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This talk is presented as part of the current exhibition at the Sir Duncan Rice Library, Wanderlust: Travel Journals and Explorers' Notes.The exhibition features vivid writing contained in some of the travel journals and explorers' notebooks held with the University's Special Collections.
In this session Dr Alan Marcus, filmmaker, cultural historian, and Reader in Film and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen, will introduce the recent film he made in Singapore, ‘Eighty-five Miles North of the Equator’ (2012, 30mins), which explores the contemporary city through its colonial origins and the paintings and writings of Charles Dyce (1816-1853). Dyce, who was born and educated in Aberdeen, lived in Singapore during its early period in the 1840s.
For those who may be unfamiliar with the location of the venue on campus, staff will be available to guide participants to the Auris Lecture Theatre venue from the Gallery at the Sir Duncan Rice Library in advance of the screening.
- Speaker
- Dr Alan Marcus, Department of Film & Visual Culture, University of Aberdeen
- Hosted by
- Special Collections Centre
- Venue
- Auris Lecture Theatre, Cruickshank Building, University of Aberdeen, St Machar Drive, Aberdeen, AB24 3UU
- Contact
- scc.events@abdn.ac.uk