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2019
September
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William MacGillivray - brilliant, much-loved, respected, ill-fated
-Evening lecture from guest speaker Dr Alan Knox
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Anniversary Nature Walk : Deeside in William MacGillivray's footsteps
-Recreation of MacGillivray's journey from The Falls of Feugh along the River Dee.
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Exhibition: Walking with Birds
-The Art of Audubon and MacGillivray.
June
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Exhibition: Objects Uncovered: Questioning Authenticity
-New student-curated exhibition in the ground floor of Sir Duncan Rice Library
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Evening Lecture: Caterpillars to Cloth
-Caterpillars to Cloth: Silk in East Asia
May
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Animal Symbolism in Chinese Art
-Join Dr Minna Törmä (Lecturer, History of Art, University of Glasgow) for a talk discussing animal symbolism in Chinese art.
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The Lives of Asian Things
-With special speaker Prof. Craig Clunas, University of Oxford. A lecture investigating the University's collection of objects from China, Japan and Korea. What lives have these objects lived? What are their stories? What were they used for? Everyday life, connoisseurship and even tragedy - What do they reveal? Art historian Professor Craig Clunas takes us on a journey of discovery. Part of...
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Evening Lecture: Iron and Elephants, Jade and Horses
-Iron and Elephants, Jade and Horses: Materials and Interaction in Ancient East Asia.
April
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Friends of Aberdeen University Library AGM, followed at 6.30pm by a talk: Testing Times
-New health treatments and medicines are "scientifically proven using tests", but this is not new, in fact it is ancient.
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Evening Lecture: Natural children and infamous bastards: being illegitimate in medieval Scotland
-An evening lecture in association with Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and University of Aberdeen Museums and Special Collections