Events from the 01 May 2021 - 31 May 2021 Reset
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
IMEMS has a long-standing relationship with Blackfriars Restaurant in Newcastle and we are pleased to announce our 3-day cookery course.
22 March 2021 - 26 March 2022
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Blackfriars, Friars Street, Newcastle, NE1 4XN
A series of online discussions on Catholic theology and Catholic studies
24 March 2021 - 17 June 2021
Online
Metaphysics Reading Group (term time only)
02 May 2021
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
This is the first of our Easter term 2021 Music Research Forum events.
04 May 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
This event will take place via Zoom
The Independent Human Rights Act Review (IHRAR), launched in December 2020, has been established to examine the framework of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA), how it is operating in practice and whether any change is required. The review is being conducted by a Panel of eight members, chaired by Sir Peter Gross, a former judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Zoom
4th May 2021, 17:00, Louise Nugent, Blogger, Archaeologist & Heritage Consultant
Location TBC
History Now! Durham History Department and the Gala Theatre Panel discussion - Radical Histories
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Zoom online
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.
05 May 2021
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Zoom webinar
The latest History Research Seminar discusses Zimbabwe's catastrophic cholera outbreak of 2008-9.
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
What Makes Us Human? Like many anthropologists, this is the question that provokes my anthropological imagination. Assumed capacities of the mind; language, intentionality, theory of mind and empathy have to date informed normative definitions of what makes humans exceptionally human.
Zoom - all welcome. Please register to attend.
All are welcome: come along, listen to Dr Jane Williams' talk, meet friends old and new, and contribute to the conversation!
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Dr Andy Fletcher presents a talk as part of our 2020/2021 Seminar Series.
Virtual Reality
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Online - Zoom
You are warmly invited to join us for a reading by Peter Gizzi.
5:30 PM - 6:45 PM
Online (Zoom)
Neil Visalvanich and Hans Hassell (Florida State University), 'Like Me: Race, Gender, Ideology, and perceptions of Electability'
06 May 2021
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Dr Mollie Arbuthnott, will be speaking to us about Red East: Propaganda Posters for Interwar Soviet Uzbekistan This has been rescheduled from 29th April.
07 May 2021
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Part of our 20th- and 21st-century research seminar series.
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Join consultant Jamie Gallagher for an interactive workshop investigating how to foster engagement which not only produces world-leading research, but also creates meaningful change.
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Online via Zoom
09 May 2021
Presented by Dr Erin Rowe, Johns Hopkins University, USA
11 May 2021
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
This event is co-hosted by the Centre for Catholic Studies at Durham University and the University of Notre Dame in England.
12 May 2021
Venue: TBC
Introduction by Susan Hart, Dean of Durham University Business School Presenters: Thomas Renstrom and Laura Marsiliani Durham University Business School and DEI.
This departmental research seminar brings together colleagues in a roundtable discussion
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'.
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?
Durham Mind, Language, and Metaphysics Graduate Conference || 13-15th May 2021
13 May 2021 - 15 May 2021
9:30 AM - 3:45 PM
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
16 May 2021
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
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.
The webinar will showcase the exciting Hydrogen and Net Zero activities in the Tees Valley Combined Authority region including the potential contribution to systems integration of offshore wind power and highlight the opportunities that this presents for the wider regional supply chain.
20 May 2021
10:00 AM - 11:30 PM
Zoom Webinar
In this lecture, hosted by Uppsala University, Prof. Ehmke Pohl (Durham University) will discuss the key methods and challenges involved in establishing the pipeline from collecting virus samples to analysing the structures and functions of the encoded enzymes will be presented. The potential of Virus-X products will be highlighted with specific examples of applications in Covid19 detection technologies.
Hosted by Uppsala University, broadcast on Zoom.
The Durham History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Research group has scheduled events for Easter term. Next talk by Nicholas Everett (Toronto) - Entitled 'The Art and Science of Medieval Compound Drugs in the Antidotarium Nicolai' Please note: different weekday - Thursday meeting.
Feminist Movements in a Pandemic World
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Presented by Prof. John Betz, University of Notre Dame
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.
21 May 2021
Durham Centre for Law and Philosophy presents: Professor Amalia Amaya Vanarro, 'Group Disagreement and Virtuous Deliberation in Law'
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
23 May 2021
The 2021 annual workshop on Parton Showers and Resummation will be held online, during May 25-27, 2021
25 May 2021 - 27 May 2021
Online event
Lucille Cairns Memorial Lecture: Love Actually? Intimacy in Zinaida Poliakova’s Diaries in Imperial Russia
25 May 2021
History Now! talk, hosted by Durham History Department and the Gala Theatre, in partnership with Generation2Generation Titled - Suffering and Survival: One Family's Experiences of the Holocaust
26 May 2021
A Zoom research seminar presented by Professor Richard M Ingersoll, University of Pennsylvania. Everyone is welcome to attend and booking is not required.
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Online event via Zoom
Speakers: Andrew Wright and Joanna Berry Durham University Business School and DEI
Please join us for Dr Elisabeth Kirtsoglou's seminar on the subject of 'Anticipatory nostalgia and nomadic temporality: chronocracy in the crypto-colony'
Celebrate the publication of Kayo Chingonyi's latest collection, A Blood Condition, at our next Inventions of the Text seminar.
27 May 2021
Ecology, knowledge, and peoples-centred human rights
Could the speakers please upload their slides (preferrably as PDF) in advance. To upload, an indico account with IPPP Durham is needed. This can be easily requested;
28 May 2021
9:15 AM - 11:15 AM
Petra Minnerop, The Paris Agreement rulebook: Adding a Glasgow Chapter to the Katowice Package, Road to COP 26/CMA 3 Preparatory Lecture Series
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
This lecture is co-hosted by The National University of Singapore-Centre for International Law, Durham Law School and The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL).
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
At our monthly BSI Lunchtime Seminars attendees can meet up with colleagues, make new connections, begin research discussions and lay the foundations for new collaborations. Our lunches typically last an hour. They comprise a seminar (or collection of short talks) followed by a friendly discussion. Where possible recordings of the talks are shared in the BSI Cafe teams group. To find out more about BSI Lunchtime Seminars contact bsi.admin@durham.ac.uk.
Zoom link
30 May 2021
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