8 November 2010
Diversity - Culture Day 2010
Diversity is the theme of the University of Dundee’s sixth annual Culture Day, with a rich and varied programme of events lined up for students, staff, and member of the public.
Taking place at the Baxter Conference Room on Wednesday, 10th November, the event is free, and open to all. Attendees can take in as much or, as little, of the day as they like.
Organised by the University’s Culture and Arts Forum, the Culture Day is now firmly established in the University's calendar and has proved popular with a wide audience.
'The theme of Diversity is a way of celebrating the huge range of topics related to culture and the arts with which the University is involved,' said Caroline Brown, co-coordinator of the event.
'But what is most important is that this is an opportunity for members of the public to engage with these topics and with the diverse range of interests involved.'
The Day features short 15 minute presentations from members of the Forum and is intended to showcase a range of subjects relating to a particular theme.
The theme for this year’s Culture Day was chosen to mark the International Year of Biodiversity, and the natural world features heavily in the programme of interdisciplinary events which feature renowned academics from across the University.
Visitors will be welcomed at 2pm, and the first talk will see Dr Rachel Jones examine the ways in which attention to race and gender has changed the ways we read key philosophers of the past.
Other talks taking place include:
- Professor Murdo Macdonald (Fine Art): ‘The Diversity of Responses to the Gaidhealtachd in Visual Art’.
- Cathy Caudwell (D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum): ‘Biodiversity and Museums’.
- Dr Keith Skene (Continuing Education): ‘In Search of the Driver of Diversity’
- Professor Charles McKean (History): ‘Why unity and diversity need each other: the experience of Edinburgh.’
- Dr Neil Paterson (Botanic Garden): ‘Design and Diversity in Nature: William Paley, Charles Darwin and the Blind Watchmaker.’
- Vanessa Charles (Book & Paper Conservation Studio): The Paper Trail: from Diamond Sutra to Damien Hirst.
- Graeme Stevenson (Music): ‘Live to Compose, Compose to Live’.
- Dr Chris Murray (English): ‘Is it a bird? Is it a Plane? No, it's a talk about Formal Diversity in Comics!’
- Caroline Brown (Archive Services): ‘Being different: "insanity" in the 19th century’
- Dr Brian Hoyle (English): ‘Who Know Where They're Going? Diversity in the films of Powell and Pressbuger’.
- Professor Rob Duck (Geography): ‘Geodiversity of Scotland: a personal perspective’.
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