Event Archive

2014

October

• The Eternal Ascent: A History of the Route Names of Lochnagar

  14 October 2014

  Since the first route went up in 1893 Lochnagar has attracted generations of mountaineers to its magnificent cliffs. Today there are over 260 routes up the faces of Lochnagar, but how are routes named, and by whom? Sheila will describe the naming protocol and tell some of the stories of the...

• Ethnographic Film Series - Ustad Rahim: Herat's Rubab Maestro

  07 October 2014, 19:30 - 23:55

  Ustad Rahim: Herat's Rubab Maestro

September

• Scots Language

  30 September 2014, 19:30 - 23:59

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• Ballad Bus Outing

  20 September 2014, 10:00 - 17:30

  Hosted by The Friends of the Elphinstone Institute

August

• Storytelling Event -The Legacy of Stanley Robertson in Storytelling

  29 August 2014, 19:00 - 21:30

  Featuring: Jackie Ross, Fiona-Jane Brown, Sean Gordon, Maggie Fraser and Grace Banks

July

• The Traditional Singing Weekend at Cullerlie

  25 - 27 July 2014

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

• 'Steppin Steens o Knowledge': Folklore, Ethnology, and Ethnomusicology Conference, Aberdeen (FEECA)

  04 - 06 July 2014

  FEECA is an academic forum for postgraduate research students and early-career researchers.

June

• Sentimentality, Sacramentality, Memory: Towards a Typology of Catholic Kitsch

  11 - 12 June 2014

  Part of the Elphinstone Institute Seminar Series

May

• Special Event, The Turra Coo Centenary

  27 May 2014, 19:30 - 23:55

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• Toulmin Prize 2014

  11 May 2014

  The winner of the 2014 Toulmin Prize is A Quine Like You. The award was made on 11 May at the May Festival, and read by Sheena Blackhall and published in Leopard Magazine. Eleanor is a previous winner of Toulmin having won in 2009.