Events from the 01 January 2024 - 31 December 2024 Reset
CHESS Weekly Research Meetings (term time only)
12 December 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
PO004, 48/49 Old Elvet
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.
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
W414 (Geography)
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.
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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.
6:15 PM - 7:30 PM
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
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre
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
Online via Zoom
You are warmly invited to join fellow alumni in Durham for a December social event, organised by the North East Alumni Chapter.
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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
Zoom
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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