Photo: UoD Archive Services
With just over a week to go until the exhibition goes on display at Dundee, we have already held our first event in connection with the project.
Organised in connection with this year’s Dundee Women’s Festival, Face to Face: Women and the Asylum took place on Monday evening, March 12th, in the D’Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre in the Tower Building, University of Dundee. Having spent some time researching and curating the exhibition, this was a great opportunity to talk about the project, and to give more information on the women featured in the exhibition.
The event was very well attended and members of the audience seemed highly engaged with the topic, asking many interesting and varied questions, about the stories of the women themselves and also more generally about the experiences of women in asylums and psychiatric institutions. Many also contributed their own thoughts and opinions.
Further events are planned in connection with the exhibition – details will be posted here on our website and on our Facebook page when finalised.