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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: We shape (things) shape us - What Does it Mean to Be Human?
Description: Recorded April 15, 2019.
The Trinity Long Room Hub is delighted to present the latest talk in the series What does it Mean to be Human in the 21st century?, with cultural historian Dr. Lisa Godson who will explore the field of material culture and how our identity as humans is predicated on the artefacts we surround ourselves with.
It will explore the objects, spaces and systems that we use and inhabit, and will propose that being human in the 21st century involves understanding that we not only shape objects and environments but are in turn shaped by the material world to...