internet… so, do we ever really die?

Jakob Borrits Sabra is final year PhD student from Denmark and a visiting researcher at the Centre for Death & Society at Bath University. He is exploring some complex and deeply personal questions about what we want to happen to our physical, and increasingly our digital selves after we die. At this talk he will share some of his ideas and emerging projects on the future of the cemetery. Jakob says: "The disposal of human remains extends beyond the purely corporeal to increasingly digital and virtual remnants of a human life. This has startling implications both for us as individuals and families and, increasingly, for the Business of dying." Jakob is also work on The Future Cemetery Project at the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol. The forthcoming "Future Cemetery Design Competition 2016" will invite people to imagine a world where both human remains and a person's digital footprint must be considered at the end of life. Other projects include The Rooms Festival as well as research at the museum of Bristol.

Periode	16 nov. 2015
Begivenhedstitel	Ignite Your Mind: Bridging the gap between academic research and the wider community.
Begivenhedstype	Andet
Placering	Bath, StorbritannienVis på kort