The Centre for Critical and Creative Cultures have shared a trace of what we they up to before these strange times, with a number of recent publications from staff members. Until we can gather in a less virtual way to celebrate this in the future, we would like to join them in celebrating these fantastic…Continue Reading Centre for Critical and Creative Cultures: New Publications from Colleagues
Today on the #DundeeUniCulture blog we are sharing this fantastic review of a recent TV adaptation of H.G. Wells’s classic novel The War of the Worlds, written by University of Dundee’s very own Dr Keith Williams. Keith teaches Wells at Level 4 UG and on our Science Fiction Master’s – find out more about the course…Continue Reading Review of ‘The War of the Worlds’, first transmitted on BBC 1 November 2019
After receiving a question about how to grow the Sensitive plant from seed, the team at the Botanics have created this tutorial video with hints and tips for you to try yourself at home….Continue Reading Botanics Tutorial: How to grow Sensitive plant from seed
To celebrate recent DJCAD graduate Lewis Deeney being selected for the Freelands Painting Prize & winning the James Guthrie Orchar Award, we thought it would be apt share his contribution to the River Deep Mountain High exhibition on the #DundeeUniCulture blog today. Lewis Deeney’s acrylic & water on board for the River Deep Mountain High…Continue Reading RDMH – The continual ephemerality of our connection by Lewis Deeney
As part of Dundee Month of Design 2020, museum curator Matthew Jarron had planned to lead a series of guided walks of public art and design in different parts of the city. Because of the current lockdown these have not been possible, so here is a virtual tour using Google Streetview and photos from Public…Continue Reading Public Art Tour of Lochee, Dundee
The next installment of Cooper Gallery’s online exhibition ‘A Space in-between’ brings us ‘untitled: space, 12: a collective of women writers’. The utterance of language, whether poetry, prose or overheard whispers is the ephemeral tissue that draws us close to the other. In this moment ‘between’, when every aspect of life is challenged and recast,…Continue Reading Cooper Gallery – untitled: a space, 12: a collective of women writers
Peto worked overseas on Save the Children Fund assignments, capturing the poverty and hardships of what was known then as ‘third world countries’. This photograph from 1967, taken in Kerala, is one of many featured in the Peto Collection from his time overseas with Save the Children. Photo-journalist Michael Peto worked with The Observer during…Continue Reading The Peto Collection – Kerala, India, 1967
Today’s music contribution is from the Discovery Bach Cantata Project, a small choral group made up of students, staff and alumni of University of Dundee. ‘So… we’re still missing singing and breathing together, and performing for a living breathing audience, but until we can do that again, here’s our next virtual offering. Each part is…Continue Reading Discovery Bach Cantata Project perform ‘Tristis est anima mea’ by Johann Kuhnau
While the University’s museums and galleries are temporarily closed due to the coronavirus emergency, we’re sharing more of our collections online. This is the latest in a series of films in which museum curator Matthew Jarron tells the stories behind some of our most interesting objects and artworks. In this video we look at specimens…Continue Reading Aleck Rodger and the Dundee Whalers
Join Dr. Kenneth Baxter from the University Archives team in this video to hear about the charitable efforts of students at University College, Dundee (now University of Dundee) which included the publication of the Glad Mag. The amazing artwork includes topical and satirical cartoons commenting on local, national & global events….Continue Reading University of Dundee Archives: The Glad Mag
Join botanical horticulturalist Clare Reaney as she walks us through the New Zealand section of the Botanic Gardens at the University and shows us the weird and wonderful plants there….Continue Reading A Snapshot of the Plants from New Zealand in the Botanic Gardens (Video)
As part of Dundee Month of Design 2020, museum curator Matthew Jarron had planned to lead a series of guided walks of public art and design in different parts of the city. Because of the current lockdown these have not been possible, so here is a virtual tour using Google Streetview and photos from Public…Continue Reading Public Art Tour of Dundee City Centre Part 3