Events from the 01 May 2021 - 31 May 2021 Reset
This event is co-hosted by the Centre for Catholic Studies at Durham University and the University of Notre Dame in England.
11 May 2021
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Online
12 May 2021
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Venue: TBC
Introduction by Susan Hart, Dean of Durham University Business School Presenters: Thomas Renstrom and Laura Marsiliani Durham University Business School and DEI.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Online (Zoom)
Climate finance covers the broad topics of investments in both climate mitigation and resilience across the globe. The finance strand in COP26 looks at the funding mechanisms for all of the other thematic components of COP26 and it is here that we begin with a discussion on the incentives, regulation and pricing of investments relating to climate change/crisis and the green economy.
Zoom webinar
This departmental research seminar brings together colleagues in a roundtable discussion
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
via Zoom
Please join us for the talk by Prof Tom Boellstorff (University of California Irvine) hosted by our Social Anthropology Research Group on 12 May, 3 pm (UK time). Prof Boellstorff will present his fascinating new book project 'The Intellivision System: Video Game History and the Future of Platforms'.
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Online via Zoom
What—if anything—do Lear’s paintings and poems see in one another? And what sense (or nonsense) can be made from thinking about landscapes alongside limericks?
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Durham Mind, Language, and Metaphysics Graduate Conference || 13-15th May 2021
13 May 2021 - 15 May 2021
9:30 AM - 3:45 PM
Zoom
Part of the Geometry and Topology Seminar Series.
13 May 2021
1:05 PM - 2:05 PM
Online (via Zoom)
Part of our regular staff and postgraduate research seminar series.
14 May 2021
12:00 PM - 2:30 PM
The Durham History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Research group has scheduled events for Easter term. Next talk by Nader El-Bizri (Beirut/Durham) - Entitled 'Experimentation as a Method of Demonstration and Proof in Alhazen's Optics'
Zoom online - will be circulated prior to the meeting
Metaphysics Reading Group (term time only)
16 May 2021
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Physics' leading astronomers Profs. Carlos Frenk, Martin Ward and Chris Done along with Dr Chichuan Jin of the National Astronomical Observatory of China will present the third Knowledge Across Borders webinar in a series jointly produced by Durham University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This will be held on the 18th May over Zoom. Registration is free.
18 May 2021
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
18th May 2021, 17:00, Anne Bailey, Department of History, Oxford University
Part of the Analysis and PDE Seminar Series.
19 May 2021
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location TBC
On Wednesday 19th May, as part of the CMP seminar series, we have a presentation and then a discussion with Dr Rodger Sykes, our department’s newly awarded entrepreneur in residence by the Royal Society. All are welcome to meet Dr Sykes!
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
CMP Seminar / discussion via Zoom
Andy Large and Julian Williams UKRI Living Deltas Hub and Newcastle University
Please join us for the 2021 Robert H Layton Lecture by Prof Clarence C Gravlee: Racism and Health Inequities: Integrating the Social and Biological Sciences
This joint Inventions of the Text and Centre for Visual Arts and Culture seminar will discuss how modern poets have represented the visual portrait in writing.
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