Current and Upcoming Events

Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

Join us for our recently revived joint Ethnology, Anthropology and Ethnomusicology PhD research seminar. Each month we will be showcasing the wonderful work of our PhD student community through 20 minute presentations. This month we hear from our PhD researcher Md Bakebillah on 'Climate change threats to ethnographic fieldwork and...

Join us for an informal evening at the Elphinstone Institute with staff, students, and friends. Enjoy refreshments, join in with some songs or tunes, and listen to interesting short talks about all of the excellent work that takes place in the Institute and with the wider community. The evening will begin...

Part of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival Go Local Programme and the Aberdeen and Beyond Storytelling Programme

Jenny's Arctic Diary is a 1978 documentary film by pioneering Scottish independent filmmaker Jenny Gilbertson. At the age of 76, Gilbertson lived for 13 months in Grise Fiord—Canada's northernmost civilian settlement, 900 miles north of the Arctic Circle—to record a full cyclical year in the life of the local Inuit...

Do you enjoy meeting other people and learning about other cultures? Join the Polish-Scottish Song Group in MacRobert MR047. There’s no need to be an accomplished singer, nor even to know Polish or Scots. You will have a chance to learn traditional songs from Poland and Scotland in a welcoming...

with the National Trust for Scotland, Saltire Society, Wallace 700 Association

Meet staff and students and learn about our MLitt (Master’s) Programme in Ethnology and Folklore, which can be completed in 12 months or 24 months (full-time/part-time study). Individuals of varying life and educational experiences are welcome. MEETING LINK Meeting ID: 346 608 045 784 593 Passcode: qr945eB6

Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series