Event Archive

2011

November

• Button Boxes and Moothies: A Free Reed Convention

  11 - 13 November 2011

  A unique celebration of small 'free-reed' instruments, including mouth organs, concertinas, melodeons, diatonic button accordions, and Jews harps.

• Open Evening

  10 November 2011

  Elphinstone Institute

October

• Lost, Hidden or Just Unnoticed? The Archaeology of Gardens in North-East Scotland

  25 October 2011, 19:30 - 21:30

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

September

• What's the War Got To Do With Us? - Using history in a schools' educational context

  27 September 2011, 19:30 - 23:59

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• European Seminar in Ethnomusicology XXVII

  15 - 19 September 2011

  The twenty-seventh European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM)

July

• The Traditional Singing Weekend at Cullerlie Farm Park 2011

  22 - 24 July 2011

  A festival to celebrate the singing traditions of Scotland, England, and Ireland in memory of Tom and Anne Reid

June

• Harlaw Remembered

  09 June 2011

  A conference and concert to mark the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles of the medieval period in Scotland.

May

• Traditional Medicine and Healthcare in the North-East: The Transition from Simples to Scientific Medicine

  31 May 2011, 19:30 - 23:59

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• Toulmin Prize 2011

  15 May 2011

  Linda Smith won the 2011 Toulmin Prize with her story The Last Een. The award was made at the WORD Festival at the Univesity on Sunday 15 May. Sheena Blackhall read the story aloud and it was published in the Leopard Magazine.

• Taking Malta out of the Box: Island Cultures, Economies, and Identities

  11 - 15 May 2011

  An academic conference on island studies.