Photo opportunity, 9.15am, Saturday July 5, Foyer of 162 Nethergate, University of Dundee.
Andrew Murray Scott, winner of the first Dundee Book Prize, is to be plenary speaker at a new multi-disciplinary event organised by the University of Dundee's department of English.
'Altered States', the brainchild of staff and postgraduate students of the department, focuses on issues of change with reference to literary texts, artwork and multi-media. Andrew Murray Scott, author of the Book Prize-winning novel Tumulus, will open the event with a lecture entitled "Perceptions and Reversals in the Creative Process".
Other speakers include postgraduate students from Universities around Scotland. The wide range of topics featured include transformation, issues of gender and race, dreams and reality and past and present.
Dundee English lecturer Dr Keith Williams, one of the event organisers, said, "This is the first of what will hopefully be an ongoing series of postgraduate conferences in Dundee. There is an increasingly active postgraduate research community here which can benefit greatly from sharing ideas across different disciplines."
By Jane Smernicki, Press Officer 01382 344768 j.m.smernicki@dundee.ac.uk