The Elphinstone Institute is a centre for the study of Ethnology, Folklore, and Ethnomusicology at the University of Aberdeen.
Aberdeen, Scotland
Joined September 2014
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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 ♥️
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📽️ #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 ⤵️
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📢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 👇
siefhome.org/congresses/sief…
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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.
abdn.ac.uk/sll/disciplines/e…
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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 ⬇️⬇️⬇️
siefhome.org/congresses/sief…
@ei_folklore @aberdeenuni
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Looking to study a Postgraduate? Our Postgraduate Virtual Open Day is the perfect chance to find out more, ask questions, and take the first steps towards further education! #BreakingBoundaries 💻📱🎓
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Thinking of applying for a PhD with the LLMVC School? Applications are open for The New Kings Studentship now! 💷📚🎓
Have your application in by the end of Friday 10/05/2024 if you wish to apply!
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Our most recent article in the @WHFP1 is now available online at
whfp.com/2024/05/01/tobar-an…
In the article Dr Frances Wilkins, a senior lecturer in ethnomusicology at the @ei_folklore, looks at female composers of sacred songs, illustrating them with examples from TAD.
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🎙️ The @Saltire_Society Aberdeen and North East Branch invites you to 'Voices from the Scottish Diaspora' by Professor Marjory Harper on Thursday 25th April at 19:30.
Contact Ian Russell to receive the Zoom link.
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An 11year old blowing folk away with his whistle playing at the Alex Green Whistle Festival! @ei_folklore @APAWhatsOn @ScotCultTrad @sharonhassan #TradMusic #YouthMusic
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We are still accepting entries to the 2024 Nan Shepherd Creative Writing Competition for S5/6 Pupils in Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, Moray and Angus until 15th March - Full info at abdn.ac.uk/sll/research/2col…
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Proposals for papers invited for the Library’s July conference, ‘Collectomania!: Folk Song and Music Collectors and their Worlds’, presented with Traditional Song Forum (TSF) and with support from @ITMADublin, Welsh Folk Song Society and @ei_folklore efdss.org/about-us/what-we-d…
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A new festival celebrating the tin whistle and the musician who played a key role in keeping the traditional instrument from dying out has been launched by our @ei_folklore. Generous funding @CreativeScots, The William Syson Foundation, and @APAWhatsOn.
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This week is World Gaelic Week! The University of Aberdeen has many exciting activities to celebrate!
Tha an t-Oilthigh a’ comharrachadh Seachdain na Gàidhlig (19mh gu 25mh Gearran) le sreath de òraidean, thachartasan agus ghnìomhan do luchd-obrach, oileanaich agus am poball.
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There has been widespread media coverage to promote the recent launch of the exhibition and website, Seinn Spioradail, which highlights important research by Dr Frances Wilkins, Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicoloy at The @ei_folklore
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Join us online tomorrow at 7.30pm for ‘Seinn Spioradail’, a seminar on sacred song traditions of Northern Scotland with @WilkinsFrances of @ei_folklore efdss.org/whats-on/61-confer…
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Are you a teacher who uses #Scots in the classroom? @scottishbktrust is conducting a survey about benefits and barriers - please fill it in surveymonkey.com/r/SBT-Scots… @scotslanguage @EducationScot @ScotGovScots
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📽️@ei_folklore will host a screening of the film: Dances of Goa, at the MacRobert Building on Thursday 1 Feb and there will be an opportunity to meet the filmmaker Nalini Elvino De Sousa and ask them your questions!
This is a free event and no booking is required 🥳
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Delighted that my chapter ‘Fisher, Farmer, Teuchter, Chav: hyperlocal
perceptions of North-East Scottish speech’ has now been published as part of the @FRLSU 2021 volume of papers.
You can read it here: abdn.ac.uk/sll/documents/Cha… – at Scotland, United Kingdom
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@ei_folklore will host a lecture with local Deaf historians Len Mellis and Gerry Malley who will discuss the rich and complex history of Deaf people in the North-East over the centuries on 18 Jan from 6.30pm. This event is open to all, find out more here: bit.ly/3Sda9uw
ALT Len Mellis and Gerry Malley