Events from the 05 November 2024 Reset
Professor Daniel Newman will be a speaker at this year's 'Food Meets Science' conference in Dubai
05 November 2024
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Dubai
The second of eight workshops over the course of Michaelmas term in conjunction with the large-scale cross-faculty research project, Syntactical Structures and the Evolution of Mind and Culture, which explores the syntactical basis of a wide range of phenomena spanning cognitive and cultural domains, from learning and reasoning to narrative and memory to music and dance, to shed new light on the human mind, cultural evolution, and aesthetics.
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Seminar Room, Institute of Advanced Study, Cosin‘s Hall, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RL
Michael Marder is Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. His work spans the fields of environmental philosophy and ecological thought, political theory, and phenomenology.
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
W010 (Geography West building)
This workshop, designed specifically for postgraduates, offers the opportunity to engage further with Marder’s lecture and work more broadly, and invites participants to think through how the topic of joints might relate to their own research interests. We look forward to your participation in this discussion of what it means to think about the body when we begin to think about the body when we begin with its joints.
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
W010 (Geography)
Join us with colleagues from the department of Music, the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) and Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies (CNCS), for a seminar to reveal the magic of the féerie! This French fairy play was a once ubiquitous genre analogous in some respects to the English Christmas pantomime! With music historian Dr Tommaso Sabbatini (University of Bristol).
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Students Union, Dunelm house, Durham
A talk by Alex Fry brought to you by the Affective Experience Lab.
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
IMH Atrium, 1st floor, Confluence Building, DH1 3LE