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2015
June
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Cafe Scientifique Inverness - Are most positive findings in psychology research false?
-An informal way to engage with the latest topics in science.
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Aberdeen Highland Games
-Join the Public Engagement Team at the Highland Games for an interactive show and busking.
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Dynamic Identities: The Deconstruction of an Inuit Stereotype
-Museum objects often conjure up images of southerners' heroic exploits and their unique encounters with 'ancient' people living in a frozen landscape. This talk critically examines southern stereotypes of the Canadian Arctic and its people by exploring the dynamic nature of contemporary Inuit identity across art, language, and hunting.
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dot.rural Showcase Event
-Showcase of the work carried out by dot.rural over the past 6 years including presentations, demonstrations, lunch and canapes.
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Cafe Scientifique: Paleo - yes or no? Exploring diet through archaeology
-A discussion on caveman diet fads.
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Stitching Skins, Filming Lives: Inuit Hunting Families Today
-This talk is based on Dr Wachowich's recent anthropological fieldwork in an Inuit community, Mittimatalik, (Pond Inlet), in Canada's Eastern High Arctic.
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Great Aberdonians: Aberdeen and the Making of Lord Byron
-Great Aberdonians is a public lecture series organised by the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies and Aberdeen City Council
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Celebrating UK Fungus Day: meet the friends and fiends of the fungal kingdom
A discussion on how fungi effect our health and food supply
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Bright Ideas: The Art and Science of Light
-A student-curated exhibition exploring human interaction with light around the world.
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Polar Horizons
-What happened when polar explorers took to the skies in the 1920s? Dr Marionne Cronin discusses how the Far North was re-imagined in the age of aerial exploration and how the resulting images continue to influence contemporary debates about the region.