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2016
May
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Sabato Rodia's Towers (Los Angeles): Art, Migration, and the Watts Towers Common Ground Initiative
-Luisa del Giudice, a Visiting Scholar at the Elphinstone Institute 3-9 May 2016, is a fellow of the American Folklore Society, and is internationally known for her work on Italian, Italian-American, and Italian-Canadian Folklife, Ethnology; and Oral History. This public seminar, promoted jointly with History of Art, on the multiple...
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Hanoi Eclipse (2010)
-Ethnographic Film Series
April
March
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Art in the Aberdeenshire Environment Database
-Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series
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Fae Ploo T Plate
-Ethnographic Film Series
February
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10,000 Letters and Counting: Working on the Hamish Henderson Archive
-Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series
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Ethnographic Film Series: Say Amen, Somebody
-George T. Nierenberg, director Gospel music is the subject of this lively film, which explores the history of the faith-rooted musical style. While the documentary features a number of gospel musicians, it spends the most time looking into the considerable contributions of Thomas A. Dorsey, a pioneering songwriter and pianist, and...
January
2015
December
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A Filthy, Dirty, and Abominable Practice: A Short History of the Blackening
-This talk will show how the blackening has developed through time into the ritual we see today.
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Ethnographic Film Series: The Fiddlers of James Bay plus Scots in the Sub-Arctic
-The Fiddlers of James Bay (1980), by Bob Rogers, is a short documentary tracing the history of the fiddle's arrival in Canada 300 years ago via Scottish traders from the Orkney Islands. The Cree population of what is now Northern Québec adopted the instrument, and many contemporary Cree residents are master fiddlers....