Event Archive

2016

December

• Fintry: the Story and the Memories of a Rural North-East School

  05 December 2016, 19:30 - 21:00

  Talk by Janet Byth to Midstocket Church Guild, about the story of a typical country school in a farming community of North-East Scotland. Founded in 1831 as a 'subscription' elementary school, Fintry has been part of the Scottish education system since 1872, and continues to educate the local children today. Janet...

November

• CANCELLED Due to Illness: #10Aberdeenstories: The Role of Narratives in Third-Sector Knowledge Sharing

  29 November 2016, 19:30 - 21:00

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• Collective Compositions

  22 November 2016, 19:30 - 21:00

  Ethnographic Film Series

• The David Buchan Lecture 2016

  10 November 2016, 18:30 - 21:30
  

  Copyrighting Tradition in the Internet Age: Creativity, Authorship, and Folklore

• The Route Names of Lochnagar

  05 November 2016, 10:00 - 17:00

  Sheila Young will present a paper on The Route Names of Lochnagar, at the Bill Nicolaisen Memorial Conference, hosted by the Scottish Place-Name Society in Edinburgh. More details, and the conference programme are available here

• Ethnographic Film Series - Brink of Survival

  01 November 2016, 19:30 - 21:00

  Ethnographic Film Series

October

• Diários da Floresta - Diaries of the Forest - Storytelling from Brazil

  27 October 2016, 18:30 - 19:45

  Part of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival

• Witch Belief in Scottish Coastal Communities

  25 October 2016, 19:30 - 21:00

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• St. Kilda Hebridean Night

  04 October 2016, 19:30 - 21:00

  Ethnographic Film Series

September

• Bairns, Scweel, and Local Learning: Scots Language and Scottish Studies at Banff Academy

  27 September 2016, 19:30 - 21:00

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series