Public Lecture Series

13 November 2023

• 'I am Because We Are': Mediating Between African and European Cultural Mindsets
  Ibidun Daramola

16 November 2023 (David Buchan Lecture)

• When Humans, Animals, and Plants Talk to Each Other
  Professor Sadhana Naithani

18 January 2024

• A Deaf History of Aberdeen
  Len Mellis and Gerry Maley

26 February 2024 (re-scheduled from 15 February 2024)

• Stanley Robertson in the Elphinstone Institute Archives
  Lauren Hossack

21 March 2024

• The Cruden Bay Bram Stoker Knew
  Mike Shepherd

16 May 2024

• The Granite Men: 1730-1914
  Jim Fiddes

17 November 2022 (Buchan Lecture)

• Remembering and Reclaiming Folk
  Danielle Brown

20 October 2022

• The River Dee - Connecting Deeside
  Lorraine Hawkins

15 September 2022

• Scottish Gypsy/Travellers and Museum Collecting: Finding Unexpected Contributions
  Rhona Ramsay

21 April 2022

This event was cancelled

• Aberdeen Multicultural Centre: Raising Cultural Awareness and Environmental Awareness
  Ahashan Habib and David McGrath

17 March 2022

• Twists and Turns of New Pitsligo Lacemaking
  Janet Tavendale

17 February 2022

• The Folk in My Young Life
  Isla St Clair

21 October 2021

• Mis-Remembered? Retrospective Lenses on Aberdeen's Women's Movement in the 70s and 80s
  Chris Aldred

16 September 2021

• Place-Names and Folklore of Upper Deeside
  Ian Murray

27 February 2020

• A History of Cinemas in the North-East of Scotland
  The Lord Provost of Aberdeen City, Cllr Barney Crockett

30 January 2020

• A History of Protest in Aberdeen
  Andrew MacGregor

31 October

Traditional Tales from the North-East

Jackie Ross

An Artist's Journey From Illustration to Creative Collaborations and the Pop-Up Movement

26 September

Aberdeenshire printmaker Laura Bremner, designer, and founder of Juniper Press, talks about crafts in the North-East, collaborative working, the burgeoning Etsy movement, and pop-up shops in the era of dying high streets.

25 April

'A Blond Wig for Maid Marion': Aberdeen and Scotland's Folk Dramas

Donald Smith

21 March

Fitlike Records: A North-East Music Label

Charley Buchan

21 February

Granite, Caul Winds, and Wildly Conspicuous Consumption: A Love Affair with Serious Reservations

Mark Stephen

17 January

The Venison Haggis Makers of Glenesk

Ian Kinnear

18 October

Testimonies of Transition: Voices from the Scottish Diaspora

Marjory Harper

Something Corny: A Life Working with Straw

27 September

Elaine Lindsay

27 March

'Publishing is an Adventure', from Penny Pamphlets to Print on Demand: James Leatham, Propaganda, and the Rebirth of the Deveron Press

Cally Wight

30 January

Ewen MacLachlan, Hebridean Dance Master

Alasdair Roberts

28 November

A Wolf Among Men

Alec Finlay

31 October

Living Tales in a Digitised World

Grace Banks

26 September

Scots Radio - The Journey So Far

Frieda Morrison

25 April

Tradition and Innovation at Cambus O'May Cheesemaker

James Reid

28 March

From Production to Marketing: Community and Culture in the Post-War Whisky Industry

Richard Bennett

28 February

Storytelling without Sound: Traditional Deaf Motifs and Performance in British Sign Language Storytelling

Ella Leith

31 January

Doric and Aa That

Robert Lovie

25 October

Witch Belief in Scottish Coastal Communities

Lizanne Henderson

27 September 2016

Bairns, Scweel, and Local Learning: Scots Language and Scottish Studies at Banff Academy

Jamie Fairbairn