Events from the 01 October 2021 - 31 October 2021 Reset
Guest Speaker Dr Sita Balani, Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture, King’s College London
20 October 2021
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
MS Teams
To mark the beginning of Inventions of the Text for 2021/22, all are welcome to join us for a poetry reading with Mary Jean Chan.
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Online (Zoom)
A chance to meet some of our PhD students and ECRs and hear about their work.
21 October 2021
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Online via Zoom
A medieval research seminar. Email m.j.huxtable@durham.ac.uk for the Zoom logon.
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Seminar series for Spirituality, Theology & Health
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Fortnightly on Thursdays in Seminar Room Β (D/TH004)
Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar Michaelmas Term 2021 This talk is part of the series “Portrayals of 'Intellectuals' in the Ancient World”
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Online
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Newcastle University campus
22 October 2021
Zoom (link will be emailed to registered attendees on the day)
Network-H2 is the EPSRC funded network to maximise the impact of UK-funded research and innovation. The Network will be organising conferences, seminars, workshops and funding calls in order to advance the knowledge and understanding of hydrogen fuelled transportation.
Metaphysics Reading Group (term time only)
24 October 2021
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
IAS Seminar by Prof Alan J. Daly, University of California San Diego.
25 October 2021
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
IAS Seminar Room, Cosins Hall, Palace Green
Representing Memory Project Seminar by Dr Aidan Horner
26 October 2021
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Black History Now!
Join Dr Ruben Verwaal to explore the oldest acoustic hearing aids in Wellcome Collection: the ear trumpet.
Online via the Wellcome Collection
Sharing Approaches Across Disciplines
27 October 2021
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Online Teams Event
Online mixer to introduce those working across biomathematics and biocomputing.
Social scientists Anna Krzywoszynska and Lena Dominelli will join physical scientists Wendy Stone and Karen Johnson and Sustainability educationalist Joanne Appleby from OASES to look at how to build terrariums. Terrariums are very fashionable at the moment but can also be used by scientists to study global biogeochemical cycles such as the carbon cycle. Effectively we can study soil’s circular economy in a jar.
Zoom
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
This year’s prestigious Annual Higginson Lecture will take place on Wednesday 27th October 2021. The speaker is Baroness Brown of Cambridge, Julia King DBE FREng FRS. The title is Net Zero – why is it so important and how do we get there?
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Kingsley Barratt room, Calman Learning Centre Durham University Science Site, Lower Mountjoy (Refreshments available from 17:30) The lecture will also be live streamed.
The Centre for Culture and Ecology Reading Group is a student-led group aimed to discuss canonical and contemporary work in the field of Environmental Humanities. It welcomes researchers working on or simply interested in environmental issues from a range of perspectives, including English Studies, Modern Languages and Cultures, Geography, Anthropology, History, Philosophy, Classics, and more.
28 October 2021
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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