Events from the 01 January 2024 - 31 December 2024 Reset
The Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies is delighted to host this year’s Durham Residential Library fellows as part of the 'Catholicism in the Long Nineteenth Century' lunchtime seminar series at the IAS Seminar Room, Cosins Hall, Palace Green. Join us for the next seminar with Dr Dominic Bridge on Thursday 9 May at 1pm “Take notice, this paper will witness against thee another day:” Intermediality in the Eighteenth-Century Hymnbook Trade".Download the full programme to see what's coming next.
09 May 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
In person IAS Seminar Room or online via Zoom
For the first of May's CTRS seminars, we are joined by Dr Brian Casey of Durham University, who will give a paper entitled: ’The Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood and the challenges of missionary expansion, 1946-1971'.
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminar Room B, Abbey House
‘Once a Johnian’ Formals are vocation themed formal dinners to which all Johnians are warmly invited.
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
St John‘s College, 3 South Bailey, Durham, DH1 3RJ
One-Day Workshop on “Sustainable Construction and Seismic Retrofitting Technologies for Masonry Structures”
10 May 2024
7:45 AM - 2:15 PM
Square Hotel, Lalitpur 44700, Nepal - Online participation is also possible
TBC
The Quantitative Research in Financial Economics centre (QRFE) is pleased to host a one-day Workshop on Asset Pricing and Machine Learning with Dacheng Xiu as a keynote speaker.
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Durham University Business School
A symposium on interdisciplinary understandings of rhythm.
13 May 2024
12:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Tom Percival Annex, Brooks House, St Cuthbert‘s Society Parsons Field
Biostatistics Unit Seminar with speaker Dr Heather Cordell from Newcastle University on the topic of the bayesian network approach.
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room MCS2068, Mathematical Sciences & Computer Science Building, Durham University, Upper Mountjoy Campus, Stockton Road, Durham DH1 3LE
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Instituto Cervantes,15-19 Devereux Court WC2R 3JJ, London and online.
Join us for a Centre for Leadership and Followership hosted seminar with Professor Michael Palanski (Rochester Institute of Technology)
14 May 2024
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Durham University Business School and Online
Seminar Topic - RIOTing for agent-based models!
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Online via zoom
Do you work or study at Durham University? Are you interested in what we do here at the Institute for Medical Humanities? Then come and join us for Fika!
15 May 2024
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
IMH (Confluence Building)
In this workshop, Dr Kasia Paprocki (Geography & Environment, LSE) and several invited discussants will reflect upon themes in Kasia’s work and relevance for their own research projects.
TBA
In this seminar for the International Scholars of the History of Women Religious Association, Julie Hotchin of the Australian National University, gives a talk on 'Negotiating female abbatial authority in late medieval Germany'.
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Online
Join us for a CSTIO hosted seminar with Dr Rouba Ibrahim (UCL School of Management)
To be confirmed
Join us for a Centre for Organisations and Society seminar with Professor Andrew Sturdy (Bristol)
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join us at St Anthony's Priory for a seminar with Revd Dr Greg Peters (Nashotah House), ‘Edward Bouverie Pusey and Christian Tradition: The Necessity of Monasticism in the Church of England’ (in person only)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
St Antony’s Priory, 74 Claypath, Durham, DH1 1QT
Hybrid seminar on Health Technologies and Lived Experiences in Early Modern England
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
IMH • Confluence Building • Online
Durham Research Methods Centre (DRMC) Annual Methods Lecture, in honour and memory of Professor Christine Merrell, who was a Professor of Education and Deputy Executive Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Social Sciences and Health.
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room ER142, Elvet Riverside, New Elvet, Durham University Durham DH1 3JT
The Centre for Experimental Methods and Behavioural Research (EMBR) is happy to announce the 2nd Durham - Newcastle Behavioural & Experimental Economics Mini Workshop
16 May 2024
9:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Newcastle University Business School
‘Landscape disruptors: How invasive species alter geomorphic processes in invaded aquatic systems’. Hosted by Professor Rebecca Hodge.
W309, Geography building
Dr Gagangeet Aujila, Department of Computing Sciences
Zoom
For the second of May's CTRS seminars, we are joined by Dr Jaisy Joseph of Villanova University, who will give a paper entitled: ’Colonial Racism and the Council’s Renewed Soteriology'.
This interdisciplinary conference brings together leading scholars across history, archaeology, art history, and cultural studies, reflecting upon the genesis of their disciplines and motives of 19th century antiquarian and archaeological scholarship.
17 May 2024
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Durham University Department of Archaeology Dawson Building, D110 South Road Durham DH1 3LE
This symposium, hosted by CNCS-I, will feature a series of talks exploring the role, influence and impact of Dickens’s use of non-realist features in his fiction. It will bring together specialists to delineate new trajectories in the study of Dickens’s engagement with non-realism in his work.
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Online via Zoom
In this Passport Talk seminar, Lamyk Bekius presents on her her empirical work on literary writers' keystrokes analysis.
Institute for Medical Humanities • Confluence Building • Durham University Stockton Road Confluence Building Durham DH1 3LE
The aim of this event is to bring our learning community together for a relaxing day out as part of the wider student experience.
19 May 2024
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Hamsterley Forest
Learn more about the Dual Degree Executive MBA programme of Durham University and EBS Universität. Gain insights into the overall academic experience, programme structure and associated career benefits. Meet the programme directors and ask questions about the programme and the application process
20 May 2024
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The seminar will review the use and potential uses of Artificial Intelligence in the Criminal Justice System and its regulation in the UK, US and EU.
21 May 2024
Online - Please register
Hedda Eik discusses the benefits of narrative perspectives on physiotherapeutic interventions for women with fibromyalgia.
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
22 May 2024
Join us for our next Online Information Session on Wednesday 22 May. where you can find out more information about studying the Durham MBA.
HI NENC in partnership with NIHR ARC NENC invite you to a joint webinar on 22nd May 2024. The purpose of this webinar is to build upon the first event in June 2023 and to provide updates of the NENC national Innovation for Healthcare Inequalities Project (INHIP) which has been delivered in Middlesbrough.
online
Join us for an El Shaarani Centre for Ethical Finance, Accountability and Governance hosted seminar with Professor Danture Wickramasinghe (Adam Smith Business School)
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Join us for a Centre for Consumers and Sustainable Consumption and Centre for Organisations and Society joint seminar with Dr Yingqin Zheng (Essex)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Join us online for a seminar with the Revd Dr Stephanie Burette (Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford). All welcome!
Roundtable discussion
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Dr. Vanessa Wikie discusses her new book, "A Woman of Influence."
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Collected Bookshop, 44 The Riverwalk, Durham
More than half of greenhouse gas emissions from UK industry result from processes that provide heating and cooling. This workshop will showcase current research associated with the decarbonisation of industrial heating and cooling, and identify the technologies and policies needed to help achieve the transition to a net-zero industry in the UK
23 May 2024
Principal York Station Road York YO24 1AA
The Quantitative Research in Financial Economics Centre (QRFE) is pleased to host our first annual workshop on quantitative finance with the keynote speaker Dimitri Vayanos from London School of Economics.
9:00 AM - 4:10 PM
This event aims to bring together young researchers affiliated with French or British institutions who carry out social science research on migration in Latin America.
23 May 2024 - 24 May 2024
CB-1017 (Confluence building) & W309 (Geography building) see programme for details
The workshop is an integral part of the research project Visibility Reclaimed: Experiencing Rome’s First Public Museums (1733-1870): An Analysis of Public Audiences in a Transnational Perspective. Marking the second of three encounters, this workshop delves into the examination of literary discourses vital to understanding the experiences of early museum-goers.
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Seminar Room, Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, Cosin‘s Hall, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RL
Prof. Greg Radick and Prof. Graeme Gooday speak on the theme of 'measurement' as part of the Measurement Lab Launch.
For the last of May's CTRS seminars, we are joined by Dr Sarah Barthélemy of Durham University, who will give a paper entitled: 'Models of religious life in French seventeenth-century missions: laywomen and spiritual direction'.
The monthly science event that puts people willing to know in touch with people willing to share.
6:15 PM - 7:30 PM
Head of Steam, 3 North Road, Durham
Durham's South Asia Group ‘Pedagogies of Dispossession’ Network invites you to 'Desi Queers: LGBTQ+ South Asians and Cultural Belonging in Britain' with speakers Professor Churnjeet Mahn (Strathcylde) and Dr Rohit Dasgupta (Glasgow)
24 May 2024
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Elvet Riverside, Room 141, New Elvet, Durham, DH1 3AQ. Attendance can also be via Zoom.
Join us for a Centre for Consumers and Sustainable Consumption seminar with Dr Lorna Stevens (Bath) and Professor Pauline Maclaran (Royal Holloway)
Grey alumni from the past ten years are invited to join us for an informal event in London.
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
The Golden Fleece, London 9 Queen Street, London, EC4N 1SP
Join alumni in Toronto for a spring get together
25 May 2024
Stout Irish Pub 221 Carlton St Toronto ON M5A 2L2 Canada
For one night only, our award winning sketch comedy troupe reunites with past members to perform their greatest hits.
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Gala Theatre, Durham
Seminar Topic - Fraud and how to detect it in the scientific literature.
28 May 2024
Hybrid - online via zoom and in person in Nine DTP/DRMC Hub. 1st Floor, Arthur Holmes Building. Left of the Calman Learning Centre. Signposted DRMC.
Alumni, friends and supporters are cordially invited to the next Durham University Global Lecture on Tuesday 28 May at 6.30 pm EST.
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Residence of the Deputy Head of Mission, 2934 Edgevale Terrace NW, Washington DC, 20008
The Durham Centre for Law and Philosophy welcomes Professor Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco
29 May 2024
PH30 (Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics)
Join us for a Global Studies Group hosted seminar with Professor Fabrice Lumineau (University of Hong Kong)
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
The theme of the Private Law Consortium in 2024 is Private Law and Public Interest.
30 May 2024 - 31 May 2024
CG85 (Chemistry, Lower Mountjoy)
This workshop will host international, world-leading players in the fields of narrative theory and cognitive science.
31 May 2024
Tom Percival Annexe Brooks House Parsons Field Durham DH1 3JP
Meet the Programme Director and discover more about our Global DBA programme on Friday 31 May.
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Join Durham University for its annual summer concert, showcasing the very best of student musical talent.
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Durham Cathedral
Our book giveaway is back once more for Pride Month! New copies of selected titles will be wrapped and hidden in Bill Bryson Library – find one and it’s yours to keep or pass on.
01 June 2024 - 30 June 2024
9:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Bill Bryson Library
Roundtable discussion with a presentation by Dr Adrian Green (History): ‘Roast beef with mustard: Durham’s Georgian Prosperity (and Poverty)’, and an opportunity to bring together different areas of knowledge about the exchange and display of wealth in the Georgian North.
03 June 2024
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Hallgarth House, 77 Hallgarth Street, Durham.
This workshop is a partnership between IMEMS (Durham University) and BRITAIX 17-18 (LERMA, Aix-Marseille University).
04 June 2024
8:45 AM - 5:00 PM
Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 7 Owengate
Durham University Business School, the Centre for Organisations and Society (COS), and the Doctoral Society are delighted to co-host the International Doctoral Consortium (IDC) with the theme of ‘Grand Challenges’ taking place on 4th and 5th June 2024 in Durham, United Kingdom.
04 June 2024 - 05 June 2024
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
This one-day workshop is an opportunity to work with two very experienced participatory action researchers from the USA to develop skills in participatory practices that engage diverse groups of people in researching together on issues that affect their lives.
Teaching and Learning Centre, Durham University
Launch of a new series of sessions giving preparation for life after PhD and Postdoc - with content requested by participants
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
CG83
Do you have questions about which journals might be worth publishing in? What is an ORCID? How do I publish my research data with a DOI? What is Open Access? How do I add my publications to Durham Research Online (Worktribe)? Come along and speak to the Library’s Open Research team for help with these and any other questions you might have.
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Students are invited to join freelance writer and critic Pamela Hutchinson for insights into film journalism. Pamela will focus on how to write for the magazine and how to pitch an article.
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Join us for a seminar with Jesse Hamilton (University of Pensylvania and visiting researcher at the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science), and be part of this exciting discussion!
Room ER143 Elvet Riverside 1, 83 New Elvet, Durham, DH1 3JT
If you would like to find out about moral injury, have seen moral injury depicted in film, television or pop culture, or would like to explore some examples and potentially add to your “to watch” list, this webinar is for you.
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Event for invited SLS Property Stream colleagues and invited guests
05 June 2024
Durham Law School
In this seminar for the International Scholars of the History of Women Religious Association, Annalaura Turiano of the Université Gustave Eiffel, France, gives a talk on 'Italian missionaries in Egypt and Syria (1890–1940): gender, education and the making of an informal empire’.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Join us for a Centre for Consumers and Sustainable Consumption seminar with Dr Cecilia Soler (Gothenburg University)
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
This International Workshop starts from the assumption that to draw meaningful recommendations for managing displacement caused by war, such as in the case of contemporary Ukraine, it is necessary to examine regional historical roots and processes that led to it, as well as to draw on other examples of displacement, historical as well as contemporary, and the solutions that have been offered. Keynote lectures will be given by Franck Düvell (Osnabrück) and Prof Peter Gatrell (Manchester)
06 June 2024 - 07 June 2024
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Seminar Room, Institute of Advanced Study, Cosin‘s Hall, Palace Green
Join us for a Centre for Leadership and Followership hosted seminar with Professor Cynthia Wang (Northwestern University)
06 June 2024
A two-day course for doctoral students and members of community organisations.
10:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Meet your fellow alumni in London
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
The Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall, London
Durham University Palatinate Orchestra (DUPO) present their final concert of the academic year.
7:30 PM - 9:45 PM
A queen, a warrior and a rebel, Boudica. An epic new ancient history play in verse that tells the story of one of Britain's most iconic women.
06 June 2024 - 08 June 2024
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre
The 2nd Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) Conference organised by Durham University Business School is taking place on Friday 7th June 2024, at Durham University Business School.
07 June 2024
9:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Durham Film Festival is back for 2024 with an exciting itinerary of screenings, workshops and other events across the city from Sunday 9 June to Friday 14 June.
09 June 2024 - 14 June 2024
Various locations around Durham - see itinerary below for more information.
Event 3 of the Urban Studies Foundation Seminar Series Grant 2023-2024 'Overlooked Cities: Thinking and doing global urban studies differently' 10-11 June 2024
10 June 2024 - 11 June 2024
Monday June 10th (W007) Tuesday June 11th (TLC116)
IMEMS is hosting a workshop for the project “Machine Learning and Marginalia” which is supported by the joint research seedcorn fund of Durham and Uppsala Universities. This event may be of interest to those working in Digital Humanities or library services, or to any researcher studying early modern book culture.
10 June 2024
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
IMEMS, 7 Owengate
Join us for a seminar hosted by the Centre for Quantitative Research in Financial Economics with Professor Robert Kosowski (Imperial College London)
1:15 PM - 3:00 PM
The Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies is delighted to host this year’s Durham Residential Library fellows as part of the 'Catholicism in the Long Nineteenth Century' lunchtime seminar series at the IAS Seminar Room, Cosins Hall, Palace Green. Join us for our fifth seminar with Ugo Bruschi on 11 June at 1pm and download the full programme to see what's coming next.
11 June 2024
In person -IAS Seminar Room - please note in person places are limited Online via Zoom
Join us for the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) Symposium 2024, exploring cultural analysis and 'the visual', and incorporating a masterclass (11th June) and workshop (12th June) with Professor Mieke Bal!
11 June 2024 - 12 June 2024
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Teaching and Learning Centre, Durham University, South Rd, Durham DH1 3LS
*with a contemporary twist. Join us at Castle on 11 June for medieval-inspired bowl food with snippets of medieval culinary research, chaired by Professor Sheila Cavanagh, this year’s Slater Fellow. This event is in partnership with the Institute of Medieval & Early Modern Studies and University College.
Bishops‘ Dining Room, University College
12 June 2024
The Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies is pleased to host Dr Altea Pericoli, the 2024 Sir WIlliam Luce Fellow. Dr Pericoli's lecture, on the subject of Aid from Gulf donors in conflict zones, will take place on Wednesday 12 June 2024 at 12 o'clock at the Al-Qasimi Building on Elvet Hill Rd, DH1 3TU.
Al-Qasimi Building, Elvet Hill Rd
Join us for our Q&A with Durham DBA Programme Director on Wednesday 12 June 2024.
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
This hybrid workshop will explore the dynamic intersection between digital technologies and medieval studies, with a particular focus on medieval Italian research. This international workshop is run by School of Modern Languages and Cultures and the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
12 June 2024 - 13 June 2024
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
ER143 / IMEMS, 7 Owengate
CSDLP Monthly General Meeting
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
PCL058
Join DEI Co Director Dr Joanna Berry in this lunchtime workshop where attendees will share their coping strategies and perhaps learn some new ones.
13 June 2024
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room
Professor Jon Woodruff, Massachusetts Amherst: ‘Mud on the Marsh: Controls on Sediment Delivery and Resulting Limits on Future Resilience’.
WOO7, Geography building
Online book launch event, with author Professor Julie Hodges, and contributors Steve Tunnicliffe and Zuhair Imran on Thursday 13 June 2024, 6pm (BST)
Ooook! returns with its annual parody 'sitcom', raising money for Young Minds. Join the Doctor and Donna as they embark on a battle through space and time against creatures from another world, all from our little city theatre.
13 June 2024 - 15 June 2024
Join us for a Centre for Strategy, Technological Innovation and Strategy hosted seminar with Dr Michelle Zhang (Durham University)
14 June 2024
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Durham's South Asia Group ‘Pedagogies of Dispossession’ Network invites you to '"If your bībī is from Hindūstān": Geography as a Marker of Sexual Behaviour in North India Seminar with speaker, Dr Sonia Wigh (Cambridge).
Elvet Riverside II, Room 207, New Elvet, Durham, DH1 3JT. Attendance can also be via Zoom.
Durham University Orchestral Society and Durham University Choral Society will commemorate the 200th anniversary of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in the atmospheric Durham Cathedral.
7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Join us in the Botanic Garden on Sunday 16 June, to celebrate summer with a full day of fun and a host of activities for all the family! There will be loads going on all around the garden from 10am - 4.30pm.
16 June 2024
Botanic Garden
Get together with fellow alumni in Ottawa for the first England game of Euro 2024
2:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Craft Beer Market, 975 Bank St, Ottawa, ON K1S 3W7
3rd Marketing, Innovation and Digital Transformation Global Conference
17 June 2024 - 18 June 2024
Join us for the 2024 Durham University International Workshop in Experimental and Environmental Economics
9:15 AM - 5:00 PM
Pemberton Building, Durham University
DRMC & Wolfson Institute Seminar with speaker Dr Anna Matheson from Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington on the topic of System-thinking and the determinants of health.
17 June 2024
Room 113, Sociology Department, 32 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HN
Creating Pathways from Healthcare into Gardening and Walking Groups
CB0008, Confluence Building, Mountjoy Centre - Durham University DH1 3LE
Dunelm Consort and Players in collaboration with internationally-renowned soprano Emma Kirkby DBE and theorbist Jonatan Bougt present 'Storie Sacre e Profane' for their final concert of the academic year.
Durham Town Hall
Do you want to know more about how to access and use the University’s museum collections? If so, join us for our Chat With Us session on Tuesday 18 June and speak to us about getting the most out of our collections at the Museum of Archaeology, Oriental Museum, Durham Castle, University Art Collection and Biological Science Collection.
18 June 2024
The Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) warmly invite you to join us for our colleague Professor Andy Hamilton in conversation with Andrew Cooper (Warwick), and to celebrate the launch of his book, 'Art and Entertainment: A Philosophical Exploration'. Andy's analysis throws light on the not-so-obvious connections between the seemingly exclusive worlds of popular entertainment and art. Held in person at the Department of Philosophy, Durham University. All welcome!
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Room 005, Department of Philosophy, Durham University, 48 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HN, United Kingdom
Join us at Beckett House in Swindon for this year’s Religion and Defence conference is sponsored by the Armed Forces’ Chaplaincy Centre (AFCC). Please send us your abstracts and CV BY FRIDAY 17th May!
19 June 2024 - 21 June 2024
The Armed Forces’ Chaplaincy Centre, Beckett House, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, Faringdon Road, Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8LA
"Art & the Critical Medical Humanities: Confabulations X Health & Care at the RCA" (June 2024) is a three-day workshop aimed at fostering dialogue, creating connections and activating new entanglements between art-led practices and the critical medical humanities.
Royal College of Art, Battersea, London
Internal PGR workshop where Durham Law School PGR students working on Business Law topics (broadly defined) will have the opportunity to present and receive feedback on their work.
19 June 2024
PCL054, Durham Law School
Six Inches of Soil (2024) follows the inspiring story of British farmers standing up against the industrial food system and transforming the way they produce food - to heal the soil, benefit our health and provide for local communities.
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Concert Room, Department of Music, Durham University, Palace Green, DH1 3RL.
GLAD event: 'The impact of Spanish “Trans Law” on trans parents and children', with Esther Farnós Amorós, Associate Professor of Civil Law (with tenure) at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
20 June 2024
A collaborative one-day workshop for PhD candidates and early career academics jointly organised by the Public Law, Labour Law, Migration & Asylum, and Human Rights subject sections of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) and funded by the SLS Subject Sections Fund.
CB0020 & CB0021
We are excited to announce the Centre for Macroeconomic Policy's annual conference scheduled for June 20-21, 2024. The broad theme of the conference is inflation.
20 June 2024 - 21 June 2024
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Participatory Data Analysis: A One Day Workshop for Participatory Researchers, Thursday 20 June 2024, 10.00 -16.00, for academics, postgraduate students and members of community organisations. Organised in partnership with the UK Participatory Research Network. Facilitated by Tina Cook, Sarah Banks and Jane Springett, with a focus on data analysis in participatory research - sharing experiences and experimenting with approaches.
The Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies is pleased to host the 2024 fellows Prof. Lucia Carminati and Dr Xiaoyue Li. Dr Li will lecture on ‘Finance, Technology, and Politics in Egyptian Railways during the reign of Abbas Hilmi II’; Prof. Carminati will lecture on ‘Egypt’s Borders and their Crossers, 1875-1937’, and Dr Lamprakis will lecture on ‘Mohamed Ali Pasha’s waqfiyyah and his endowment as a testimony to his indissoluble bond with his motherland Kavala’.
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, Al Qasimi Building, Elvet Hill Road, Durham DH1 3TU, UK
Join us for a Centre for Strategy, Technological Innovation and Operations hosted Seminar with Professor Stavros Zenios (Durham University)
Philip Shaw, ‘Me wæs Deor noma’: Some Heorrenda-ous Problems in Personal Names, History and Heroic Legend
7 Owengate
Joint Seminar hosted by the Durham Energy Institute and the Durham Centre for Sustainable Development Law & Policy
A hybrid lecture titled 'Empathy Capture' addressing the question of empathy in medical training.
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
The CCS's annual Mass of Thanksgiving
St Cuthbert‘s Catholic Church, Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL
The CCS Friends and Benefactors event
21 June 2024
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
St Chad‘s College, 18 N Bailey, Durham DH1 3RH
The UK Participatory Research Network embraces the philosophy, principles and potential of participatory research. Our aim is to share and develop our skills, knowledge and understanding of participatory research and contribute to its development.
10:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Calman Learning Centre, Durham University
Roundtable discussion with a presentation by Professor Gary Kelly (English, University of Alberta): ‘Popular Antiquities, the Georgian North, and the Invention of National Folklore’ (a paper postponed from our symposium last September).
24 June 2024
You are warmly invited to join the students from the MBA and fellow Durham University Business School Alumni for an informal networking event at the the historic Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) in central London.
Chartered Accountants Hall, 1 Moorgate Pl, London EC2R 6EA
An online seminar with the Agency-in-Practice Project
25 June 2024
The Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies is delighted to host this year’s Durham Residential Library fellows as part of the 'Catholicism in the Long Nineteenth Century' lunchtime seminar series at the IAS Seminar Room, Cosins Hall, Palace Green. Join us for our sixth seminar with Debolina Dey on 25 June at 1pm and download the full programme to see what's coming next.
26 June 2024
The Gilbreths’ Photographic Motion Studies of Work
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Institute for Medical Humanities • Confluence Building • Durham University
The Department of Economics is organising the first Development Economics Workshop (DEW) in collaboration with the Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability of Monash University.
27 June 2024 - 28 June 2024
9:00 AM - 5:45 PM
Durham University Business School Mill Hill Lane Durham DH1 3LB
DRMC are pleased to announce that Dr Caroline Fitzpatrick, Associate Professor at University of Sherbrooke, Canada will be visiting Durham this month and delivering a seminar on the topic of using longitudinal methods to understand screen media habits and their developmental consequences during childhood and adolescence.
27 June 2024
DRMC/Nine DTP Hub, 1st Floor, Arthur Holmes Building, left of The Calman Learning Centre, up the stairs, turn left. Door signed ‘DRMC’ and ‘Nine DTP’
Part of our Postgraduate Monthlys Webinar series. We will be focusing on a different topic each month, so you'll be able to select the sessions that are most relevant to you.
Join us for a CSTIO hosted seminar with Dr Sanidhay Bhambay, Postdoctoral Research Associate at Durham University.
For this webinar, we are delighted to welcome Maggi Creese (Lead Officer, Chaplaincy to Survivors, Diocese of Newcastle, UK), Sarah Troughton (NHS psychiatrist with lived experience of church-related abuse), David Creese (visiting fellow in Classics at Newcastle University and survivor of church-related abuse) and Peter Locke (organist and composer, survivor of church-related abuse)
Join us for a Centre for Consumers and Sustainable Consumption hosted seminar with Prof Sanjit Roy (Edith Cowan University)
28 June 2024
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Join us for our next Online Information Session on Tuesday 2 July. where you can find out more information about studying the Durham MBA.
02 July 2024
Join us on our next Masters Online Information Session to learn more about our Durham Masters programmes. During the session you'll gain valuable insight into our Masters programmes and have the opportunity to participate in a live Q&A chat with Business School staff, where you can ask those all-important questions and studying and living in beautiful Durham.
03 July 2024
The purpose of the conference is to group all the main financial law and regulation scholars in the United Kingdom to discuss the state of play of the discipline as a research area in UK law schools.
04 July 2024 - 05 July 2024
Hogan Lovells (PCL048), Durham Law School
We would like to invite you to our final EFAG seminar for this academic year, which will be presented by Dr. Haiyan Jiang, Associate Professor in Accounting at Macquarie University Business School.
08 July 2024
A talk by James Thompson (University of Manchester) with a response from Emily Tupper, and a conversation chaired by Fiona Johnstone.
09 July 2024
St Chad‘s College, Durham University
The inaugural conference of the International Nineteenth Century Studies Association (INCSA) will take place on Durham University’s Teaching and Learning Centre from Wednesday 10 to Friday 12 July 2024.We are delighted to welcome you to Durham for what promises to be a flagship conference for Nineteenth Century Studies.
10 July 2024 - 12 July 2024
Teaching and Learning Centre, South Road Durham
Teresa Dillon, Artist & Professor of City Futures at the School of Art & Design, UWE, Bristol
10 July 2024
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Hogan Lovell Lecture Theatre, Palatine Centre
2024 is the fortieth anniversary of the 1984/85 miners’ strike, a dispute that still resonates today. But the strike wasn’t just about pickets vs police – in this hard-hitting musical comedy there are no miners and no cops. Instead, we follow the fortunes of three sisters in a pit village, hit hard by the Government’s war against the miners and determined to set up a branch of ‘Women Against Pit Closures’.
11 July 2024
This is the next concert
13 July 2024
12:37 PM - 1:37 PM
Concert location
The Centre for Chinese Law and Policy, alongside the European China Law Studies Association and East Asian Legal Studies Center at the University of Wisconsin Law School is excited to offer a unique one-week summer academy which delves into Chinese legal evolution within the global context, blending governance, economic development, history and cultural exchange.
15 July 2024 - 19 July 2024
The 2024 Early Career and Postgraduate Conference will focus on Catholic Studies, and Theology and Religious Studies.
15 July 2024 - 16 July 2024
Durham University
A highlight of the summer in Durham is the joyous celebration of running for all levels and ages that is the Durham City Run Festival (DCRF). The 8th festival takes place from Thursday 18 – Saturday 20 July, with our support as a major partner.
18 July 2024 - 20 July 2024
Various locations around Durham
Join us for a Centre for Strategy, Technological Innovation and Operations hosted two-day conference.
18 July 2024 - 19 July 2024
Mount Oswald Hub, Durham University
Join Professor Jorge Lengler and fellow alumni in Singapore
20 July 2024
Mac‘s Bar 4 Fusionopolis Wy #01-14 Kinesis Singapore 138635
The Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost, Professor Mike Shipman, is delighted to invite alumni to a reception in central Jakarta on Sunday 21 July.
21 July 2024
Venue: Pullman Jakarta Indonesia, Jalan M.H Thamrin Kav. 59, 10350 Jakarta Pusat Indonesia
Durham Law School invites you to the Summer Course on International Arbitration 2024.
22 July 2024 - 26 July 2024
Durham Law School, Palatine Centre, Durham
Join us for two days of stimulating discussion about the place of politics and the meaning of the political in modern Scotland, a period of massive political, constitutional, economic, environmental, religious and social change in Scotland, the UK and the empire. The conference features 40 paper presentations, a keynote on ‘Where did the nineteenth century go?’ and a roundtable on ‘The future of Scottish political history?’. Registration is now open.
23 July 2024 - 24 July 2024
Collingwood College Penthouse Conference Suite, Durham University
23 July 2024
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
This year’s Durham Fringe Festival will take place from Wednesday 24 – Sunday 28 July (inclusive).
24 July 2024 - 28 July 2024
Various locations across Durham City.
Meet the Durham DBA Programme Director, Alumni and Students on Wednesday 24 July 2024
24 July 2024
Meet the Programme Director and discover more about our Global DBA programme on Friday 26 July.
26 July 2024
Durham Islamic Finance Summer School (DIFSS) aims to provide such knowledge, skills and expertise, and help place participants in an advantageous position for entering and working in the Islamic financial sector. The programme is delivered mostly by leading Islamic financiers and bankers from across the world.
27 July 2024 - 02 August 2024
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Durham, UK
Welcome to the third annual Conference on Energy Disputes at Durham Law School.
27 July 2024
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
PCL048 - Durham Law School
Join the North East Alumni Chapter in Durham for a photo walk along the River Wear, followed by networking and drinks at the Head of Steam pub.
28 July 2024
Head of Steam pub 3 Reform Place North Road Durham DH1 4RZ
Join us for our next Online Information Session on Thursday 8 August. where you can find out more information about studying the Durham MBA.
08 August 2024
Researchers active in the field of Heating and Cooling Decarbonisation are invited to attend a 5 day Summer School exploring the latest research and research gaps in the transition to netzero heating and cooling. Please apply with contact details and biography information by Monday 15th July 2024.
12 August 2024 - 16 August 2024
Palace Green Palace Green Durham DH1 3RW
22 August 2024
Join us for a fun-filled family adventure at Junior Scientist, held at Collingwood College, Durham University from 27-29 August 2024! This free event runs from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, offering engaging morning and afternoon sessions. Enjoy exciting science activities, complimentary refreshments, and a wonderful day of learning and discovery together!
27 August 2024 - 29 August 2024
Collingwood College, Durham University
Join fellow alumni, friends and staff in Manchester
28 August 2024
The Wharf 6 Slate Wharf Castlefield Manchester M15 4ST
Our Events will give you the opportunity to learn more about what Durham Business School has to offer for postgraduate study.
01 September 2024 - 31 December 2025
Durham Business School
Tours have audio descriptions, images and videos as well as lots of information and statistics.
01 September 2024 - 31 August 2025
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
The Centre for Consumers and Sustainable Consumption would like to invite you to our research seminar. Dr. Sergio Biggemann (University of Otago) will present his work ‘Neither Intended nor Expected Market Shaping’ in MHL427 at 11. A buffet lunch will be served at 12:30.
05 September 2024
MHL427 Durham University Business School Mill Hill Lane Durham, DH1 3LB or Zoom
A residential weekend reunion for all the St John's freshers of 2016.
06 September 2024 - 08 September 2024
St John‘s College
Durham alumni and friends are invited to attend a Summer BBQ organised by the DunelmOTTAWA Alumni Chapter.
08 September 2024
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Near Lansdowne Park / TD Place.
This September, Durham University will be the epicentre of cutting-edge research into cultural evolution. This exclusive event will bring together members of the Cultural Evolution Society, Durham staff, and PGR students in a collaborative environment to push the boundaries of our understanding of both human and nonhuman animal culture.
09 September 2024 - 11 September 2024
8:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Welcome to the Special Issue 'Who is Family Law for?' Digital Launch
10 September 2024
Online - Zoom
Join us for a Centre for Strategy, Technological Innovation and Strategy hosted seminar with Dr Giovanna Culot (University of Udine). For online access, please follow the zoom link: https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/5304848110
Waterside WB-2011 or via Zoom
*THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL AND NO MORE BOOKINGS ARE BEING TAKEN*
11 September 2024 - 13 September 2024
Durham Radisson Hotel, Durham. United Kingdom
Durham University will host a ground breaking event—the 2-day Capstone Conference of the Cultural Evolution Society Transformation Fund. This exclusive gathering will bring together awardees of the Transformation Fund grant scheme, its Advisory Board, members of the Cultural Evolution Society, Durham staff, and PGR students.
12 September 2024 - 13 September 2024
On September 12 and 13, 2024, the 34th Young Energy Economists and Engineers Seminar (YEEES) will be hosted by the Centre for Environmental and Energy Economics (CE3) at Durham University Business School (DUBS) and the Durham Energy Institute (DEI) at Durham University (Durham, UK).
Durham University Business School, Mill Hill Lane, Durham, DH1 3LB, UK
12 September 2024
Join fellow Durham alumni and friends for an end of summer gathering. After snow in May, rain in July, let's hope there's sun in September.
Chez Bacchus - Bar à Vins, Cours de Rive 7, 1204 Genève, Switzerland
Meet the Board! In Conversation with the Durham University Venture Lab Advisory Board
Qube Research & Technologies, N2 building, 9 Bressenden Place, London SW1E 5DH.
A reunion for graduates of 2004 and friends!
13 September 2024 - 15 September 2024
As part of our Smart and Scale project we are offering a free two day masterclass for those who work in a leadership role within a small to medium sized enterprise, based in the North East of England.
13 September 2024 - 14 September 2024
12:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Crowne Plaza, Newcastle
The Durham Research Methods Centre in conjunction with the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture are offering a week-long course in non-extractive filmmaking. Led by filmmaker and educator Jigar Ganatra, the course will equip you with all the skills you need to devise, script, shoot, and edit high-quality film, with ethical considerations to the fore.
16 September 2024 - 20 September 2024
Durham Campus, venue TBC
Durham University alumni, supporters and friends are invited to join us for a career networking event in Seattle.
16 September 2024
Venue: Courtyard Seattle Downtown/Lake Union, 925 Westlake Avenue North, Seattle, Washington, USA
Healthy Business? will explore new developments at the intersection of enterprise and well-being
17 September 2024
Radisson Blu Durham Frankland Lane Durham DH1 5TA
An exciting one-day symposium at Durham University celebrating the latest work on moving images in the Medical Humanities.
18 September 2024
Tom Percival Annex, Brooks House, St Cuthbert‘s Society, Parson‘s Field, Durham DH1 3JP
Durham University alumni, supporters and friends are invited to join us for a career networking event in San Francisco.
Venue: The City Club of San Francisco
Durham University alumni, supporters and friends are invited to join us for a lunch and networking event in Los Angeles.
20 September 2024
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Venue: The Fig Restaurant, Santa Monica
We are delighted to invite our alumni and friends back to Durham for our Reunion Weekend! We are currently putting together an interesting itinerary for the weekend (watch this space!)
20 September 2024 - 22 September 2024
4:00 PM - 1:00 PM
St Chad‘s College
Join us at the QS Masters and MBA Fair in Dubai on Saturday 21 September.
21 September 2024
11:00 AM - 2:30 PM
Dubai
Join us for a Centre for Consumers and Sustainable Consumption hosted seminar with Jasmin Wagner from TU Bergakademi Freiberg
25 September 2024
Join us for a BFI-Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) collaborative workshop with Leigh Singer, exploring ways to bring your most compelling research stories to life on screen!
26 September 2024
Room W007, Geography building, Science Site, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE
Join us at the QS Masters and MBA Fair in Istanbul on Saturday 28 September.
28 September 2024
Istanbul
Join fellow Durham alumni and friends for a special Cantonese lunch organised by the Hong Kong Alumni Chapter.
Ming Pavilion at the Senior Common Room, 14 & 15/F The University of Hong Kong K.K. Leung Building, Pok Fu Lam Road, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong
02 October 2024
Distinguished speakers will host a talk about expedited international arbitration. The speakers will be the editor of the expedited international arbitration book and the author of the three chapters within that book. This event will be a great opportunity for those who are interested in expedited international arbitration to hear from experts in the field on their latest research. The event will be followed by a wine reception with a non-alcoholic beverage option.
This is a hybrid event. If you are attending in person the event is located at: PCL 048 (Palatine Centre, Law School)
IMEMS Research Showcase: Prof. Michael Wyatt, "Chivalric Genealogies around Orlando furioso and across the Middle Sea."
Join us for the annual CNCS Welcome Event co-hosted with the Centre for Visual Arts and Cultures (CVAC). We are delighted to be joined by Professor Elizabeth Edwards, Professor Emerita, Photographic History, who will give her lecture on "The large microhistory of a small book: the Reverend Thomas Perkins' Handbook of Gothic Architecture for Photographers (1897)" .
Concert Room, Music Department, Palace Green, Durham.
You are warmly invited to join fellow Durham alumni and friends for a social gathering organised by the Toronto Alumni Chapter.
Mill Street Brewpub, Distillery District, 21 Tank House Lane, Toronto, ON M5A 3C4
The Durham Centre for Sustainable Development Law and Policy is launching its new project - Just Transitions to a Net Zero World - JusTN0W!
03 October 2024
Hybrid Event – PCL 048 and Online
Join us for a Centre for Strategy, Technological Innovation, and Operations hosted public lecture with Professor Jeannette Song (Duke University)
Durham University, Teaching and Learning Centre
All MBA alumni are invited to join us for the first ever MBA conference 'The Future of Work'
04 October 2024
Durham University Business School The Waterside Building, Riverside Place, Durham, DH1 1SL
Join us for a Centre for Strategy, Technological Innovation and Operations hosted seminar with Professor Jeannette Song (Duke University)
QRFE Workshop on Blockchain-based markets, Fintech and Cryptocurrencies
07 October 2024
Durham University Business School, Mill Hill Lane
Join us for the report launch of the Transparency and judicial review: an empirical study of the duty of candour, funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
Online (Zoom): Please register using the link above
The Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience seminar series takes place from 13.00 - 14.15. This is a hybrid event. Online registration essential.
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
W007, Geography Building & Zoom
Join us for a Centre for Experimental Methods and Behavioural Research hosted seminar with Professor Matt Van Essen (University of Tennessee)
The seminar will meet on Mondays, 3pm till 4:30pm, in Seminar Room C in Abbey House and online. Please contact j.m.f.heath@durham.ac.uk with any queries, e.g. if you would like to attend the seminar online.
Seminar Room C in Abbey House
Do you work with visual culture? Do you use visual data, visual storytelling, visual methods or visual materials? Join us for the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) 2024-2025 welcome reception and programme launch with flash symposium!
Hotel Indigo, 9 Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HL
09 October 2024
Visit the part-time jobs, placements and volunteering careers fair on Wednesday 9 October for advice and information from numerous employers.
Teaching and Learning Centre
Join us for our first event in this term’s programme, which is on-person at St Antony’s Priory Seminar. Canon Christopher Irvine (Canterbury Cathedral) is talking about "What makes a holy place holy? The Great Chapel at Kelham: a case study".
In-person only at St Antony’s Priory, 74 Claypath, Durham, DH1 1QT.
Durham’s annual Book Festival will return from 10 – 13 October, welcoming a host of writers from across the world and celebrating the power of the written word.
10 October 2024 - 13 October 2024
Various venues across Durham City
CHESS Weekly Research Meetings (term time only)
10 October 2024
PO004, 48/49 Old Elvet
Join us for a Centre for Strategy, Technological Innovation and Operations hosted seminar with Professor Dovev Lavie (Bocconi University)
Waterside Building, Durham University Business School and Online
Join us at the QS Masters Fair in Athens, Greece on Thursday 10 October.
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Greece
Centre for Catholic Studies Research Seminars once a month on Thursdays 5.00pm, seminar room B. Contact ccs.admin@durham.ac.uk for more information.
Usually in person and in seminar room B; on 13 Feb 2025 Seminar Room C. On 13 Feb 2025 and 13 March 2025 also Online. Contact ccs.admin@durham.ac.uk for information how to attend the seminar online.
Practitioner-led workshop by Kate Thompson, comparing models of writing into trauma - from psychology, psychotherapy and narrative practice.
Institute for Medical Humanities, Confluence Building, Stockton Road, Lower Mountjoy Centre, Durham DH1 3LE
In this Catholic Theology Research Seminar, Dr Nomi Pritz-Bennett, the new Career Development Fellow at Durham University, gives a talk on 'The Natural Mortification of Finitude: Loss and the Construction of Real Persons'.
Seminar Room B, Abbey House and Online
All-day choral workshop with a unique Evensong performance.
12 October 2024
10:00 AM - 6:15 PM
Chapter House, Durham Cathedral, Durham, DH1 3EH
Join DEI's Executive Director Professor Simone Abram as she Chairs this session at the Durham Book festival.
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Gala Theatre, Durham City
Join us at the QS MBA Fair in London on Saturday 12 October.
11:30 AM - 2:30 PM
London
Join us at the QS Masters Fair in London on Saturday 12 October.
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
After a sell out run in London, at Durham Fringe and Edinburgh Fringe, The Durham Revue are back on home turf for an hour of sketch comedy! It’s your last chance to see last year’s troupe perform so it's not one to miss!
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Join us for a Centre for Sustainable Consumption and Consumers hosted seminar with Dr Jennifer Barhorst (College of Charleston)
14 October 2024
A seminar by this years' Sir Harry Evans Fellow, Rosa Furneaux (Reuters)
Cosin‘s Hall, Seminar Room, Palace Green
Meetings are on Monday, in , between 4:30pm and 6:00pm. Any queries, please contact Christopher Insole (christopher.insole@durham.ac.uk).
Seminar Room C in the Department of Theology and Religion, Abbey House
The Economics Department and the Centre for Experimental Methods and Behavioural Research welcome Professor Dan Friedman (University of Essex/University of California at Santa Cruz)
15 October 2024
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
The (women) In Parenthesis Online Work in Progress Seminar Series 2024-5 kicks off on 15th October. All Welcome. Join our research network @ www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/91391091203?pwd=wXUGpcGflTvlc5Gqvmb8yVK3JEUsAL
An afternoon celebration of the history of Black students at Durham University, including short talks from staff and students. This event will also launch the Black history walking tour website of Durham
The Great Hall, University College (Castle), Palace Green, Durham
Described in their debut concert as ‘beguiling’, The Portrait Players are an all-female trio whose engaging programmes are inspired by historical characters. Featuring Claire Ward (soprano), Kristiina Watt (theorbo/lute) and Miriam Nohl (cello/viola da gamba), the trio, founded in January 2023, has quickly established a busy concert schedule across the UK.
Elvet Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL
16 October 2024
Visit the Law fair on Wednesday 16 October for advice and information from a selection of prestigious law firms.
Join us for a Global Studies Centre hosted seminar with Professor Ursula F. Ott (Nottingham Trent University)
Waterside Building, Durham University Business School Room WB-2033
PCL - 051 (Hybrid)
17 October 2024
The Durham Religion and Society Research Seminar is a fortnightly forum for scholarly engagement with issues in the social scientific study of religion.
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
When marked at 12, in room DHC05A When at 7pm, online at Zoom Channel: https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/99183897942?pwd=SjhWWjE1WjFsRFpjbXJHNTdNNTJSQT09 Meeting ID: 991 8389 7942; Passcode: 045860
Interconnect talk by Mike Wheeler brought to you by the Narrative and Cognition Lab.
Institute for Medical Humanities, Confluence Building, Durham University
Henning Bauch (GEOMAR) will discuss his study exploring the causes for different ice-sheet size history and elaborate on the consequences that arose after the onset of deglaciations, and which determined the timing and further development of environmental conditions during the ensuing peak interglacials.
W414 Geography
The joint Durham-Tübingen project on ‘Belonging’ will launch at 1pm on Thursday 17th October in the IAS seminar room, joining online with colleagues in Tübingen.
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
IAS Seminar Room, Cosin‘s Hall, Palace Green, Durham
Cathy Hollis, Chair of Carbonate Geoscience, Manchester University
Join us at the QS Masters Fair in Rome on Thursday 17 October.
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Rome
Join us at the Access MBA Fair in Bogota on Thursday 17 October.
6:00 PM - 9:45 PM
Bogota
The first interactive workshop in a series of four on soil, supported by the IAS
18 October 2024
Seminar Room, Institute of Advanced Study, Cosin‘s Hall, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RL
Join Balbir Singh Dance Company and Durham University for an immersive research experience connecting nature, heritage, and the sensing body to help address chronic pain. This unique event features an outdoor experience at Durham's "Sakura Friendship Garden" and the Japan section of the Oriental Museum, supported by the newly formed Student Creative Health and Wellbeing Society. Participants will explore language within nature and understand the body's relationship to the landscape.
12:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Durham University Botanic Gardens and Oriental Museum
The third event of the Climate Mobilities Speaker Series.
Join Durham University alumni and friends in Taipei for an informal gathering.
Sunbird Mediterranean Restaurant, 27, Lane 101, Section 4, Zhongxiao E Rd, 光武里, Da’an District, Taipei City, TW
Elysium Theatre Company & Durham University present a round table discussion and Q&A.
Assembly Rooms Theatre
Step into a night of smooth rhythms and timeless melodies as Durham University Jazz Society presents 'High Standards'.
Durham University Music Department Concert Room
We greatly look forward to visiting Beijing and hosting an alumni reception with Durham University Vice-Chancellor and Warden, Professor Karen O’Brien.
20 October 2024
Venue: The Ritz Carlton, Beijing
Join us for our Postgraduate Online Open Days on Monday 21 and Tuesday 22 October.
21 October 2024 - 22 October 2024
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Professor Louise Barrett (University of Lethbridge)
21 October 2024
The Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience seminar series takes place from 13.00 - 14.15. This is a hybrid event. Online registration essential - sign up on the right hand panel.
1:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Do you study cinema? Do you like watching films? Do you make films?
22 October 2024
Online, registration required.
Join us at the QS MBA Fair in Munich on Tuesday 22 October.
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Munich
IAS Fellows' Public Lecture by Professor Louise Barrett (University of Lethbridge)
The Chapel, Hatfield College
23 October 2024
Join us with colleagues from the department of History, for a master class on using photographs in historical research Professor Ron Doel (Florida State University). All are welcome, and you’re invited to bring along a photograph that you are using, or that is relevant to your current research to contribute to the discussion. Doel’s expertise is in the history of science and images of scientists, but the discussion will be broader - anyone with an interest is welcome to attend!
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
PG21, Pemberton Rooms, Palace Green, Durham
Talk titled: Linking Structure and Properties in Energy Materials: Intercalation in Hybrid Perovskites
W309 (Geography West)
Visit the STEM careers fair on Wednesday 23 October for advice and information from a wide range of industries.
Departmental Research Seminar for students and staff.
PO005, 48 Old Elvet.
LLM Student Event
Law School Foyer
IAS Fellows' Public Lecture by Dr Nataliia Ishchenko (Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University)
Seminar Room, Ustinov College, Sheraton Park
Welcome to the future of banking! We are excited to invite you to an exclusive and thought-provoking workshop on “Climate Change and Banking Regulation and Supervision”, hosted by the Banking Research Group at the University of Bristol Business School. Mark your calendars for October 24th, 2024, as we gather at the University of Bristol for a day of ground-breaking insights and collaborative exploration.
24 October 2024
9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Lady Hale Moot Court Room, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol BS8 1HH
!!! Due to personal circumstances Dr Hendry has been unable to travel to the UK this week, therefore this event is cancelled !!! We hope to re-schedule in the near future.
We greatly look forward to visiting Shanghai and hosting an alumni reception with Durham University Vice-Chancellor and Warden, Professor Karen O’Brien.
Venue: Waldorf Astoria, Shanghai on the Bund
7:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Meet the Programme Director and discover more about our Global DBA programme on Friday 25 October.
25 October 2024
Reading Group, Richard Walsh leading on ABBOTT, P.H. 'Narrativity' in The Living Handbook of Narratology.
Join us at the QS MBA Fair in Tokyo on Saturday 26 October.
26 October 2024
10:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Tokyo
Book onto our Discover Durham Live! webinars now.
28 October 2024 - 01 November 2024
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Virtual
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Professor Paul Armstrong (Brown University)
28 October 2024
Join us this half-term, on Palace Green from Tuesday 29 October to Thursday 31 October (10am-4pm) and enjoy three fun-packed and fascinating days of free family activities.
29 October 2024 - 31 October 2024
Palace Green, Durham
The first 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.
29 October 2024
On the 100th anniversary of the death of Gabriel Fauré, this concert celebrates the composer’s lyrical romanticism with works from the 1870s to the 1890s, including the great first Sonata. Saint-Saëns’ own first Sonata and Ravel’s one movement Sonate Posthume complete a programme that will transport you to the magic of fin-de-siècle Paris.
Durham Cathedral, Durham, DH1 3EH
30 October 2024
Visit the business, finance & consulting careers fair on Wednesday 30 October for advice and information from a wide range of institutions.
Dr. Amanda Herbert presents her talk, entitled: "Authorship, Identity, and Black Erasure: British Atlantic Manuscript Recipe Books, 1600-1850."
7 Owengate, Durham
Join us for an online event with the authors Sasha Marianna Salzmann and Ofer Waldman for a reading and discussion of their important book Gleichzeit
Join the Dunelm Society for their annual dinner in London.
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Apothecaries’ Hall, Blackfriars Lane, London EC4V 6EJ
Join us for this free online event exploring the theme of Nature and Horror in the Nineteenth Century. Please note all times are Central European Time (CET).
31 October 2024
In this seminar, Alessandro Silvano will explore the oceanic processes that drive melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, and consequent global sea level rise.
W414 (Geography)
Book now and find out more about our compressive package of MBA scholarships available at Durham University Business School.
01 November 2024
Interconcept talk No. 2 by Richard Walsh by the Narrative and Cognition Lab
In international commercial arbitration, and with particular reference to when it is taking place under the model law, arbitrations can require the assistance of the courts.
PCL054 (Palatine Centre)
You are warmly invited to join fellow Durham alumni and friends for a gathering organised by the Philadelphia Alumni Chapter.
02 November 2024
Prohibition Taproom, 501 N 13th St, Philadelphia, PA 19123, United States
Join us for a Centre for Leadership & Followership (CLF) Seminar with Professor Rebecca Greenbaum (Rutgers University)
04 November 2024
Waterside Building, Durham University Business School
IAS Visiting Scholar Seminar by Dr John Elliott (University of St Andrews)
The Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience seminar takes place from 13.00 - 16.00 (Geography Room W007 and zoom). Online registration is essential for the zoom - sign up on the right hand panel.
IAS Fellows' Public Lecture by Dr Kateryna Maltseva (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)
The Bishop‘s Dining Hall, University College, Durham Castle
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
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.
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.
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.
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).
Students Union, Dunelm house, Durham
A talk by Alex Fry brought to you by the Affective Experience Lab.
IMH Atrium, 1st floor, Confluence Building, DH1 3LE
IBRU Professional Training Workshop on international boundary dispute resolution held in Paris in partnership with Foley Hoag LLP
06 November 2024 - 08 November 2024
Paris
GSC (Global Studies Centre) is excited to announce that Prof Keith Brouthers (King's College London, Fellow of AIB), a leading scholar in international business and international management will be joining us for a Workshop on Publishing.
06 November 2024
9:00 AM - 12:15 PM
WB-1005, Waterside Building, Durham University Business School; Zoom link upon request
An in-person gathering for our postgraduate network.
Location TBC
Do you watch video essays? Do you want to make your own? If the answer is yes, join film journalist, programmer, and video essayist Leigh Singer for two afternoons of practical video essay training.
What does it mean “to follow plants”? How to re-learn the work and the play of thinking from them? I propose shifting the focus and perspectives of our thought and attention from the extremes to the middle, whence the extremes emerge and develop in their tireless interplay.
The Agora, 9th Floor of Henry Daysh Building, Newcastle University
The Prayer Book Society Conference.
Online only at Zoom: https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/95599561688?pwd=It6Ub7aNr0X2DuGqg26V81EvdrcEta.1
The event will include a range of speakers (inc researchers, practitioners, teachers, young people) and information from a diverse range of current research projects, applied projects within schools across the County, and young people's insights/lived experiences.
Teaching and Learning Centre Durham University South Road Durham DH1 3LS
ESRC Festival of Social Science event - ‘Autism, Neurodiversity & School Life’
Recent developments in jurisprudence determining the law applicable to an arbitration agreement: a discussion of the Supreme Court Judgment in UniCredit Bank GmbH (Respondent) v RusChemAlliance LLC (Appellant).
This is a hybrid event. It will be taking place in person at PCL054 and online via Zoom.
At this celebratory launch event, Prof. Karen Kilby (CCS Director), Prof Clare Watkins (Durham and the University of Roehampton) and Sr Jo Robson (Carmelite Nuns will be in conversation with Dr Catherine Sexton (CCS Honorary Fellow).
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
GSC (Global Studies Centre) is excited to announce that Prof Keith Brouthers (King's College London, Fellow of AIB), a leading scholar in international business and international management will be joining us for a Workshop on Research Feedback.
07 November 2024
WB-1005, the Waterside Building, Durham University Business School
The 4th International Symposium on Social Work Practitioner Research, sponsored by the Social Science Festival at Durham University
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
DEI is a world leader on interdisciplinary research across the sciences, social sciences, humanities and engineering and was one of the first truly interdisciplinary energy research institutes in the UK. The DEI Energy Day 2024 celebrates 15 years of Durham Energy Institute bringing people together to think differently about energy. Find out about the cutting edge of energy research here at Durham and join us to think about how we should get to Net Zero. Come along to take part in the discussion
Radisson Blu Hotel, Frankland Lane, Durham, DH1 5TA
Durham International Dispute Resolution Institute (DIDRI) invites you to a great book launch event on third-party funding (TPF). TPF may raise complex procedural and ethical issues. Some jurisdictions and international arbitration centres have started addressing this development in their laws and rules. Interesting case laws are developing in some jurisdictions in international commercial arbitration as well as case law in investment arbitration.
PCL54 (Palatine Centre)
The annual World Heritage Site Public Lecture, featuring a lecture delivered by Ross Forbes, Chief Executive of the Durham Miners' Association, on the subject of "Mining World Heritage: What Makes Us Who We Are?"
Chapter House, Durham Cathedral, Durham UK
You are warmly invited to join the North East Alumni Chapter for an exciting talk on ‘The James Webb Space Telescope’, presented by Professor Martin Ward
Zing Cafe and TLC 113 Lecture Room, Teaching and Learning Centre, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LS
In 2024 Ben Hall, a CPT in Energy Student, took a three month break from his PhD in energy and climate change law to complete a UKRI-funded policy internship at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. He applied to the scheme because he wanted to understand how energy policy is developed, implemented and evaluated; whether current changes are sufficient to meet the demands of decarbonisation, and to see who calls the shots on these.
08 November 2024
CLC406, Calman Centre
Durham alumni and friends are warmly invited to attend the DunelmOTTAWA pub social.
09 November 2024
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Lieutenant‘s Pump, 361 Elgin Street, Ottawa, ON K2P 1M9
Join us at the QS Masters fair in Bangkok.
6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Bangkok
Join us at the QS MBA fair in Bangkok.
Interfaith Event
10 November 2024 - 17 November 2024
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11 November 2024 - 15 November 2024
11:00 AM - 3:30 PM
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IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Kateryna Maltseva (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)
11 November 2024
Dr Sophie Webber is a geographer in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney. Her research investigates the impacts of attempts to make adaptation to climate impacts ‘economic’ through market and financial instruments. She has conducted research about large-scale climate transformations in Southeast Asia and the Pacific region.
W007 (Geography building)
Join us at the QS Masters fair in Kuala Lumpur.
12 November 2024
7:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Kuala Lumpur
The third 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.
One night only! Come along for an evening of live performance, music, and research as you’ve never seen it before.
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Radisson Blu Hotel, Durham Frankland Lane Durham DH1 5TA
This fascinating programme explores the instrumental music that passed between these ports and countries in the 16th and 17th centuries, from dances to sonatas, including Pavans inspired by John Dowland’s famous Lachrimae to elaborate music by major figures such as the German/Danish organist Dietrich Buxtehude, a precursor of Bach. In the virtuosic hands of Gawain Glenton’s In Echo, these rarely-heard gems will sparkle as brightly as they did in centuries past.
Join us for our next face to face Postgraduate Open Day on Wednesday 13 November.
13 November 2024
Durham
A warm invitation for donors to attend a thank you gathering in London.
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Venue: Arundel House, London
The Affective Experience Lab’s ‘Making Sense’ workshops bring together colleagues from across disciplines to reflect on keywords that relate to our shared interest in affect, emotion and embodiment.
Neurodiversity-Curious Durham Scoping Event
Earth Sciences 231, Durham University
IAS Fellows' Public Lecture by Giuliana Furci (Fungi Foundation of Chile)
This unique concert, curated by Dr Amanda Hsieh, presents a selection of extremely beautiful early twentieth-century Japanese art songs, rarely heard in the UK. Music by composers such as Rentarō Taki, Kōsaku Yamada and Tatsunosuke Kishitani will be interwoven with European songs and operatic excerpts, just as they would have been performed in their original context.
Durham University Department of Music, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RL
The second interactive workshop in a series of four on soil, supported by the IAS
14 November 2024
Join us for a Centre for Consumers and Sustainable Consumption seminar with Dr Yionglei Yu (Newcastle University)
This Competition and Markets Authority and Durham University Business School workshop is designed to facilitate a dialogue between academic researchers and policymakers trying to understand what makes an economy competitive, innovative and productive.
14 November 2024 - 15 November 2024
In this seminar Ivan Haigh (University of Southampton) will discuss the work he has done in his research to assess changes in the frequency of storm surge barriers and their implications.
CHESS will host a research seminar where the Department of Philosophy combines forces with the School of Modern Languages and Culture (MLAC).
Durham University, Elvet Riverside, ER149
The fourth 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.
15 November 2024
Dr Paula Street, Senior Science Engagement Specialist, Durham University This training session will discuss: • Why do we engage? • Who are we engaging with? • Why would they want to engage with us? • How can we most effectively engage? There is an opportunity to practice communicating complex topics and key messages. Confirm attendance to dei.admin@durham.ac.uk
Join our Digital Supply Chains Masterclass to learn how to optimise your supply chain using the latest digital tools and technologies.
Join us for a Centre for Strategy, Technological Innovation, and Operations (CSTIO) hosted seminar with Dr George Chen (London Business School)
Interconcept talk No. 3 by Richard Walsh (Narrative and Cognition Lab)
The Durham Centre for Sustainable Development Law and Policy proudly welcomes you to view the live stream of our Official UNFCCC Side Event taking place at COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan – “Just Transition – a Fairness Discourse for Enhancing Adaptation and Improving Social Resilience”.
18 November 2024
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
CG 218 (DU) - Side Event Room 5 (COP29)
Talk titled: Machine learning in supercooled liquids
OCW017
Join us for this seminar - 'Weight discrimination in healthcare settings: Reflections on training provision, stigma and legal protection' in which Dr Rachel Colls and Dr Kimberly Jamie present their working paper.
PCL050 (Palatine Centre)/Online via Zoom
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Nataliia Ishchenko (Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University)
The Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience seminar series takes place from 13.00 - 14.45. This is a hybrid event. Online registration essential - sign up on the right hand panel.
The fifth 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.
19 November 2024
20 November 2024
Join us for a Centre for Global Studies seminar with Professor Dariusz Dąbrowski (Gdańsk University of Technology)
Join us for a Centre for Ethical Finance, Accountability and Governance seminar with Professor Victor Maas (University of Amsterdam)
Online and in-person at Durham University Business School, Mill Hill Lane
Join Nigel Swycher (Chad’s/Law) and Richard Kempner (Aidan’s/ Law) for presentations from two alumni who graduated from Durham in the 1980s and reached the pinnacle of the Intellectual Property profession.
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Hogan Lovells Lecture Theatre
Join us for a workshop on creating a digital replica of an existing object, suitable for people without any background in computer science, as well as providing worthwhile content for computing specialists. Come prepared for an eye-opening session! Part of the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) Visual Methods Workshop Series 2024-25.
Mathematical Sciences & Computer Science Building, Durham University, Upper Mountjoy Campus, Stockton Road, Durham, DH1 3LE.
Centre Public Lecture - Dr Tony Lloyd (CEO of the ADHD Foundation, UK).
L50, Psychology Department
Inventions is a fascinating trans-national project to promote and present unusual music for solo harpsichord, drawing primarily on historical and contemporary music by female composers from Scotland, Ireland and England. Three beautiful new commissions are set alongside historical works, making links between different countries and centuries, and performed by Katarzyna Kowalik, a creative and skilled performer of both historical and contemporary keyboard music.
Durham University Department of Music, Palace Green, Durham DH1 3RL
‘Pour yourself a cup of ambition’ and book your tickets, as Durham University Light Opera Group (DULOG) meets Dolly Parton in this hilarious and heart-warming tale of friendship, female empowerment and fighting for what’s right!
20 November 2024 - 23 November 2024
UCNP Project to hold next major in-person meeting in Germany this autumn.
21 November 2024 - 22 November 2024
Berlin
A seminar by Prof Catherine Welch from Trinity College Dublin and Dr Duc Nguyen from University of Manchester.
21 November 2024
10:00 AM - 11:30 PM
Business School Waterside Building WB-2011
The sixth 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.
Dr Wenjuan (Wendy) Ruan, Assistant Professor , Department of Finance, Durham University Business School
Dr. Andy Aldrin from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University (USA) will present his work on " New Space Economy: What could go wrong? "
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Business School Waterside Building
Staff and postgraduates are welcome to our first English Studies research seminar of the academic year.
Hallgarth House 004
Durham alumni and friends are warmly invited to attend the Durham Alumni Zurich Chapter drinks social.
6:00 PM - 9:01 PM
Sablier Rooftop Restaurant & Bar, The Circle 23-Flughafen CH, 8058 Zürich, Switzerland
Durham alumni and friends are warmly invited to a gathering organised by the Washington DC Alumni Chapter. David Heller, International Officer at Durham, will join and share the latest updates from the University.
Elephant & Castle, 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004, United States
In the first of two Bishop Dunn Memorial Lectures for 2024-25, Fr Hyacinthe Destivelle gives a talk on 'Abemus Papam. An Ecumenical Primacy in a Synodal Church'.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
To celebrate the opening of Leighton and Landscape (16 November - 27 April), come and taste delightful and little known historic dishes from South West Asia and North Africa, based on recipes researched by culinary historian Professor Daniel Newman.
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Leighton House, 12 Holland Park Road, London, W14 8LZ
Jonathan Craig, ENI Confirm attendance to dei.admin@durham.ac.uk
22 November 2024
Join us for a Centre for Strategy, Technological Innovation, and Operations (CSTIO) Seminar with Dr Xiaolong Li (Durham University)
Reading Group, Mike Wheeler leading on DINGS, “The Dynamic and Recursive Interplay of Embodiment and Narrative Identity."
Join fellow Durham alumni and friends for an authentic and delicious Thai dinner organised by the Hong Kong Alumni Chapter.
23 November 2024
The Balcony, Aberdeen Marina Club, 8 Shum Wan Road, Aberdeen, Hong Kong
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Kateryna Ivashchenko-Stadnik (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
25 November 2024
This event takes place from 14.00 - 17.30 (Geography Room W007 and Zoom). Online registration is essential for Zoom - sign up on the right hand panel.
An event for IMH Fellows with research interests in trauma, violence and memory.
Institute for Medical Humanities
The seventh and penultimate workshop in a series of eight 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.
26 November 2024
Pradeep Narayanan delivers the following seminar as part of the Centre for Social Justice & Community Action group seminar series.
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room 113, 32 Old Elvet (Department of Sociology, Durham University)
The Workshop will offer up to 5 academic colleagues and PhD students the opportunity to discuss their work with Prof Sousa
27 November 2024
Emily Williams discusses “The materiality of absence: a conversation about preservation, decay and the teaching and writing of the past.”
The third interactive workshop in a series of four, supported by the IAS, on soil
28 November 2024
Join us for a Centre for Consumers and Sustainable Consumption (CCSC) hosted Seminar with Dr Miriam McGowan (Durham University)
Join current students, members of our alumni network as well as our expert admissions staff for a drop in question and answer session.
The event will take place on Zoom
Interconcept talk No. 4 by Mike Wheeler 'The case of music' (Narrative and Cognition Lab)
Here, we combine laboratory evidence and a field investigation in the Mississippi River delta to explore the controls on the riverine transport and deposition of mud. We show that the flocculation of mud, with floc diameters greater than 10 μm, in freshwater is a ubiquitous phenomenon, causing the sedimentation of mud to be driven by changes in local hydrodynamics.
On her return from the UN Biodiversity Conference, Dr Simona Capisani will give a CHESS talk and host a Q&A regarding her experiences.
Elvet Riverside ER 149
Our next research seminar, open to staff and postgraduates.
Elvet Riverside 155
Join us for this Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) and the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) seminar with Ukrainian art curator Oksana Barshynova (National Art Museum of Ukraine; NAMU, Kyiv), for insights into the Ukranian Avant Garde! Hosted as part of the IAS Project 'Looking Back to Move Forward: History, Recovery, and Sustainability in Understanding the War in Ukraine on a Global Scale’, in collaboration with CVAC.
Cosin‘s Hall seminar room, the Institute of Advanced Study, Palace Green, Durham
IAS Visiting Scholar's Lecture for World Soil Day by Dr Anna Krzywoszynska (University of Oulu)
Tom Percival Annex, Parsons Field Site, St. Cuthbert‘s Society, Durham University
Passport Talk by Paul Armstrong: 'The Neuroscience of Literary Time-Travel: How Literary Works Cross Historical Distance'
29 November 2024
2:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Daria Shapovalova, Senior Lecturer in Energy Law, University of Aberdeen. She is the director of the Centre for Energy Law and coordinator of the Just Transitions Lab. With research interests in energy and environmental law, Daria is working on interdisciplinary approaches to climate, energy, and just transition regulation.
Alderman Professor Emma Edhem is going to speak about the space in practice. Dr Can Eken is going to moderate this event.
Durham University, Palatine Centre, Hogan Lovells Lecture Theatre (PCL048)
The next research seminar organised by Operations Management group and the Centre for Strategy, Technological Innovation and Operations (CSTIO) will take place on Friday, 29 November at 13:00-14:30 at Waterside Building WB-4002. Dr. Zhe Liufrom Imperial College London will present his work on "Operating Three-sided Marketplace". You are welcome to join us over lunch for sandwiches, coffee and drinks and meet the speaker before the seminar from 12:00 to 13:00.
Lunch for sandwiches, coffee and drinks and before the seminar from 12:00 to 13:00 at the Executive Hub Lounge in WB-4002. The seminar will be held in WB-4002 13:00 to 14:30
Walkabout returns with an innovative, thrilling, immersive take on the beloved Dickens classic, beating their record for the UK’s largest work of immersive student theatre.
29 November 2024 - 30 November 2024
Dunelm House
This concert will take you on a tour celebrating European national identity. From the tone poems of Sibelius’ Finlandia and Smetana’s Vltava, to the Russian folklore of Borodin’s Symphony No. 2.
30 November 2024
Elvet Methodist Church
In-person Paper Development Workshop
02 December 2024
Durham University Business School Waterside Building, The Sands Durham DH1 1SL Waterside Building Executive Suite
Join us ‘Wearing it Red’ on 2 December for World Aids Day send us your photos!
Are you interested in being involved in research that makes a positive impact on health and wellbeing? Would you like to meet other like-minded people, from all disciplines and faculties of Durham University, in the early stages of their research careers?
W215 (Geography Building)
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Giuliana Furci (Fungi Foundation of Chile)
Personhood: The New Civil War over Reproduction What’s next for the battle over abortion? Mary Ziegler argues that simply undoing Roe v. Wade has never been the endpoint for the antiabortion movement. Since the 1960s, the larger goal has been to secure recognition of fetuses and embryos as persons under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, a step that the modern antiabortion movement argues would make liberal abortion laws unconstitutional.
This event is taking place online via Zoom.
The International Day for Persons with Disabilities (IDPWD) on 3rd of December, seeks to raise awareness about the challenges faced by people with disabilities.
03 December 2024
The last workshop in a series of eight 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.
Vicky Kasprowicz, Research Fellow in Energy Demand, University of Sussex Business School
Chaotic systems are hard to predict - this much has been known for decades. However, studying the fractal geometry that underpins chaotic systems reveals so much more. From a practical point of view it tells us when we can trust predictions and when we can’t.
TLC033 (lecture commences at 6pm, with the book signing from 5pm)
IAS Fellows' Public Lecture by Professor Paul Armstrong (Brown University)
Kenworthy Hall, St Mary‘s College
The Dunelm Society London present an Advent Service at The King's Chapel of the Savoy in London.
The King’s Chapel of the Savoy in London. Savoy Hill, London WC2R 0DA
Join us for an online seminar on Academic (Accounting) Research: Interdisciplinarity, Engagement and Impact
04 December 2024
3:30 AM - 4:30 AM
A fourth and final interactive workshop in a series on soil, supported by the IAS
Book Launch: Ian Collins: Blythe Spirit: Blythe Spirit: The Remarkable Life of Ronald Blythe, John Murray, 2024
Online Only at: https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/97204008125?pwd=WSfXWptegD5T9YrpReDcbvm8Zk319H.1 Meeting ID: 972 0400 8125 Passcode 796168
A musical about the most infamous bank robbing & murdering duo in American history - romance, crime, and an incredible soundtrack.
04 December 2024 - 07 December 2024
An international workshop with scholars from cognitive sciences and narrative studies advancing on the problem of 'implicit narrativity'
05 December 2024
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Join current students, members of our alumni network, and our expert admissions staff for an online drop-in Q&A session on Thursday 5 December 2024 from 12pm - 1pm (GMT).
Matthew Eddy discusses “Information Against Empire: Black Doctors, Biodata and Democracy in the Atlantic World.”
In this Catholic Theology Research Seminar, Emma Percy from the University of Aberdeen gives a talk on ''Can Aquinas offer some hope to trauma theology?'.
A celebration of World Soil Day and the launch of the SMART Soils SRF project with special guests Merlin Sheldrake, Cosmo Sheldrake, Jo Pearl, IAS Fellow Giuliana Furci and IAS Visiting Scholar Anna Kryzwoszynska
Elvet Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HL
A workshop and networking event held by the Centre for Strategy, Technological Innovation, and Operations on behalf of Durham University Business School, and Business Durham.
06 December 2024
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Durham University Business School Waterside Building
Anoush Etheshami, Government and International Affairs, Durham University Confirm attendance to dei.admin@durham.ac.uk
The research seminar titled "Chinese Rules and Procedures for Addressing Mass Actions" was presented by Dr. Cong-rui Qiao, Founder and Director of Law4Sustainability.
Online via Zoom.
Join Durham University Big Band and Durham University Jazz Orchestra for their yearly Jazzy Christmas charity gig at the Assembly Rooms Theatre for an evening of festive classics, blazing solos and Christmas cheer!
08 December 2024
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Anna Krzywoszynska (University of Oulu)
09 December 2024
Next Talk in the The (women) In Parenthesis Online Work in Progress Seminar Series 2024-5 is Ian James Kidd, ‘Midgley, Wickedness, and Vices’ on 10th December 2024 between 3pm and 4.30pm.
10 December 2024
On Zoom - further information available on Woman in Parenthesis Website- www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk
A webinar by Professor Alex Mold and Dr Simon Cook exploring one of the most popular sports and pastimes in the UK - Running.
In this seminar for the International Scholars of the History of Women Religious Association, Patricia Stoop of the University of Antwerp, gives a talk on 'Women Religious in the Low Countries (c. 1350–1600) and Their Roles in the Production and Circulation of Literature and Knowledge'.
11 December 2024
Supported by the Economy & Culture research cluster at Durham Geography, this workshop aims to explore ‘Venture Capital Geographies’ broadly conceived.
W007, Geography West building.
This is an event to celebrate the launch of the launch of the Classics Education Research and Engagement (CERES) Centre.
2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Hogan Lovells Lecture Theatre Durham Law School (PCL 048)
Zoom talk presented by Claudia Hopkins
This talk will be delivered online via Zoom
A Leadership Seminar by Professor George Banks from UNC Charlotte. The seminar will be arranged in the room WB1005 and on Teams. The seminar information is as below. If you would like to have 1-1 meeting, please sign up here.
12 December 2024
The Business School‘s Waterside Building room WB-1005 and on Teams.
Recent developments in Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) have unlocked our ability to quantify landscape and forest structure at unprecedented spatial scales, resolving individual branching structure and fine scale microtopographic variability in tandem. We have applied this technology to a collection of forest plots across Europe, capturing data across a climate gradient, and representing a broad range of species distributions and landscape forms.
In 2019, the Durham Commission on Creativity and Education, a partnership between Durham University and Arts Council England, launched its first report investigating the teaching of young people to be creative and to think creatively, and made ten recommendations across not only schools, but also Early Years, apprenticeships, Universities and the arts.
CB008, Confluence Building, on the main Durham University Science Site off Stockton Road.
This lecture explores the current race in both the Global North and South to secure much needed critical minerals, and the attendant human rights abuses and impacts on local communities arising from the new resource rush.
PCL048, Hogan Lovells Lecture Theatre, Durham Law School, Palatine Centre, Durham
Christopher Marlowe’s seminal ‘Doctor Faustus’ sees ambition meet the supernatural in a gripping tale of power, temptation, and tragedy.
12 December 2024 - 14 December 2024
How has resistance to destructive extractivist investment affected the outcomes of natural resource politics? This talk reflects on how social movements, NGOs, and other forms of active citizenship contesting the illegalities or socio-environmental injustices of over-extractive natural resource operations have influenced the economic outcomes in different contexts.
13 December 2024
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
You are warmly invited to join fellow alumni in Durham for a December social event, organised by the North East Alumni Chapter.
Head of Steam, 3 Reform Place, North Road, Durham, DH1 4RZ
Space is already a crucial part of our everyday lives from checking the weather report, hitting ‘buy now’ or calling family at home. Recent developments are making space more accessible as we move from large, expensive, state-driven missions to smaller, low-cost satellites developed by private companies.
17 December 2024
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
D110 (Dawson Building)
18 December 2024
Pedro Fonseca, Master of Laws, Stanford University
19 December 2024
You are warmly invited to join fellow Durham alumni and friends for a catch-up dinner before the holidays, organised by the Delhi Alumni Chapter.
21 December 2024
Chido, M-18, Outer Circle, Connaught Place, New Delhi 110001
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