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Autumn series of weekly Museum Evening Lectures Tuesday evenings; 28 September to 14 December 2010
The Museum Evening Lectures start again this autumn, with a wide variety of talks on topics including local archaeology, history and folklore, anthropology, ancient Greece and Egypt. Lectures are organised by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, the University's Elphinstone Institute, the Friends of Aberdeen University Library, Egyptology Scotland, the Old Aberdeen Heritage Society and the Aberdeen Scottish-Hellenic Society.
Lectures are held at 7.30pm. Please check the venue as it varies from lecture to lecture.
Where there is a charge, this should be paid at the door.
Tuesday 28th September 2010 In the heart of a cultural renaissance: bagpipe making and the rebirth of Scottish dance musicHamish Moore £3 - in MacRobert Building Room 051
Tuesday 12th October 2010 The Beakers and Bodies Project: new perspectives on death and burial in the Early Bronze Age of North-East Scotland Neil Wilkin, University of Birmingham Free - in Regent Building lecture theatre
Tuesday 19th October 2010 What's not out there: North-East singers from the Alan Lomax and Howard Glasser collections, 1951-63 Ewan McVicar £3 - in MacRobert Building Room 051
Monday 1st November 2010 Crisis in the Universities? The case of fifth-century Alexandria Professor Charlotte Roueché, King's College London £3 entry (members free) in Regent Building lecture theatre
Tuesday 2nd November 2010 Listening to Birds: an anthropological investigation of bird sounds Dr Andrew Whitehouse, University of Aberdeen £3 - in Regent Building lecture theatre
Tuesday 16th November 2010 Fearsome EnginesProfessor Howard Chandler, University of Aberdeen £3 - in Regent Building lecture theatre
Tuesday 23rd November 2010 Wealth and warfare in early Mercia: interpreting the Staffordshire hoard Dr Gareth Williams, British Musuem Free - in Regent Building lecture theatre Tuesday 30th November 2010 Lost, Hidden or Just Unnoticed? The Archaeology of Gardens in North-East Scotland Dr Shannon Fraser, National Trust for Scotland £3 - in MacRobert Building Room 051
Tuesday 7th December 2010 Giacomo Casanova: brilliance, poverty, glory and melancholy Dr Shannon Fraser, National Trust for Scotland £3 - in Regent Building lecture theatre
Tuesday 14th December 2010 Woven into the stuff of other men's lives: the treatment of the dead in Iron Age Atlantic Scotland Fiona Tucker, University of Bradford Free - in Regent Building lecture theatre
Please contact the museum if you have any questions or suggestions.