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2016
July
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Sea Sangs and Sattie Tales
-Part of Peterhead Scottish Week
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FEECA 2016, 1-3 July
-'A Fieldworker's Vision: Researching the Present' Folklore, Ethnology, and Ethnomusicology Conference Aberdeen (FEECA) Hosted by the Elphinstone Institute and co-sponsored by the Folklore Society. FEECA aims to bring together graduate, postgraduate students, and early-career researchers in these fields to strengthen relations between relevant scholars and institutions in the UK and around the world. This...
June
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Celebrating North-East Fiddle
-Join renowned Tarland fiddler Paul Anderson and Friends for a wonderful night of traditional music celebrating the traditional fiddle playing of the North-East of Scotland. This event follows an afternoon event, the NAFCO AHRC Workshop on Memory which will be streamed online with participants from the United States, Canada, Sweden, Lithuania, Hong...
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NAFCo AHRC Workshop on Memory
-Online streaming link: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/nafco/live-stream/ This is a free online event for artists, scholars, researchers, teachers, and practitioners with an interest in fiddle and dance studies. Session 1 – Keynote Address: David C. Rubin, Juanita M. Kreps Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA, ‘The Role of Memory...
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Hamish - Film Screening
-Elphinstone Institute Ethnographic Film Series - Special Event
May
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Digging for Wishes: The Ardmaddy Wishing-Tree Project
-Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series
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Toulmin Prize 2016
-The winner of the Toulmin Prize 2016 is Mary Leith from Kintore, with her story Duck Number 38. Mary received her award at the May Festival, at a special event, 'The Toulmin Celebration and Short Story Prize on Sunday 29 May, where her entry was read aloud to the audience...
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Elphinstone Institute at the May Festival
-The Elphinstone Institute is hosting a number of events over the May Festival weekend at the University of Aberdeen, 27-29 May 2016. With Storytelling, the Polish-Scottish Singing Group, and The Toulmin Prize, and also displays of Boatbuilding with youngsters from Banff Academy, and Elaine Lindsay's straw work, and an event Celebrating...
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A Filthy, Dirty, and Abominable Practice: A Short History of the Blackening
-With the meteoric rise in popularity of commercialised, 'package' hen nights, pre-nuptial rituals for women in the North of Scotland have undergone a massive change in the past thirty years.
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Sabato Rodia's Towers (Los Angeles): Art, Migration, and the Watts Towers Common Ground Initiative
-Luisa del Giudice, a Visiting Scholar at the Elphinstone Institute 3-9 May 2016, is a fellow of the American Folklore Society, and is internationally known for her work on Italian, Italian-American, and Italian-Canadian Folklife, Ethnology; and Oral History. This public seminar, promoted jointly with History of Art, on the multiple...