Events from the 01 February 2022 - 28 February 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
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
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
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
Our webinars will be starting soon.
01 February 2022
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Online
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.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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
Zoom
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.
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Online (Zoom)
*Part of the series “Portrayals of 'Intellectuals' in the Ancient World”
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (CCLCJ) is delighted to host Professor Susan Edwards (Barrister, University of Buckingham former Dean of Law), who will present the research from her recent monograph: The Political Appropriation of the Muslim Body: Islamophobia, Counter-Terrorism Law and Gender.
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Hybrid: In Person and Online (Zoom)
Hybrid: Room PCL050 and Zoom
An IAS Public Lecture by Professor Britt Kramvig, UiT the Arctic University of Norway
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Hatfield College Chapel, Hatfield College
Celebrate the arrival of the year of the tiger with a range of events taking place at Durham Town Hall and venues across Durham city on Saturday 5 February, 10:30am – 4.00pm.
05 February 2022
10:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Durham Town Hall and venues across Durham City
Topic: What’s it all about, Alfie? Contradictions in a world of university research impact.
07 February 2022
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Philosophical Issues in Space Science Seminar Series 2022: Martin Ward ( Emeritus Temple Chevallier Professor of Astronomy and Leverhulme Fellow, Durham University)
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM
ER227, Elvet Riverside and on Zoom
An IAS Public Lecture by Dr Stefano Bertea (University of Leicester)
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Platform 3 (Main College Building), Stephenson College
By Dr Anca Sincan (Romanian Academy)
08 February 2022
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Music Research Forum welcomes Professor Robert Toft, Western University, Canada. Please register using the links.
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join us on 8 February for a poetry reading and Q&A on Queering the Green (Lifeboat Press), a new anthology of thirty-one poets demonstrating the vibrant multiplicity of queer experience in twenty-first century Ireland.
An IAS Public Lecture by Professor Susanne Winterling (Norwegian University of Science and Technology).
St Aidan‘s College
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Topic: The Central Bank, the Treasury, or the Market: Which One Determines the Price Level?
09 February 2022
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
The emerging fantasy of the bio- is associated with economy, security, and politics. Proliferating biotechnological innovations produce various kinds of bioeconomy, such as biomaterials for manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries. The proliferation of the bioeconomy provokes the concept of biosecurity and biopolitics, as it relates to industrial development and human-animal health.
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
PO005 or online via Zoom (to be confirmed via email in advance)
Why and how do we learn?
Using the early modern notion of ingenuity (ingenio, in Spanish) as a vantage point, this paper will explore a number of interconnected themes associated with the practice of painting – matters of technique, in particular– in seventeenth-century Spain
This event is the fourth installment of Confabulations: Art Practice, Art History, Critical Medical Humanities, a new series of urgent conversations on health, medicine, and medicalised bodies. Image credit: Image © Harold Offeh, from the series “Lounging” (2017-2020).
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Online via Zoom
All DEI seminars will take place on Zoom until further notice.
10 February 2022
Topic: Type I and Type II Error Probabilities in the Courtroom.
Staff and students are welcome to join our next c20/c21 research seminar. Please email to receive your Zoom logon.
As part of LGBTQ+ History Month: Postgraduate Seminar Series, this panel brings together two PhD students in MLAC to share insights into their doctoral research, and its importance in the wider field of both queer studies and in forging connections with external cultural organisations both nationally and internationally.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
By Dr Gabrielle Thomas (Emory University)
The world-renowned EXAUDI vocal group take the stage for the very first performance of a captivating new work by local composer Michael Worboys, rooted in the rich tradition of Zen chanting.
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Durham Cathedral
Virtual online IAS seminar by Dr Daniel Blinkhorn (University of Sydney).
14 February 2022
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Online seminar only.
Nick Vivyan (co-authors: Chris Hanretty & Benjamin Lauderdale), 'The Idiosyncratic Voter: Issue Opinion and Political Choice in the British Electorate'.
15 February 2022
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Join us for a late night opening at the Oriental Museum to mark the Year of the Tiger.
IAS visiting Fellow, Dr Stefano Bertea (University of Leicester) in conjunction with the Durham Law School will host a one-day workshop on legal obligation. The workshop will take place online.
16 February 2022
8:45 AM - 5:30 PM
Online event
Depression is common among people with long-term conditions (LTCs), and is linked with worse physical outcomes. However, depression in the context of LTCs is not well understood and standard treatments are not always effective.
Online - Zoom Participants wishing to ask questions can do so via zoom chat
Topic: Regulating board gender diversity in Europe: The influence of cultural, governmental, and women’s institutions
Online creative writing workshop led by Dr Marie-Géraldine Lea aimed at learners of French (CEFR level B2/C1).
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Brief Encounters - 25 Years of Writing Histories of Gay Men An illustrated talk by Stephen Bourne
17 February 2022
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
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.
18 February 2022
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Online creative writing masterclass aimed at teachers of French led by Clémentine Beauvais.
Hot off the heels of recent sell-out runs across the country, Durham Revue our very own nationally renowned sketch comedy troupe, are bringing their hilarious new material to a home audience at Gala Durham this February - and they won’t be alone. They will be joined by Award-winning, The Cambridge Footlights, to present ‘ComedyFest!’ This one night only event promises to deliver a laugh-a-minute, showcasing the best of the UK’s upcoming comedians from Durham and Cambridge Footl
20 February 2022
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Gala Durham Milenium Square Durham DH1 1WA
This webinar will present thermal management research carried out by academics in Durham University and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
22 February 2022
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
online
Join CNCS PG students for a virtual writing retreat
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
EURiCA Reading Group
Department of Philosophy, Old Elvet (room 207) and Zoom
Online creative writing workshop led by Belgian writer Katia Lanero Zamora aimed at learners of French (CEFR level B2/C1)
23 February 2022
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Desire, love, identity: exploring LGBTQ histories at the British Museum'. A talk by Stuart Frost, Head of Interpretation and Volunteers at the British Museum.
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Online - please register
In this lecture I consider the ways in which everyday physical activities such as walking, particularly as part of a social group, are enjoyed and valued, as well as the pleasures and benefits of academic collaboration.
The next CAS Research Seminar will take place on Wednesday 23 February at 4pm.
Professor Noortje Marres, University of Warwick, will deliver the seminar 'The test society: two challenges for sociology' as part of the Sociology research seminar series.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Hybrid. Room information will be sent once you have registered.
By Dr Tonya Moutray (Russell Sage College, USA, and Visiting Fellow at Durham Residential Research Library)
Ushaw: Historic House, Chapels & Gardens Postcode for satnav: DH7 7DW
Want to find out more about STEP? STEP 2022 information events will be held both online and in person: - Online Information Event: 23 Feb 2022 - London Information Event: DATE TBC - Online Information Event: 22 March 2022
Online Public Lecture by Dr Daniel Blinkhorn, University of Sydney
24 February 2022
Online IAS Public Lecture only
This two-day online event will further explore the prolific production of images of Spanish landscapes, monuments, and people by artists David Roberts and Genaro Pérez Villaamil.
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Via Zoom
This event is open to all but we request that non-Durham University participants attend via registration. Registration for this event will close at 5pm, Wednesday 23 February.
Hybrid event taking place online and in ER149
Join Peter Riley as he introduces his new book, Strandings, which describes a decades long quest within the mysterious world of whale scavengers.
Williams Library, St Chad‘s College
An online talk by David Minto in LGBT+ History Month 2022
Join Inventions of the Text for a talk on ‘Shakespeare and Wisdom’ with Professor Lars Engle. Open to everyone.
Foundations for a new science of consciousness.
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Rochester Building, PH8
Join us at the QS Virtual Connect MBA event in Colombia
11:30 PM - 2:00 AM
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.
25 February 2022
Via Zoom (link on registration)
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.
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Creating a Solar-Powered Car to Cross Australia
26 February 2022
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Swindon and online
5 Aside Charity Football Tournament at Collingwood College
27 February 2022
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Collingwood College
Jieun Kang: haegeum (Korean fiddle) Hong Yoo: daegeum (Korean bamboo flute) Hong Yoo and Jieun Kang perform Korean court music, folk art repertoire, and modern compositions on two of Korea’s most distinctive instruments, the daegeum bamboo flute and haegeum fiddle. Yoo and Kang are prominent figures in the world of Korean traditional music and, in this concert, they present us with an astonishing range of sound colours, captivating our senses in the present moment.
Durham Town Hall
Visibility, Knowledge and Support -
28 February 2022
One of the leading shakuhachi players in Europe, Horacio Curti’s creativity extends out from the ancient Japanese Zen Buddhist repertoire into more experimental contemporary composition.
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