Event Archive

2014

June

• Sentimentality, Sacramentality, Memory: Towards a Typology of Catholic Kitsch

  11 - 12 June 2014

  Part of the Elphinstone Institute Seminar Series

May

• Special Event, The Turra Coo Centenary

  27 May 2014, 19:30 - 23:55

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• Toulmin Prize 2014

  11 May 2014

  The winner of the 2014 Toulmin Prize is A Quine Like You. The award was made on 11 May at the May Festival, and read by Sheena Blackhall and published in Leopard Magazine. Eleanor is a previous winner of Toulmin having won in 2009.

• Scandinavian Singing and Circle Dancing

  10 May 2014, 14:00 - 15:00

  A Scandinavian singing and dancing session for all abilities.

April

• "What is an Urban Legend?"

  29 April 2014, 19:30 - 23:55

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• Musica Scotica Ninth Annual Conference

  26 - 27 April 2014

  The weekend will feature an informative programme of papers on many aspects of music and Scotland, in addition to a wine reception, a concert of Gaelic music, and a conference dinner.

March

• The "mouth" of the River Don: Metaphor in Names and Language

  25 March 2014, 19:30 - 23:55

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture

February

• Scots Herring Girls, 1900-1950: Oral History and Visual Narrative

  25 February 2014, 19:30 - 23:55

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

January

• Many a Step I've Travelled - 'S Iomadh Ceum a Shiubhail Mi: Macaronic Songs in Gaelic, Scots and English

  21 January 2014, 19:30 - 23:55

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

2013

November

• Scandinavian Singing Workshop

  29 November 2013

  An introduction to singing and herding calls from the north of Sweden.