Event Archive

A behind-the-scenes look at how an exhibition is curated. Jen Shaw, Exhibitions Officer for the Special Collections Centre gives a glimpse into how an exhibition comes about: from deciding on a subject or theme, through to the selection of objects, and finally to the week of installation. Fun, fascinating and,...

The Film and Visual Culture Research Seminar - The Synthetic Proposition: Conceptualism and the Political Referent in Contemporary Art

Film and Visual Culture Research Seminar   Oron Catts   Tissue culture and Art Project, Director of SymbioticA,  The University of Western Australia will give a talk entitled:   Contextualising Biotechnological Art—Living Biological Objects on the Pedestal Thursday, 15 March, at 3:30PM Room 224, Sir Duncan Rice Library   For more than two decades, world leading bio-artist and theorist Oron Catts has been using semi-living...

Please join Professor Karen Kelskey and Kellee Weinstein for a special two-hour workshop.

This talk will explore a remarkable manuscript held in Special Collections. In 1594 the Master of New Aberdeen’s Grammar School, Thomas Cargill (d. 1602), made a translation of the Flemish scholar Justus Lipsius’ bestselling 1589 Politicorum sive Civilis Doctrinae Libri Sex, the Six Books of Politics or Civil Doctrine.  Cargill enjoyed a...

An Event of the Herbert Grierson Centre for Textual Criticism and Comparative Literary History

Exclusive Friends' Event: Behind the Scenes with our Collections: Bookbinding Workshop & Talk

In this talk, Professor Limon shares his research into an intriguing historical episode that links early modern Aberdeen and Gdansk.

Internationally renowned author, Claire Keegan, will be reading from and discussing her work.

A Pop-Up Exhibition and Opening event to celebrate 90 years of Scottish PEN The Sir Duncan Rice Library Monday 23rd October 5.30pm - 7pm