Events from the 01 January 2022 - 31 December 2022 Reset
In honour the 400th anniversary of the French playright and actor, Molière. Join us for highlights from French, Italian and English theatre about hypochondriacs, vile doctors, and their patient victims. No registration required - simply come.
28 June 2022
2:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Durham Town Hall
This online conference will consider the writer and translator Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo, 1850-1904) and his significance for conceptions of global and transnational cultural exchange, both in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries and in his legacies today.
29 June 2022 - 01 July 2022
Online (via Zoom)
An evening of spectacular entertainment from musicians and performers.
24 September 2022
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Brancepeth Castle
Meet the dragons and their creators from the Radical Dragons exhibition and Roaring Dragons show!
25 September 2022
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Join one of the UK’s most prolific broadcasters and authors at this Durham Book Festival event, as he talks about his love for the poet W. H. Auden and the County Durham landscapes that inspired him. Jeremy Vine will be chaired by Dr Abbie Garrington from our Department of English Studies, with an introduction from Professor Karen O’Brien, Vice-Chancellor, Durham University.
15 October 2022
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Gala Theatre
Durham Book Festival is thrilled to present two of the most exciting voices in contemporary fiction, Jessica Andrews and Natasha Brown, who will be chaired by Dr Naomi Booth from our Department of English Studies.
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Gala Theatre Studio
More Fiya is an exciting collection of Black British poetry, edited by Kayo Chingonyi from our Department of English Studies, that celebrates the legacy and evolution of the Black British poetry scene over the last 20 years and the crosscurrents that join music, performance and verse.
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Our first Inventions of the Text seminar of the year. Free, online, and open to everyone.
26 October 2022
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Online (Zoom)
A talk organised by the Centre for Poetry and Poetics
01 November 2022
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Elvet Riverside 247
Join the Centre for Poetry and Poetics at this poetry reading and Q&A with the award-winning poet, Gail McConnell.
15 November 2022
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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