Events from the 01 June 2021 - 30 June 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
Sam Slatcher is a singer-songwriter, community arts facilitator and founder of Citizen Songwriters CIC. Sam is passionate about engaging different communities in the process of storytelling through songwriting. In 2018, Sam graduated from Durham University with a PhD in Human Geography on creative community engagement.
01 June 2021
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The last of the Durham History Department Research Seminar series welcome Professor Larry Wolff, New York University
02 June 2021
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
via Zoom
A Zoom research seminar presented by Dr Conrad Hughes, International School of Geneva. Everyone is welcome to attend and booking is not required.
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Online event (via Zoom)
Dr Smallbone will present a summary of the major technical challenges we face in delivering decarbonised heat in the UK.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Zoom
Join us for Dr Paolo Heywood's inaugural lecture.
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
After the skeletonised remains of a woman are found stuffed into the trunk of a wych elm in Hagley Woods, graffiti begins to appear and gruesome theories begin to take form. We delve into the mind of a detective exploring the case but as they begin to lose control of the story we are left wondering not just Who put Bella in the Wych Elm but if we should be telling the story at all…
04 June 2021 - 11 June 2021
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Recorded at the Assembly Rooms Theatre, Durham
Metaphysics Reading Group (term time only)
06 June 2021
06 June 2021 - 13 June 2021
9:30 PM - 11:30 PM
Part of the Pure Maths Colloquium.
07 June 2021
Location TBC
An online course for doctoral students and members of community organisations designed to develop understanding and skills in the theory and practice of participatory action research (PAR).
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
The Durham Biophysical Sciences Institute is very pleased to be hosting the online Peptoid Symposium Series, organised by an international committee of peptoid researchers. This is a free, online series of bimonthly symposia. The aim is to sustain and grow the international community interested in peptoids and related research. Symposia will feature keynote talks from the leaders in the field, as well as a mix of shorter invited talks and flash presentations from ECRs. #peptoidsymposia
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Uterine Dreams is a project by the artist Sarah Danays arising from her fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, in conjunction with the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture and the Oriental Museum.
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Virtual - via Zoom
08 June 2021
This talk at the Music Research Forum discusses the collaboration on ethnomusicological and audiovisual projects between Durham University's Music Department and Fondazione Cini's Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies (IISMC).
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Part of the Analysis and PDE Seminar Series.
09 June 2021
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
This seminar will look at the mammoth task of decarbonising the petroleum industry and what role the North Sea can play in the energy transition. We will examine the resources, skills and knowledge contained within the North Sea and its industry to offer a different future, one of high skill, high employment and low-carbon energy delivery.
Presented by Prof. David Albert Jones , Anscombe Bioethics Centre, Oxford
09 June 2021 - 16 June 2021
Part of the Geometry and Topology Seminar Series.
10 June 2021
1:05 PM - 2:05 PM
Join our introductory event to meet the writers supporting Durham Sociology's writing residency on the theme of identity.
Zoom (Attendees will be sent the Zoom link on the day of the meeting via Eventbrite. If you haven‘t received a link, please check your junk folder)
11 June 2021 - 18 June 2021
13 June 2021
This online day conference is a chance for postgraduate students and other early career researchers to present their research in a collegial environment.
14 June 2021
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Celebrate the publication of Kayo Chingonyi's latest collection, A Blood Condition, at our next Inventions of the Text seminar.
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Online (Zoom)
Participatory Research with 'silenced communities': learning how to mutually trust as an act of empowerment
15 June 2021
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Online Event - Zoom
Eidos PG Seminars - Summer Term 2021
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Online - Zoom
The final Music Research Forum for this term welcomes Filippo Bonini Baraldi, researcher at the Instituto de Etnomusicologia (INET-MD)
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
History Now! Durham History Department and the Gala Theatre series of public lectures Titled - Histories for the Burmese Revolution by Dr Jonathan Saha
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Zoom online
Presented by Dr Shannen Dee Williams, Villanova University, USA
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
In this panel event we will hear about the amazing growth of offshore wind in the UK, the role Durham University has played in these developments and what the role of regional clusters is in meeting ambitious targets to expand the sector to meet the global decarbonisation challenge.
16 June 2021
In the intermission between two wars your father sang a song. By the time I heard this song, it had no music. – ‘Music Practice’ Join our next Inventions of the Text poetry reading.
5:30 PM - 6:45 PM
Michael Ramsey Lecture 2021
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Microsoft Teams
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17 June 2021
Join us for the last in a series of online research talks organised by the Birkbeck and Durham Centres for Nineteenth-Century Studies, focusing on our theme of The Victorians at Home and Abroad
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Thursday 17th June at 7pm alumnus Gabriel Currie (Social Chair 2013-14) will give a talk on Zoom about cybersecurity.
Stephen Minas, Advancing Technology Development and Transfer under the Paris Agreement, Road to COP26/CMA 3 Preparatory Lecture Series
18 June 2021
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
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.
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Explore how to write for non-specialist audiences to make your research more accessible and impactful in this practical workshop led by Sarah McLusky.
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Online via Zoom
You are welcome to this seminar on a topic that will resonate with many of us. The talk is hosted by the History Department East Asia research group and cross-listed with the History of Science group.
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Prof Eric Schliesser from the University of Amsterdam gives a talk as part of our Seminar Series.
20 June 2021
Durham Heat Hub invite you to join us for a Innovation Sprint held over 2 half days, that focuses on user-centred heat innovation to identify future heat challenges and opportunities in the North East of England.
21 June 2021 - 22 June 2021
ONLINE
A court of all-female leads. Three male witches who look more like traders and journalists than hags on a moor. How much can we trust what we’re told to believe?
21 June 2021 - 27 June 2021
7:30 PM - 7:30 PM
22 June 2021
23 June 2021
Join us for our first Greenspace Festival
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM
The Racecourse, located along the River Wear
Dr Ling-Chin’s seminar will present an overview on relevant technologies and issues that challenge the supply and use of hydrogen for transportation.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
We end the academic year of Inventions of the Text with an evening of poetry.
Decolonising Degrowth Conference: From Sustainability to Climate Justice
24 June 2021 - 25 June 2021
1:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Presented by TBC
24 June 2021
Various locations in central Durham City
A comic operetta, following the fortunes of Frederic, a young pirate, as he comes to the end of his apprenticeship and falls in love, but is he really as free as he thinks?
27 June 2021
2:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Assembly Rooms Theatre
After a whole year of closed concert halls and empty auditoriums, Durham is thrilled to finally present their musical return to life as we know it, by opening their concert season with a bang!
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Sage Gateshead
The Planck conference series covers a broad spectrum of physics beyond the Standard Model and of the interface between particle physics and cosmology with an emphasis on the theoretical aspects related to the present experimental programmes.
28 June 2021 - 30 June 2021
Online only
Blackfriars, in collaboration with medieval experts from Durham University's Institute of Medieval & Early Modern Studies (IMEMS), is hosting a five-day online cookery course delving deep into this fascinating collection of recipes on meat, fish and game as well as vegetables, pottage, and sweet dishes.
28 June 2021 - 02 July 2021
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
As part of our Sociology in Action week we are holding a round-table event on the topic of writing scholarly work whilst drawing on personal experience.
29 June 2021
Zoom (Attendees will be sent the Zoom link via Eventbrite. If you haven‘t received a link, please check your junk folder)
On Wednesday 30th June (at 12.30) the Centre for Organisations and Society (COS) host their fifth seminar of their 2021 series. This time we focus on “Well-being in the health and care sectors during the COVID-19 pandemic” and have two presentations to look forward to.
30 June 2021
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
This panel discussion will ask how COP26 can embed justice into the transition to a sustainable, decarbonised world. We will ask about the many levels and meanings of justice, the challenges to achieving real change, and the importance of keeping it on the COP agenda.
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