Events from the 01 May 2022 - 31 May 2022 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
An exhibition, created in partnership with the National Museum of Japanese History, exploring how images of famous tales of samurai, travellers and heroes during the 18th and 19th centuries in Japan inspired art created during the real life conflicts at the end of the 19th century and early 20th century.
28 January 2022 - 15 May 2022
Oriental Museum, Elvet Hill, Durham, DH1 3TH
What is computational musicology and what can the approach accomplish? This event sees colleagues from the Music Department, Computer Science and Anthropology discuss the concepts associated with this field of study.
03 May 2022
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Online via Zoom
You are warmly invited to attend the talk of Dr Alena Heinritz, a visiting postdoctoral fellow from the University of Innsbruck.
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Elvet Riverside 143 and Online
A public lecture by Prof. David F. Ford
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Leech Hall, St John‘s College, 3 South Bailey, Durham DH1 3RJ
By Prof. David F. Ford (University of Cambridge)
Leech Hall, St John‘s College, 3 South Bailey Durham DH1 3RJ
A talk by Dr Markian Prokopovych, Associate Professor in Modern European Cultural History at Durham University
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Screen 2 Gala Theatre, or online via Zoom
The IHRR presents the Exploring Risk Film Festival on the 4th May 2022. The Festival is a celebration of science, story-telling and how to believe in a better world. The festival asks filmmakers to consider hazards to human life, society and wellbeing and how we might imagine a just, safe and sustainable future.
04 May 2022
Room TLC033, Teaching and Learning Centre, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LS
This will be designed in the light of experiences with W1 – 3, revisiting research papers as necessary, and expanding the circle of researchers in light of the progress that has been made.
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
IAS Seminar Room, Cosin‘s Hall, Palace Green
Seminar brought to you by the International Centre of Public Accountability (ICOPA).
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
TBC
You are warmly invited to the final Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Studies Research Seminar of this academic year, hosted by Durham University's English Studies Department and the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies.
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Online
Fragile heritage ecologies explore how heritage is made, lost, sustained and adapted in landscapes that are shifting and transforming due to the effects of climate change.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Everyone is warmly welcome to join Inventions of the Text, for poetry reading and critical thinking with Dr Kim Moore.
Online (Zoom)
By Prof. Julia Stapleton (Durham University)
5:30 PM - 7:15 PM
Ushaw: Historic House, Chapels & Gardens
Bearded Ladies and Gender Benders: The Instability of a Binary System
05 May 2022
5:00 PM - 6:45 PM
Elvet Riverside, Room 143
This event, linked to International Women’s Day, was postponed from March. The panel comprises speakers from Durham's archaeology department, who will address questions about their career and the ‘leaky pipeline’ of women progressing to higher qualifications and careers in archaeology. Open to all students and colleagues to discuss experiences, challenges, and any guidance for women in archaeology.
06 May 2022
Online (Link available soon
Join us at the QS Virtual Connect MBA event in Nigeria & Ghana.
07 May 2022
11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
In this virtual forum, participants will have an opportunity to discuss and explore the future of Iberian archaeology on the global stage in terms of its goals, practices, aims, and ethics. Co-organizers: Rui Gomes Coelho (Durham University, UK) and Katina Lillios (University of Iowa, US).
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Week-long series of online and in-person events to celebrate the past 5 years research excellence and key outputs of the Centre for Energy Systems Integration (CESI).
09 May 2022 - 18 May 2022
Mon – Thurs: sessions online via Zoom with the poster event online Fri am: InTEGReL, Low Thornley, Gateshead Fri pm: Urban Science Building, Newcastle University for lunch, poster display & ceremony
Academy of Management Review (AMR) Idea Development Workshop hosted by the Centre for Innovation and Technology Management and led by Sherry Thatcher, the current Editor-in-Chief, and Shelley Brickson, Associate Editor. Other Associate Editors and Editorial Review Board members will join in facilitating the workshop.
09 May 2022
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Durham University Business School, Mill Hill Lane
Join CIPB as it hosts Alexandra Cirone, assistant professor and Himan Brown Faculty Fellow in the Government department at Cornell University, on May 10th at 12pm.
10 May 2022
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Al-Qasimi Building 102
Mark Abdulrazak Gurnah's recent award of the Nobel Prize for Literature with our afternoon of talks and discussions. This event is co-organised between the Department of English Studies at Durham University, the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University, and the Newcastle Postcolonial Research Group.
2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Online and Department of English Studies, Hallgarth House
11 May 2022
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
In person at the Bishops Dining Room, University College (Limited Availability) and online via Zoom
The next Anglican Communion Office Seminar will take place on Wednesday 11 May at 4pm.
Microsoft Teams
Whether you would like more information about studying your Durham MBA or you just want to find out more about life in general at Durham, join us for our next Online Information Session.
12 May 2022
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
This talk is organised with the Institute of Medical Humanities. Dr Lesel Dawson, Associate Professor in Literature and Culture at the University of Bristol, specialises in grief, Renaissance literature and the history of the emotions.
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
A talk by Dr Lesel Dawson, Associate Professor in Literature and Culture at the University of Bristol, who specialises in grief, Renaissance literature and the history of the emotions
This seminar explores these tensions; specifically, how people in geothermally resourceful regions need to negotiate with their livelihood, traditional practices, and culture for the sake of development and climate justice.
Room CG85, Department of Chemistry
CHESS Seminar Series 2021/22: Keith Lindsey (Durham University) SPEAKER IN PERSON
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
PO004, Philosophy Department and on Zoom
A three-day weekend music festival, raising money for Ukraine. These hard-working bands and performers are giving their days up for free, for a great cause.
13 May 2022 - 15 May 2022
Magnesia Bank 1 Camden Street North Shields NE30 1NH
We are excited to present the first annual symposium put on by the Archaeology Department’s Material and Visual Culture Research and Impact Group. This one-day symposium will take place on Friday, 13 May 2022 in the Appleby lecture theatre (W103) located in the Geography building at the Science Site. We are also very pleased to announce that the keynote address will be given by Dr. Sue Brunning.
13 May 2022
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Appleby lecture theatre (W103), Geography Building, Durham University
On Saturday 14 May 2022, Blackfriars will host, in partnership with Durham University's IMEMS (*), the 19th Public lecture on Food Culture After the Baltic Crusade. The talk will be complemented by a carefully selected menu, emulating some of the foods and flavours of the eastern Baltic following the pivotal events of the crusades. To Book: https://www.blackfriarsrestaurant.co.uk/events/1481/medieval-lecture-food-culture-after-the-baltic-crusades
14 May 2022
11:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Blackfriars, Newcastle
Innovation Lab I : Exploring innovative ideas for solving ethical, practical and methodological challenges arising from doing participatory research.
17 May 2022
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Anderson Jeremiah discussing the relationship between power and colonialism in the Church of England.
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Online Webinar
18 May 2022
A talk in the series Unregarded: Forms of 'Outside' in Art Writing, which is run in collaboration with Newcastle University's School of Art and Cultures and the Art Writing programme
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Elvet Riverside 142 and online
The impacts of climate change are influencing the rural communities and their heritage assets.
In May/ June 2022, in collaboration with the (women) in parenthesis project and the Durham Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society (CHESS), the Department of Philosophy in Durham will host three workshops on ‘British Twentieth Century Women Philosophers on Science’.
Hybrid: in person (tbc) and online (Zoom)
Prof. Heather Lewandowski of the University of Colorado and JILA delivers the 2022 Rochester Lecture.
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Ph8 Lecture Theatre, Rochester Building, Science Site DH1 3LE
(THIS EVENT IS ONLY OPEN FOR DURHAM UNIVERSITY STAFF AND RESEARCH STUDENTS ONLY)
19 May 2022
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Durham University, Elvet Hill House (Room EH202), Durham, DH1 3TH OR ONLINE.
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.
This online event will guide Durham academic colleagues, who wish to Nominate a Fellow for a IAS Fellowship in 2023/24, through the process.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
A research seminar in our Global Literatures strand.
This project investigates anthropologically how different actors in the Central German Mining District try to keep pace with the making of post-carbon futures.
Room CG85, Department of Chemistry & Zoom
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.
20 May 2022
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Considering applying for an MBA at Durham University Business School?
21 May 2022
10:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Considering applying for a Masters degree at Durham University Business School?
A special issue online workshop looking at Standard-setting of Sustainability Reporting. This is being hosted jointly with the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow,
23 May 2022
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Professor Jennifer Oetzel will be giving a talk based on her research paper: Multinational enterprises and natural disasters: Challenges and opportunities for International Business research.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Prof. Richard Scholar, Co-Director of the Early Modern Keywords research strand at Durham, takes part in a round table on 'Working with Keywords' as part of a Cross-Channel Workshop on 'European perspectives on the Renaissance'.
24 May 2022
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Join Amanda Herbert for a seminar co-organised by IMH and History of Science, Technology and Medicine group for a talk on the lives and experiences of women and men who worked inside medical spa complexes in Britain and the Americas between 1500-1800.
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Seminar Room 1 (HS110), 43 North Bailey
Join CIPB as it hosts Dr Damien Bol, Reader in Political Behaviour at Kings College London, on May 24th at 12pm.
Although the Miners’ Strike took place nearly forty years ago, the families and communities that experienced it in County Durham still have vivid memories of that year and have had to wrestle in their lives with the destruction of an industry.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Durham Town Hall and Online via Zoom
Topic: Non-dilutive CoCo Bonds: A Necessary Evil? Seminar organised by the Department of Economics and Finance.
25 May 2022
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
This seminar will take place both remotely and in person in MHL 453.
Inventions of the Text is delighted to welcome two Durham University Creative Writing PGRs – Lucy Atkinson and Soumyaroop Majumdar – to read for us at our next seminar on 25 May.
This presentation will focus on the composition and dominant logic of LCOE, and the advances in O&M practices and technologies to manage offshore wind systems in an efficient and optimal way.
26 May 2022
By Dr Victoria Biggs (Durham University)
Seminar Room B, Abbey House
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.
27 May 2022
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. These monthly webinars explore the challenges of decarbonising heating and cooling.
We’re supporting Durham Pride 2022, and we’re excited to welcome the event back to Durham city.
29 May 2022
12:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The Sands Field, Durham DH1 1LF
Italian Studies at Durham will host an online conversation about the museum heritage of the Italian colonial past with the curators of the Former Colonial Museum of Rome. Please share with those you think might be interested.
30 May 2022
This symposium aims to collectively explore forms of embodied practices in the post-WWII era with a focus on Japan in the global context.
31 May 2022 - 01 June 2022
We welcome Professor Roe-Min Kok for this CNCS co-hosted event with her talk on ‘Genealogies of Heimat’
31 May 2022
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