Black Atlantic Research Dundee

We are delighted to welcome Dr Cassandra Gooptar to the University of Dundee. Cassandra takes up the post of Post-Doctoral Researcher on the University of Dundee Founders Project. The post aims to discover more about the University of Dundee founding…

Graham Fagen. The Slave’s Lament, 2015 Four-channel colour video installation, with sound, 14 min. 27 sec. Now on display as part of the landmark exhibition spanning 110 years titled New Arrivals: From Salvador Dalí to Jenny Saville 27 November 2021 – spring 2023 at the…

History is not the past, history is the present. Black Atlantic Research Dundee (BARD) was established in 2019 to facilitate collaboration between a range of interdisciplinary scholars, artists, community organisations, and residents who are researching, supporting, and striving for positive…

Visit Black History website interviews curator Elizabeth Abston as well as Graham Fagen and Ghetto Priest about Fagen’s art work The Slave’s Lament which is currently on display as part of New Symphony of Time at the Mississippi Museum of…

Scotland’s Black History Month 2019 arrived in style on 24 September with a joyous launch party at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. Our own Dr Peggy Brunache was the Master of Ceremonies for this historic event. The launch featured speeches…

Scots-Barbadian artist Alberta Whittle has a stunning exhibition at the DCA Dundee Centre for Contemporary Arts from 14 Sep- 24 November 2019. How Flexible Can We Make the Mouth refers to Whittle’s current preoccupation with healing, writing, breath and orality.…

Peggy Brunache, Graham Fagen, and Michael Morris were invited to attend the historic signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between University of the West Indies and the University of Glasgow on 21 August 2019.   The Memorandum launches a program…

On 6 August 2019, Michael Morris co-organised a workshop with Emma Bond (St Andrews) at the V&A Dundee as part of the Transnational Scotland Project.  Purpose: As a new design museum, V&A Dundee must continue to work hard to ensure…

Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World panel Left to Right- Michael Morris, Peggy Brunache and Susan Mains We presented a panel on ‘Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World’ on 12 July 2019 at the Symbiosis Conference held at…

A photography exhibition – ‘Moving Jamaica: Scottish-Caribbean Connections and Local-Global Journeys’ – to be displayed at the Lamb Gallery in Dundee, from 19 October 2018 to mid-January 2019. Dr Susan Mains organised the exhibition featuring a range of unique historical and contemporary photographs…

Susan Mains hosts internationally renowned photographer Varun Baker at the University of Dundee. He will specifically focus on his innovative visual media projects at the event, which takes place at the University’s Scrymgeour Building from 2-3.15pm on Tuesday 7 May.…