7 November 2011
'Place, Space & Time' - Culture Day 2011
Place, space and time will be explored during the University of Dundee’s seventh annual Culture Day, which takes place this week.
A rich and varied programme of events for students, staff, and member of the public has been lined up for Culture Day 2011, which takes place at the Baxter Conference Room on Wednesday, 9th November.
Organised by the University’s Culture and Arts Forum, the event is now firmly established in the University's calendar and has proved popular with a wide audience.
'A whole host of University academics will be sharing how notions of place, space and time are relevant to their discipline and are therefore important to their work,' said Caroline Brown, co-coordinator of the event.
'Our speakers this year cover art, literature, history, geography, biology, astronomy, music and much more - all exploring the same overall theme. They give a range of perspectives and deliver interesting and thought-provoking talks. It is a great 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 the theme.
Visitors will be welcomed at 1.30pm, and the first talk will see Dr Susan Mains explore the ways in which media images of islands - particularly in the Caribbean - offer an important entryway into new understandings of how we represent emotions, space, and time
Other talks taking place are:
- Alasdair Hood - 'A Rich Harvest of Most Beautiful Plants': A World Tour in the Botanic Garden.
- Brian Kelly - A Journey in Space and Time.
- Philip Braham - Suicide Notes: From private pilgrimage to public outrage.
- Graeme Stevenson - Space in Music.
- Dr Keith Williams - 'I have always been given to paradoxes about space and time'.
- Professor Charles McKean - Space and Time - a Revolutionary Theory.
- Dr Keith Skene - Of Progress and the Golden Age: finding a place called home.
- Dr Kenneth Baxter - Time Travel without a TARDIS: Using archives to discover changing places and spaces in Dundee through time.
- Neil Paterson - Deep Time and Broad Spaces: Space and Time in Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
- Dr Brian Hoyle - Cinema, Time and Space.
- Phil Vaughan - Comics: 3D space to 2D time
'Place, Space & Time' - the seventh annual University of Dundee Culture Day takes place at the Baxter Conference Room 1.36, Tower Building from 1.30-5.30pm on Wednesday, 9th November.
The event is free, and open to all. Attendees can take in as much or as little of the day as they like.
Further information about Culture Day can be found on the CAF website www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/caf.htm.
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Grant Hill
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University of Dundee
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