Events from the 01 July 2023 - 31 July 2023 Reset
This skill-building workshop series is geared towards postgraduate researchers and staff and centres on narrative and qualitative approaches to mapping. The workshop corresponds with a visit from colleagues from Zaporizhzhia National University in Ukraine as part of the UK–Ukraine Twinning Grant scheme. Participants will be introduced to alternative mapping techniques through a series of guest lectures, hands-on practical sessions, and a keynote.
17 July 2023 - 18 July 2023
1:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Geography Building, Room W007
Join us for a two-day open workshop on Environmental Policy Options: Uncertainty, Adaptation & Flexible Decisions on 19 and 20 July 2023.
19 July 2023 - 20 July 2023
7:45 AM - 6:15 PM
Durham University Business School, Mill Hill Lane, Durham
Reflecting upon the contemporary situation and the way the war in Ukraine is affecting cities, this workshop addresses broader issues affecting urban recovery across time and space.
19 July 2023
10:20 AM - 11:20 AM
Online
Join us online for a lecture on the phenomenology of climate change by Dr Maximilian Hepach (Potsdam) in Durham Geography's series on Elemental Kinship.
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Registration is now open for this two-day conference to be held 20-21 July 2023 at Collingwood College. All are also welcome to attend the book launch for Henry Miller’s A Nation of Petitioners: Petitions and Petitioning in the United Kingdom, 1780-1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023). It will take place on Wednesday, 19 July 2023, 4-5pm, PG.21 (Palace Green 21). Contact: henry.j.miller@durham.ac.uk
20 July 2023 - 21 July 2023
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Collingwood College Penthouse Conference Suite, Durham University
20 July 2023
2:00 PM - 2:40 PM
While the politics of memory and the way through which some versions and interpretations of history become prioritised in official political discourses have engaged a broad range of actors in the past, it is in the most traumatic moments of history such as today in Ukraine that they are particularly in flux, with old sites of memory acquiring new layers of meaning and new ones emerging from the sites of war and destruction.
21 July 2023
10:10 AM - 11:10 AM
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Join Durham University Council Member, Professor Denise Lievesley CBE, CStat, FAcSS, and fellow alumni and friends for an intimate informal evening event in Ottawa, Canada.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
The Lieutenant‘s Pump, 361 Elgin St, Ottawa, ON K2P 1M9, Canada
22 July 2023
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Our unique cultural attractions include Durham Castle, Botanic Garden, Palace Green Library, Oriental Museum and the Assembly Rooms Theatre. Sitting right at the heart of this historic city, we are perfectly placed to offer a dazzling array of events and activities.