Events from the 20 June 2022 - 26 June 2022 Reset
Introduction to International Boundaries: Definition, Delimitation and Dispute Resolution
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
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Forms of “Outside” in Art Writing: A Workshop
This afternoon workshop will offer ten-minute presentations on the theme of 'outside'. Centring on Art Writing's mobility as a form and its intuitive correspondence with visual culture, the workshop will take an aptly creative-critical focus, providing a forum in which scholars and practitioners may present works-in-progress, new writings or ideas that might occur between (or, indeed, 'outside') disciplines, departments, or definitions.
20 June 2022
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Elvet Riverside 141
- Research event
- Department of English Studies
Leslie Brooks Lecture 2022 with Rolena Adorno, Sterling Professor Emerita of Spanish
The medieval European mappa mundi looked back and forward in time: from the Creation of the world in Genesis to its redemption as interpreted by the Christian Gospel.
20 June 2022
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Online
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Beowulf: Between Folktale and Epic with Whiteblade
An IMEMS Public Lecture by Dr Philip A. Shaw, with a performance by Hazelsong Theatre Company
20 June 2022
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Durham Town Hall, Market Place, Durham. DH1 3NJ
- Outreach & community
- Public
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Global Lecture Series 2022: The Fate Of Communities – What Happened When The Coal Mines Closed
What happened to mining communities when the last of the pits closed is the focus of this free online talk by Emeritus Professor Ray Hudson from our Department of Geography. The event will be hosted by Professor Rob Lynes CMG, Principal of Stephenson College.
20 June 2022
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Virtual event
- Public
- Department of Geography
Touching the Unreachable: Writing and Skinship in Modern Japanese Literature
In this talk, Fusako Innami will explore the work of Japanese writers—such as Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata, Jun’ichiro Tanizaki, Junnosuke Yoshiyuki and Rieko Matsuura—to analyse the desire for touch in modern Japanese fiction.
20 June 2022
6:45 PM - 9:00 PM
Online event
- Research event
- School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Radical Dragons Exhibition: Fearsome Beasts and the Making of the North East
Dare you meet the White Dragon of Durham, slumbering in Brancepeth Castle’s Armour Gallery?
20 June 2022 - 17 July 2022
10:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Brancepeth Castle
- Exhibitions
- Research event
Radical Dragons: Fearsome Beasts and the Making of the North East
Encounter rebellious spirits and abominable monsters as they prowl the halls of Brancepeth Castle this summer.
21 June 2022
10:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Brancepeth Castle
- Exhibitions
- Department of English Studies
- Research Institute
'Imposter Syndrome in Higher Education': Discussion & Book Launch!
Join us as we explore feeling like an ‘imposter’ in higher education and what this can tell us about contemporary educational inequalities.
21 June 2022
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Online
- Research event
- Department of Sociology
‘Faith Under Fire: A Personal Reflection on Modern Conflict’ Vann Research Robbins Lecture. Lieutenant General Robin Brims CB CBE DSO DL
The next Vann Research Programme Lecture will take place on Wednesday 21 June at 7pm.
21 June 2022
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Elvet Riverside 149 and Microsoft Teams
- Research event
- Department of Theology and Religion