Event Archive

2017

March

• Stacks Alive

  02 March 2017, 18:00 - 19:00

  This Stacks Alive event celebrates four research projects conducted by Aberdeen's research community. Each was completed through an award from the Aberdeen Humanities Fund, which supports research on aspects of the University's collections through the generosity of external donors to the Fund. Our four presenters will highlight some of the...

February

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  Talk: Duncan Liddel - Educator, Innovator and Benefactor

  23 February 2017, 18:00 - 19:00

  As part of its bookbindings exhibition, Cover Stories, the Special Collections Centre at the University of Aberdeen will be hosting a series of five talks that focus on some of the individuals behind the bindings - those who owned the books, commissioned or designed their covers.

• Evening Lecture: New light on Bronze Age Aberdeenshire: a recent re-examination of a barrow at Bairnie

  07 February 2017, 19:30 - 20:30

  Evening lecture in association with University of Aberdeen Museums and Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

• Evening Lecture: Painting the past: using geological techniques to identify artists' pigments in Roman archaeology

  01 February 2017

  Evening Lecture in association with University of Aberdeen Museums and Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

January

• Aberdonians in early Bolivian Industry: the Penny and Duncan Mining Company

  24 January 2017, 19:30 - 20:30

  Evening Lecture by University of Aberdeen Museums

• The Scholars of King's College

  19 January 2017, 18:00 - 19:00

  King's College Archive Project - A tale of the devoted, distinguished and sometimes disreputable scholars of the King's College of Aberdeen.

• Aberdonians in the Americas

  10 January - 27 May 2017

  Migrants and adventurers from Mexico to Paraguay

2016

December

• Mapping the City: a new approach for the Digital Age

  13 December 2016, 19:30 - 20:30

  Evening Lecture in association with University of Aberdeen Museums and Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

November

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  Talk: THE SECRET ART OF FORE-EDGE PAINTING

  26 November 2016, 16:00 - 17:00

  Don't miss a fascinating and entertaining talk by Martin Frost on the book art known as fore-edge painting on Saturday 26th November, 4-5pm in the Special Collections Seminar Room in The Sir Duncan Rice Library.

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  Collections Close-up: Curators' Favourites

  26 November 2016, 14:00 - 15:30

  Get up close and personal with the treasures of the Special Collections Centre.