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24/09/2024

At the very least, we can see what campus used to look like around that time, thanks to the George Washington Wilson photographs in the University's Special Collections! (Dated 1853 - 1908) 📷📚

https://www.abdn.ac.uk/collections/

24/09/2024

Here's a fun fact for the start of term! This year marks 130 years since the first female undergraduates began their studies at the University of Aberdeen! 👩‍🎓

We can only wonder just how much the campus, the curriculum, the accommodation, and the teaching methods have changed since then...! 📚💻🤔

The first of five Nobel Prizes is awarded for work begun or carried out at the University. Inventions include the life-saving drug insulin and the development of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).

23/09/2024

It's week one! Classes start today; here's to an exciting term ahead! 📚💻📅

20/09/2024

20/09/2024

Our friends at the Confucius Institute are hosting a free mid-autumn concert this weekend at Cowdray Hall!

Take in some beautiful traditional Chinese music, try some delicious mooncakes, and learn about Chinese culture! 🌕🎶🍵

Join us at Cowdray Hall for a Mid-Autumn Festival concert featuring traditional Chinese music. Enjoy soothing melodies played on instruments like the guzheng and erhu. After the performance, relax with tea and traditional mooncakes to celebrate this special festival.Free, all welcome, no booking...

20/09/2024

Interested in Scottish Traditional Music? Already play an instrument or want to learn as a beginner? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎻🎶

Scottish Culture & Traditions Association offers evening classes at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels in fiddle, whistle, clarsach, flute, guitar, rhythm, Scots Song, Accordion, Mandolin, Scottish Smallpipes and Ukelele in MacRobert Building Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday evenings.

There are a number of FREE Student Bursary places for registered UoA students, so email [email protected] to apply for a place and find out more.

To check out the classes that are available go to http://abdn.io/X1

SC&T also has an instrument bank so may be able to lend you an instrument if you don't have one.

Our Autumn Term in 2024 will begin in week commencing 30th September 2024 We plan to run a full suite of classes over 3 evenings, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 7.00pm – 9.00pm in the Macrobert…

20/09/2024

The first LLMVC classes start at 09:00 on Monday morning! ⌚📚

There's plenty to be done in the coming term, but it's not all work. The fifth annual WAYWord festival starts next week, with many exciting activities for you to enjoy. 🎶💃

More information in the link below:

A youth-led literary cross arts festival exploring unconventional forms of expression in Aberdeen taking place on Saturday 21 and 24 - 29 September.

19/09/2024

Next week, University of Aberdeen Music Department is hosting Dr Jane Stanley for an exciting talk about the Hauntological aspects of her music. Be sure to come along and learn more! 🎶🎹

This talk explores aspects of my creative process and output, paying particular attention to the textural, gestural and formal dimensions of my music. I will explain how I have recently begun to reflect upon my pieces and working method through a conceptual lens of hauntology, as well as accounting....

18/09/2024

A reminder for our new Postgraduate Taught students: your welcome session to the LLMVC School starts at 13:00 today, in the Taylor Building! ⌚

More details at the link below:

Professor Chris Collins will host the official welcome to all new postgraduate taught students starting their studies at the School of Language, Literature, Music, and Visual Culture.

18/09/2024

Are you a student at the University of Aberdeen with a passion for social media? 📱

The Content Creation team are looking for people like you to help create content. 💻

Check the link below:

Our UoA Content Creators are current students who produce blogs, videos and 60-second reels on everything from the best supermarkets to shop in, places to visit in Aberdeen, and what to expect if you need to use one of the University's support services.  If you'd like to join the Content Creator te...

18/09/2024

At her Guest Lecture at the University of Groningen, Dr Barbara Barreiro Leon was delighted to include Ukrainian Eurovision Contestant Kateryna Pavlenko - from the band Go_A - to discuss her experience in the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam. 🌍🎤🎉

Read more about the talk at the link below:

http://abdn.io/Wq

17/09/2024

Recently, LLMVC Film Lecturer Dr Alejandra Rodrigues-Remedi led an exciting discussion at the "Creative Approaches to the Energy Crisis" Research Symposium. 🌍💻📚

Read more about her work below!

At this recent symposium, lecturer in Film and Visual Culture Dr Alejandra Rodríguez-Remedi gave a demonstration to showcase her "Creative Approaches to the Energy Crisis" workshop as well as the creative outputs produced by workshop participants.

17/09/2024

Tomorrow morning, our Welcome Session for all new Postgraduate Taught Students will take place in the Taylor Building! 🎓📅

This is a chance for all new students beginning their studies at the LLMVC School to meet the head of school and other key staff, ask any questions they have, and find out where their studies in our school can take them.

Professor Chris Collins will host the official welcome to all new postgraduate taught students starting their studies at the School of Language, Literature, Music, and Visual Culture.

17/09/2024

Do you play a music instrument? Auditions for the University of Aberdeen Symphony Orchestra will take place on Monday 23/09/2024! 🎤🎻🎸

Click the link below for more information, or to sign up for an audition!

17/09/2024

Dr Silvia Casini, Reader in Film and Visual Culture, was invited to give the opening lecture at the 7th STS Italia Summer School organised in collaboration with the Real Academia de España in Rome, the perfect venue for the Summer School's topic: Arts in/and Society: design, creative practices and technoscience:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13cRKdPKpR_RinTgqj9XddNtlMdGG4eLL/view

16/09/2024

What a crowd! It was wonderful to see this many lovely new faces this early on a Monday morning for our Student Induction!

If you missed it, you can still come to our Open House in the Taylor A block ground floor, from now until 15:00 today! Come in and say hi!

16/09/2024

Just a reminder, the LLMVC Welcome for new undergraduate students starts at 10:00 today! ⌚

If you're thinking of studying with us, feel free to come and learn more! 🗣️

More details in the link below:

Professor Chris Collins will host the official welcome to all new students starting their studies at the School of Language, Literature, Music, and Visual Culture.

16/09/2024

It's here at last! Welcome week!!! 🎉

A huge welcome to all students starting or returning to us!

Are you starting or returning to your studies with the LLMVC School? We'd love to hear from you! 💻📱

13/09/2024

Many congratulations to recent FVC graduate Andrew Fleming, who, together with Dr Calum Waddell, has done an audio-commentary for the Hong Kong action film Robotrix (1991), as part of a new American Blu-ray set of some classic Hong Kong fantasy movies! Here’s what Andrew said about the experience: "I am happy to have had such a great opportunity to work on a Blu-ray release for the Shoutfactory label, doing my first audio commentary. I feel especially glad to have been able to carry across much of the research and work I put into my Film & Visual Culture dissertation on Hong Kong cinema. It was exciting to see a direct application of the interpretative skills I learned during my course at the University of Aberdeen." Well done, Andrew! University of Aberdeen LLMVC University of Aberdeen Further details: https://shoutfactory.com/collections/new-upcoming-releases-1/products/golden-harvest-vol-1-supernatural-shockers-exclusive-poster

13/09/2024

The LLMVC School will host a Welcome Session for new Undergraduate students at 10:00 on Monday morning, in New King's NK1. 👋📚

This is a chance for all new students beginning their studies at the LLMVC School to meet the head of school and other key staff, ask any questions they have, and find out where their studies in our school can take them.

Professor Chris Collins will host the official welcome to all new students starting their studies at the School of Language, Literature, Music, and Visual Culture.

12/09/2024

Congratulations to our very own Dr Calum Waddell, whose latest book 'South African Horror Cinema' will appear with Bloomsbury later this year and is now available to pre-order! University of Aberdeen LLMVC University of Aberdeen

12/09/2024

Next week, LLMVC Film and Visual Culture lecturer Dr Barbara Barreiro Leon will be hosting an exciting talk about Ukraine and the Eurovision song contest. 🎶🌍

Check out the link below for more information!

Dr Barbara Barreiro Leon will open the Art History Guest Lecture Series 2024-25 at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands)

12/09/2024

Are you a new student staying in Hillhead Student Village? Pop along to meet some of the support services available to you throughout your time at uni.

Staff will be in the GP Hall from 10am to 4pm all this weekend to help you get set up and settled.

http://abdn.io/VA

11/09/2024

Art, Expression and Identity Across Cultures:
Leila Aboulela, Amira Al Shanti, and Dean Atta
1pm, 27th September | King's Pavilion, UoA King's Campus
How does an identity formed of multiple cultures inform the art you create? This panel with writer Leila Aboulela, actor, playwright and artist Amira Al Shanti, and poet Dean Atta, will discuss identity, expression and acceptance across cultures. Book FREE tickets here: http://abdn.io/Vr

11/09/2024

WayWORD champions scots, with our wide range of local and national performers bringing our vibrant language to the stage. Liz Lochhead, Len Pennie, Shane Strachan, Morna Young, Danielle Jam, Mae Diansangu & More!

Tickets to these free events at http://abdn.io/Vo

11/09/2024

Is your child coming to study here in Aberdeen and staying in our Halls of Residence?

It's a big change for everyone, and you might have some important questions that you're looking for answers to.

From Wednesday 11/09/2024 until Saturday 14/09/2024, the Accommodation Team will be having daily sessions to answer your questions ahead of your child moving in.

http://abdn.io/Vi

10/09/2024

Last Wednesday, LLMVC School Film and Visual Culture lecturer Dr Alejandra Rodríguez-Remedi gave a demonstration at the University's Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation Symposium to showcase to staff and students the "Creative Approaches to the Energy Crisis" workshop that she ran in June.

10/09/2024

Dr Hans Hönes, Senior Lecturer in Art History, will be hosting guided tours during Welcome Week for new and returning students. 🏛️🎨

Looking to find out more about our beautiful and historic campus, and the history behind the art?Dr Hans Hönes, Senior Lecturer in Art History, will be hosting guided tours during Welcome Week for new and returning students. Sign up early to avoid missing out!Events may be photograp...

19/06/2024

The University has any number of prestigious and ground-breaking people in its long history. How would James Clerk Maxwell contribute to discussions in our Film and Visual Culture classes? How would Nan Shepherd discuss her published works with our English students?

Scroll through our research history to learn more about our Nobel Prizes, notable academics and some of our research highlights through the centuries.