H. G. Wells: Hope and Fear

H. G. Wells: Hope and Fear A series of events that will celebrate the 150th birthday of H. G. Wells as part of the UK’s Being

From the team that brought you "Mary Shelley’s Dundee: Frankenstein Begins" comes "H.G. Wells at 150: Hope and Fear", we ran a series of events to celebrate the 150th birthday of the author of 'The Time Machine' (1895), 'The Island of Doctor Moreau' (1896), 'The Invisible Man' (1897), and 'The War of the Worlds' (1898) as part of the UK’s Being Human Festival of the Humanities (17th-25th November 2016). During the festival, the UK's leading forensic scientist, Professor Sue Black, conducted a historically minded alien autopsy. Award-winning tutor and playwright hosted his ever-popular tours of the City of Discovery ("The Time Machine: A Walking Tour"). Other scheduled events included the launch of an anthology of word-and-image short stories ("H. Wells: A Graphic Anthology") -- some of which features the work of competition winners -- as well as film screenings, comics workshops, animation workshops, and a roundtable discussion of the life and works of Robert Duncan Milne, a Scottish precursor to Wells. There was also a semester-long multimedia exhibition, 'Reanimating H. Wells', based in the Tower Building and curated by Matthew Jarron and colleagues from the art college. Ahead of the Being Human festival, Dr Keith Williams was invited to deliver this year’s Lunchtime Talk during the Dundee Literary Festival (October 2016), at which 'The Time Machine' was selected as the official “bookclub” item in honour of Wells’s 150th birthday and the 10th anniversary of the literary festival.

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The BBC adaptation of H. G. Wells' classic is finally airing from the 17th of November. Here's what we learned on a visit to the set...

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in 1938 a radio broadcast by Orson Welles of a dramatization of the HG Wells novel, The War of the Worlds, caused a furor, many of its millions of listeners taking it for a factual report of the invasion of New Jersey by Martians.

“This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.”

21/10/2017

The future is tough to foresee. Ask any stock-picker, or the writers of Space 1999. Imagining it is fun, though, and occasionally fiction authors will get something right. Possibly because the…

03/10/2017

On the 4 October, Professor Peter Beck will be coming to the School of Humanities to give a guest lecture on ‘H.G. Wells, the Time Traveller: Travelling Between Different Worlds over Time’. The talk will take place in the Dalhousie Building from 4pm and will include Q&A.

Professor Beck is the author of the definitive new study of the context and multi-media afterlives of Wells’s The War of the Worlds (Bloomsbury, 2016). So his talk promises to be a wonderful opportunity to listen to a leading international expert on one of the most visionary British writers of all time, who focused on possible human futures which continue to resonate in 21st Century culture.

First published in 1897, H.G. Wells's alien invasion narrative The War of the Worlds was a landmark work of science fiction and one that continues to be adapted and referenced in the 21st century. Chronicling the novel's contexts, its origins and its many multi-media adaptations, this book is a comp...

Dundee University will again be hosting a national "hub" for the Being Human Festival of the Humanities. Our focus this ...
12/09/2017

Dundee University will again be hosting a national "hub" for the Being Human Festival of the Humanities. Our focus this November will be Jonathan Swift at 350, with a particular interest in Gulliver's Travels. What do we have lined up? Take a sneak peek! Follow on Twitter.

Jonathan Swift at 350: Lost and Found (Being Human Festival 2017) Published on Thu 7 Sep 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 famou...

13/08/2017

Emily Alder looks at the his early scientific romances and the mastery of nature

In London next week? Come to the BEING HUMAN MASTERCLASS - Daniel Cook will be discussing the successes and failures of ...
20/06/2017

In London next week? Come to the BEING HUMAN MASTERCLASS - Daniel Cook will be discussing the successes and failures of "H. G. Wells @ 150" and, in the evening reception, looking ahead to our next series during the official launch of the 2017 programme (cryptic spoiler: Hey, presto, we're Scotland's festival hub yet again!).

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