Events from the 01 January 2022 - 31 December 2022 Reset
Join CNCS PG students for a virtual writing retreat
28 January 2022
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Zoom
Our online Lunchtime Seminars feature a different area of interdisciplinary biosciences research each month. The sessions are short and sweet, typically lasting an hour and comprise a seminar or series of short talks with time given over to discussion. They are a great place to meet colleagues, make new connections, share ideas and start research conversations.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Via Zoom (link on registration)
A Network for Heating and Cooling Research to Enable a Net-Zero Carbon Future (H+C Zero Network) has been established by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to maximise the impact of UK-funded research and innovation.
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Online
From 30 January to 6 February, over 100 students from Durham Student Theatre are bringing the 48th annual Drama Festival to life, with a packed Programme of eight brand new plays being performed across the city. Enjoy an evening at the theatre in one of three fantastic venues, The Assembly Rooms Theatre in the heart of Durham, The Mark Hillery Arts Centre at Collingwood College and our newest venue, The Hub at Mount Oswald.
30 January 2022 - 06 February 2022
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Durham Drama Festival shows will be performed at these venues: - The Assembly Rooms Theatre, Durham - Mark Hillery Arts Centre, Collingwood College - The Hub, Mount Oswald
IAS seminar by Professor Abby Kinchy (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
31 January 2022
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
IAS Seminar Room, Cosins Hall.
Our webinars will be starting soon.
01 February 2022
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
02 February 2022
12:00 AM - 1:00 PM
This (face to face, as well as Zoom!) workshop will describe some methods for interrogating large, open databases, followed by a description of a current project mining theses deposited at the British Library for their intellectual content. Groupwork will focus on identifying key activities, building on ideas generated in Workshop I.
10:30 AM - 3:00 PM
IAS Seminar Room, Cosin‘s Hall.
Body weight and shape ideals are highly variable across time periods and across cultures, and laboratory research shows that our preferences are flexible. Visual media – both traditional and new social media forms – exert particular influence on conceptions of body attractiveness.
Online - Zoom Participants wishing to ask questions can do so via zoom chat.
Topic: Human-Al Coexistence: Perils and Solutions from Field Experiments.
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Departmental Research Seminar for students and staff
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Zoom Only (to be confirmed via email in advance)
The next CAS Research Seminar will take place on Wednesday 2 February at 4pm.
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Microsoft Teams
Scholars have identified Esencia de verbena, a short film depicting Madrid’s summer fairs (verbenas) by Ernesto Giménez Caballero, as a Surrealist-inflected film. The film’s fast-paced cuts, inventive perspectives, and innovative montages demonstrate the director’s engagement with the international avant-garde, and more specifically, Surrealism.
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
A online celebratory launch of this book by Dr Joshua Mobley, based on Josh's doctoral work completed at the CCS
6:00 PM - 7:15 PM
University College Durham is excited to announce the return of Durham Castle Lectures! We are delighted to welcome Dr Barbara Boehm from the Met Cloisters museum, New York, to give the Epiphany Term 2022 Durham Castle Lecture on Wednesday 2 February at 7pm. The lecture will be a hybrid event, with an in person audience and a high-quality livestream with the chance for both audiences to engage in discussion after the Lecture.
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Great Hall, Durham Castle and Online
Dr Boehm will also be participating in a small group in-conversation event chaired by University College postgraduates to explore her long and distinguished career in the museums sector. Come and join us for a fascinating conversation with Dr Boehm, chaired by Castle PhD students Kathrine Bertram and Ariadne Argyros, with coffee and networking opportunities beforehand.
03 February 2022
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Bishop‘s Dining Room, Durham Castle
Whether you would like more information about studying a Durham Masters, have queries around the admissions process, or you just want to find out more about the Business School and life in general at Durham, join us for our next Online Information Session.
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
You are warmly invited to the third Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Studies Research Seminar, hosted by Durham University’s English Studies Department and the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies. This seminar will be held 1-2pm on Thursday, 3rd February 2022, via Zoom; please email Roisín Laing (roisin.laing@durham.ac.uk) for the link.
Online (Zoom)
*Part of the series “Portrayals of 'Intellectuals' in the Ancient World”
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM