Events from the 01 December 2024 - 31 December 2024 Reset
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
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Durham Business School
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01 September 2024 - 31 August 2025
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Durham University
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?
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
W215 (Geography Building)
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Giuliana Furci (Fungi Foundation of Chile)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Cosin‘s Hall, Seminar Room, Palace Green
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.
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Seminar Room C in Abbey House
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.
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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.
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Seminar Room, Institute of Advanced Study, Cosin‘s Hall, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RL
Vicky Kasprowicz, Research Fellow in Energy Demand, University of Sussex Business School
Zoom
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)
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Kenworthy Hall, St Mary‘s College
The Dunelm Society London present an Advent Service at The King's Chapel of the Savoy in London.
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
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
Online
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!
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
IMH (Confluence Building)
A fourth and final interactive workshop in a series on soil, supported by the IAS
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Part of the School of Education Research Seminar Series.
This event will be in-person in the Confluence Building - Room TBC. Contact ed.research@durham.ac.uk for more details about how to take part.
Departmental Research Seminar for students and staff.
PO005, 48 Old Elvet.
Book Launch: Ian Collins: Blythe Spirit: Blythe Spirit: The Remarkable Life of Ronald Blythe, John Murray, 2024
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre
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
Institute for Medical Humanities, Confluence Building, Durham University
CHESS Weekly Research Meetings (term time only)
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
PO004, 48/49 Old Elvet
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).
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The event will take place on Zoom
Our next research seminar, open to staff and postgraduates.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Hallgarth House 004
Matthew Eddy discusses “Information Against Empire: Black Doctors, Biodata and Democracy in the Atlantic World.”
7 Owengate
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.
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?'.
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Seminar Room B, Abbey House and Online
On Thursday 5 December 2024, St Mary's College will host their annual Christmas Carol Service at Durham Cathedral.
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
St Mary‘s College and Durham Cathedral
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
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
CLC406, Calman Centre
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
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Anna Krzywoszynska (University of Oulu)
09 December 2024
Meetings are on Monday, in , between 4:30pm and 6:00pm. Any queries, please contact Christopher Insole (christopher.insole@durham.ac.uk).
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Seminar Room C in the Department of Theology and Religion, Abbey House
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.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
online
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
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.
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
IMH Atrium, 1st floor, Confluence Building, DH1 3LE
Supported by the Economy & Culture research cluster at Durham Geography, this workshop aims to explore ‘Venture Capital Geographies’ broadly conceived.
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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.
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
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.
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