Events from the 01 October 2023 - 31 October 2023 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
"Where Are We Now?" is an art exhibition exploring the present and future of Modern Languages and Cultures at a local and global level.
01 June 2023 - 31 December 2023
Ground floor, Elvet Riverside, 83 New Elvet, Durham DH1 3AQ
Our Events will give you the opportunity to learn more about what Durham Business School has to offer for postgraduate study.
01 September 2023 - 31 August 2024
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Durham Business School
Our Open Days are the best way for you to find out about Durham.
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Durham University
Our Open Days will give you the opportunity to learn more about what Durham has to offer for postgraduate study.
Tours have audio descriptions, images and videos as well as lots of information and statistics.
Join us at Bill Bryson Library between Wednesday 27 September and Tuesday 3 October to find out everything you need to know about our libraries, museums, collections and services!
27 September 2023 - 03 October 2023
10:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Bill Bryson Library, Stockton Road, DH1 3LY
An exhibition celebrating the work of emerging contemporary artists and designers from the Middle East and North Africa recently acquired by the Oriental Museum.
29 September 2023 - 12 May 2024
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Oriental Museum, Elvet Hill, Durham, DH1 3TH
Throughout Black History Month, we will be running a book giveaway in Bill Bryson Library.
02 October 2023 - 31 October 2023
9:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Bill Bryson Library
Join Francesca Lewis and Veronica Heney for a discussion of representations of madness in historical biopics of royal women. The seminar will bring together three recent films, Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite (2018), Marie Kreutzer's Corsage (2022), and Pablo Larrain's Spencer (2021), to ask how these royal women are re-imagined in light of these biopics' reappraisal of their trauma, their confining circumstances, and their mental distress.
02 October 2023
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Online
03 October 2023
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Grey College SCR
On Tuesday, the 3rd of October, the Durham Centre for Law and Philosophy will welcome Dr Benedict Douglas (DLS), who will be discussing his new research with us. The title of his work is “The Nature of Human Identity.”
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Durham Law School, Palatine Centre
CHESS organises weekly research meetings for its members and interested colleagues. Meetings take place each Thursday during term time from 11:00am - 12:00pm. This is a hybrid event and takes place in person and online via Zoom.
05 October 2023
PO004, Department of Philosophy and on Zoom
The Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience seminar series takes place from 13.15 - 14.15. This is a hybrid event. Online registration essential.
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
W007, Geography Building & Zoom
The Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory (VSET) are organised by DREAM, together with the Universities of Bristol, Carlos III, and Southampton.
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
We warmly invite you to join the Department of Accounting and our guest speaker Michael Izza (Law, St Cuthbert’s Society, 1979-82) Chief Executive at ICAEW and Professor in Practise for the Department of Accounting at the Business School.
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, One Moorgate Place Club, Chartered Accountants Hall, 1 Moorgate Place, London EC2R 6EA
This talk is part of the Department of Psychology seminar series at Durham University.
06 October 2023
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
L68, Psychology building
Are you an older adult interested in science? Come along to learn about our research and enjoy some refreshments.
09 October 2023
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Durham Community Association, Shakespeare Hall, North Road, Durham, DH1 4SQ
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Professor Denise McCoskey (Miami University)
Cosin‘s Hall, Seminar Room, Palace Green
Do you work with visual culture? Do you use visual data, visual storytelling, visual methods or visual materials? Are you interested in doing so? Join us for the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) 2023-2024 welcome reception and programme launch!
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room TLC117, Teaching and Learning Centre, South Road, Durham
Join us at the QS World Grad School Tour in Athens on Tuesday 10 October.
10 October 2023
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Athens
The British-Irish Chapter of the International Society of Public Law is delighted to host a panel discussion on Diverse Voices in Public Law (Bristol University Press, 2023)
11 October 2023
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Online, zoom
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Nine DTP/DRMC Hub. First Floor, Arthur Holmes Building. Left of the Calman Learning Centre. Signposted DRMC.
Sarah Pritchard is the Executive Director of Markets and responsible for Supervision, Policy and Competition at the Financial Conduct Authority. Sarah is also a Professor in Practice with the School's Department of Finance.
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Hybrid. Online and on-site at Mill Hill Lane
At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Bombay was in the midst of an ongoing epidemic of Yersinia pestis that killed thousands annually.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Ustinov Room, Van Mildert College, Durham City
The department would like to invite you along to a workshop on AI on Wednesday 11th October at 2pm. The vent is open to all years, and because turn out could be large we will be holding the event over zoom.
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Please see Sharepoint site for Zoom Link details.
Weekly Postgraduate Departmental Research Seminar
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
PO005.
Diana Johns (University of Melbourne) and Ben Lohmeyer (Flinders University) deliver the following seminar.
ER145 (Elvet Riverside), Durham University
Welcome to the annual CNCS start of terms event. This year we are celebrating 10 years of the centre.
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC) 123 or online via Zoom
Event held with Sentencing Academy on parole, probation and sentencing with guest speakers.
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
PCL048, Durham Law School, Palatine Centre
Evening public lecture with Manshu Agarwal, Colbridge Ventures
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Durham Business School, MHL452
The Blueprint Startup Challenge is back and better than ever - with a £50,000 prize fund up for grabs! Durham’s flagship business idea competition is now in its 21st year of supporting our students and graduates to launch and grow successful startups.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Hazan Venture Lab, Mathematical Sciences & Computer Sciences Building.
12 October 2023
Durham's annual Book Festival returns from Friday 13 - Sunday 15 October.
13 October 2023 - 15 October 2023
5:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Gala Durham, Clayport Library and Collected Books
14 October 2023
10:30 AM - 6:15 PM
Chapter House, Durham Cathedral
Join us at the QS Masters and MBA Fair in London on Saturday 14 October.
11:30 AM - 2:30 PM
London
A Durham Book Festival Fringe Event, in collaboration with the Centre for Poetry and Poetics.
Elvet Riverside 157
A Durham Book Festival Fringe Event, in collaboration with the Centre for Poetry and Poetics
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Jorge Dagnino (University of San Sebastian, Chile)
16 October 2023
Cosin‘s Hall, Seminar Room
Dr Lasse Gerrits, the Academic Director of the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam will be visiting Durham in October.
17 October 2023
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Department of Sociology, Room 113, 32, Old Elvet, Durham.
Join us for musician and author John Snijders in conversation with composer James Weeks and CVAC director Jonathan Long, discussing his book 'Ixion' - a textual analysis of the linear language used in the early graphic scores of Morton Feldman. Co-hosted by the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) and the Department of Music, Durham University.
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Concert room, Music department, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RL
Book a Discover Durham Live Virtual Session- come and hear from our current students!
17 October 2023 - 20 June 2024
Virtual
The Department of Chemistry are delighted to invite University staff and students to celebrate their Black History Month Event, with an outstanding range of speakers from Durham and beyond.
18 October 2023
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Red Green House
A Centre for Poetry and Poetics event
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Online (Zoom)
Part of the Department of Earth Sciences Research Seminar Series.
1:00 PM - 1:50 PM
ES231 (TR4)
Please join us on the 18th of October for the Durham Enterprise Centre’s Inaugural Lecture.
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
MHL 452
Economics External Seminar Series - Dimitri Migrow
Durham University Business School Mill Hill Lane Durham DH1 3LB UK
The Centre for Organisations and Society hosts our first research seminar for the 2023-24 academic year on 18th October.
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
MHL 240 and Online
L50 & the Biosciences Atrium
The Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences and the Human Rights and Public Law Centre welcome Dr Alicia Ely Yamin for a discussion of her latest monograph, ‘When Misfortune Becomes Injustice: Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality.’
Since the appointment of the first Addison Wheeler Fellows at Durham in the late 1960s, almost 40 scholars have taken up research Fellowships at Durham. One of very early recipients of this Fellowship, Professor Richard Morris CBE FRS FRSE, a Fellow between 1973 and 1975, returns to Durham on Wednesday 18 October to give his reflections on his Fellowship, and his research and career since.
Kingsley Barrett Room, Calman Learning Centre, South Road
Do you study film?
On-line
7:00 PM - 9:15 PM
Elvet Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HL
Join us for a QRFE-hosted workshop with keynote speaker Professor Albert Menkveld (Vrije Universiteit)
19 October 2023
Durham University Business School
Zoom seminar with Sanjoy Ranjan, Energy Security Division, European Investment Bank
Zoom
Seminar and drinks reception with Professor Elizabeth Edwards FBA Organized by the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) and the Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies (CNCS), Durham University
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The Birley Room, Hatfield College, Durham, DH1 3RQ
Join us at the QS Masters Fair in Rome on Thursday 19 October.
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Rome
‘Once a Johnian’ Formals are vocation themed formal dinners to which all Johnians are warmly invited.
St John‘s College
In celebrating Black history Month 2023 themed “celebrating our sisters”, the BAME Network invites everyone to an art exhibition showcasing the various art works of Black-heritage women from the UK and Globally
20 October 2023
12:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Bailey Room - St. Aidan‘s College
Leadership Seminar Series Sponsored by the International Centre for Leadership and Followership, Durham University Business School
23 October 2023
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
MHL427 / Zoom
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Diana Johns (University of Melbourne)
Join us for an EFAG-hosted seminar with Dr Matthew Egan (University of Sydney Business School)
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
FULLY BOOKED - Our Vice-Chancellor and Warden, Professor Karen O’Brien invites you to join her on 23 October on campus at Durham for this year’s meeting of Convocation.
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
The Hub, Mount Oswald, The Approach, Durham, DH1 3FP
Meet Musician and Artivist Ezé at REfUSE Café in Chester-le-Street. Connecting people and communities, conversations, and music are at the heart of this event.
24 October 2023
REfUSE Cafe, 143c Front Street, Chester le Street, Durham, DH3 3AU.
A team of researchers at Durham University and University of Birmingham are leading the AHRC-funded project “Accelerating embedded computational analysis of Web data about music in UK universities” (AH/X007316/1), which is currently piloting a new digital skills training programme for music researchers, training approximately 60 UK-based researchers at a variety of digital skill levels and representing various career stages in topics relevant to using Web data as a primary source.
Concert Room, Department of Music
GLAD welcomes Dr Chloe Romanis for the first event of the new academic year, where she will talk about a chapter from her upcoming book.
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Durham Law School, Palatine Centre Room PCL057
https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/93702971057?pwd=TW9raVNlM1pxaHFkdGFueURvaWVrZz09 Meeting ID: 937 0297 1057 Passcode: 612894
IBRU Professional Training Workshop
25 October 2023 - 27 October 2023
New York, USA (Offices of Freshfields) 601 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10022
Join us online 25 October to learn more about the Business School as part of the Postgraduate Online Open Week.
25 October 2023
Conversation topic: Participant Recruitment - 25th October 2023, 1100-1230
Part of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing Guest Lecture Series 2023/24 Although mental health features prominently in contemporary discourse about human health and wellbeing, there are still critical gaps in historical accounts of twentieth-century psychiatry, related disciplines that led to the adoption of the broader concept of “mental healthcare”, as well as the spaces and places that supported these.
In person lunchtime seminar with Birgitte Nygaard, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture at Norway.
Room location...Confluence Building Room CB – 1016 , Science Site
ESRC Festival of Social Science, 2023 - Sexual Violence Towards Minoritised Students on Campus
1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room PG21, Pemberton Building, Palace Green
Should a civics test help us decide who can become British?
Durham Law School, Palatine Centre Room PCL050
Everyone is welcome to join our next research seminar, held both in person and online.
Elvet Riverside 153 and online
Join us for the International Centre of Public Accountability's first research seminar of the year.
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Join us in person or online for a seminar with Durham University chaplain Revd Rebecca Amoroso, reflecting on her experience as a prison chaplain, in a wider context of the challenges and opportunities for Anglican ministry in our prison system.
Room TH107, Abbey House, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RS (and online)
You are warmly invited to attend the virtual Postgraduate Durham University Open Day and find out more about the taught MA in Medical Humanities!
IAS Fellows' Public Lecture by Professor Denise McCoskey (Miami University)
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Bishop‘s Dining Hall, University College (Durham Castle)
A Friends of the Oriental Museum lecture by Crispin Paine MA FMA FSA, Visiting Fellow, Open University
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Elvet Hill House 009
26 October 2023
Online information session for Dunelm Days event hosts.
12:00 PM - 12:40 PM
Online (zoom)
5:00 PM - 5:40 PM
The Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice welcomes Dr Karen Brennan and Dr Emma Milne.
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
TLC 116, Durham University Teaching and Learning Centre, Durham. Also available online through Zoom
Come and join us at Mildert for the next open discussion in our Critical Conversations series. Share your ideas and hear from others on this event’s big question which is about class. Bring your curiosity and an open mind.
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Ustinov Room, Van Mildert College
27 October 2023
Pennington Room, Grey College
Are you an early career researcher (ECR) that is looking to meet other researchers with an interest in health and wellbeing (broadly construed)?
Bar Lounge, Business School
Join us at QS Connect MBA event - Tokyo, Japan
28 October 2023
10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Keio Plaza Hotel 2-2-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
A North East Ancient Egypt Society and Friends of the Oriental Museum joint study day.
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Elvet Hill House 009, adjacent to the Oriental Museum
Join fellow alumni in Bangalore to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
Koramangala Social 118, 3rd Floor, Industrial Area 80 Feet Road Koramangala 7th Block Bangalore
In the jam session, we want to bring people together who have a passion for music to create music collectively. We invite musicians from the local communities, from music groups in Durham, and student musicians.
29 October 2023
OLD CINEMA LAUNDERETTE, 38 Marshall Terrace, Gilesgate Moor, Durham, DH1 2HX.
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Youssri Abdelwahed (Minia University)
30 October 2023
In recognition of Domestic Violence Awareness month and part of the Durham Inspired: Live programme, we welcome Associate Professor Dr Stephen Burrell to discuss 'Can we prevent domestic abuse from happening in the first place?.
Join us for this free online event exploring the theme of 'Monsters' through a nineteenth century lens. Please note all times are Central European Time (CET).
31 October 2023
The BFI have curated a selection of films relating to our Black History Month focus ‘Celebrating our sisters’ which highlights the crucial role that Black-heritage women continue to play in shaping history, inspiring change and building communities. All films are free* to access via BFI Player, the BFI’s on-demand film-streaming service:
BFI Player
Join us this half-term, on Palace Green from Tuesday 31 October to Thursday 2 November (10am-4pm) and enjoy three fun-packed and fascinating days of free family activities.
31 October 2023 - 02 November 2023
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Palace Green, Durham
The Music department research forum welcomes Professor Andrew Hamilton from the Department of Philosophy
Concert Room
On Tuesday, the 31st of October, the Durham Centre for Law and Philosophy will welcome Professor Ko Hasegawa (Hokkaido), who will be discussing a piece called, 'Legality, the Paradigm of Law, and Legal Tradition.'
Gather round and join us (online) this Halloween for stories exploring some of the 'haunted' locations of our city of Durham and the Northeast region - if you dare!
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