The Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series will take place monthly at 6:30pm, in the MacRobert Building MR051.
Please see below for a list of lectures taking place in the 2023–2024 academic year.
13 November 2023
16 November 2023 (David Buchan Lecture)
- When Humans, Animals, and Plants Talk to Each Other
Professor Sadhana Naithani
18 January 2024
- A Deaf History of Aberdeen
Len Mellis and Gerry Maley
26 February 2024 (re-scheduled from 15 February 2024)
- Stanley Robertson in the Elphinstone Institute Archives
Lauren Hossack
21 March 2024
- The Cruden Bay Bram Stoker Knew
Mike Shepherd
16 May 2024
- The Granite Men: 1730–1914
Jim Fiddes
Past Lecture Series
- 2022
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17 November 2022 (Buchan Lecture)
- Remembering and Reclaiming Folk
Danielle Brown
20 October 2022
- The River Dee - Connecting Deeside
Lorraine Hawkins
15 September 2022
21 April 2022
This event was cancelled
- Aberdeen Multicultural Centre: Raising Cultural Awareness and Environmental Awareness
Ahashan Habib and David McGrath
17 March 2022
- Twists and Turns of New Pitsligo Lacemaking
Janet Tavendale
17 February 2022
- The Folk in My Young Life
Isla St Clair
- Remembering and Reclaiming Folk
- 2021
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21 October 2021
16 September 2021
- Place-Names and Folklore of Upper Deeside
Ian Murray
- Place-Names and Folklore of Upper Deeside
- 2020
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27 February 2020
- A History of Cinemas in the North-East of Scotland
The Lord Provost of Aberdeen City, Cllr Barney Crockett
30 January 2020
- A History of Protest in Aberdeen
Andrew MacGregor
- A History of Cinemas in the North-East of Scotland
- 2019
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31 October
Traditional Tales from the North-East
Jackie Ross
An Artist's Journey From Illustration to Creative Collaborations and the Pop-Up Movement
26 September
Aberdeenshire printmaker Laura Bremner, designer, and founder of Juniper Press, talks about crafts in the North-East, collaborative working, the burgeoning Etsy movement, and pop-up shops in the era of dying high streets.
25 April
'A Blond Wig for Maid Marion': Aberdeen and Scotland's Folk Dramas
Donald Smith
21 March
Fitlike Records: A North-East Music Label
Charley Buchan
21 February
Granite, Caul Winds, and Wildly Conspicuous Consumption: A Love Affair with Serious Reservations
Mark Stephen
17 January
The Venison Haggis Makers of Glenesk
Ian Kinnear
- 2018
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18 October
Testimonies of Transition: Voices from the Scottish Diaspora
Marjory Harper
Something Corny: A Life Working with Straw
27 September
Elaine Lindsay
27 March
Cally Wight
30 January
Ewen MacLachlan, Hebridean Dance Master
Alasdair Roberts
- 2017
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28 November
Alec Finlay
31 October
Living Tales in a Digitised World
Grace Banks
26 September
Scots Radio - The Journey So Far
Frieda Morrison
25 April
Tradition and Innovation at Cambus O'May Cheesemaker
James Reid
28 March
From Production to Marketing: Community and Culture in the Post-War Whisky Industry
Richard Bennett
28 February
Ella Leith
31 January
Robert Lovie
- 2016
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25 October
Witch Belief in Scottish Coastal Communities
Lizanne Henderson
27 September 2016
Bairns, Scweel, and Local Learning: Scots Language and Scottish Studies at Banff Academy
Jamie Fairbairn