Comic artwork by Hailey Austin (story) & Emma Oosterhous (artwork) for the River Deep Mountain High exhibition draws on ‘Give Me The Hills’, written by Syd Scroggie with illustrations by Colin Gibson. Hailey & Emma also reference Colorado mountains from home. Give Me My Mountains! – Story by Hailey Austin, Art by Emma Oosterhous Comic artwork…Continue Reading RDMH – Give Me My Mountains! by Hailey Austin & Emma Oosterhous
The University of Dundee Book Club Podcast has just posted its eighth episode! In this podcast you will have the opportunity to learn out about the books and ideas that have inspired and influenced the many different and wonderful people that we have here on campus. You can access the podcast on iTunes, Spotify and Buzzsprout. This is…Continue Reading The UoD Book Club Podcast, Episode 8: Dr Anna Notaro on ‘Where are the Women? A Guide to an Imagined Scotland’
‘Bathymetry’ by Andy Jackson comprises a re-worked poem woven into a bathymetric chart of a fictitious Scottish loch. The verse draws the eye into the deepest part of the loch. Andy was inspired by a Tay Estuary Research Centre pamphlet, 1985, which includes bathymetric charts. Bathymetry by Andy Jackson Microsoft Publisher laser printed on A1…Continue Reading RDMH – Bathymetry by Andy Jackson
The Cooper Gallery, within Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, has launched its latest project as part of the ‘A space inbetween’ online exhibition: ‘What I am Reading Now…’. What I am Reading Now… July 2020 – ongoing What I am Reading Now… is the online iteration of a printed column, of the same…Continue Reading A space inbetween #4: ‘What I am Reading Now…’
The University of Dundee Book Club Podcast has just posted its seventh episode! In this podcast you will have the opportunity to learn out about the books and ideas that have inspired and influenced the many different and wonderful people that we have here on campus. You can access the podcast on iTunes, Spotify and Buzzsprout. This is…Continue Reading The UoD Book Club Podcast, Episode 7: Dr Daniel Cook on ‘Frankenstein’
The University of Dundee Book Club Podcast has just posted its sixth episode! In this podcast you will have the opportunity to learn out about the books and ideas that have inspired and influenced the many different and wonderful people that we have here on campus. You can access the podcast on iTunes, Spotify and Buzzsprout. This is…Continue Reading The UoD Book Club Podcast, Episode 6: Dr. Karen Petrie on ‘Invisible Women’
Archives relating to the whaling industry inspired Alice Millar-Thompson’s illustrated essay, ‘In the Belly of a Whale’, for the River Deep Mountain High exhibition. The photograph is part of the David Henderson collection. In the Belly of a Whale by Alice Millar-Thompson Creative essay “The legacy of Dundee’s involvement in the retrospectively barbaric, yet highly…Continue Reading RDMH – In the Belly of a Whale by Alice Millar-Thompson
In this post originally written for The Centre for Scottish Culture, Murdo Macdonald, Professor Emeritus of the History of Scottish Art at the University of Dundee, tells us about his new book, Patrick Geddes’s Intellectual Origins (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). Professor Macdonald used items from the collections in the University Archives for this book, including…Continue Reading Patrick Geddes’s Intellectual Origins
The University of Dundee Book Club Podcast has just posted its fifth episode! In this podcast you will have the opportunity to learn out about the books and ideas that have inspired and influenced the many different and wonderful people that we have here on campus. You can access the podcast on iTunes, Spotify and Buzzsprout. This is…Continue Reading The UoD Book Club Podcast, Episode 5: Alexia Barrable on ‘Last Child in the Woods’
The University of Dundee Book Club Podcast has just posted its fourth episode! In this podcast you will have the opportunity to learn out about the books and ideas that have inspired and influenced the many different and wonderful people that we have here on campus. You can access the podcast on iTunes, Spotify and Buzzsprout. This is…Continue Reading The UoD Book Club Podcast: Episode 4, Erin Hardee on ‘Equity, Exclusion and Everyday Science Learning’
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