Events from the 01 January 2024 - 31 December 2024 Reset
Durham's South Asia Group ‘Pedagogies of Dispossession’ Network invites you to ‘Controlling the Narrative’: art and early East India Company texts - seminar with guest speaker Dr Jennifer Howes (Art Historian, London)
23 April 2024
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Seminar Room, Institute of Advanced Study, Cosin‘s Hall. Attendance can also be via Zoom.
Want to get involved in interdisciplinary research but you don’t know where to start? Have a question that requires the input from various disciplines? Come to our Interdisciplinary Sandpit event, where you will meet peers from other departments, share ideas and brainstorm new projects . Coffee and lunch provided.
25 April 2024
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Seminar Room, IAS, Cosin’s Hall, Palace Green
The workshop is an integral part of the research project Visibility Reclaimed: Experiencing Rome’s First Public Museums (1733-1870): An Analysis of Public Audiences in a Transnational Perspective. Marking the second of three encounters, this workshop delves into the examination of literary discourses vital to understanding the experiences of early museum-goers.
23 May 2024 - 24 May 2024
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Seminar Room, Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, Cosin‘s Hall, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RL
Durham's South Asia Group ‘Pedagogies of Dispossession’ Network invites you to 'Desi Queers: LGBTQ+ South Asians and Cultural Belonging in Britain' with speakers Professor Churnjeet Mahn (Strathcylde) and Dr Rohit Dasgupta (Glasgow)
24 May 2024
Elvet Riverside, Room 141, New Elvet, Durham, DH1 3AQ. Attendance can also be via Zoom.
This International Workshop starts from the assumption that to draw meaningful recommendations for managing displacement caused by war, such as in the case of contemporary Ukraine, it is necessary to examine regional historical roots and processes that led to it, as well as to draw on other examples of displacement, historical as well as contemporary, and the solutions that have been offered. Keynote lectures will be given by Franck Düvell (Osnabrück) and Prof Peter Gatrell (Manchester)
06 June 2024 - 07 June 2024
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Seminar Room, Institute of Advanced Study, Cosin‘s Hall, Palace Green
Durham's South Asia Group ‘Pedagogies of Dispossession’ Network invites you to '"If your bībī is from Hindūstān": Geography as a Marker of Sexual Behaviour in North India Seminar with speaker, Dr Sonia Wigh (Cambridge).
14 June 2024
Elvet Riverside II, Room 207, New Elvet, Durham, DH1 3JT. Attendance can also be via Zoom.
Six Inches of Soil (2024) follows the inspiring story of British farmers standing up against the industrial food system and transforming the way they produce food - to heal the soil, benefit our health and provide for local communities.
19 June 2024
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Concert Room, Department of Music, Durham University, Palace Green, DH1 3RL.
A seminar by this years' Sir Harry Evans Fellow, Rosa Furneaux (Reuters)
14 October 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Cosin‘s Hall, Seminar Room, Palace Green
An afternoon celebration of the history of Black students at Durham University, including short talks from staff and students. This event will also launch the Black history walking tour website of Durham
15 October 2024
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
The Great Hall, University College (Castle), Palace Green, Durham
The joint Durham-Tübingen project on ‘Belonging’ will launch at 1pm on Thursday 17th October in the IAS seminar room, joining online with colleagues in Tübingen.
17 October 2024
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
IAS Seminar Room, Cosin‘s Hall, Palace Green, Durham