Elphinstone Institute

The Elphinstone Institute is a centre for the study of Ethnology, Folklore, and Ethnomusicology at the University of Aberdeen.

[Iona Fyfe @ionafyfe]

I spent this morning chatting to undergrad and MLitt students at the @ei_folklore at @aberdeenuni about the North East Ballad tradition. What a rich oral tradition we have ♥️

[EASA @EASAinfo]

📽️ #SIEF2025 Unwriting: Call for Films is now OPEN!

📌 Elphinstone Institute for Ethnology, Folklore, and Ethnomusicology (@ei_folklore), at the University of Aberdeen (@aberdeenuni)
⏰ Call closes 3 February 2025

Propose here ⤵️
https://t.co/6ApGx9gQPv

[Elphinstone Institute @ei_folklore]

@MeldrumMusic @AberdeenCC @UoAMusicDept @aberdeenuni Absolutely brilliant musicians! Thank you for helping us celebrate our 30th anniversary.

[Elphinstone Institute @ei_folklore]

Thanks, Claire – the talk will also be live-streamed for those wanting to watch from outwith Aberdeen. https://t.co/jEWOjGSN7j

[Dr Claire Collins @MedPreg]

Aberdeen folks: David Buchan Lecture tomorrow evening @ei_folklore: Professor Kwesi Yankah on 'Global Health Crises, Heritage, and the Ghanaian Folk'

[siefhome @siefhome]

📢SIEF2025 Unwriting: Call for Films is now OPEN!
📅Call closes 3 February 2025
📍Elphinstone Institute for Ethnology, Folklore, and Ethnomusicology, at the University of Aberdeen
@ei_folklore #SIEF2025
Propose here 👇
https://t.co/edDsVeLfZX

[Elphinstone Institute @ei_folklore]

The #Aberdeen & Beyond Storytelling Festival is in full swing. The next event we're hosting is 'Stories and Songs of Ireland' with Nuala Hayes and Aofie Granville, Tues, 22 Oct., 6.30pm: https://t.co/kq1NZlRrxw

[Elphinstone Institute @ei_folklore]

Don't miss our first public talk of the term, 17 Oct., 6.30pm: 'Rainbow Paths to the Granite City', MacRobert 051. Jakub Ivanecky and Deejay Bullock of @4pillarsuk talk on LGBT+ Pride History in Aberdeen: https://t.co/4n0bxK8m3g

@UoA_LLMVC

[Aberdeen Uni LLMVC @UoA_LLMVC]

This term, we're celebrating the subjects of the LLMVC! This week's Discipline is Ethnology and Folklore at @ei_folklore 🗣️

Staff and students use ethnographic methodologies to explore ideas of identity and belonging, meaning and function.

https://t.co/M3Qn4NDDsV

[Neil Drysdale @NeilDrysdale]

I’ve done an interview with Tom McKean, the director of the Elphinstone Institute, about fighting the good fight for Doric and the successes of the last 30 years. Teachers once tried to belt it out of pupils. Thankfully, Doric is robust! https://t.co/iK1l9OPqG1

[siefhome @siefhome]

The International Society for Ethnology and Folklore is coming to Aberdeen!
📢The call for panels is open now until 7 October
📅 3 - 6 June 2025
📍The University of Aberdeen
More info here ⬇️⬇️⬇️
https://t.co/LPJYJCOYS5
@ei_folklore @aberdeenuni

[Elphinstone Institute @ei_folklore]

We're delighted to be supporting Aberdeen Multicultural Centre to produce this year's Aberdeen Mela-OWD. It's happening this Sunday (1 Sept) from 12–6pm in Union Terrace Gardens in Aberdeen. Do join us!

[Elphinstone Institute @ei_folklore]

The Toulmin Prize 2024 deadline for entries is 27 August. The prize for the winner is £500, and the story will be read aloud at the WayWord Festival at the University on Friday 27 September by Sheena Blackhall.
https://t.co/1S3JNbxYFk

[Elphinstone Institute @ei_folklore]

We had a lovely visit from Tracey Walker of Cullerlie fame today, who came to peruse some panto scripts in the Elphinstone Institute Archives. Tracey was hoping for inspiration for this year's Echt panto, but we don't look forward to the results... Oh yes we do!

[Elphinstone Institute @ei_folklore]

Thank you very much to Jim Taylor, who welcomed staff members Alison Sharman and Nicolas Le Bigre into his and his wife Liz's home.
We visited to formalise a substantial collection of recordings and other items that Jim has kindly gifted to the Elphinstone Institute Archives.

[Elphinstone Institute @ei_folklore]

Congratulations to our own Simon Gall who has published a fascinating study of family lore in the latest issue of the Review of Scottish Culture (@ROSC). His article is based in part on fieldwork he conducted for his MLitt dissertation. Read free here:
https://t.co/kGAOrsgLjG

[Elphinstone Institute @ei_folklore]

Final one
PhD student Lauren Hossack presented at the World Congress of Scottish Literatures in Nottingham, England, about 'Staging Humour in Scots Language and Song: The Case of Aberdeen Student Show'.
Well done everyone!

[Elphinstone Institute @ei_folklore]

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Staff and students have been busy over the summer presenting research around the world. Director Tom McKean spoke at the annual International Ballad Conference, this year held in Vitré, Brittany. He also led a Scots song workshop at the Availles festival in May.

[Elphinstone Institute @ei_folklore]

Two others
PhD graduate Kristin Jonzon spoke about intonation and timbre in unaccompanied solo singing at the Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Musics in Bologna, Italy.