What's on: March 2007

17 February - 3 March: ‘2.32’ Exhibition
LOWER FOYER GALLERY, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design
'2.32' is an exhibition showcasing twenty art students from Time Based Art in their third year of studies here at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. The number 2.32 is a unit of time, which the students have chosen as a common link to each of the individual works.
For more information: University of Dundee Exhibitions Department, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, 13 Perth Rd, Dundee DD1 4HT t: 01382 385330 f: 01382 385538 e: exhibitions@dundee.ac.uk

24 February - 9 March: General Course Showcase 2007
LEVEL 5, MATTHEW BUILDING, DJCAD
This exhibition offers an opportunity to see the creations of over 160 1st Year students from Fine Art, Design, and Media Arts and Imaging as they embark on their chosen specialism at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. Fresh ideas and unique approaches illustrate how artistic talent continues to be successfully developed through the General Course programme.

1 March: Escape Walk
Welcome in the joys of March with an escape up Balgay Hill! With the first Spring flowers starting to come through, Balgay Hill offers a lovely break from the university campus. Easily accessible by mini-bus, this is a lovely walk in one of Dundee's most popular parks.
We will leave from outside the DUSA building in Balfour Street at 1.10pm as usual.
To reserve a place on the bus, please contact Cindy Wilson c.a.wilson@dundee.ac.uk

1 March: Principal's talk on the politics of the NHS
The Politics Society is hosting a talk by Sir Alan Langlands, Principal of the University, on Thursday 1st March at 7pm in the Baxter Conference Suite 1.36 (on the first floor of the Tower).
His talk is titled 'Equity, Efficiency & Responsiveness - Living with the Politics of the NHS'.
All members and non-members most welcome.

1 March: Evening Concert
Madeline Mitchell (Violin)
This concert is kindly sponsored by Vintage Strings, 77 Perth Road, Dundee.
7.30pm at the University Chaplaincy Centre, Cross Row.
£8; £4 (consession); £1 (school children). Tickets on sale at Dundee City Box Office, City Square or at door.
More information on the concerts can be found at: www.dundee.ac.uk/music/evening.htm

2 March: Lunchtime Concert
Angela Stevenson (Cello).
1.20pm to 1.50pm at the University Chaplaincy Centre, Cross Row. Open to all, free entry. Snack lunches available.
For more information contact: Graeme Stevenson on 01382 388148 or email: g.stevenson@dundee.ac.uk

3 March: Saturday Evening Lecture Series
Professor Baroness Onora O'Neill, President, The British Academy: "Rethinking Informed Bioethics"
6pm D'Arcy Thompson Tower Lecture Theatre, University of Dundee
More information is available from the SELS web page or from the Events Office email: events@dundee.ac.uk or telephone 01382 384660

6 March: Evensong
A short service of Choral Evensong led by the Rev Dr Fiona Douglas will take place in the Chaplaincy at 5.15pm.
The University Chamber Choir will be performing music by Stanford. All welcome.

6 March: Explore the World from Dundee
Lecture: "Exploring Deseret" by Bruce Gittings
7.30pm at the D'Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre, University of Dundee.
Geographer Bruce Gittings travels through the mountains and valleys of Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California where landscapes range from the grandiose monuments of the still-isolated Mormon culture to the tranquillity of Yosemite in the snow and the vast urban sprawl of Los Angeles.
For more information contact: Mrs Joy Ingram tel: 01382 668193

6 March: Escape Walk
This week's Urban Ramblers Escape Walk will take place tomorrow (Tuesday, 1.10pm) and will be to the popular location of the North East Fife Coastal Path alongside the Tay Estuary.
If you would like to join us from some fresh air and scenery, please let me know so that a place can be reserved on the bus.
Contact Paul McPate e: p.mcpate@dundee.ac.uk

6 March: The Dundee Conservation Lectures 2006-2007
Graveyards: 'Mair decent polecie' - Dundee from kirkyard to graveyard by Iain Flett, City Archivist, Dundee City Council and
A Pleasure Ground of Graves: The Garden Cemetery Movements in Scotland by Christopher Dingwall, Historic Landscape Consultant.
6.00pm, Lecture Theatre (room 5013), Level 5, Matthew Building, Duncan of Jordanstone College.
Admission - (inc. refreshment) - no entry charge to lecture, but £2.00 donation request from all towards half-time refreshments (students exempt).
For more information contact: Tracey Dixon - email: t.dixon@dundee.ac.uk

7 March: School of Law Seminar
As part of the School of Law's Scrymgeour Seminar Series, Neil Kibble, University of Wales at Aberystwyth, will be giving a seminar entitled "Sexual History Evidence". This will be held in the Moot Court Room, Scrymgeour Building at 4pm.
All welcome to attend.
For more information contact: Caroline Forbes, email: c.y.forbes@dundee.ac.uk

8 March: CEPMLP Thursday speaker series
Dr Gavin Bridge, Reader in Economic Geography, University of Manchester will be delivering a talk entitled "Dirt and Dreams: extractive industries, development, and the search for a new social contract" on Thursday 8th March.
The talk will take place in the Carnegie Lecture Theatre from 2pm-4pm.
If interested in attending, please contact Hugh Gunn: h.j.b.gunn@dundee.ac.uk

9 March: Lunchtime Concert
Dundee University Music Scholars.
1.20pm to 1.50pm at the University Chaplaincy Centre, Cross Row. Open to all, free entry. Snack lunches available.
For more information contact: Graeme Stevenson on 01382 388148 or email: g.stevenson@dundee.ac.uk

9-11 March: Through the looking-glass and what Alice foudn there
Lip Theatre Company invites you to step through the Looking-glass with Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There".
Performances will run from the 9th until the 11th of March in the Bonar Hall.
Performances will be at 7.30 each evening and two afternoon matinees on the 10th and 11th at 2pm.
Tickets will cost £5 on the door and £3 for concessions.

9 March - 28 April: The Great Dundee - Stirling Art Exchange!
TOWER FOYER GALLERY
To mark our joint 40th anniversaries, the Universities of Stirling and Dundee are exhibiting highlights from each other¹s art collections, including J D Fergusson, Norman McLaren, Alasdair Gray and Bridget Riley in Dundee and McIntosh Patrick, John Byrne, Graeme Todd and Will Maclean in Stirling. Dundee paintings in Stirling at the: Pathfoot Crush Hall, Pathfoot Building, UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING Mon-Sun 09.00-19.00
Contact: exhibitions@dundee.ac.uk

Preview 9 March 6-8pm: Reading, Riding and Other Recent Works
COOPER GALLERY
Rainer Ganahl is an Austrian artist living in New York City whose work addresses language, learning systems, media and politics. This solo exhibition presents works from several of his ongoing series, from learning foreign languages as part of his art; to documenting the exchange of knowledge in academia; and his ongoing bicycle actions cycling against traffic on streets all over the world from Moscow to Damascus. Exhibition runs until 14 April.
Contact: exhibitions@dundee.ac.uk

10 March: Saturday Evening Lecture Series
Professor John Burn, University of Newcastle upon Tyne: "All of Life is Here"
6pm D'Arcy Thompson Tower Lecture Theatre, University of Dundee
More information is available from the SELS web page or from the Events Office email: events@dundee.ac.uk or telephone 01382 384660

13 March: The Dundee Conservation Lectures 2006-2007
Gardens of Scotland: The Scottish gardener, by Suki Urquhart, author, gardener and garden designer and
Garden and plant photography by Ray Cox, horticultural photographer and
The gardens at Glendoick and woodland gardening by Ken Cox, author and plant collector.
6.00pm, Lecture Theatre (room 5013), Level 5, Matthew Building, Duncan of Jordanstone College.
Admission - (inc. refreshment) - no entry charge to lecture, but £2.00 donation request from all towards half-time refreshments (students exempt).
For more information contact: Tracey Dixon - email: t.dixon@dundee.ac.uk

14 March: School of Law Seminar
As part of the School of Law's Scrymgeour Seminar Series, Sharon Turner, Queen's University Belfast will be giving a seminar entitled "Transforming Environmental Governance in Northern Ireland". This will be held in the Moot Court Room, Scrymgeour Building at 4pm.
All welcome to attend.
For more information contact: Caroline Forbes, email: c.y.forbes@dundee.ac.uk

14 March: The Dundee Afternoon Lectures
Tsunamis in Scotland by Alastair Dawson
2.00-3.15pm at the D'arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre, University of Dundee. Admission £2.00
Tsunamis came sharply into public focus a year ago but could such an event happen in Scotland? Alastair Dawson, who has been studying tsunamis for 20 years will describe past Scottish experience of such events and assess the likelihood of tsunami impacting on the coastline in the future.
For more information contact: Mrs Joy Ingram tel: 01382 668193

14 March: Ready, steady, exams - brish up on exam skills Find exam revision doesn't work? Do you panic in exams? Marks not reflecting your effort? Two programmes of workshops on Wednesday 14th March 2007 to help you, depending on whether you're in the Sciences/Engineering or in non-scientific disciplines. Workshop 1 on Revision Strategies; Workshop 2 on Exam Tactics. Book online. Venue information in email confirming your place.
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/learning/centre/workshops.htm

14 March: The Enterprise Gym - James 'Balloon' Tytler If anyone is interested in The Enterprise Gym and an article due to be published about an Angus Enlightenment figure, James 'Balloon' Tytler, then come along to Room G4 in the Tower at 3.30pm on the 14th March to learn more. All are welcome.
Contact l.paterson@dundee.ac.uk for more information.

15 March: School of Architecture: engerising cities lecture Material Matters: A significant aspect of the feeling a building evokes derives from the material language and construction strategy adopted. Jonathon Sergison will explore material matters from a position based in practice, one that it fascinated by the construction possibilities that inform a critical method of working.
D'arcy Thomson Lecture Theatre, 15 March, 6pm.

16 March: Lunchtime Concert
Jill Harrison (Soprano).
1.20pm to 1.50pm at the University Chaplaincy Centre, Cross Row. Open to all, free entry. Snack lunches available.
For more information contact: Graeme Stevenson on 01382 388148 or email: g.stevenson@dundee.ac.uk

Preview 16 March 5-7pm: Between: Self and Others
LOWER FOYER GALLERY
This exhibition is the result of a weeklong workshop, which will present the outcomes of Fourth year Gallery Textiles students alongside the work of two of their tutors, Lisa Gallacher and Jonathan Robertson. This exhibition is the second in Exhibitions Department¹s series exploring the work of tutors and students at DJCAD. Exhibition runs until 24 March.
Contact: exhibitions@dundee.ac.uk

20 March: Explore the World from Dundee
Lecture: "Loch Leven & the River Leven - a landscape transformed" - by David Munro
7.30pm at the D'Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre, University of Dundee.
RSGS Director Dr David Munro describes the dramatic changes that took place to the landscapes of fife and Kinross in the early 19th century when a major engineering project reduced Loch Leven to three-quarters of its original size.
For more information contact: Mrs Joy Ingram tel: 01382 668193

21 March: School of Law Seminar
As part of the School of Law's Scrymgeour Seminar Series, Panos Koutrakos, University of Bristol will be giving a seminar entitled "EU Constitutional Law". This will be held in the Moot Court Room, Scrymgeour Building at 4pm.
All welcome to attend.
For more information contact: Caroline Forbes, email: c.y.forbes@dundee.ac.uk

21 March: VRC/DCA Dialogues: Prof Murdo MacDonald
Imaging the Highlands: Art History, Visual Thinking and Contemporary Art.
'Window to the West', a recently established collaboration between the VRC & Sabhal Mor Ostaig aims to explore how Visual culture has formed a significant part of the heritage of Gaelic Scotland.
Free event at DCA, 7-8.30pm. Call 01382 909 900 to reserve a place.
For info v.hale@dundee.ac.uk
http://www.vrc.dundee.ac.uk/Visual_Research_Centre/whats_on.html

21-24 March: OpSoc presents Disco Inferno
The Devilish hit 70's musical. Get, ready to hit that floor and burn, baby, burn... in ‘Disco Inferno’
Bonar Hall, Tickets £5/£8, 7.30pm start
Working late in a London Dance Club, ‘Disco Inferno’, Jack meets Lady Marmalade - the devil’s right hand lady. Dreaming of becoming successful, he makes a Faustian pact with her trading his soul to fulfil his wildest fantasies. Sound like an ideal bargain? Think again. Including hits songs such as Celebration, Hot stuff, play that funky music, disco inferno, could it be magic, boogie nights and much much more
Contact:Thomas Richmond - opsoc@hotmail.com

22 March: Escape Walk
Enjoy the surroundings of one of Dundee's oldest parks. The newly upgraded Baxter Park offers an excellenet envirnment to enjoy a brisk stroll and meeting up with the Douglas walking group will enable us to meet new faces and share walking experiences as we enjoy the outdoors and fresh air.
We will leave from outside the DUSA building in Balfour Street at 1.10pm as usual.
To reserve a place on the bus, please contact Cindy Wilson c.a.wilson@dundee.ac.uk.

22 March: Corporate Responsibility Talk
As part of CEPMLP's Thursday Speaker Series, Ms Christine Batruch, VP-Corporate Responsibility for Lundin Petroleum AB, will be delivering a lecture on "Corporate Responsibility in the Oil Sector".
All are welcome. 2pm-4pm, Carnegie Lecture Theatre.
For info, contact: h.j.b.gunn@dundee.ac.uk

23 March: Lunchtime Concert
Dundee University Chamber Choir.
1.20pm to 1.50pm at the University Chaplaincy Centre, Cross Row. Open to all, free entry. Snack lunches available.
For more information contact: Graeme Stevenson on 01382 388148 or email: g.stevenson@dundee.ac.uk

24 March: Saturday Evening Lecture Series
Shonaig Macpherson, Executive Chairman, The National Trust for Scotland: "To the Heart of Scotland"
6pm D'Arcy Thompson Tower Lecture Theatre, University of Dundee
More information is available from the SELS web page or from the Events Office email: events@dundee.ac.uk or telephone 01382 384660

27 March: Discovering Dundee University
The Tower Building, 9.30am-2.30pm.
A free one day event for adult learners to 'discover' what the University of Dundee has to offer. Information will be available on short courses, access routes, part-time degrees, the university's support services, plus a campus tour, mini lectures and hands on actitivies so participants can experience the university learning environment for themselves.
Contact: Susan Norrie, tel: 01382 384809 or email: s.z.norrie@dundee.ac.uk

Preview 29 March 5-7pm: Drawing: A Clearer Picture
LOWER FOYER GALLERY
Eight students and two graduates from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design¹s Fine Art course show a series of work displaying their transition from their portfolio application to the present day. Through this the exhibition intends to explore the development of the ideas of each individual with a focus on the importance of drawing. ŒDrawing: A Clearer Picture¹ is curated by Fine Art students Eona McCallum, Kimberley Bright and Fraser MacDonald. Exhibition runs until 14 April.
Contact: exhibitions@dundee.ac.uk

29 March: Escape Walk
This week's Urban Ramble (the first of Summer!), will take place on Thursday and will be to Caird Park.
The bus will leave at 1.10pm from Balfour Street as usual. If you would like to join us, please let me know, so that a place on the bus can be reserved.
Contact: Paul McPate p.mcpate@dundee.ac.uk

30 March - 1 April: Art Exhibition
Roseangle Gallery
Elspeth Collier and Derrick Chisholm are holding a weekend exhibition of their recent paintings at the Roseangle Gallery, Roseangle, Dundee. Opening night - Friday 30 March, 7-9pm, Saturday 31 March and Sunday 01 April, 10am-4.30pm.

31 March: Saturday Evening Lecture Series
Brian Wilson, Former MP and Energy Minister: "An energy Policy for Scotland"
6pm D'Arcy Thompson Tower Lecture Theatre, University of Dundee
More information is available from the SELS web page or from the Events Office email: events@dundee.ac.uk or telephone 01382 384660