What’s On Events Calendar
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Introduction to International Boundaries: Definition, Delimitation and Dispute Resolution
01 January 2021 - 31 December 2025
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
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.
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Photographing Tutankhamun
09 December 2022 - 24 June 2023
12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
Outdoor Art Gallery
This exhibition explores how photography turned Tutankhamun into a global sensation. It shows the most famous photographic images in archaeology, from the most famous of archaeological finds: the tomb of Tutankhamun. Marking the 100th anniversary of the tomb’s discovery in November 1922, this exhibition created by Durham University academic, Prof Christina Riggs, examines the striking images created by photographer Harry Burton during the decade-long excavation.
- Exhibitions
- Everyone
Discover Durham Live Virtual Sessions
06 February 2023 - 29 June 2023
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Book a Discover Durham Live Virtual Session- come and hear from our current students!
- Open days & visits
Discover Durham Live Virtual Sessions
06 February 2023 - 29 June 2023
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Book a Discover Durham Live Virtual Session- come and hear from our current students!
- Open days & visits
Take a Stitch 2 Durham
01 April 2023 - 30 June 2023
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Durham Castle
Creative textile artists and stitchers Take a Stitch 2 Durham present their 2023 exhibition inspired by 950 years of Durham Castle.
- Public
- Everyone
Where Are We Now? Exhibition
01 June 2023 - 31 December 2023
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
"Where Are We Now?" is an art exhibition exploring the present and future of Modern Languages and Cultures at a local and global level.
- Exhibition
Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
07 June 2023 - 10 September 2023
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Oriental Museum
This moving exhibition, produced in collaboration with the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, highlights the devastation wreaked by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
- Exhibitions
- Everyone
Archives and Special Collections Experience Day
08 June 2023 - 08 June 2023
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Interested in becoming an Archivist or Rare Books Curator? The Archives and Special Collections team at Palace Green Library will be running an Experience Day for Durham University students (undergraduate or postgraduate students) who are interested in potentially pursuing a career as Archivists or Rare Books Librarians.
- Workshop
Prayer and Pragmatism: Lancelot Andrewes, William James, Charles Sanders Peirce
08 June 2023 - 08 June 2023
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
A staff and postgraduate seminar with Dr Esther Osorio Whewell.
- Research event
The Forms of the Visible
08 June 2023 - 08 June 2023
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Lecture by Philippe Descola, Emeritus Professor at the Collège de France.
- Research event
Geo-security dimensions of the war in Ukraine
08 June 2023 - 08 June 2023
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Durham University Ukrainian Talk series with Dr Markian Prokopovych
- Outreach & community
- Partnerships & Collaboration
- Public
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Therapy for Neurodegenerative Disease with Dr Paul Chazot, in celebration of legacies
08 June 2023 - 08 June 2023
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Dr Paul Chazot (Associate Professor in the Department of Biosciences) will showcase his research into drug and light therapy for neurodegenerative disease.
- Alumni
Therapy for Neurodegenerative Disease and Community Partnerships
08 June 2023 - 08 June 2023
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Join us for a special Durham showcase event on 8th June 2023, Online.
- Alumni
- Public
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Women, Mysticism and Anglicanism in the Twentieth Century Professor Jane Shaw The Michael Ramsey Lecture 2023
08 June 2023 - 08 June 2023
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Michael Ramsey Lecture 2023 is with Prof Jane Shaw (Oxford), on ‘WOMEN, MYSTICISM AND ANGLICANISM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY’
- Lecture
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
What’s on across our venues
Our unique cultural attractions include Durham Castle, Botanic Garden, Historic Libraries at Palace Green, Oriental Museum, Museum of Archaeology and our World Heritage Site Visitor Centre. Whatever your interest, there's something for everyone to enjoy.