Double dose of Dee Con for Dundee
Thousands of costumed characters will provide a colourful welcome to this year’s new University of Dundee students when Dee Con, the city’s largest ‘geek-off’ returns next month. Superheroes, video...
View ArticleJonathan Swift at 350: Lost and Found (Being Human Festival 2017)
Join us for the Being Human Festival 2017 - 17-25 November The world’s greatest satirist, Jonathan Swift, turns 350 in November 2017. Lost amid a series of fantastical places, the narrator of his most...
View ArticleTake pity on forensic scientists, crime writers make their lives a nightmare...
"These days, forensic scientists are one of the great staples of the crime fiction genre. They are integral to everything from popular TV franchises to blockbuster names like Patricia Cornwell and...
View ArticleWhy is Steve Biko\'s remarkable legacy often overlooked? - Dr Matthew Graham...
"While Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, and Desmond Tutu are rightly venerated for their role in opposing and ending white minority rule in South Africa, another leader of the liberation years has been...
View ArticleHumanities students nominated and highly commended in the 2017 Undergraduate...
Students from across the University of Dundee, including the School of Humanities, were shortlisted and nominated for this year's prestigious Undergraduate Awards. Sarah Coakley, a current MLitt in...
View ArticleSell-out show returns to Dundee
The critically-acclaimed show, ‘Dundee’s Four Marys’ is set to return to the city where it was written next week. Following three sell-out seasons, the show will return to the stage at the University...
View ArticleHow to win a major book prize - Literary prize-winning graduate to appear at...
Daniel Shand returns to the University of Dundee this month as part of a new season of the Writers Read series of talks by distinguished literary figures. In just a few years, Daniel, from Kirkcaldy,...
View ArticleGraduate Pamela Butchart to write Secret Seven novels
We are delighted to hear that one of our graduates, Pamela Butchart, is to write two novels about Enid Blyton's Secret Seven for Hodder Children's Books. With the first book, The Mystery of the Skull,...
View ArticleProfessional Learning Award for Graduate Diploma Language courses
The General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) presented our distance learning Graduate Diploma in Languages courses with an Excellence in Professional Learning award at their recent national awards...
View ArticleMother Tongue - Other Tongue: Poetry Competition
Calling all our aspiring poet students! Don't miss out on your opportunity to submit a poem, either in your own language or a language you are learning, for the Scotland-wide Mother Tongue Other Tongue...
View ArticleDr Daniel Cook to give plenary address for Laurence Sterne Foundation in Poland
Dr Daniel Cook, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Dundee, will be delivering a plenary address at The Second International Laurence Sterne Foundation Conference in Poland on Thursday 26th...
View ArticleBeing Human to lift the lid on the real Gulliver’s Travels
What is the Google brain doing to our imagination? Are lie detectors always honest? What is bullet time? These are just three of the questions that experts from the arts and sciences from the...
View ArticleFrom shy student to stand-up success
When Jo Hastie joined the University of Dundee’s Creative Writing programme last year she was so lacking in confidence that she could not even read her work out to her fellow students. A year on, and...
View ArticleDundee to delve into different languages
Fancy writing your name in Chinese, learning some phrases in Spanish, singing songs in French or writing in Scots? Staff from the University of Dundee are offering members of the public the chance to...
View ArticleLanguages explored across Scotland for Being Human Festival 2017
Staff from the University of Dundee offered members of the public the chance to get lost in another language recently when they hosted ‘Languages Lost and Found’, part of Being Human 2017, the UK’s...
View ArticleNew comic tells the story of fibromyalgia
A series of comics designed to inform the public about common but poorly understood conditions launches this week with the first edition focusing on fibromyalgia. Writers, comic artists and health...
View ArticleHuman Rights Day sees the establishment of a new working group
Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December - the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. At the University of Dundee, we...
View ArticleGhosts of Christmas past: magic lantern set to dazzle Dundee
A rare and authentic triple-lensed magic lantern will be used for a spectacular Christmas show at the University of Dundee this week. Dr Jeremy Brooker, magic lantern performer and Chairman of the...
View ArticleTwo centuries before Marvel and Star Wars, Walter Scott’s Rob Roy was the...
“Rival siblings, disappointed fathers, resentful sons, cowards, double-crossers, powerful women, colonial guilt, crumbling Highland estates and an elusive anti-hero: Sir Walter Scott’s Rob Roy has it...
View ArticleWoodrow Wilson\'s famous US speech makes a mockery of Donald Trump – Dr...
"We have reached the centenary of US President Woodrow Wilson’s speech to Congress on January 8, 1918, outlining his Fourteen Points for brokering a lasting peace in Europe after World War I. It was...
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