Events from the 01 October 2021 - 31 October 2021 Reset
This online training course provides a simple, contextual overview of international boundaries and the practical measures that can be taken to resolve international boundary disputes. Through a series of short online lectures and a final practical exercise, the course explores the relevance of borders and looks at land and maritime boundary disputes, before covering methods available for dispute resolution.
01 January 2021 - 31 December 2025
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Online workshop
IMEMS has a long-standing relationship with Blackfriars Restaurant in Newcastle and we are pleased to announce our 3-day cookery course.
22 March 2021 - 26 March 2022
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Blackfriars, Friars Street, Newcastle, NE1 4XN
Metaphysics Reading Group (term time only)
03 October 2021
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Online
At this event, we want to seed the ideas of research right away with new undergraduates.
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
St Cuthbert‘s Society, 12 South Bailey Dining Room
Interactive online 5-day cookery course | £125 per person Join us on a gastronomic journey as we revisit the collection of 12th century recipes discovered and analysed by a team based at Durham University and McGill University in Canada, in 2013. These form the earliest known culinary recipe collection from medieval Europe and pre-date the famous Forme of Cury by around 230 years! These short but intriguing recipes date to c. 1170 and were from Durham Cathedral Priory in the Land of the Prince
04 October 2021 - 08 October 2021
11:29 AM - 11:29 AM
Interactive online 5-day cookery course
Representing Memory Project Seminar by Prof. Alexander Easton
05 October 2021
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
IAS Seminar Room, Cosins Hall
By Prof. Karen Kilby (Durham University)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Pemberton Lecture Room PG20, Palace Green, Durham
Chronic pain is a huge health challenge. It is the biggest reason people in the UK see their GP. The World Health Organisation (WHO) recognised it as a priority disease in 2019. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has also recently accepted that current chronic pain medications have limited long-term benefit, and in fact carry serious safety concerns. That is why reducing opioid prescriptions (for non-cancer pain) to zero by 2024 is a priority for Public Health England.
06 October 2021
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Online - Zoom Participants wishing to ask questions can do so via sli.do (web browser and app) using #wripain. The best rated questions will be put to the speaker in the Q and A.
‘A nation that rebuilds its soils rebuilds itself’ is all about rebuilding soils to rebuild environmental, economic and societal health. Using waste minerals and organic matter, aligning with the circular economy to rebuild soils can help address several of the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals including SDG13 on climate change mitigation and adaptation.
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Zoom
Everyone is welcome to our Late Summer Lecture Series 2021, as we roam across The Past, Present, and Future in literature and culture.
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Online (Zoom)
Seminar series for Spirituality, Theology & Health
07 October 2021
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Fortnightly on Thursdays in Seminar Room Β (D/TH004)
Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar Michaelmas Term 2021
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Title: What is the Aim of Medicine?
St. Chad‘s College, Durham University
Linda Siegele, The Compensation Question: Loss and Damages, Road to COP26/CMA 3 Preparatory Lecture Series
08 October 2021
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Each year Durham Book Festival works in partnership with Durham University’s Centre for Poetry and Poetics to invite an acclaimed poet to become the Festival Laureate. This year we are delighted to welcome Fiona Benson to this prestigious role.
10 October 2021
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Celebrating the life and work of anti apartheid campaigner, Ruth First; reporting initial findings from the Ruth First in the North project; exploring broader issues faced by activist researchers.
11 October 2021
Williams Library, St Chad’s College (18 North Bailey, Durham, DH1 3RH, UK)
Ideas for Positive Change is a new series of short talks, presented by Durham University academics, exploring how we might build a more positive future.
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Online via the Durham Book Festival website
Representing Memory Project Seminar by Dr James Ainge
12 October 2021
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
IAS Seminar Room, Cosins Hall.
Edward Goodger, 'From Convergence to Corbyn: Explaining Support for the UK's Radical Left'
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
The Music Research Forum welcomes Dr Emily Worthing, University of Huddersfield (Image credit: Tom Bowles). Please register for the event using the link to receive the Zoom joining information.
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
via Zoom
By Katie Bugyis (University of Notre Dame).
6:00 PM - 7:15 PM
13 October 2021
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
The positive correlation between soil health and underground biodiversity is relatively well understood and Diana Wall is a leading world expert in this area. However, the links between soil health with above ground biodiversity are less well understood. We will discuss these issues and consider the apparent disconnect between achieving net zero targets by building up carbon in soils and the effect this might have on biodiversity above and below ground.
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Hybrid Event.
Fiona Benson, Durham Book Festival Laureate, reads and talks about "The Poems that Made Me"...
14 October 2021
Professor Tom Mole launches the paperback of his book The Secret Life of Books with a talk and signing.
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Waterstones Durham University Bookshop
15 October 2021
5:00 AM - 6:15 PM
BSI Annual Town Hall Meeting 2021-2022, Friday 15 October 12-1 pm (Zoom)
A Durham Book Festival event. Join poet Kayo Chingonyi and philosopher Clare Mac Cumhail for an exploration of Chingonyi’s new highly acclaimed collection A Blood Condition and of the philosophy of the late and brilliant Newcastle philosopher and environmentalist Mary Midgley as part of Notes from a Biscuit Tin.
17 October 2021
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Gala Theatre
IAS Fellow's Seminar by Prof. Colleen Ward, Victoria University of Wellington.
18 October 2021
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Streamed live from New Zealand in the IAS Seminar Room
Representing Memory Project Seminar by Prof. John Sutton
19 October 2021
Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence Reading Group
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
This is a fortnightly online reading group. The link is available to members upon joining the mailing list.
The Music Research Forum welcomes Dr Richard David Williams (SOAS University of London). Please register for the event using the link to receive the Zoom joining information.
Working in collaboration with others can be witnessed in all domains of human and animal interaction. From humans playing World of Warcraft online and making scientific discoveries, to the ‘hunting as a pack’ behaviours demonstrated in the animal kingdom, the success to be harnessed through collaboration is recognised, but sometimes misunderstood.
20 October 2021
Online - Zoom Participants wishing to ask questions can do so via zoom chat
The panel includes experts Sarah Dack from Public Health England & Ian Martin from the Environment Agency who will join Karen Johnson (Engineering) & Lynsay Blake (Biosciences) to discuss the links between soil and human health and how soil is the basis of both our health and wealth. Exploring both the positive & negative links between soil and human health, we will consider how by using wastes as resources and aligning with the circular economy, we could boost both soil health and human health.
Durham's Race and Climate Reading Group meets to discuss recent books that address the relationship between past and present perceptions of race and climate.
Zoom: https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/93027919861?pwd=THRGa1kvcy8ycHExUmg3dkhWTUJqUT09 Meeting ID: 930 2791 9861 Passcode: 101776
Reva Siegel, Why Restrict Abortion? Expanding the Frame on June Medical, CELLS research webinar
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
The next CAS Research Seminar will take place on Wednesday 20 October at 4pm.
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Microsoft Teams
Guest Speaker Dr Sita Balani, Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture, King’s College London
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
MS Teams
To mark the beginning of Inventions of the Text for 2021/22, all are welcome to join us for a poetry reading with Mary Jean Chan.
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
A chance to meet some of our PhD students and ECRs and hear about their work.
21 October 2021
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Online via Zoom
A medieval research seminar. Email m.j.huxtable@durham.ac.uk for the Zoom logon.
Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar Michaelmas Term 2021 This talk is part of the series “Portrayals of 'Intellectuals' in the Ancient World”
Newcastle University campus
22 October 2021
Zoom (link will be emailed to registered attendees on the day)
Network-H2 is the EPSRC funded network to maximise the impact of UK-funded research and innovation. The Network will be organising conferences, seminars, workshops and funding calls in order to advance the knowledge and understanding of hydrogen fuelled transportation.
24 October 2021
IAS Seminar by Prof Alan J. Daly, University of California San Diego.
25 October 2021
IAS Seminar Room, Cosins Hall, Palace Green
Representing Memory Project Seminar by Dr Aidan Horner
26 October 2021
Black History Now!
Join Dr Ruben Verwaal to explore the oldest acoustic hearing aids in Wellcome Collection: the ear trumpet.
Online via the Wellcome Collection
Sharing Approaches Across Disciplines
27 October 2021
Online Teams Event
Online mixer to introduce those working across biomathematics and biocomputing.
Social scientists Anna Krzywoszynska and Lena Dominelli will join physical scientists Wendy Stone and Karen Johnson and Sustainability educationalist Joanne Appleby from OASES to look at how to build terrariums. Terrariums are very fashionable at the moment but can also be used by scientists to study global biogeochemical cycles such as the carbon cycle. Effectively we can study soil’s circular economy in a jar.
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
The next CAS Research Seminar will take place on Wednesday 27 October at 4pm.
This year’s prestigious Annual Higginson Lecture will take place on Wednesday 27th October 2021. The speaker is Baroness Brown of Cambridge, Julia King DBE FREng FRS. The title is Net Zero – why is it so important and how do we get there?
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Kingsley Barratt room, Calman Learning Centre Durham University Science Site, Lower Mountjoy (Refreshments available from 17:30) The lecture will also be live streamed.
The Centre for Culture and Ecology Reading Group is a student-led group aimed to discuss canonical and contemporary work in the field of Environmental Humanities. It welcomes researchers working on or simply interested in environmental issues from a range of perspectives, including English Studies, Modern Languages and Cultures, Geography, Anthropology, History, Philosophy, Classics, and more.
28 October 2021
Hear from current students about their experiences.
All talks are free and open to the public.
Hybrid Event - Elvet Riverside 153 & Zoom
IAS Public Lecture by Professor John Sutton, Macquarie University.
Hatfield Chapel, Hatfield College
31 October 2021