The University of Aberdeen’s Marischal Museum is hosting a series of evening lectures, the next one which begins tomorrow, Tuesday, February 5.
The lectures (listed overleaf) will take place most Tuesday evenings at 7.30pm and will be held in the Regent Building Lecture Theatre, Regent Walk, Old Aberdeen.
This series of lectures, which will be running until June, is organised by Marischal Museum in conjunction with the Elphinstone Institute, the North-east section of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and the University of Aberdeen’s Anthropology Society.
Students, staff and the general public are all encouraged to attend.
Anyone requiring further information about any of the lectures should contact either Neil Curtis, Marischal Museum, on: (01224) 274301, or email: museum@abdn.ac.uk; or Helen Stevenson, Historic Collections, on: (01224) 274265, or by email: h.stevenson@abdn.ac.uk
Issued by Public Relations Office, External Relations, University of Aberdeen, King's College, Aberdeen. Tel: 01224 272014 Fax: 01224 272086.
MARISCHAL MUSUEM - TUESDAY EVENING LECTURE SERIES
The lectures will take place on the following Tuesday evenings at 7.30pm and will be held in the Regent Building Lecture Theatre, Regent Walk, Old Aberdeen.
5th February 2002 Mind, body and landscape in Tibetan shamanism
Martin Mills, University of Aberdeen
Free entry (organised by the University of Aberdeen’s Anthropology Society)
12th February 2002 Photography in 19th century Scotland
Alison Morrison-Low, National Museums of Scotland and Sara Stevenson, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Free entry (organised by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland)
19th February 2002 Three centres of North-East fiddling: Fochabers, Banchory and Tarland
Katherine Campbell, University of Edinburgh
Entry: £2.00 (organised by the Elphinstone Institute)
26th February 2002 Native chiefs and Roman silver: recent work at Birnie, Moray
Fraser Hunter, National Museums of Scotland
Entry: £2.00
5th March 2002 Memory, modernity and the machine
Frazer Macdonald, University of Aberdeen
Free entry (organised by the University of Aberdeen’s Anthropology Society)
12th March 2002
The archaeology of gardens and designed landscapes in the National Trust for Scotland
Robin Turner, National Trust for Scotland
Free entry (organised by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland)
26th March 2002 Taking the Doric Forward
Sheena Blackhall, University of Aberdeen
Entry: £2.00 (organised by the Elphinstone Institute)
26th March 2002 Aberdeen, anthropology, artefacts: the last century at Marischal Museum
Helen Southwood, University of Aberdeen
Entry: £2.00
16th April 2002 The potato in Scotland: a social history
Heather Holmes, Napier University/Scottish Executive
Entry: £2.00 (organised by the Elphinstone Institute)
30th April 2002 Once upon a time in the east: the cursiform monuments of North-east Scotland
Kenneth Brophy, University of Glasgow
Entry: £2.00
21st May 2002 Hugh Miller: Scenes and Legends
James Robertson
Entry: £2.00 (organised by the Elphinstone Institute)
28th May 2002 Out of the fire: experimental archaeology
Hilary Murray
Entry: £2.00
11th June 2002 Beyond typology: aspects of Scottish composite bone combs
David Clarke & Andrew Heald, National Museums of Scotland
Free Entry (organised by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland)
Anyone requiring further information about any of the lectures should contact either Neil Curtis, Marischal Museum, on: (01224) 274301, or email: museum@abdn.ac.uk; or Helen Stevenson, Historic Collections, on: (01224) 274265, or by email: h.stevenson@abdn.ac.uk
University Press Office on telephone +44 (0)1224-272960 or email a.begg@abdn.ac.uk.