11 May 2015
University students `PopDundee’ with Overgate shop
Dundee shoppers will have the chance to buy work from some of the city’s brightest young creatives throughout this week as students from the University of Dundee set up their pop-up `POPDUNDEE’ shop in the Overgate Centre. POPDUNDEE has been set up by 2nd- and 3rd-year students from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, part of the University, with the support of the Overgate Centre. It will be in place close to the Costa café at the west end of the Overgate Centre from today (Monday 11th) to Friday 15th, selling prints, jewellery and crafts. “This is a fantas...
8 May 2015
What did plants ever do for you?
Whether you have green fingers or not, every breath you take, every meal you eat owes a debt to plants. From one little seed, planted into soil, many green lives can arise - from small herbs up to big trees, or from ornamental flowers to substantial crops which all animals and mankind need to survive on this planet. As part of a Europe-wide celebration, the University of Dundee and the James Hutton Institute are taking part in the annual Fascination of Plants Day, to be held at the Botanic Garden Dundee, on Saturday 23rd May, from 10am to 4pm. This is the Garden’s annual open event designed t...
6 May 2015
‘The University at War’ – new exhibition opens on 9th May
A new exhibition exploring the effect the First World War had on the institution that became the University of Dundee opens this weekend. ‘The University at War’ tells the stories of staff and students from what was then University College Dundee who fought on the front line, or undertook important wartime research. The exhibition, which opens at the Tower Foyer Gallery on Saturday, 9th May, also describes the effects of the war on those who stayed in Dundee to continue their studies and reveals the names of students and staff who perished but who were not commemorated in the University’...
6 May 2015
Two months of global history events
Two months of debates, workshops, network events and conferences on global history will begin at the University of Dundee this weekend with an exploration of Empire. Throughout May and June the University’s Scottish Centre for Global History will welcome some of the discipline’s most prominent practitioners of global history. They will explain their vision of the field, host conferences on cutting edge research and hold training workshops for new doctoral researchers. Many of the events are open to the public and all welcome participants from across Scotland and the world. The programme begin...
5 May 2015
Dundee lecturer represents Scotland at 56th Venice Biennale
Graham Fagen, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Dundee and one of the UK’s foremost contemporary artists, is leading Scotland’s representation at the 2015 Venice Biennale. The Biennale is regarded as the largest and most prestigious visual arts exhibition in the world, and millions of visitors from around the world will visit it from 9th May to 22nd November. Although this will be the fourth time that Graham, who works with PhD, Master of Fine Art and final year BA (Hons) students at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, has been involved in Scotland’s representation at V...
