Events and Lectures

King’s Museum Tuesday Evening Lectures   

January 2013 - June 2013 

Tuesday evening lectures are held in New King's 10, next to King's Museum or in MacRobert Building 055. Some lectures have been arranged in conjunction with the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, the Elphinstone Institute, and Egyptology Scotland.

• Building Brochs:
  an architectural and archaeological re-assessment
  Dr Tanja Romankiewicz, Simpson and Brown Architects with Addyman Archaeology.   
  15 January, at 7.30pm in New King’s 10, Free.
  With the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. 
   
• Feeding the Masses:
  One Hundred Years of Nutrition Research
  Professor Peter Morgan, Director University of Aberdeen: Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health. Celebrating the Rowett’s Centenary year.  
  22 January, at 7.30pm in New King’s 10, Free. 
  With the Rowett Institute and King's Museum Food Stories exhibition.
   
• Images of Aberdeen and Elsewhere:
  Artistic Licence and Half Truths
  Michael Lynch, University of Edinburgh.
  29 January, at 7.30pm in MacRobert, Room 055, £3.
  With the Elphinstone Institute
  
  
• Aberdeen and the Spanish Civil War
  Councillor Neil Cooney, Aberdeen Town and County History Society
  5 February, at 7.30pm in New King’s 10, Free
  

• Behind the Facade:
  using architectural analysis to discover the earlier lives of the Scottish country seat
  Professor Emeritus Charles McKean, University of Dundee
  12 February, at 7.30pm in New King’s 10, Free     

• The Archaeology of Middle Earth
  Dr Charlotta Hillerdal, University of Aberdeen
  19 February, at 7.30pm in New King’s 10, Free   

• Translating the Bible into Doric
  Gordon Hay, Longside 
   26 February, 7.30pm in MacRobert 055, £3  
  

• Pictish Sculpture in Angus:
  the significance of place
  Professor Jane Geddes, University of Aberdeen
  5 March, at 7.30pm in New King’s 10, Free  

• Ness of Brodgar:
  the true heart of Neolithic Orkney?
  Nick Card, Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology
  Thursday 14 March, at 7.30pm in New King’s 10, Free   

• The Falcon God Horus and the Pharaoh's Symbolic Power
  David Lightbody, Egyptology Scotland
  19 March, at 7.30pm in New King’s 10, Free     

  Simple Heraldry, Cheerfully Illustrated
  Gordon Casely, Elphinstone Institute
  26 March, 7.30pm in MacRobert 055, £3    
  

• Debating Britain in Seventeenth-Century Scotland
  Professor Roger Mason, University of St Andrews
  9 April, at 7.30pm in New King’s 10, Free 

• Circulating agency:
  the V&A, Aberdeen Art Gallery and the multiplication of 'Celtic Crosses' in Scotland, 1901-1911
  Dr Sally Foster, University of Aberdeen
  23 April, at 7.30pm in New King’s 10, Free 

• Unravelling Fishermen’s Ganseys
  Malcolm Smith, Durham University
  30 April, 7.30pm in MacRobert 055, £3    

• Frozen in Time:
  a remarkably well-preserved prehistoric site in Alaska
  Dr Richard Knecht, University of Aberdeen
  7 May, at 7.30pm in New King’s 10, Free  

• Board of the Kings:
  the material culture of playtime in Scotland AD 1-1600
  Mark Hall, Perth Museum and Art Gallery
  14 May, at 7.30pm in New King’s 10, Free  

• Beneath the Surface:
  a journey into the past?  Case studies from the University of Aberdeen art collection
  Dr Mary Pryor, University of Aberdeen
  21 May, at 7.30pm in New King’s 10, Free    
  

• The Present Time is Oors
  Frieda Morrison, Birse, Aboyne
  28 May, 7.30pm in MacRobert 055, £3   
  

• Medieval heritage in twentieth-century Norway: Ideologies, conflicts, practices
  Dr Kristin Bliksrud Aavitsland, University of Oslo
  11 June, at 7.30pm in New King’s 10, Free