For thousands of years, those on the fringes of society have used sewing to document their experiences. University of Dundee graduate, Clare Hunter unravels some of these stories in her new book, Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle. Published this week, the book chronicles politics, power, protest
"There is creative reading as well as creative writing" (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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The JOOT Theatre Company presents The York Crucifixion & Macduff’s Cross on Friday 15 and Saturday 16 February at 7.30pm in the Drama Studio, Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee. Tickets are £7/£5 concession. Please contact j.a.george@dundee.ac.uk or tickets can be purchased at the door.
Dr Mark Brown, who recently wrote his PhD on contemporary drama, supervised by Dr Jo George, has now published it with Macmillan. His book focuses on the revolution that has occurred on the Scottish stage since the late 1960s. Dr Brown, who is also a leading theatre reviewer, has written the first critical history mapping
We are delighted to announce, in collaboration with the Scottish Centre for Comics Studies, a talk by Timothy D Peters, on Superhero Comics and the Seeing of Law: Masks, Icons, and Legal Emblems, to be held on Wednesday 13 February 2019, from 2.30 – 4.00pm in the Scrymgeour Building, room 4.08, University of Dundee. Refreshments
Brian Attebery, Professor of English at Idaho State University and editor of The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, will be giving a talk jointly hosted by The Centre for Critical and Creative Cultures and the Scottish Centre for Comics Studies on ‘Young Adult Dystopias and Utopias’. This will take place on Wednesday 13
Specialist Art and Cultural History publishers Brill/Rodopi have just published a major new collection of essays, Art and Science in Word and Image Exploration and Discovery (Leiden and Boston: Brill/Rodopi, January 2019). Based on the 2014 International Association of Word and Image Studies Triennial Conference hosted by the School of Humanities in Dundee, the collection
We are delighted to announce that one of our recent doctoral graduates, Alice Tarbuck, has won the Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award for Poetry. Click here for more details. Alice’s PhD was a Collaborative Doctoral Award with the Centre for Poetic Innovation and the Scottish Poetry Library. She went on to complete a Post-Doctoral
27 February, 11am – 1pm, Dalhousie 1S05: Peter MacDonald, ‘Creative Criticism’. 28 February, 11am – 1pm, (Venue TBC): Lorens Holm, ‘Psychoanalysis, Buildings and Words’. Reading for these seminars can be requested from Dr Gail Low at g.low@dundee.ac.uk
23 January: 3 – 5 pm: Writing as Walking, Walking as Thinking…. Activist, Broadcaster and Writer Alastair McIntosh has created an altogether new kind of work of non fiction and essay in his extraordinary account of a walk he took back through his childhood as he revisited the islands of Harris and Lewis to write
The Erasmus+ mobility visit of a Junior Researcher from the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland, Marcin Dymet, took place between 22nd and 28th of November 2018. The location was the School of Humanities at the University of Dundee in Scotland. During his visit, Marcin had a chance to meet students of the MLitt