Events from the 01 January 2023 - 31 December 2023 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
The ancient Egyptian king Amunhotep III was the grandfather of the famous boy king Tutankhamun.
01 October 2022 - 21 May 2023
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Oriental Museum, Elvet Hill, Durham, DH1 3TH
This exhibition showcases the work of the professional artists and craftswomen who do so much to preserve and transfer traditional knowledge and skills, adapting them for new audiences and popularising Central Asian folk art. Alongside photographs of the women practicing a variety of traditional craft techniques will be examples of their textile work.
Oriental Museum, Elvet Hill, Durham DH1 3TH
Join us for one of our Subject Taster Lectures, where a member of our teaching staff will give you a taste of studying at Durham.
01 November 2022 - 23 January 2023
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Online
This exhibition explores how photography turned Tutankhamun into a global sensation. It shows the most famous photographic images in archaeology, from the most famous of archaeological finds: the tomb of Tutankhamun. Marking the 100th anniversary of the tomb’s discovery in November 1922, this exhibition created by Durham University academic, Prof Christina Riggs, examines the striking images created by photographer Harry Burton during the decade-long excavation.
09 December 2022 - 24 June 2023
12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
Outdoor Art Gallery, Bill Bryson Library Square, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE
Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience seminar series, 1pm to 2pm, room w007, geography building and via Zoom
09 January 2023
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
w007, geography building
The second series of Philosophical Issues in Astrobiology and Space Science. https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/humanities-engaging-science-society/research/eurica-project-leverhulme/philosophical-issues-in-astrobiology-and-space-science-seminar-series/
10 January 2023
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
PO005, Department of Philosophy
Dynamic Contracting with Flexible Monitoring
11 January 2023
1:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Durham University Business School Mill Hill Lane Durham DH1 3LB UK
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The session will be hybrid in room 407, Calman Learning Centre, Lower Mountjoy, Durham and via Zoom.
Skill-Substitutability, Wage Inequality, and Productivity Growth
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
This fireside chat will introduce the scope and aims of the project, and then focus on the theme of “capture”, and feature contributions from Prof Gerald Moore (MLAC) and Dr Eamonn Bell (Computer Science). It will be facilitated by Dr Alex Campolo (Geography).
12 January 2023
Cosin‘s Hall, Palace Green
Join the Futures Research Collective for a reading and discussion of Ian Baucom's work.
13 January 2023
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location W010
An IAS Fellowship Seminar by Professor Johannes Endres (University of California Riverside)
16 January 2023
Cosin‘s Hall, Seminar Room, Palace Green
An online Centre for Experimental Methods and Behavioural Research (EMBR) Seminar will take place next Tuesday 17 January 2023 at 13:00 by Professor Lijia Wei from Wuhan University on the procedure of running experiments in Wuhan and through their WeChat platform.
17 January 2023
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Humans have always been fascinated by the night sky. If you're interested in finding out more about what we can see in the night sky and what it tells us about life out there as well as life down here on Earth, then come along for 'What On Earth Is That?' a series of three rearranged events taking place across the region in January and February as part of this year’s Being Human Festival.
17 January 2023 - 19 January 2023
5:00 PM - 11:00 PM
North Pennines Observatory at Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Grassholme Observatory and High Force Hotel and Waterfall
An IAS Public Lecture by Professor Katrin Tiidenberg (Tallinn University)
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
The Chapel, Hatfield College
Visit the Public Sector Careers Fair on Wednesday 18 January for advice and information from leading employers on a range of career pathways.
18 January 2023
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Palatine Centre, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LS
Qin Cao (Oriental Museum) will be delivering a talk on the weapons of the Shang period in China.
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
D210 (The Birley Room)
Using examples from his research and teaching career, Sam will explore inclusive ways to lead change in learning and teaching from class to module to program level built on critical pedagogy and working in partnership with students. Central in this work will be the importance of failure as an opportunity to learn from for both for students and staff.
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Calman Learning Centre, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE
Everyone is warmly welcome to our next Inventions of the Text seminar, which takes place both online and in person.
Online and Elvet Riverside 147
An IAS Public Lecture by Professor Robert Hassan (University of Melbourne)
Saltwell, Josephine Butler College
Join another winter Confabulations event which will explore entanglements of art, psychiatry, and therapy, in their histories, practices and institutions.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
This lecture is being held in memory of Mike Burrett, DEI Development Board founding member & Advisory Board member.
6:00 PM - 7:15 PM
Room MHL452, Durham University Business School, Mill Hill Lane, Durham DH1 3LB
EURiCA Reading Group
20 January 2023
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Zoom
Students are invited to join professionals from across the Film & TV industry talking about their roles and careers.
23 January 2023 - 27 January 2023
Location is dependent on event. Please check the individual event listings for details
CELLS presents an event showcasing the work of CELLS members on Medical History, Law and Ethics.Two speakers from the Philosophy department who examine interactions between medical history, ethics and law in their work will share their research.
23 January 2023
PCL054 of the Palatine Centre and Online via Zoom
An IAS Fellowship Seminar by Dr Beatriz Bustos Gallardo (University of Chile)
w007, geography
Jointly organized by The Heritage Group and the Decolonisation working Group - Durham University Please join us on Tuesday, 24th January 2023 at 1-2pm in room D104 (Dawson Building) or on ZOOM Community Uses of Ruins: The De-Monumenting and Re-Monumenting of a Colonial Symbol in the Medina of Tripoli, Libya
24 January 2023
D104 (Dawson Building) or on ZOOM
Reem Furjani is a researcher on critical heritage studies and cultural policies from Tripoli, Libya. She is Founder and Director of Scene for Culture and Heritage; Fellow at the University of Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS); Ambassador to ICOMOS General Assembly 2023; Co-Founder of the Mediterranean Association for Data Interchange (MADI); and recently Fellow at the American Institute for Maghreb Studies (AIMS).
D104 (Dawson Building) and online via Zoom. Please email anna.leone@durham.ac.uk for the Zoom link.
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.
25 January 2023
10:00 AM - 4:20 PM
Energy Systems Catapult, Birmingham
Cross-cluster workshop on extraction and future fantasies.
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
West Building: W007
Join us online on Wednesday 25 January for an introduction to the Durham DBA. The session will be delivered by Dr Maria Kakarika (Durham DBA Programme Director).
Identifying the materials used in medieval illuminated manuscripts gives us an insight into the techniques and skills of the scribes and illuminators, as well as the sometimes complex trade routes of the times.
Ph30 (followed by refreshments in Ph132 James Knott Library)
Launching event for the Centre for Sustainable Development Law and Policy.
2:00 PM - 7:30 PM
PCL048, Durham Law School, The Palatine Centre, Durham University, Stockton Road, Durham DH1 3LE
We welcome Professor Naomi Standen to the History Department Research Seminar with her talk ' Bottoms up: three shipwrecks for a global history of everyday creativity in Eastern Eurasia, 7th-14th centuries'
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
In person at the Pemberton Rooms - PG21
Dr Hannana Siddiqui delivers the following seminar as part of the Sociology Research Seminar Series.
Online (Zoom)
The Living Texts Seminar Series is delighted to welcome Dr Elise Hugueny-Léger (University of St Andrews) for a Zoom seminar (and reading session) on Autofiction and Creative Writing on Wednesday 25 January 2023 at 5pm.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Institue of Hazard, Risk and Resilience is pleased to support the showing of this Ukrainian film titled "Tales of a Toy Horse" on 25th January 2023, from 5.15 pm to 7.15 pm, in the TLC033, Teaching and Learning Centre, Durham and online via zoom.
5:15 PM - 7:15 PM
TLC033, Teaching and Learning Centre, Durham and online via zoom.
This interdisciplinary forum covers a wide range of medieval and early modern topics. It is designed to bring together members, including students, from across our departments, as well as from outside Durham University.
25 January 2023 - 08 March 2023
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
7 Owengate, Durham, DH1 3HB (and online - registration essential)
The Centre for Sustainable Development Law and Policy at Durham University Law School and the Global Policy Institute are delighted to offer this series of lectures.
26 January 2023
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Durham University
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Dr Tina Jakob will be presenting her research on human remains from the island of Mograt, Sudan.
D104, Dawson Building
This fireside chat will focus on the theme of “recognition”, and feature contributions from Prof Louise Amoore (Geography) and Dr Stuart Reeves (Computer Science, Nottingham University). It will be facilitated by Dr Alex Campolo (Geography) and Dr Eamonn Bell (Computer Science).
Durham University Ukrainian Talk series with Dr Markian Prokopovych
Gala Theatre, 1 Millennium Place, Durham DH1 1WA
27 January 2023
12:00 AM - 1:30 AM
Kenworthy Hall, St Mary‘s College
Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) is a time to remember the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust, under Nazi Persecution and in the genocides which followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur and elsewhere.
We are delighted to host Dr Jaipreet Virdi's lecture on Dorothy Brett's "The Stokowski Symphony", which will explore the ways in which the artist's most underrated portrait series captures how her hearing aids mediated her experiences of music.
D/D110, Dawson Building, Archaeology
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Pennington Room, Grey College
Zach Weissand and Joseph Meadows (UG students) will each make a short presentation about the research projects they undertook in the department as part of the Laidlaw Foundation programme.
In person: TBC and via Zoom
Collingwood’s 50th Golden Anniversary will take place over the course of the academic year 2022-23.
28 January 2023
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Collingwood College
Check out the Sustainability Careers Week taking place from Monday 30 January - Friday 3 February for a range of talks and presentations on careers within this sector.
30 January 2023 - 03 February 2023
BOOKING ESSENTIAL. IN PERSON EVENT ONLY. LUNCH PROVIDED.
30 January 2023
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room 113, Dept of Sociology, Durham University, 32 Old Elvet, DH1 3HN.
An IAS Fellowship Seminar by Professor Michael Schutz (McMaster University)
The Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience and After Disasters Network invites you to an interdisciplinary sandbox on how small jurisdictions around the world can become more resilient to the consequences of disasters, specifically by helping each other.
31 January 2023
Ushaw College, Durham & via zoom please register here
Whether you would like more information about studying your Durham MBA or have queries around the admissions process, or you just want to find out more about the Business School.
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
This open meeting/symposium will focus on the concept of ‘absence/presence’ and explore the expertise and knowledge across the university on the theme in relation to Black history.
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Dr Sparks' research group focuses primarily on the discovery, synthesis, and characterization of new materials for energy applications
01 February 2023
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
CG91
Dr Kevin Kay from the University of Leicester will be presenting his research on how the archaeology of Neolithic Turkey is affected by the politics of knowledge
D210, The Dawson Building
THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION Join us for the last winter Confabulations event which will focus on entanglements of art, psychiatry, and therapy, in their histories, practices and institutions.
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Acclaimed vocal ensemble EXAUDI returns to Durham with a unique and fascinating programme exploring the chromatic music of 16th-century Renaissance Italy.
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Chapter House, Durham Cathedral
02 February 2023
First Floor, Arthur Holmes Building. Left of the Calman Learning Centre. Signposted DRMC.
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room E101, Engineering Building, Durham University
Join us to learn more about our new MSc Energy Engineering Management programme, starting October 2023.
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Department of Philosophy, Old Elvet (room 207) and Zoom
The Human Rights and Public Law Centre is pleased to announce a talk by Sir Jonathan Jones KC, formerly the top government lawyer in the UK government, and Durham law school alumnus.
PCL048—the Hogan Lovells lecture theatre
An in-person event to mark the publication of Anne Whitehead’s Relating Suicide: A Personal and Critical Perspective.
Birley Room, Hatfield College, Durham University
Asst. Prof. Dr. Ümit Gündoğan, Archaeology Department/ Department of Protohistory and Near Eastern Archaeology, Batman University, Turkey will be delivering a talk on his research into the Bronze Age settlement of Liman Tepe on Turkey's western coast.
03 February 2023
D210
Composer Will Todd talks about writing the music for Welsh National Opera's huge new work Migrations which premiered last year. Will Todd grew up in Durham and loved theatre music from an early age. Working with WNO on this complex and powerful piece has been challenging, time consuming and incredibly exciting!
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
W103 - Geography Building
An IAS Fellowship Seminar by Professor Khalil Hanna (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes)
06 February 2023
Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience Risk Masters seminar series, 1pm to 2pm, room w007, geography building and via Zoom
Book a Discover Durham Live Virtual Session- come and hear from our current students!
06 February 2023 - 29 June 2023
Virtual
Join us for the Leverhulme Lecture from Professor Emanuele Senici at the Music Research Forum
07 February 2023
In person - Room PG20, Palace Green
An IAS Public Lecture by Professor Margit Fauser (Ruhr University Bochum)
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Holgate Room, Holgate House, Grey College
Join us at our Postgraduate Open Day on Wednesday 8 February.
08 February 2023
Durham
The latest session in our popular webinar series will be on Wednesday 8 February from 11am-12pm.
This fireside chat will focus on the theme of “emotion”, and feature contributions from Prof Effie Law (Computer Science) and Dr Alex Campolo (Geography). It will be moderated by Dr Eamonn Bell (Computer Science).
Join us at the ICOPA event and hear from Thauan Felipe Medeiros de Carvalho, PhD candidate in Accounting Sciences at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Room 427, Durham University Business School
An exclusive series of workshops aimed at students who are serious about a career in film and television.
08 February 2023 - 15 February 2023
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Delivered online via Zoom.
You are warmly invited to attend the Postgraduate Durham University Open Day events to experience Durham campus first-hand and find out more about the new taught MA in Medical Humanities!
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Durham University Campus
Durham University Campus, CB0010, Confluence Building
Join us for our department seminar; this week Thomas Sharp will discuss his insights from ongoing work with the Anglican Theology Project. NB: Online only. If you would like to attend online, please email admin.cas@durham.ac.uk for a Microsoft Teams link by Monday 6 February.
Online only: If you would like to attend online, please email admin.cas@durham.ac.uk for a Microsoft Teams link ON OR BEFORE Monday 6 February.
At this event run by Collected Books, Claire Harman will talk with Naomi Booth about her exciting new biography, published at the same time as a beautiful new hardback collection of Mansfield's stories, specially selected by Claire.
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Collected Books
10 February 2023
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Join us at the QS Connect MBA in Mexico City.
11 February 2023
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Presidente Intercontinental Hotel, Campos Eliseos 218 Col Polanco, Mexico City , 11560 Mexico
Want to find out more about the STEP programme? Come and talk to the STEP team at one of our information events.
13 February 2023 - 12 April 2023
Online and in-person (Central London)
An IAS Fellowship Seminar by Professor Katrin Tiidenberg (Tallinn University)
13 February 2023
Ethical issues in community development
14 February 2023
You are warmly invited to attend the virtual Postgraduate Durham University Open Day and find out more about the new taught MA in Medical Humanities!
Visit the SME Careers Fair on Tuesday 14 February for advice and information from leading employers on a range of career pathways.
Teaching & Learning Centre, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LS
We would like to extend a warm welcome to all of our prospective students and look forward to welcoming you to the Archaeology department. On our visit days, we will be giving you a taste of what it would be like to study here and the opportunities that will be available to you. You will get to meet staff and students and ask any questions that you have about our department and programmes.
15 February 2023
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Durham University Department of Archaeology Science Site, South Road Durham DH1 3LE
Jiong Tu delivers the seminar titled 'Manoeuvring between cultures: how medical professionals perceive and practice hospice care in China'
Antony Lee from Durham University will be delivering a talk on how religion in Roman Britain is represented in British museums, and how these presentations are being effected by new scholarship.
16 February 2023
Gala Theatre, Durham
The Institute of Hazard, Risk, and Resilience presents the Exploring Risk Film Festival 2023! On the evenings (18:00-20:00) of the 16th and 17th February 2023, we invite you to join us in the Rosemary Cramp Lecture Theatre (Calman Learning Centre - Durham University) for a selection of independent film screenings and panel discussions.
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Rosemary Cramp Lecture Theatre (Calman Learning Centre - Durham University) (CLC202)
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.
17 February 2023
The exhibition explores the stories connected through objects discovered in the River Wear, evoking the social history of Durham’s past 800 years. It has been co-curated by underwater archaeologist Gary Bankhead and the Museum of Archaeology. It will feature around 200 of the 13,500 artefacts that have been found in the River Wear by Gary since 2008, in a friendly-family display.
20 February 2023 - 16 April 2023
Museum of Archaeology, Palace Green Library, Palace Green, Durham DH1 3RN
An IAS Fellowship Seminar by Professor Philippa Colin (Western Sydney University)
20 February 2023
Dr. Sujatha Chandrasekaran, Archaeological Associate at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, will be talking on decolonisation in relation to its impact on the Berlin Museums.
Durham University Department of Archaeology Science Site (Lower Mountjoy) Dawson Building D104
An IAS Public Lecture by Professor Khalil Hanna (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes)
Seminar Room, Institute of Advanced Study, Palace Green (note parking is not available on Palace Green)
online
An illustrated talk by Stephen Bourne
Join us at the QS Masters and MBA Fair in Toronto on Tuesday 21 February.
21 February 2023
10:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Toronto
An IAS workshop with Professor Katrin Tiidenberg (Tallinn University)
The Writer Summit is a student group organizing various talks with writers, journalists, politicians and more.
7:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Join us online on Wednesday 22 February for a Durham DBA taster session on Marketing Theory and Practice. The session will be delivered by Professor Gretchen Larsen (Associate Professor in Marketing).
22 February 2023
This event is unfortunately cancelled. This fireside chat will focus on the topic of digital twins, and feature contributions from Prof Camila Caiado (Mathematical Sciences) and Dr Ben Jacobsen (Geography). It will be facilitated by Dr Alex Campolo (Geography) and Dr Eamonn Bell (Computer Science).
Mr Efemena Iluezi-Ogbaudu who is an international arbitration trainee in Linklaters London office will share his experience in arbitration and give career tips to students.
Hogan Lovells Theatre, Palatine Centre, Durham Law School
Join us at the QS Masters and MBA Fair in Montreal on Thursday 23 February.
23 February 2023
Montreal
Vanessa Reid from the Durham University Department of Archaeology will be discussing her use of geoarchaeological techniques to analyse occupation surfaces from early Medieval Scotland.
D210 and online via Zoom
Mike Storozum from Newcastle University will be giving a talk on his geoarchaeological research into the Yellow River Watershed.
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
D104 and online at: : https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/94926300892?pwd=b3ZCRHdVUFBjbFF1U0JCcm8zZHJvUT09 Meeting ID: 949 2630 0892 Passcode: 634102
Professor Morag Kersel will be presenting on the movement of pottery in Bronze Age Jordan
The Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice are delighted to welcome legal professionals to share their experiences of pursuing careers in the Criminal Law.
In person and online Event location: TBC
24 February 2023
This is a hybrid event with an online option via zoom. Zoom login details will be sent closer to the event.
Department of Sociology, 32 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HN
A one-day symposium focused on the (de)coloniality of knowledge for and from the Americas.
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Hybrid (10am-1pm); in person 1pm onwards. Room TBA.
A webinar to understand (a) sexuality and (a)romanticism, and to celebrate the A spec community.
In this public talk, the Durham Department of Classics & Ancient History's 5th annual LGBT+ History Month event, Dr Simona Martorana (former Durham PhD student, now at the University of Kiel) will explore queerness in the Roman receptions of Sappho. This talk will take place on Zoom only, and is free and open to all.
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
All are welcome to our next Inventions of The Text seminar.
Elvet Riverside, Durham
LGBT+ & Allies 5 a side Football Tournament
26 February 2023
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Maiden Castle, Durham University, DH1 3SE
Check out the Charities & Third Sector Careers Week taking place from Monday 27 February - Friday 3 March for a range of talks and presentations on careers within this sector.
27 February 2023 - 03 March 2023
Join us at the QS World Grad School Tour in Athens on Tuesday 28 February.
28 February 2023
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Athens
Dr Angelo Solarino will discuss the impact of populism on FDIs
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room 223 Durham Business School Durham University Mill Hill Lane Durham DH1 3LB UK
Join us at the MIB Seminar to hear from by Dr Jonathan Berman.
01 March 2023
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
MHL223, Durham University Business School
Nominations are now open for this year’s Durham University Volunteering and Outreach (DUSVO) Awards, where students and staff are recognised for the invaluable contribution they make to a wide variety of projects.
01 March 2023 - 16 April 2023
12:03 PM - 12:00 PM
Nominations can be made online
Tying as an Instrument of Vertical Integration: Epic Games v. Apple
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
This event will take place online via ZOOM.
We are delighted to invite you to the first NE Unmasking Pain event, one in a series of events, including exhibitions, lectures and performances across the north to share insights from the project.
2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Ustinov Room, Van Mildert College, Mill Hill Lane, Durham, DH1 3LH
Durham Law School, PCL054
Sivamohan Valluvan and Peter Mitchell deliver the following seminar.
Hybrid (Room TBC/Zoom)
The inside of black holes is shielded from observations by an event horizon, a virtual one-way membrane through which matter, light and information can enter but never leave.
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
TLC042, Teaching and Learning Centre, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE
This talk gives a summary of our recent research into characterising frequency response of low-inertia power systems for inclusion in the unit commitment problem.
02 March 2023
Profits, Firm Ownership and Aggregate Demand Externalities
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Join us online for a webinar with Revd Canon Dr Chigor Chike, who will explore 'Spirit and Power: African Christianity's Challenge to the Church of England'. This is our latest event discussing the nature of power in the Church of England.
Online Webinar
Ooook! Productions are putting on 'Dragon' by Evgeniy Schwartz on Thursday, March 2nd, 7-9PM, and Saturday March 4th 1-3pm and 7-9pm.
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Caemdon Hall, Hilde Bede
The project brings together Durham academics from Psychology, Management, and Sociology to explore how leaders experience leadership in absence of others. One focus of the project is thereby how “being alone” informs leaders identity (de-)construction.
03 March 2023
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Dr Jo-Hannah Plug will be presenting the findings of her PhD thesis, which looked at mortuary practices at the Neolithic site of Tell Sabi Abyad in Syria.
D210, Dawson Building
The Global Goals Summit is Durham University’s signature youth summit, a local convening of young people who want to make a true impact on the global challenges we all face.
04 March 2023
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Howlands Hall, Stephenson College
Join us for our MBA Open Event and find out more about our world-leading MBA programmes.
Durham University Business School
Join us at the QS World Grad School Tour in Rome on Saturday 4 March.
12:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Rome
World Fest will be a student-run event that celebrates the cultural diversity at Durham University.
05 March 2023
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Durham Students’ Union, Dunelm House, New Elvet, Durham, DH1 3AN
06 March 2023
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Palace Green Library, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RN
We will explore the role of investment treaty arbitration in enforcing a global rule of law, and thereby facilitating peace and security through protection of foreign investors and investments. The topics dealt with by leaders in the field underscore the underlying policy objectives with investment treaty arbitration and the political concerns the regime was meant to redress.
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Durham Law School | Palatine Centre | PCL050
Our International Study Centre at Queens Campus in Stockton has a wide range of activities planned for Durham Global Week. Here's what's happening on Day 1, Monday 6 March.
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Queens Campus, Stockton. See the description for locations of individual events.
An IAS Fellowship Seminar by Professor Margit Fauser (Ruhr University Bochum)
The Middle East and North Africa in the Northeast (MENA-NE) group is interdisciplinary and includes Newcastle and Northumbria. This talk is part of a seminar series supported by the Politics-State-Space Research Cluster at Durham Geography.
Geography Building, Room W414
A presentation by Prof. Claudia V. Angelelli, CTISS Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies in Scotland,-Heriot-Watt University
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Elvet Riverside room ER141 and Zoom
This event will centre around the need for legal intervention in cohabitation with a feminist critique. Professor Auchmuty will present both sides of the discussion, including those of opposing reformers who also see their perspective as feminist.
Durham Law School | Palatine Centre | Hogan Lovells Lecture Theatre
IMEIS are delighted to welcome Dr Amal Elsana Alhj'ooj, a leader in Israel's Bedouin community and an authority on the status of both the Arab-Palestinian minority and women in Israel to host a talk titled "Hope is a Woman's Name"
Ustinov Room, Van Mildert College
An IAS Public Lecture by Dr David Kneas (University of South Carolina)
Institute of Advanced Study, Seminar Room, Cosin‘s Hall, Palace Green (please note car parking on Palace Green is not available)
Join us for a conversation with distinguished alumnus Lord Darroch of Kew, the UK's former Permanent Representative to the EU, National Security Adviser, and US Ambassador.
This event will take place both in-person and virtually. Please see listing for further details.
The Palatine Kitchen Takeover will celebrate food from across the globe. As part of Durham Global Week, Durham staff and students will showcase their authentic international food on set days during lunch service at the Palatine Kitchen, with profits going to a nominated charity.
07 March 2023 - 09 March 2023
Palatine Centre, Stockton Road, Durham, DH1 3LE
Durham University is a member of the Matariki Network of Universities; an international group of seven leading HE institutions working together on a range of activities under the broad umbrella of research, education and benchmarking/sharing good practice.
07 March 2023
Join us for the UK Universities Asia Careers Insight Series of 15-minute presentations from top recruiting employers to discover graduate career opportunities in China (mainland & Hong Kong) and South East Asia.
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Our International Study Centre at Queens Campus in Stockton has a wide range of activities planned for Durham Global Week. Here's what's happening on Day 2, Tuesday 7 March.
An IAS Public Lecture by Professor Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia University)
Join us for a performance in Russian, of Alexander Pushkin's play, 'Mistress into Maid'
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Durham University Teaching and Learning Centre, Room 113
This will comprise six events to celebrate different languages and cultures of Durham University. Each will take place on one evening on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday 7th – 9th March 2023, 6:30-8:30pm.
Various - see description.
Join us for another Confabulations event which will be this time a panel formed around the artwork of Kathy High, a key case study from the Stomach Ache project.
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Join us at the MIB Seminar to hear from Dr Xiaolin Li (LSE).
08 March 2023
Room 223, Durham University Business School
This session will focus on the role of a producer in delivering successful virtual events.
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
This panel discussion for staff and students will explore the emergence of Bangladesh as a leader in international negotiations on climate change and how the country will balance its fast economic growth with its sustainability agenda. This free event will also include lunch and networking.
Room 403, Durham University Business School
Lecture theatre MHL403, Durham University Business School, Mill Hill Lane, Durham, DH1 3LB. Room MHL417 will operate as a cloak room.
Gala Theatre, 1 Millennium Place, Durham, DH1 1WA
Join us for lunch in the common room from 12.30pm, followed by our International Women's Day event in D110 from 1.30pm
12:30 PM - 3:30 PM
The Dawson Building Common Room from 12.30-1.30pm. D110 from 1.30-3.30pm. Also online on zoom via the link above
Our International Study Centre at Queens Campus in Stockton has a wide range of activities planned for Durham Global Week. Here's what's happening on Day 3, Wednesday 8 March.
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The session will be hybrid - held in room PCL054, Palatine Centre, Lower Mountjoy, Durham and via Zoom.
This fireside chat will focus on the theme of “inference”, and feature contributions from Prof. Alex Broadbent (Philosophy) and Dr Robert Lieck (Computer Science). It will be moderated by Dr Alex Campolo (Geography) and Dr Eamonn Bell (Computer Science).
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1:10 PM - 2:00 PM
Live Streaming on YouTube‘s Music Department channel
Gain-Loss Utility for Prospect Theory,” joint work with Chi Chong Leong
This event will take place in the Business School room 240 and online via Zoom.
A drop-in session aimed at first year students looking to broaden their horizons
Calman Learning Centre 407 Kingsley Barrett Room
Krystale E. Littlejohn , University of Oregon, delivers the seminar titled -Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics
Dr Adam Green from the University of York will be talking on how northwest India's agricultural economies continued to grow after the decline of urbanism in the region
Chi Onwurah MP is this year’s invited speaker to deliver the 2023 Sir Gareth Roberts Lecture.
Ph8 Lecture Theatre, Rochester Building, Science Site
This year’s Sir Gareth Roberts lecturer is Chi Onwurah, the Shadow Minister for Science, Research and Digital Technologies.
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Ph8 Lecture Theatre, Rochester Building, Department of Physics
The Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at Durham Law School and the Centre for Evidence and Criminal Justice Studies at Northumbria Law School are delighted to welcome you to the launch of the edited collection: Fault in Criminal Law: A Research Companion.
The Hogan Lovells Lecture Theatre (PCL048), Durham Law School
Today, Shakespeare's plays are performed by students around the world, but what did university theatre look like during Shakespeare's lifetime?
7 Owengate and Online
7 Owengate, Durham, DH1 3HB
An IAS Public Lecture by Professor Philippa Collin (Western Sydney University)
Seminar Room, Institute of Advanced Study, Cosin‘s Hall, Palace Green (please note car parking is not available on Palace Green)
An invitation-only event hosted by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Karen O’Brien at The Oriental Museum to celebrate our international scholarship holders and recognise and thank their sponsors.
The Oriental Museum, Elvet Hill Rd, South Rd, Durham DH1 3TH
MUSICON is proud to present, as part of this year’s International Women’s Day celebrations, a double portrait featuring two of the most original composers working today, Joanna Bailie and Cassandra Miller performed by the Netherlands-based Ives Ensemble.
Concert Room, Music Department, Palace Green, Durham University
Our International Study Centre at Queens Campus in Stockton has a wide range of activities planned for Durham Global Week. Here's what's happening on Day 4, Thursday 9 March.
09 March 2023
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
A staff and postgraduate research seminar.
Hallgarth House Seminar Room and Online
Professor Janet Montgomery will be presenting the research of a joint-project between Durham University and Trinity College Dublin, performed by Charlie Taverner, Darren Gröcke, Alice Rose and Susan M. Flavin.
An IAS Fellowship Seminar by Professor Robert Hassan (University of Melbourne)
IMH seminar with Dr Robert Chapman on the ascent of cognitive generalism in the late twentieth century.
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Online and Durham University (room TBC)
An IAS Public Lecture by Dr Beatriz Bustos Gallardo (University of Chile)
Seminar Room, Ustinov College
Join us for this virtual event, running as part of Durham Inspired Live.
Durham alumni and friends are invited to an informal gathering in Singapore.
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Harry‘s Boat Quay, 28 Boat Quay, Singapore 049818
10 March 2023
Online via Zoom
Our International Study Centre at Queens Campus in Stockton has a wide range of activities planned for Durham Global Week. Here's what's happening on Day 5, Friday 10 March.
Join us at the QS Masters Fair in London on Saturday 11 March.
11 March 2023
London
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Panel discussions and talks in the Pemberton Rooms on Palace Green and St Chad’s college and biodiversity activities, an XR workshop and climate quiz at Hild Bede College in the afternoon/evening.
Holi is the Indian Spring Festival also known as the Hindu Festival of Colours and signifies the victory of good over evil, the end of winter, and the arrival of spring. For many it is a festive day to meet family and friends, play, laugh, and forgive. It is a key part of the Hindu calendar.
Join us at the QS World Grad School Tour in London on Saturday 11 March.
1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
This symposium aims to collectively explore forms of embodied practice in the post-WWII era, with a focus on Japan in the global context.
13 March 2023
The Place, 17 Duke‘s Road, London, WC1H 9PY
Professor Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia University, Anthropology) is this year's Distinguished International Visitor. We are greatly looking forward to a series of exciting events on her work and its intersections and provocations for geography.
13 March 2023 - 14 March 2023
Various locations: check event descriptions below.
An IAS Fellowship Seminar by Dr David Kneas (University of South Carolina)
Seminar by Professor Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia University) hosted by the Department of Geography
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
ROOM TLC101, Teaching and Learning Centre
Energy, Climate Policy and the Economy
This event will take place online via Zoom.
Living Texts Seminar Series presents a reading by Tomer Gardi of his new novel Eine runde Sache.
Elvet Riverside 206, Durham University and Zoom
The Annual Irvine Lecture 2023 welcomes Prof Gráinne de Burca (NYU)
Hogan Lovells lecture theatre (PCL 048), Durham Law School
PhD Workshop in the Department of Geography
14 March 2023
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
ROOM W309, Geography Department
Dr Dan Lawrence (Durham University) will circulate some material, and then lead a discussion on exploring household wealth and social complexity in the ancient Near East.
D210 and online
Room 113, Sociology Department, 32, Old Elvet, Durham.
Kantian Morality and Optimal Second-Best Commodity Taxation
This event will take place in the Business School room 427 and online via Zoom.
Join us for the Music Research Forum session with IAS Fellow and Professor of Music Cognition/Percussion at McMaster University, Mike Schutz
Concert Room
Concert Room, Department of Music, Palace Green
Join us for a hands-on workshop exploring materials from the Sudan Archive, Durham University, with Francis Gotto and Christina Riggs!
Palace Green Library, Palace Green, Durham, England, DH1 3RN
The Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice are delighted to host Dr Alexandra Fanghanel who will be presenting "Spectres of Sex Positivity/Negativity and the ‘Sex Game Gone Wrong’".
Durham Law School - room TBC and Online
An IAS Public Lecture by Professor Johannes Endres (University of California, Riverside)
Join us at our Online Information Session to find out if a Masters is what you are looking for. During the Online Information Session, we will provide valuable insight into our Durham Masters programmes in addition to providing the opportunity to participate in a live Q&A chat with Business School staff, where you can ask those all-important questions.
15 March 2023
“Multinational Ownership and Trade Participation” (with Glenn Magerman, Fabrizio Leone, and Catherine Thomas).
This event will take place in the Business School room 453 and online via Zoom.
DRMC/Nine DTP Hub, First Floor, Arthur Holmes Building. Left of the Calman Learning Centre. Up the stairs, turn left. Door signposted ‘DRMC‘ ‘Nine DTP‘.
Join us at this week's EFAG seminar to from Professor Yannis Tsalavoutas (University of Glasgow)
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Join Kathryn Stone, the former independent Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards in the House of Commons, at the next Durham Cathedral Institute debate, for a discussion around ethics in public life.
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Durham Cathedral
Join us at the MIB Seminar to hear from Professor Jean-François Hennart (AIB Fellow)
16 March 2023
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Hybrid - Zoom and MHL 224, Durham University Business School
This seminar will talk about the successes and challenges of University based technology development programmes using three case studies as a reference point.
Have you got your offer and want to know more? Come along to our Post Offer Visit Day!
21 March 2023 - 22 March 2023
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Al-Qasimi Building
21 March 2023
Join us at this week's CLF seminar with Professor David Sluss (ESSEC Business School)
22 March 2023
Join us online on Wednesday 22 March for a Durham DBA taster session on Power, Control and Resistance. The session will be led by Martyna Sliwa, Professor of Business Ethics and Organisation Studies.
Join us for our conference exploring narratives from 'Heimatliteratur' across German-speaking countries in the long nineteenth Century. These texts, written during social and political transitions resulting in the emergence of a unified nation state, reveal a shifting sense of boundaries, national identity, and 'otherness', along with impacts from paper and printing technological advances. We will contrast this discourse with contemporary discussions around inclusivity and marginalisation.
23 March 2023 - 24 March 2023
Join us for the Augustine and the Making of Christian Practice (400-1000) conference hosted by Dr Matthieu Pignot, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Department of History
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
St Chad‘s College, Durham University
Join us for "Embracing Equity in Financial Services" an International Women's Day talk with Dr Ylva Baeckstrom on the theme of equity in the financial services sector, embracing equity and storytelling. This event is free and there will also be the opportunity to ask questions and engage during the session.
23 March 2023
Room 405, Durham Business School, Durham University, Mill Hill Lane, Durham, DH1 3LB, UK
Join us for this week's DREAM seminar with Professor B. Douglas Bernheim
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
We are thrilled to welcome Helen Longino (Stanford University) to Durham to take part in the CHESS seminar series.
PO005, 48/49 Old Elvet
An interdisciplinary colloquium on the state of research and policy implications concerning UAP and other forms of alien encounter
24 March 2023
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Durham Law School | Palatine Centre | Hogan Lovells Lecture Theatre | and Zoom
Roundtable with Helen Longino discussing the themes of her CHESS seminar on 'Pluralism, the Sociality of Knowledge and Why They Matter'
An IAS Fellowship Seminar by Professor Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia University)
Join us at the QS Masters and MBA event in Bangkok on Saturday 25 March.
25 March 2023
6:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Bangkok
World Speech Day is a speech event that is currently held in over 100 countries, celebrating the power of speech. People from various backgrounds deliver incredible speeches on different topics under the motto #unexpectedvoices.
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Join us to learn more about our new MSc Energy Engineering Management programme, starting September 2023
The conference is aimed at engaging the Durham University Global Agent Network who are recruiting international students for the University.
28 March 2023 - 30 March 2023
Join us on Tuesday 28 March at the QS Masters and MBA event in Tokyo.
28 March 2023
10:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Tokyo
A two-day summit of talks, activities and workshops
28 March 2023 - 29 March 2023
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Palatine Centre, Durham University
Shona Loong, lecturer in political geography at the University of Zurich, disucsses her work on the Salween Peace Park in Myanmar. Dr Karen Lai (Durham Geography) will chair the event.
Location: Palatine Centre PCL054
Presented by Prof. Hari Srikanth, University of South Florida
Join us at the ICOPA event to hear from Associate Professor Martin Carlsson-Wall from the Department of Accounting at the Stockholm School of Economics
29 March 2023
MHL453, Durham University Business School
An IAS Public Lecture by Professor Michael Schutz (McMaster University)
Join us for another Confabulations event!
Join us at the QS Masters and MBA event in Nigeria on Thursday 30 March.
30 March 2023
5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Nigeria
31 March 2023
The Law and Global Justice at Durham is excited to announce an upcoming external event with Dr. Michael Fakhri, a renowned expert in the field of international law and human rights and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food since 2020.
zoom webinar
Creative textile artists and stitchers Take a Stitch 2 Durham present their 2023 exhibition inspired by 950 years of Durham Castle.
01 April 2023 - 30 June 2023
Durham Castle
Campus Dialogue Iftar and Diversity Dinner, organized by the Dialogue Society North East Branch, St Aidan's College - Durham University and North East Diversity, Education and Solidarity (NEDES).
03 April 2023
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
St. Aidan‘s College, Durham University
Join us for this week's CITM Seminar by Professor Steven Melnyk (Michigan State University)
05 April 2023
Per Gunnar's current research focuses on the social implications of urban sustainability and planning, and how to develop equitable and socially inclusive strategies.
06 April 2023
Join us this Sunday for an event celebrating medieval Arab food as part of MACFEST (Muslim Arts and Culture Festival)
09 April 2023
Free fun for all ages on Durham's incredible UNESCO World Heritage Site this Easter Monday. Live music - food - crafts - performances.
10 April 2023
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3EH
PhD student Felicitas Ruschel will be presenting a paper entitled “Reassessing Early Urbanism in North-Eastern Mesopotamia: Evidence from spatial and scientific analyses of households at Gir-e Bassetki, Kurdistan”. Everyone is welcome join in and provide some friendly feedback.
13 April 2023
Two calls, one relating to Applied Global Health Research and one relating to Applied Global Health Partnerships open on the 24th May with outlines submitted by 25th July. Both will fund projects up to £2m and £1m respectively over 5 years and wishes to furnish multidisciplinary research and partnerships with low to middle income countries, driven by that country’s needs.
17 April 2023
Nahid Rezwana and Rachel Pain discuss their latest book, which investigates the widespread and persistent relationship between disasters and gender-based violence.
18 April 2023
Calman Learning Centre, Room 406, Lower Mountjoy, Durham University
Adam Brown of The New School in New York, delivers this seminar as part of the Sociology research seminar series.
Room 113, 32 Old Elvet, Department of Sociology
Join Durham University alumni for a night of quizzing in London City Centre.
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Silver Cross, 33 Whitehall, London SW1A 2BX
Join us for this Durham Inspired: Live with Sam Waterfall of the Obvious Candidate, talking on 'How to Promote Yourself on LinkedIn'
Virtual event
Durham University's School of Modern Language and Cultures will be hosting the conference, 'Where Are We Now? The Location of Modern Languages and Cultures' from 19th-21st April 2023. A link to the conference website and registration details will follow shortly.
19 April 2023 - 21 April 2023
Calman Learning Centre, Durham University, Durham, UK.
Join us from 19-21 April 2023 for CRITICAL, the fifth annual congress of the NNMHR.
Join us at this week's MIB Seminar with Prof Peter Gabrielsson (University of Vaasa, Finland)
19 April 2023
Online and in-person in Mill Hill Lane Room 453
The School of Modern Languages and Cultures' conference ‘Where Are We Now? The Location of Modern Languages and Cultures' is delighted to host Mieke Bal, renowned cultural theorist and video artist for the 2023 Leslie Brooks lecture.
Arnold Wolfendale Lecture Theatre, Calman Learning Centre, Durham University
In this paper Dr Gabriella Manly presents her three year Leverhulme project
20 April 2023
Join us at this week's DREAM Seminar with Dr Paulo Barelli
21 April 2023
Join us, either in person or online, for a seminar with guest speaker Dr Jennifer Evans, author of 'The Queer Art of History' (Duke University Press, 2023). Dr Evans will discuss her analysis of the fraught and also productive ways that Germans have responded to race, gender nonconformity, and sexuality in social movements, art, and everyday life, from post-war through to modern times.
24 April 2023
Online, or in person at Elvet Riverside (ER145), 83 New Elvet, Durham, DH1 3AQ
Join us for this week's CITM Seminar by Dr. Yingshuai Zhao from University of Cologne.
25 April 2023
Join us for the Music Research Forum session with Michael Tenzer, Professor of Music at the University of British Columbia
Join writer and historian Kit Heyam to discuss their latest book Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
Vice-Chancellor’s Reception in San Francisco
Venue: The City Club
'The Nineteenth Century Now' is this years CNCS PG/ECR conference taking place at Northumbria University on Wednesday 26 April 2023
26 April 2023
Room 201, Sandyford Building Northumbria University Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8QH
Join us for this free online event exploring the theme of environmentalism through a nineteenth century lens. Please note all times are Central European Time (CET).
Apply by noon on 26th April, for a 1-month visiting research fellowship for academic year 2023-2024, to conduct a supported research visit accessing resources held across the three historic collections of Durham; Durham Cathedral, Ushaw College and Durham University.
11:59 AM - 12:00 PM
Durham Residential Research Library
Taster session for the Durham Doctorate in Business Administration - Organisational Ecology.
The Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (CCLCJ) and Gender and Law at Durham (GLAD) at Durham Law School are delighted to welcome you to the launch of Dr Demet Asli Caltekin's book: Conscientious Objection in Turkey.
Durham Law School and Online
All welcome to our next Inventions of the Text seminar, available online.
Vice-Chancellor’s Reception in Seattle
Venue: Space Needle
Pianist Ben Smith presents a beautiful and ingenious programme, featuring keyboard works from the Renaissance alongside contemporary music for solo piano. Separated by a period of 400 years or more, the composers of these works explore contrasting and comparable notions of melancholy, as emotional expression and creative inspiration.
Concert Room, Music Department, Durham University, Palace Green Please get in touch to confirm accessibility arrangements.
Welcome to a Talk with Professor Gaetano Dimita on the topic 'Video games as proto-metaverses and how they are revolutionising IP law?'
27 April 2023
12:30 PM - 3:00 PM
PCL050 - Durham Law School
Elvet Riverside 1 and online via Zoom
Join us for this week's DREAM Seminar with Professor Stephen Morris (MIT)
A Centre for Poetry and Poetics event.
Elvet Riverside 207
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, better known to us today as the First Folio. The book, a landmark publication even at the time it was printed, has over time acquired iconic status and institutions owning a Folio now regard it as a badge of honour.
The workshop focuses on the politics of credibility in asylum procedures and the processes and structures that develop around them. Looked at in the current moment of juncture in the legal safeguards to protection, the workshop discusses political landscapes of reception, and particularly the processes of political mobilization and the discourses around asylum and recognition that they animate.
28 April 2023
Prospective students can join us for this Global DBA Online Event - Meet the Programme Directors.
Seminar on the organisation of working lives as a mode of logistics. Panelists from Glasgow, Oxford, SOAS, Newcastle and Durham.
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room Location: TLC 117; zoom link to follow.
Professor Glenn Schwartz, from Johns Hopkins University, will be presenting the findings of his fieldwork in Kurd Qaburstan, Iraq
D216 The Dawson Building Durham University Science Site South Road Durham DH1 3LE
Dr Julia Beaumont and her PhD student Corinne Feuillatre from the University of Bradford will be presenting their research, combining archaeological and professional knowledge to shed new light on human diets.
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
PCL048 The Palatine Centre Durham University Science Site South Road Durham DH1 3LE
It is our great pleasure to invite you to join our Vice-Chancellor and Warden, Professor Karen O'Brien, senior Durham University colleagues, and fellow alumni and friends, for an evening reception on Friday 28 April 2023, from 7pm.
The Yale Club
The Institute of Advanced Study and the Institute of Data Science are hosting this workshop in May on the topic of ‘Computer Models, Simulations, Data, and Reality’.
02 May 2023 - 05 May 2023
Institute of Advanced Study, Seminar Room, Cosin‘s Hall, Palace Green
The Early Career Researcher (ECR) Committee at the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing (WRIHB) is hosting a research conversation on ‘The Mind Body Connection’ in collaboration with the ‘Brain, Body and Behaviour’ Challenge Academy.
02 May 2023
Room 113 in 32 Old Elvet and also Online
Join us for the Music Research Forum session with cultural historian Dr Ellie Armon Azoulay
In person-Concert Room, Music Department
CHESS Seminar Series 2022/23: Rosa Runhardt (Radboud University)
PO005, Department of Philosophy (48/49 Old Elvet)
Join us at this week's MIB Seminar by Dr Johann Fortwengel (King's College London)
03 May 2023
Online and in room MHL223
This Event is by invitation only event due to logistical restrictions: please contact Nayanika Mookherjee (nayanika.mookherjee@durham.ac.uk) or Liam Liburd (liam.liburd@durham.ac.uk) This meeting will focus on the concept of ‘archives’ and explore the concept across various disciplines and the connotations of power that it has.
11:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Invitation only event due to logistical restrictions: please contact Nayanika Mookherjee or Liam Liburd
Given recent investment and funding successes with mass spectrometry instruments across several departments, we'd like to invite anyone interested in mass spectrometry to a networking event in May.
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
TLC101
Dr Goddard's research lies in the development and understanding of materials in which strong electronic correlations give rise to theoretically or technologically significant properties.
Repugnant transactions: The role of agency and severe consequences
CCLP and Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies will host a joint research seminar titled 'Unilateral Sanctions in the Wake of US - China Sanctions War'
Hogan Lovells lecture theatre (PCL 048) - Durham Law School
You are warmly invited to our Department Seminar next week on Wednesday 3 May at 3pm in Lecture Room D110, in which Tom Yarrow will present his Professorial Inaugural lectur
D110 and Zoom
A Centre for Poetry and Poetics event in collaboration with the School of Modern Languages and Cultures
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Elvet Riverside 142
Get a taste for what it's like to study Primary Education at Durham University!
Explore our BA Primary Education course at our online taster session on 3rd May, 4-5:30pm, on Zoom.
Philosophy Department's annual E.J. Lowe lecture 'Action, Passion, Power' with Professor David Oderberg (Reading University).
Lecture hall TLC033, Teaching and Learning Centre, South Road, DH1 3LS or via Zoom (hybrid event)
Join Professor Robin Coningham FSA FRAS the University’s UNESCO Chair in Archaeological Ethics and Practice in Cultural Heritage. He will be speaking at the invitation of the United Kingdom’s Ambassador to the European Union, Mr Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby CMG.
The sounds of the modern Arctic are explored in two astonishing new works, created as part of Durham University’s Exploring Arctic Soundscapes project. Renowned sound-artist Jana Winderen presents 'Bleikdjupet'
7:30 PM - 8:45 PM
Durham Town Hall, Market Place, Durham DH1 3NJ
Dr Max Price will be presenting his research on the roles of livestock in the political economies of early states
04 May 2023
Awaiting abstract and bio
Join us at this week's QRFE Seminar to hear from Professor Jia Li (Singapore Management University)
Arnold Wolfendale Lecture Theatre, Room CLC013, Calman Learning Centre, Durham University Durham DH1 3LE
The Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice is delighted to welcome Dr Amanda Wilson to discuss her current monograph project, Restoring Restorative Justice (Oxford University Press), which pursues an ethically real-institutionally critical account of restorative justice through moral psychology.
Hybrid - in person (PCL050) and Online
Join us for this week's DREAM Seminar with Dr Alice Hsiaw (Brandeis)
A seminar and Q & A session cross-cutting four Research and Impact Groups: Bioarchaeology, Landscapes of Complex Societies, Northern Communities, and Heritage Partnerships
05 May 2023
D210 The Dawson Building Durham University Science Site South Road Durham DH1 3LE
Durham University invites people to come together to watch the Coronation unfold on the Big Screen in a marquee directly next to Durham City Rugby Football Club. The event will include fun-packed family entertainment.
06 May 2023
Marquee directly next to Durham City Rugby Club
As the nation comes together in the spirit of volunteering, residents are invited to take part in a ‘care for your community’ themed Big Help Out event.
08 May 2023
Market Place, Durham
Join us for the Music Research Forum session with composer Dr Cassandra Miller
09 May 2023
Join us for our next 'Power in the Church of England' webinar. This talk is by Sandra Cobbin, the lead trainer and coach for Clarity Development, and author of 'Leadership Resilience in Conflict' (Grove Books, 2015)
Online only: Please book via eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/episcopal-power-tickets-444496570207
Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson (University of Cambridge)
Ushaw College, Woodland Road, Ushaw Moor, DH7 7DW
Join us at this week's MIB Seminar to hear from Professor Matthew Robson (Cardiff University).
10 May 2023
Room 453, Durham University Business School
Joint workshop between the MaVis, Landscapes of Complex Society and Heritage Research and Impact Groups as well as the Durham Centre for Cultural Heritage Protection.
11 May 2023
12:00 AM - 2:00 PM
TBC
Join us for 'Collecting, Colonialism and Empire: Working with archives and museum collections in Northeast England and Northern Ireland'! This two-day postgraduate training workshop is funded by the Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Consortium, and is organised and hosted by the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC), Durham University.
11 May 2023 - 12 May 2023
Hotel Indigo: 9 Old Elvet, Durham, England, DH1 3HL
The next Durham York Workshop in Economic Theory will take place on 11th May, 2023 at Durham University Business School.
9:45 AM - 5:30 PM
Whether you would like more information about studying your Durham MBA or have queries around the admissions process, or you just want to find out more about the Business School. During the Online Information Session, we will provide valuable insight into our Durham MBA programmes in addition to providing the opportunity to participate in a live Q&A chat with Business School staff, where you can ask those all-important questions.
This will be David Wilkinson’s final alumni drinks reception before he moves on from his role as Principal.
Donald English Room, Central Hall Westminster, London SW1H 9NH
We are pleased to invite submissions to our inaugural Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) Conference organised by Durham University (DU), to be held 12 - 13 May 2023, at Durham University Business School. The DU DBA conference is an event for students and alumni from the three DBA Programmes of the Business School, who represent a wide range of backgrounds, industries, and other institutions worldwide.
12 May 2023 - 13 May 2023
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM
Durham University Business School, Mill Hill Lane, Durham, UK, DH1 3LB
Department of Finance and Economics Alumni Cocktail Reception in Beijing
12 May 2023
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
The event will be in Room Tang 1&2 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beijing - China, Beijing, Chaoyang, No. 48, Liangmaqiao Road Postcode: 100125
Professor Andrew Jotischky (Royal Holloway, University of London) will give our 21st Public Lecture on Medieval Food, in Partnership with Blackfriars Restaurant in Newcastle.
13 May 2023
11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Blackfriars Banquet Hall, Blackfriars Restaurant, Newcastle upon Tyne
Department of Finance and Economics Alumni Gathering in Shanghai
14 May 2023
The Crystal Garden Restaurant at the The Westin Bund Center, Shanghai - 88 Henan Central Road, Shanghai, China, 200002
An IAS seminar by Waylon Cunningham - Durham's Sir Harry Evans Global Fellow in Investigative Journalism
15 May 2023
Room PG21, Pemberton Rooms, Durham University, Palace Green
Join Dr Sage Brice in this latest event in the Creative Methods Series
16 May 2023
Room: CB-0015 (Confluence Building)
PH8 (Physics Building), Durham University, Stockton Road, Durham DH1 3LE
17 May 2023
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Durham University, Room E101, Christopherson Higginson Building, Durham DH1 3LE
Dr Gareth Bryant, University of Sydney, presents research from his forthcoming book on climate finance.
Location W103
18 May 2023
The Centre for Ethics and the Law in the Life Sciences and Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse are co-hosting an insightful multidisciplinary panel on obstetric violence, sharing the works of Professor Sara Cohen Shabot, Dr Rachelle Chadwick, and Dr Nicole Daniels.
CB1012 Confluence Building, Durham University
The Centre for Culture and Ecology presents a talk by Gisela Heffes
Elvet Riverside 142, Durham University and Zoom.
IMH seminar with Dr Xine Yao on the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling in medicine.
Title: Fast Science
PO005, Department of Philosophy, 48/49 Old Elvet
Join the Exeter Alumni Chapter for an informal get-together!
The Monkey Suit, Exeter
A one-day event across disciplines on the topic of Arctic knowledges and uncertainties
19 May 2023
hybrid online / Confluence Building, Lower Mountjoy, Room CB-0015 (Ramp Entrance, lift to all floors)
An interdisciplinary exploration of infrastructure and their entanglements with futures.
Location: Durham Union Society, Palace Green, Room PG20 (ground floor, ramp access)
The aim of this event is to bring our learning community together for a relaxing day out as part of the wider student experience.
21 May 2023
Coach departing from the Philosophy Department (Old Elvet) at 10am If you are making your own way there please meet us at Hamsterley Forest Visitor Centre at 11am
Join the Durham University Brussels Alumni Chapter for an informal meet up!
MELI cafe (close to place Schuman) House of European History
Informal alumni meet-up in Colombo.
22 May 2023
Taj Samudra, Colombo
Who has studied and worked at Durham? What are the colonial and/or racialised histories of Durham as a university and those who have studied and worked at the University? This meeting will explore the history and presence of racially minoritised students and staff at Durham and across universities in the North-East.
23 May 2023
Institute of Advanced Study, Cosin‘s Hall, Seminar Room, Palace Green
Join us for the next Music Department Research Forum with Professor Susanna Välimäki, University of Helsinki
24 May 2023
This event will take place in the Business School room 403 and online via Zoom.
Annie Pfeifer presents her new book 'To the Collector Belong the Spoils' at an online German Research Colloquium in collaboration with the English Department.
Online - Zoom meeting link below
Welcome to the Book Launch of 'Decarbonisation Pathways for African Cities'
The Durham-BFI Partnership, in conjunction with Bloomsbury Publishing, will be offering a publishing masterclass aimed at anyone working on film and seeking to learn more about publishing opportunities in the field.
25 May 2023
Online Via Zoom
Hallgarth House and online via Zoom
Join us at this week's QRFE Seminar with Fahad Saleh (Wake Forest University)
MHL454, Zoom
Join us this at this week's DREAM Seminar with Dr Laura Doval
Supported by the British Teilhard Network, held in partnership with Durham University's Catholic Chaplaincy
Seminar Room B, Abbey House, Palace Green, DH1 3RS
26 May 2023
Join community organisations and activists to discuss how imaginations of the future are translated into everyday actions.
Location: Chemistry Building, Room 83
Cartwright and Anscombe on Causation, 26th May 2023, Durham University. Organizers: Gary Jones, Clare Mac Cumhaill, Rachael Wiseman
Hatfield College, SCR Dining Room (on the ground floor), Durham University
Durham Pride is celebrating its 10th anniversary!
28 May 2023
12:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The Sands Field, Durham DH1 1LF
Join us for the Music Research Forum session with Dr Sam Horlor, Durham University, chaired by Tom Graves.
30 May 2023
IBRU Professional Training Workshop
31 May 2023 - 02 June 2023
The Royal Geographical Society and The National Archives, London, UK
Dr Ybeth Arias (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos)
31 May 2023
Do you see yourself as a leader? Who do you lead? Who do you follow? Leadership is one of the mysterious and yet essential forces that touch our lives within and beyond organisations.
In an ideal world, any published experiment could be reproduced exactly from the scientific record, but in practice this is often hard or impossible. The OpenFlexure project uses open source hardware and software methodologies to address many of the challenges we face when sharing a complicated instrument.
PH8
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of “Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies”, better known to us today as the First Folio. The book, a landmark publication even at the time it was printed, has over time acquired iconic status and institutions owning a Folio (Durham University amongst them) now regard it as a badge of honour.
Cosin‘s Library or virtual
"Where Are We Now?" is an art exhibition exploring the present and future of Modern Languages and Cultures at a local and global level.
01 June 2023 - 31 December 2023
Ground floor, Elvet Riverside, 83 New Elvet, Durham DH1 3AQ
01 June 2023
Online via Zoom.
Dr Nur Sarma, Department of Engineering
(In)efficiency in Information Acquisition and Aggregation through Prices
This event will take place in the Business School room 224 and online via Zoom.
CHESS Seminar Series 2022/23: Lord Meghnad Desai
PO004, 48/49 Old Elvet, Department of Philosophy
QRFE is pleased to host an asset pricing workshop on the 1st of June 2023 with keynote speaker Vikas Agarwal (Georgia State University)
02 June 2023
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Mill Hill Lane, Room MHL 453
Music Durham presents a charity concert 'Sanctuary' in honour of Ukrainian refugees living in County Durham and dreaming of returning to their safe homeland.
03 June 2023
Join the Durham University Ottawa Alumni Chapter
04 June 2023
Tavern at the Gallery, National Gallery, Ottawa
You are invited to an online book presentation in the framework of the German Research Colloquium. Anders Engberg-Pedersen (University of Southern Denmark) will join us for a presentation and discussion of his newest book ‘Martial Aesthetics’ published by Stanford University Press on Monday, June 5 from 2-3pm.
05 June 2023
Workshop: Heritage and Mental Health (Joint Heritage/ Northern Communities RIG event)
A masterclass on Socially Engaged Filmmaking, followed by a screening of the award-winning film Ice Cream Sellers, with Q&A with the director Sohel Rahman.
2:00 PM - 7:00 PM
CG91, Department of Chemistry
Durham University Alumni Gathering in Accra Monday 5 June 2023 Time: 6pm GMT
The event will be at the Mukyia Restaurant in the The African Regent Hotel, Airport West, Accra, Ghana, 237/238 Accra.
Join us for an informal meet-up in Kathmandu
Kathmandu Marriott Hotel
a two-day course for doctoral students and members of community organisations only, Durham University (in-person).
06 June 2023 - 07 June 2023
10:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Teaching and Learning Centre, Durham University, Durham, UK
Join Durham University Careers & Enterprise and Business Durham and see the support available to help grow your SME.
07 June 2023
8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Castle View Suite, Durham County Cricket Club, Seat Unique Riverside, Chester-le-Street, DH3 3QR
This moving exhibition, produced in collaboration with the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, highlights the devastation wreaked by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
07 June 2023 - 10 September 2023
The Durham Castle Lecture for Easter Term 2023 is in partnership with Castle SCR.
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
University College, Durham Castle
Music for a summer evening in the company of one of the North East’s finest classical ensembles. The Frankland Quartet makes a welcome return to MUSICON with two contrasting masterpieces, Haydn’s radiant ‘Sunrise’ Quartet and Janáćek’s passionate ‘Intimate Letters’.
8:15 PM - 9:15 PM
Dining Hall, Hatfield College, North Baily, Durham DH1 3RQ
Interested in becoming an Archivist or Rare Books Curator? The Archives and Special Collections team at Palace Green Library will be running an Experience Day for Durham University students (undergraduate or postgraduate students) who are interested in potentially pursuing a career as Archivists or Rare Books Librarians.
08 June 2023
A staff and postgraduate seminar with Dr Esther Osorio Whewell.
Lecture by Philippe Descola, Emeritus Professor at the Collège de France.
CLC407, Calman Learning Centre
Gala Theatre Millennium Place Durham
Dr Paul Chazot (Associate Professor in the Department of Biosciences) will showcase his research into drug and light therapy for neurodegenerative disease.
Join us for a special Durham showcase event on 8th June 2023, Online.
Online - Zoom
Michael Ramsey Lecture 2023 is with Prof Jane Shaw (Oxford), on ‘WOMEN, MYSTICISM AND ANGLICANISM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY’
Microsoft Teams
Join us to celebrate the launch of the BASIS report and find out what we've learnt about supporting vulnerable families to stop sudden infant death.
09 June 2023
Radisson Blu
Come spend an afternoon exploring zines created by academics from around the UK, listen to talks about the relationship between feminism and zine culture, and maybe even try your hand at creating a zine page of your own!
Durham University Teaching and Learning Centre, Room 101
A workshop with Philippe Descola (Collège de France), organised by the Anthropology Department in collaboration with the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture and the Institute of Advanced Study
Institute of Advanced Study, Seminar Room, Cosin‘s Hall
Join the Delhi Alumni Chapter for a cocktail evening.
10 June 2023
Ivoryy.Delhi, T- 540, Panchshila Park, Malviya Nagar Road, New Delhi, Delhi, 110017, India
This seminar is open to all who are interested. However, in contrast to our usual CMP seminars (which include a more general introduction), this seminar is focused on impedance spectroscopy data and its analysis.
12 June 2023
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ph8
Durham Film Festival is back for 2023 to champion student voices from across the globe. The festival will take place on 12 and 13 June at the Gala Theatre and Cinema in Durham city centre.
Gala Theatre and Cinema, Durham
Join us for a seminar with Prof Bruce E. Baker (Newcastle University), whose introduction to British portrait painter, Henry Room (1802-1850) will highlight the significance of these portraits, and invite discussion of how best to further research on this overlooked artist and his paintings.
13 June 2023
Cosin’s Hall (IAS, Palace Green), and online via Zoom
The Mohamed Ali Foundation and the Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies will be hosting three free public lectures that place Abbas Hilmi II and the archive of this last khedive of Egypt in context.
Cosin‘s Hall on Palace Green in centre of Durham City.
IHRR Hazard, risk and/or resilience, early careers community building event for PGRs and PDRAs across Durham University
Manley Room (IHRR Annex, Behind Geography)
3:30 PM - 5:15 PM
Islamist Dilemmas: Investigating the Dynamics of Political Party Change in North Africa Supported by The British Academy and the Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Durham University.
14 June 2023 - 15 June 2023
Room 102, Al Qasimi Building School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, Al Qasimi Building, Elvet Hill Road, Durham DH1 3TU, UK
You are warmly invited to attend our virtual "Progress to PG" events and find out more about the new postgraduate programmes at IMH.
14 June 2023
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Cultural analysis can give great insights on intractable energy problems, but how can it be used as an analytical tool by anyone in the social sciences?
Room TLC113, Teaching & Learning Centre, Durham University, DH1 3LE
We welcome all US staff and students to join Durham alumna and President of the North American Foundation for the University of Durham Zoe Scheinman (Chinese, Trevelyan College, 1988) for an event aimed at bringing together our Durham-US community.
The Club Room, Maiden Castle Sports and Wellbeing Centre, Durham, DH1 3SE
An award-winning writer, a rising star in contemporary poetry, a convention-defying critic of grief and a philosophical Shakespearean get together under one roof for 90 minutes! Here's all you need to know about our presenters and their presentations!
Elvet Riverside and online
Join the Milan Alumni Chapter for their spring gathering in the heart of Milan
Carlsberg Øl pub in Via Bastioni di Porta Nuova, 9, 20121 Milano
15 June 2023
Join Adam Holdren to discuss creative ways to achieve research impact
West Building 010
Join us for a talk by Dr Nicole Fabricant on her new book: Fighting to Breathe
Location: Geography W007 and online
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Network-H2 is the EPSRC funded network to maximise the impact of UK-funded research and innovation. The Network organises conferences, seminars, workshops and funding calls in order to advance the knowledge and understanding of hydrogen fuelled transportation.
16 June 2023
Join us in the Botanic Garden on Sunday 18 June, to celebrate Summer with a full day of fun and a host of FREE activities for all the family!
18 June 2023
Botanic Garden Hollingside Lane Durham DH1 3DF
The Durham Centre for Indian Law and Policy's Inaugural Conference
19 June 2023 - 20 June 2023
Hogan Lovells Lecture Theatre, Palatine Centre (Durham Law School), Durham University
We are delighted to invite you to the early-career researchers Workshop on cross-disciplinary sustainability challenges.
19 June 2023
Durham Law School, The Palatine Centre, Durham University, Stockton Road, Durham DH1 3LE
The longstanding work of Professor Sir Michael Marmot and colleagues (amongst others) has drawn considerable attention to health inequalities, highlighting how these reveal important characteristics about the nature of society.
11:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Lindisfarne Centre, Durham
Welcome to discuss maritime arbitration cases, particularly in the GCC, with a review of maritime contracts, charterparties, bill of lading, arbitration clauses in charterparty forms and a practical approach to dealing and handling these claims.
PCL057, Palatine Centre (Durham Law School), Durham University
This seminar will draw on public health medicine consultant, lecturer, and author Dr Anya’s recently-published medical memoir, Small by Small: Becoming a Doctor in 1990s Nigeria, which charts the triumphs and failures of his student days through to his first demanding year as a house officer against the backdrop of political unrest, social change, and a worsening economy in Nigeria.
Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University and on Zoom
Join us for our "Future of Work" MBA Event at the historic ICAEW in central London.
ICAEW Chartered Accountants Hall, Moorgate Place London
Join the MBA Alumni and Students Networking Event at ICAEW in London
Chartered Accountants Hall, 1 Moorgate Pl, London EC2R 6EA
The 12th International Management Control Conference will take place at Durham University Business School, Durham, UK on 20-21st June 2023, with a doctoral colloquium on 19th June.
20 June 2023 - 21 June 2023
Durham University Business School, Mill Hill Lane, Durham
An exploration of the West's engagement with Syria, then a province of the Ottoman Empire in the 18th century. You are warmly invited to the Slater Fellow Lecture: Tuesday 20 June, 5:30pm in the Bishops’ Dining Room, Durham Castle. The lecture is free and is open to all.
20 June 2023
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Bishop‘s Dining Room, Durham Castle
Join fellow alumni in Amman for the re-launch of the Jordan Alumni Chapter
Manara - Arts & Culture
This half-day workshop will showcase some of the research being undertaken by members of the Health & Social Theory Research Group.
21 June 2023
CLC406 Derman Christopherson Suite Calman Learning Centre Science Site Durham
Gain a broad understanding of the approach to health and health care during the Roman Principate (especially the first and second centuries A.D), hear about examples of Roman health care practices being re-examined today and join a group discussion!
CLC406, Derman Christopherson Suite Calman Learning Centre
Speakers: Cardinal Mario Grech (Secretary General of the Office of the Synod of Bishops) and Sister Nathalie Becquart XMCJ (Undersecretary of the Office of the Synod of Bishops)
St Cuthbert‘s Catholic Church, Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL
Join us for CEMAP's Macroeconomics Conference taking place on 22nd-23rd June
22 June 2023 - 23 June 2023
8:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Durham University Business School, Mill Hill Lane, Room MHL405
From spillover diseases to re-emerging infections to rising rates of antimicrobial resistance, stories of unruly microbes have proliferated daily conversation in recent years.
Durham, UK
This conference aims to reconnect academia and decision-makers within the scope of a key process in the architecture of the 2015 Paris Agreement: the global stocktake.
Hogan Lovells Lecture Theatre, Durham University, Stockton Road, Durham DH1 3LE
On 22 and 23 June 2023, the Zurbarán Centre at Durham University will host its third student-led symposium showcasing innovative doctoral and early career research in Iberian and Latin American art and visual cultures. The symposium will take place in the Birley Room, Hatfield College, North Bailey, Durham, DH1 3RQ.
10:00 AM - 5:15 PM
Birley Room, Hatfield College, North Bailey, Durham, DH1 3RQ
A Staff and Postgraduate research seminar.
22 June 2023
IMH seminar with Prof. Ericka Johnson on interdisciplinary medical humanities research on the prostate.
TLC101 (Durham University) and Online
Catch up with Castle over canapés at the at the magnificent Royal Automobile Club in the heart of London’s Pall Mall on June 22nd from 6pm.
The Royal Automobile Club, 89 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5HS
The Department of Engineering’s Postgraduate Research (PGR) conference (Research Day) is an annual conference that brings PGR students together from all engineering disciplines at Durham University for presenting their research in a collaborative environment.
23 June 2023
E005, Christopher Building, Engineering Department
TEDx-style knowledge exchange and dissemination event about the future of work based upon the latest research
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
The Radisson Blu Hotel Durham City Centre
'Dis/possession: De/constructing Property in Contemporary Literature and Film' workshop, 23 June 2023, via Zoom
1:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Join us for our MBA Open Event and find out more about our world-leading MBA programmes. The MBA Open Event will take place at Durham University Business School and will give you the opportunity to find out more about our MBA programmes in a relaxed and informal group setting.
24 June 2023
A new art exhibition 'Radical Non-Resistance and the Art of Transgression: Indelicate, Ungenteel, Vulgar & Outrageous Women' (IUVOW), curated by local artist Philip Gatenby.
24 June 2023 - 06 July 2023
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Josephine Butler College
Trevelyan College invites alumni and friends to join their next informal London After Hours event.
27 June 2023
Shaws Booksellers, EC4, 31-34 St Andrew’s Hill, London, EC4V 5D
Join us at Beckett House in Swindon for this year’s Religion and Defence conference is sponsored by the Armed Forces’ Chaplaincy Centre (AFCC). Please send us your abstracts and CV BY FRIDAY 28th APRIL!
28 June 2023 - 30 June 2023
The Armed Forces’ Chaplaincy Centre, Beckett House, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, Faringdon Road, Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8LA
The Covid-19 Pandemic created “extraordinary and sustained” pressures and in some cases demands for rationing critical resource including intensive care (ICU) beds, medical equipment and health professionals. Advanced systems modelling and simulation approaches can help.
28 June 2023
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Adverse environmental exposures during the life course, in particular air pollution, are crucial to brain health, including cognitive function, mental health and dementia.
12:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Lindisfarne Centre
Join us for the Durham premier of Petr Nuska’s ethnomusicological documentary Hopa Lide (screened Wednesday 28 June, Music Department, Durham University), and round table discussion on 29 June - which brings together the filmmaker and distinguished scholars from the BFI and Durham University in a conversation about filmmaking and ethnography.
Concert Room, Music Department, Palace Green, Durham
The Conference is organised by the DREAM Research Centre (Durham Research in Economic Analysis and Mechanisms) and it will take place on 29th-30th June, 2023.
29 June 2023 - 30 June 2023
Durham University Business School Mill Hill Lane Durham DH1 3LB
Join us in person (Durham) or online (via zoom) for a round table discussion responding to Petr Nuska’s ethnomusicological documentary Hopa Lide (screened Wednesday 28 June, Music Department, Durham University). This conversation brings together the filmmaker and distinguished scholars from the BFI and Durham University to explore the relationship between filmmaking and ethnography.
29 June 2023
In Person & On-line via Zoom
A residential weekend reunion for all the graduates of 1976 and 1977, with partners/spouses.
30 June 2023 - 02 July 2023
St John‘s College
30 June 2023
The Global DBA Durham-emlyon is a life-changing decision. That is why we’ve invited you to an exclusive webinar on Friday, June 30th from 1PM-2PM (Paris Time) to give you a chance to:
Long-term pain from whatever reasons affects over 14 million people throughout the UK. Reliance on medication, including opioids, is the mainstay of management and is proving harmful to health for many. The overall aim of the GOTT 10-footsteps to live well with pain self-management project is to equip healthcare staff and other practitioners such as social prescribers who work to support people with persistent pain at a foundational level with fundamental knowledge and skills.
Lindisfarne Centre, Durham City
05 July 2023
Solitude – time that we do not interact with other people – can feel very differently depending on who you ask.
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
A roundtable discussion between Natasha Ruiz-Gómez, Keren Hammerschlag, Tania Cleaves (née Woloshyn), Rebecca Whiteley and Sonia Favi.
The tendency of rhetorical studies is towards analysis of speaker and/or message. Here we undertake a message/audience Aristotelian genre-based analysis of Clap for Carers (CfC) the UK COVID-19 public tribute.
06 July 2023
Lindisfarne Centre, St Aiden‘s College and Hybrid (zoom)
Get ready for Dunelm Days 2023!
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
This webinar is intended to place into conversation leading intellectual historians about the nature and extent of intellectual change in Europe between the 16th - 18th century.
Durham Alumni Entrepreneur Network Event
Mathys & Squire at The Shard
We are delighted to invite alumni and guests to attend the Trevelyan College Alumni Reunion Weekend on 7-9 July 2023. The Reunion Weekend provides a great opportunity to visit your College, and to re-connect with alumni and friends. We very much look forward to welcoming you back to Durham.
07 July 2023 - 09 July 2023
Trevelyan College, Durham University, Elvet Hill Rd, Durham DH1 3LN
Join the Durham University Adelaide Alumni Chapter to catch up on all things Durham over lunch.
09 July 2023
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
cafe va bene campbelltown
Durham Law School invites you to the Summer Course on International Arbitration 2023.
10 July 2023 - 15 July 2023
Durham Law School, Palatine Centre, Durham
iHPS Durham
10 July 2023 - 11 July 2023
Birley Room, Hatfield College and the Philosophy Department, Durham University
John Morrill (Selwyn College, Cambridge, and an Honorary Professor in the Department of History at Durham) will be giving a talk entitled ‘Giving Oliver Cromwell his voice back: a collaborative project in the digital age’
10 July 2023
1:15 PM - 3:00 PM
This session is dedicated to the FRC’s latest research on: ‘The impact of proxy advisers and ESG ratings agencies on FTSE350 companies and investors’
Hybrid. Business School (Room 453) / Online
Fourth Early Modern British and Irish Catholicism Conference
11 July 2023 - 13 July 2023
A new date has been confirmed for the 1 July 2023, 12.00-13.00. If you have previously registered for this lecture you do not need to re-register. The Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Trevelyan College host the 2023 Sir William Luce Fellow Dr Azza Mustafa Mohamed Ahmed who will deliver a free public lecture on the current political situation in Sudan.
11 July 2023
Dowrick Suite at Trevelyan College.
Join us for our Online Q&A session to learn more about our Durham Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA). The session will provide you with the opportunity to participate in a live Q&A chat with the Durham DBA Programme Director, where you can ask those all-important questions.
12 July 2023
13 July 2023
This award-winning presentation starts as a narrative of a young footballer growing up in the late 1980’s-early 1990’s, in the North East of England. It outlines the highs and lows of a footballer that didn’t quite ‘make it’, with reflection on how the effects of isolation, rejection and failure contributed to, and escalated to almost two decades of undiagnosed mental illness.
This July will see the return of Durham City Run Festival and we are delighted to be supporting the event as a major partner. Take on the historic streets of Durham for a midsummer evening of racing!
13 July 2023 - 15 July 2023
6:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Various locations around Durham
Delivered by Professor Andy Beresford (Durham University), 14 July, 11.30-12.30
14 July 2023
The Spanish Art Gallery, Bishop Auckland.
15 July 2023
2:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Welcome to the second annual Conference on Energy Disputes at Durham Law School.
16 July 2023
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Durham Law School - Room PCL048
This week-long summer school organised by Durham Law School covers a range of topical issues linked to international law, corruption, war crimes and social inequalities.
17 July 2023 - 21 July 2023
Hogan Lovells Lecture Theatre, Palatine Centre
Join us for our seventh CVAC 'Visual Intersections' summer school; for postgraduate students and early career researchers. This year we explore visual interpretations and (re)adaptations of folk and oral traditions, narratives around museum collections and artefacts, and uses of modern technologies in museum interpretation.
17 July 2023 - 19 July 2023
Hatfield College, Durham, and Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
As part of a large-scale twinning initiative, supported by Universities UK (UUK) and the Ukrainian Ministry of Education, we are twinned with Zaporizhzhia National University (ZNU).
17 July 2023 - 22 July 2023
This skill-building workshop series is geared towards postgraduate researchers and staff and centres on narrative and qualitative approaches to mapping. The workshop corresponds with a visit from colleagues from Zaporizhzhia National University in Ukraine as part of the UK–Ukraine Twinning Grant scheme. Participants will be introduced to alternative mapping techniques through a series of guest lectures, hands-on practical sessions, and a keynote.
17 July 2023 - 18 July 2023
1:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Geography Building, Room W007
Join us for a two-day open workshop on Environmental Policy Options: Uncertainty, Adaptation & Flexible Decisions on 19 and 20 July 2023.
19 July 2023 - 20 July 2023
7:45 AM - 6:15 PM
Reflecting upon the contemporary situation and the way the war in Ukraine is affecting cities, this workshop addresses broader issues affecting urban recovery across time and space.
19 July 2023
10:20 AM - 11:20 AM
Join us online for a lecture on the phenomenology of climate change by Dr Maximilian Hepach (Potsdam) in Durham Geography's series on Elemental Kinship.
Registration is now open for this two-day conference to be held 20-21 July 2023 at Collingwood College. All are also welcome to attend the book launch for Henry Miller’s A Nation of Petitioners: Petitions and Petitioning in the United Kingdom, 1780-1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023). It will take place on Wednesday, 19 July 2023, 4-5pm, PG.21 (Palace Green 21). Contact: henry.j.miller@durham.ac.uk
20 July 2023 - 21 July 2023
Collingwood College Penthouse Conference Suite, Durham University
20 July 2023
2:00 PM - 2:40 PM
While the politics of memory and the way through which some versions and interpretations of history become prioritised in official political discourses have engaged a broad range of actors in the past, it is in the most traumatic moments of history such as today in Ukraine that they are particularly in flux, with old sites of memory acquiring new layers of meaning and new ones emerging from the sites of war and destruction.
21 July 2023
10:10 AM - 11:10 AM
Join Durham University Council Member, Professor Denise Lievesley CBE, CStat, FAcSS, and fellow alumni and friends for an intimate informal evening event in Ottawa, Canada.
The Lieutenant‘s Pump, 361 Elgin St, Ottawa, ON K2P 1M9, Canada
22 July 2023
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
DAAD Postgraduate Summer School
25 July 2023 - 27 July 2023
This year’s Durham Fringe Festival will take place from Wednesday 26 – Sunday 30 July and it’s set to be a bumper event showcasing student and local performers.
26 July 2023 - 30 July 2023
Various locations across Durham City.
Sam Byers will read from his novel Perfidious Albion and discuss questions of digitality, connectivity, and literature with Naomi Booth.
26 July 2023
Elvet Riverside I, room 140
Meet fellow Durham alumni in Oxford for an informal gathering.
27 July 2023
Head of the River pub
Interested in postgraduate study at Durham University? Book your place on one of our Postgraduate Discover Durham Tours to learn more about the city and our colleges.
28 July 2023 - 31 July 2023
University College (Friday 28 July) or Ustinov College (Monday 31 July)
Alzheimer’s disease is a complex neurological disorder and the most common form of dementia. Currently, there are no fully approved diagnosis and treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.
28 July 2023
Hybrid event - TLC129, Teaching and Learning Centre and Zoom
Rescheduled from 21 July to 28 July. Alumni and friends are invited to join the Auckland Alumni Chapter for an informal networking event with Dr Riccardo Mogre, Associate Professor in Operations Management at Durham University Business School.
Palmer Bar, 1 Albert Street, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
03 August 2023
Delivered by Dr Marta Cacho Casal (Zurbarán Centre Fellow 2022-23), 11 August 2023, 11.30-12.30
11 August 2023
The Spanish Art Gallery, Bishop Auckland
Delivered by Dr Holly Trusted RSA (Zurbarán Fellow 2022-23, Senior Honorary Research Fellow, Victoria & Albert Museum), 18 August 2023, 11.30-12.30
18 August 2023
Netherlands alumni gathering in Utrecht
19 August 2023
Cafe Het Gegeven Paard
21 August 2023 - 23 August 2023
Teaching & Learning Centre, Durham University DH1 3LE
ViCEPHEC is an annual national conference that brings together educators in chemistry and physics to discuss and share developments, ideas, and good practice in learning and teaching at tertiary level.
24 August 2023 - 25 August 2023
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Calman Learning Centre
Join us at the QS Masters in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
24 August 2023
Fairmont Rio de Janeiro Copacabana Avenida Atlantica, 4240 Copacabana Rio De Janeiro , 22070002 Brazil
Delivered by Dr Jean Andrews (University of Nottingham), 25 August 2023, 11.30-12.30
25 August 2023
The Spanish Art Gallery. Bishop Auckland.
Join DunelmOTTAWA for their Summer Party.
26 August 2023
Beyond the Pale Brewing Company, 250 City Centre Ave Bay 106, Ottawa, ON K1R 6K7, Canada
Join us at the QS Connect MBA in Sao Paulo Brazil
Hotel Unique Av. Brigadeiro Luis Antonio, 4700 - Jardim Paulista Sao Paulo , 01402-002 Brazil
Join us at the QS Connect MBA in Bogota
29 August 2023
9:30 PM - 11:55 PM
Bogota Plaza Hotel Carrera 18a Bogota, Cundinamarca Bogota , #100 - 41 Colombia
Join us at this week's Centre for Leadership and Followership Seminar with Professor Matthew Cronin (George Mason University)
30 August 2023
Durham University Business School and Online via Zoom
This lecture by world-renowned curator and expert on Chinese ceramics, Rose Kerr, draws on themes from three of her recent books.
31 August 2023
Lecture room EH009, adjacent to the Oriental Museum
A residential weekend reunion for all the graduates of 2012 and 2018.
01 September 2023 - 03 September 2023
Our Events will give you the opportunity to learn more about what Durham Business School has to offer for postgraduate study.
01 September 2023 - 31 August 2024
Durham Business School
Our Open Days are the best way for you to find out about Durham.
Our Open Days will give you the opportunity to learn more about what Durham has to offer for postgraduate study.
Tours have audio descriptions, images and videos as well as lots of information and statistics.
Learn about how our ancestors cooked and ate at a five-day medieval cooking course hosted by Durham University’s Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) and Blackfriars Restaurant in Newcastle from 4th to 8th September 2023.
04 September 2023 - 08 September 2023
Blackfriars Restaurant, Friars St, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4XN
This year's annual meeting of the European scientific network of researchers using Discrete Choice Modelling in the field of environmental valuation (https://envecho.com/) will take place at Durham University Business School, hosted by the Centre for Environmental and Energy Economics (CE3) on the 4th and 5th of September.
04 September 2023 - 05 September 2023
Organised by James D. Fraser and in association with the Department of Philosophy and the Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society (CHESS) at Durham University.
07 September 2023 - 08 September 2023
12:30 PM - 5:10 PM
Birley Room, Hatfield College
Join us for this hybrid conference to help those affected by the earthquake in Turkey-Syria.
09 September 2023
Durham University Business School, Mill Hill Lane, Durham, DH1 3LB
Durham Law School will host the Critical Legal Conference 2023. Since its first annual meeting in 1986, the Critical Legal Conference (CLC) has been a key site for the critical study of legal and political questions both in Britain and internationally. It attracts a wide range of radical legal and political thinkers from across the globe.
11 September 2023 - 13 September 2023
Teaching and Learning Centre, Durham University
Durham Law School will host an executive training programme to equip the incoming Japanese students with English Legal system, contract law and dispute resolution knowledge..
11 September 2023 - 15 September 2023
Durham Business School, Durham,UK
Welcome the New Dean, Professor Cathy Cassell, in Beijing
11 September 2023
Hotel Jen, NO. 1 Jianguomenwai Street, Beijing, China 100004
Welcome the New Dean, Professor Cathy Cassell, in Shanghai
12 September 2023
THE KUNLUN JING AN, No. 250 Hua Shan Road, Shanghai, 200040
Join us for a Centre for Leadership and Followership-hosted seminar with Dr Kimberly Jaussi (Binghamton University)
13 September 2023
Rassismus und Weltwissen. Praktiken, Diskurse und Episteme der deutschen Aufklärung, Wolfenbüttel (13.09. – 15.09.2023) 13.-15. September 2023, Bundesakademie für kulturelle Bildung, Wolfenbüttel
13 September 2023 - 15 September 2023
9:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bundesakademie für kulturelle Bildung, Wolfenbüttel
Banking in Times of Inflation
14 September 2023
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
James Knott Room (PH132) Department of Physics
Location TBC
Join us at the city offices of our friends at Howe Financial Advisers, a Partner Practice of St. James's Place , for an evening of networking, meeting old friends and new.
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
St. James‘s Place, Lombard Street, London, EC3V 9BQ
Welcome the New Dean, Professor Cathy Cassell, in Shenzhen
Four Points by Sheraton Shenzhen 5 Guihua Road, Futian Free Trade Zone, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, 518038
An in-person symposium hosted by Durham University’s Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS)
15 September 2023
Hatfield College, Durham - The Birley Room
We are delighted to invite our alumni and friends back to Durham for our Reunion Weekend! This will be a great opportunity to reconnect with friends, enjoy a stunning formal dinner, and visit our newly refurbished Chapel.
15 September 2023 - 17 September 2023
4:00 PM - 1:00 PM
St Chad‘s College
Evening reception on Saturday 16 September, from 7pm.
16 September 2023
Hong Kong
Call for papers: IREC 2023 - The Role of Industrial Relations after Turning Points in History. Submissions opening : 31 January 2023 – Closing: 28 April 2023
18 September 2023 - 20 September 2023
I am pleased to announce that a book launch for Disability Through the Lens of Justice (Jessica Begon, OUP, 2023) will be held in the Al-Qasimi Building in the University of Durham Room 102, at 12pm on 18th September. Lunch will be provided, and no advance registration is necessary. If you have any queries, feel free to contact jessica.e.begon@durham.ac.uk.
18 September 2023
Al-Qasimi Building, IM102
There is increasing recognition of the co-occurrence of autism and psychosis. Despite this, there remains a lack of understanding of what may underlie co-occurrence, how to best measure co-occurrence, and the impact that co-occurrence may have on functioning, symptoms of psychosis, and other risks including depression and suicide. This talk will explore each of these areas in turn.
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Calling Durham researchers working with visual methods and materials in relation to health! Join colleagues at all career stages from across the university for an experimental workshop where we will think about images and image-making beyond your own discipline, seed new ideas, and scope the potential for collaborations across institutes and disciplines.
19 September 2023
19 September 2023 - 20 September 2023
The Institute of Physics, 37 Caledonian Road, London England N1 9BU
The Durham University Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR) is pleased to invite you to: What: The 2023 IHRR annual conference: An Internal Facing Durham University Networking Event. This in-person networking opportunity is for you to liaise with other DU staff around the themes of hazard, risk and resilience. The day will include opportunities for posters, wall notes, pop-ups, discussions, and brief overviews of hazard, risk and resilience themes from several departments, groups
20 September 2023 - 22 September 2023
9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Calman Teaching and Learning Centre, Durham University
20 September 2023
Old Library, Grey College
W215, Department of Geography
Join us at the QS Masters and MBA Fair in Montreal on Thursday 21 September.
21 September 2023
Evening reception on Saturday 23 September, from 7pm.
23 September 2023
Sydney
Join us at the QS Masters and MBA Fair in Toronto on Saturday 23 September.
8:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Dance Workshop - Touch: Migrating Embodiedness
24 September 2023
11:00 AM - 3:30 PM
be off (Minami Utsunomiya) 1-7-10 Yoshino, Utsunomiya, 320-0838
Meet Durham alumni and friends in Toronto!
The Pilot, 22 Cumberland Street, Toronto, ON M4W 1J5, Canada
Join us at Bill Bryson Library between Wednesday 27 September and Tuesday 3 October to find out everything you need to know about our libraries, museums, collections and services!
27 September 2023 - 03 October 2023
10:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Bill Bryson Library, Stockton Road, DH1 3LY
Join alumni in Riyadh to reminisce on all things Durham.
27 September 2023
Arcomi Brunch Restaurant PJGV+J4W, Prince Turki Ibn Abdulaziz Al Awwal Rd, King Saud University, Riyadh 12371, Saudi Arabia
The Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory (VSET) are organised by DREAM, together with the Universities of Bristol, Carlos III, and Southampton.
28 September 2023
Join the contextual safeguarding team in this webinar, taking place on 29th September 2023.
29 September 2023
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
An exhibition celebrating the work of emerging contemporary artists and designers from the Middle East and North Africa recently acquired by the Oriental Museum.
29 September 2023 - 12 May 2024
As part of our Smart and Scale project we are offering a free two day masterclass for those who work in a leadership role within a small to medium sized enterprise, based in the North East of England.
29 September 2023 - 30 September 2023
Hotel Indigo, Durham City Centre
Throughout Black History Month, we will be running a book giveaway in Bill Bryson Library.
02 October 2023 - 31 October 2023
9:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Bill Bryson Library
Join Francesca Lewis and Veronica Heney for a discussion of representations of madness in historical biopics of royal women. The seminar will bring together three recent films, Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite (2018), Marie Kreutzer's Corsage (2022), and Pablo Larrain's Spencer (2021), to ask how these royal women are re-imagined in light of these biopics' reappraisal of their trauma, their confining circumstances, and their mental distress.
02 October 2023
03 October 2023
Grey College SCR
On Tuesday, the 3rd of October, the Durham Centre for Law and Philosophy will welcome Dr Benedict Douglas (DLS), who will be discussing his new research with us. The title of his work is “The Nature of Human Identity.”
Durham Law School, Palatine Centre
CHESS organises weekly research meetings for its members and interested colleagues. Meetings take place each Thursday during term time from 11:00am - 12:00pm. This is a hybrid event and takes place in person and online via Zoom.
05 October 2023
PO004, Department of Philosophy and on Zoom
The Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience seminar series takes place from 13.15 - 14.15. This is a hybrid event. Online registration essential.
W007, Geography Building & Zoom
We warmly invite you to join the Department of Accounting and our guest speaker Michael Izza (Law, St Cuthbert’s Society, 1979-82) Chief Executive at ICAEW and Professor in Practise for the Department of Accounting at the Business School.
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, One Moorgate Place Club, Chartered Accountants Hall, 1 Moorgate Place, London EC2R 6EA
This talk is part of the Department of Psychology seminar series at Durham University.
06 October 2023
L68, Psychology building
Are you an older adult interested in science? Come along to learn about our research and enjoy some refreshments.
09 October 2023
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Durham Community Association, Shakespeare Hall, North Road, Durham, DH1 4SQ
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Professor Denise McCoskey (Miami University)
Do you work with visual culture? Do you use visual data, visual storytelling, visual methods or visual materials? Are you interested in doing so? Join us for the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) 2023-2024 welcome reception and programme launch!
Room TLC117, Teaching and Learning Centre, South Road, Durham
Join us at the QS World Grad School Tour in Athens on Tuesday 10 October.
10 October 2023
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
The British-Irish Chapter of the International Society of Public Law is delighted to host a panel discussion on Diverse Voices in Public Law (Bristol University Press, 2023)
11 October 2023
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Online, zoom
Nine DTP/DRMC Hub. First Floor, Arthur Holmes Building. Left of the Calman Learning Centre. Signposted DRMC.
Sarah Pritchard is the Executive Director of Markets and responsible for Supervision, Policy and Competition at the Financial Conduct Authority. Sarah is also a Professor in Practice with the School's Department of Finance.
Hybrid. Online and on-site at Mill Hill Lane
At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Bombay was in the midst of an ongoing epidemic of Yersinia pestis that killed thousands annually.
Ustinov Room, Van Mildert College, Durham City
The department would like to invite you along to a workshop on AI on Wednesday 11th October at 2pm. The vent is open to all years, and because turn out could be large we will be holding the event over zoom.
Please see Sharepoint site for Zoom Link details.
Weekly Postgraduate Departmental Research Seminar
PO005.
Diana Johns (University of Melbourne) and Ben Lohmeyer (Flinders University) deliver the following seminar.
ER145 (Elvet Riverside), Durham University
Welcome to the annual CNCS start of terms event. This year we are celebrating 10 years of the centre.
Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC) 123 or online via Zoom
Event held with Sentencing Academy on parole, probation and sentencing with guest speakers.
PCL048, Durham Law School, Palatine Centre
Evening public lecture with Manshu Agarwal, Colbridge Ventures
Durham Business School, MHL452
The Blueprint Startup Challenge is back and better than ever - with a £50,000 prize fund up for grabs! Durham’s flagship business idea competition is now in its 21st year of supporting our students and graduates to launch and grow successful startups.
Hazan Venture Lab, Mathematical Sciences & Computer Sciences Building.
12 October 2023
Durham's annual Book Festival returns from Friday 13 - Sunday 15 October.
13 October 2023 - 15 October 2023
5:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Gala Durham, Clayport Library and Collected Books
14 October 2023
10:30 AM - 6:15 PM
Join us at the QS Masters and MBA Fair in London on Saturday 14 October.
A Durham Book Festival Fringe Event, in collaboration with the Centre for Poetry and Poetics.
Elvet Riverside 157
A Durham Book Festival Fringe Event, in collaboration with the Centre for Poetry and Poetics
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Jorge Dagnino (University of San Sebastian, Chile)
16 October 2023
Cosin‘s Hall, Seminar Room
Dr Lasse Gerrits, the Academic Director of the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam will be visiting Durham in October.
17 October 2023
Department of Sociology, Room 113, 32, Old Elvet, Durham.
Join us for musician and author John Snijders in conversation with composer James Weeks and CVAC director Jonathan Long, discussing his book 'Ixion' - a textual analysis of the linear language used in the early graphic scores of Morton Feldman. Co-hosted by the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) and the Department of Music, Durham University.
Concert room, Music department, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RL
17 October 2023 - 20 June 2024
The Department of Chemistry are delighted to invite University staff and students to celebrate their Black History Month Event, with an outstanding range of speakers from Durham and beyond.
18 October 2023
Red Green House
A Centre for Poetry and Poetics event
Part of the Department of Earth Sciences Research Seminar Series.
1:00 PM - 1:50 PM
ES231 (TR4)
Please join us on the 18th of October for the Durham Enterprise Centre’s Inaugural Lecture.
MHL 452
Economics External Seminar Series - Dimitri Migrow
The Centre for Organisations and Society hosts our first research seminar for the 2023-24 academic year on 18th October.
MHL 240 and Online
L50 & the Biosciences Atrium
The Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences and the Human Rights and Public Law Centre welcome Dr Alicia Ely Yamin for a discussion of her latest monograph, ‘When Misfortune Becomes Injustice: Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality.’
Since the appointment of the first Addison Wheeler Fellows at Durham in the late 1960s, almost 40 scholars have taken up research Fellowships at Durham. One of very early recipients of this Fellowship, Professor Richard Morris CBE FRS FRSE, a Fellow between 1973 and 1975, returns to Durham on Wednesday 18 October to give his reflections on his Fellowship, and his research and career since.
Kingsley Barrett Room, Calman Learning Centre, South Road
Do you study film?
On-line
7:00 PM - 9:15 PM
Elvet Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HL
Join us for a QRFE-hosted workshop with keynote speaker Professor Albert Menkveld (Vrije Universiteit)
19 October 2023
Zoom seminar with Sanjoy Ranjan, Energy Security Division, European Investment Bank
Seminar and drinks reception with Professor Elizabeth Edwards FBA Organized by the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) and the Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies (CNCS), Durham University
The Birley Room, Hatfield College, Durham, DH1 3RQ
Join us at the QS Masters Fair in Rome on Thursday 19 October.
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM
‘Once a Johnian’ Formals are vocation themed formal dinners to which all Johnians are warmly invited.
In celebrating Black history Month 2023 themed “celebrating our sisters”, the BAME Network invites everyone to an art exhibition showcasing the various art works of Black-heritage women from the UK and Globally
20 October 2023
12:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Bailey Room - St. Aidan‘s College
Leadership Seminar Series Sponsored by the International Centre for Leadership and Followership, Durham University Business School
23 October 2023
MHL427 / Zoom
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Diana Johns (University of Melbourne)
Join us for an EFAG-hosted seminar with Dr Matthew Egan (University of Sydney Business School)
FULLY BOOKED - Our Vice-Chancellor and Warden, Professor Karen O’Brien invites you to join her on 23 October on campus at Durham for this year’s meeting of Convocation.
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
The Hub, Mount Oswald, The Approach, Durham, DH1 3FP
Meet Musician and Artivist Ezé at REfUSE Café in Chester-le-Street. Connecting people and communities, conversations, and music are at the heart of this event.
24 October 2023
REfUSE Cafe, 143c Front Street, Chester le Street, Durham, DH3 3AU.
A team of researchers at Durham University and University of Birmingham are leading the AHRC-funded project “Accelerating embedded computational analysis of Web data about music in UK universities” (AH/X007316/1), which is currently piloting a new digital skills training programme for music researchers, training approximately 60 UK-based researchers at a variety of digital skill levels and representing various career stages in topics relevant to using Web data as a primary source.
Concert Room, Department of Music
GLAD welcomes Dr Chloe Romanis for the first event of the new academic year, where she will talk about a chapter from her upcoming book.
Durham Law School, Palatine Centre Room PCL057
https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/93702971057?pwd=TW9raVNlM1pxaHFkdGFueURvaWVrZz09 Meeting ID: 937 0297 1057 Passcode: 612894
25 October 2023 - 27 October 2023
New York, USA (Offices of Freshfields) 601 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10022
Join us online 25 October to learn more about the Business School as part of the Postgraduate Online Open Week.
25 October 2023
Conversation topic: Participant Recruitment - 25th October 2023, 1100-1230
Part of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing Guest Lecture Series 2023/24 Although mental health features prominently in contemporary discourse about human health and wellbeing, there are still critical gaps in historical accounts of twentieth-century psychiatry, related disciplines that led to the adoption of the broader concept of “mental healthcare”, as well as the spaces and places that supported these.
In person lunchtime seminar with Birgitte Nygaard, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture at Norway.
Room location...Confluence Building Room CB – 1016 , Science Site
ESRC Festival of Social Science, 2023 - Sexual Violence Towards Minoritised Students on Campus
1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room PG21, Pemberton Building, Palace Green
Should a civics test help us decide who can become British?
Durham Law School, Palatine Centre Room PCL050
Everyone is welcome to join our next research seminar, held both in person and online.
Elvet Riverside 153 and online
Join us for the International Centre of Public Accountability's first research seminar of the year.
Join us in person or online for a seminar with Durham University chaplain Revd Rebecca Amoroso, reflecting on her experience as a prison chaplain, in a wider context of the challenges and opportunities for Anglican ministry in our prison system.
Room TH107, Abbey House, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RS (and online)
You are warmly invited to attend the virtual Postgraduate Durham University Open Day and find out more about the taught MA in Medical Humanities!
IAS Fellows' Public Lecture by Professor Denise McCoskey (Miami University)
Bishop‘s Dining Hall, University College (Durham Castle)
A Friends of the Oriental Museum lecture by Crispin Paine MA FMA FSA, Visiting Fellow, Open University
Elvet Hill House 009
26 October 2023
Online information session for Dunelm Days event hosts.
12:00 PM - 12:40 PM
Online (zoom)
5:00 PM - 5:40 PM
The Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice welcomes Dr Karen Brennan and Dr Emma Milne.
TLC 116, Durham University Teaching and Learning Centre, Durham. Also available online through Zoom
Come and join us at Mildert for the next open discussion in our Critical Conversations series. Share your ideas and hear from others on this event’s big question which is about class. Bring your curiosity and an open mind.
27 October 2023
Are you an early career researcher (ECR) that is looking to meet other researchers with an interest in health and wellbeing (broadly construed)?
Bar Lounge, Business School
Join us at QS Connect MBA event - Tokyo, Japan
28 October 2023
10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Keio Plaza Hotel 2-2-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
A North East Ancient Egypt Society and Friends of the Oriental Museum joint study day.
Elvet Hill House 009, adjacent to the Oriental Museum
Join fellow alumni in Bangalore to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
Koramangala Social 118, 3rd Floor, Industrial Area 80 Feet Road Koramangala 7th Block Bangalore
In the jam session, we want to bring people together who have a passion for music to create music collectively. We invite musicians from the local communities, from music groups in Durham, and student musicians.
29 October 2023
OLD CINEMA LAUNDERETTE, 38 Marshall Terrace, Gilesgate Moor, Durham, DH1 2HX.
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Youssri Abdelwahed (Minia University)
30 October 2023
In recognition of Domestic Violence Awareness month and part of the Durham Inspired: Live programme, we welcome Associate Professor Dr Stephen Burrell to discuss 'Can we prevent domestic abuse from happening in the first place?.
Join us for this free online event exploring the theme of 'Monsters' through a nineteenth century lens. Please note all times are Central European Time (CET).
31 October 2023
The BFI have curated a selection of films relating to our Black History Month focus ‘Celebrating our sisters’ which highlights the crucial role that Black-heritage women continue to play in shaping history, inspiring change and building communities. All films are free* to access via BFI Player, the BFI’s on-demand film-streaming service:
BFI Player
Join us this half-term, on Palace Green from Tuesday 31 October to Thursday 2 November (10am-4pm) and enjoy three fun-packed and fascinating days of free family activities.
31 October 2023 - 02 November 2023
Palace Green, Durham
The Music department research forum welcomes Professor Andrew Hamilton from the Department of Philosophy
On Tuesday, the 31st of October, the Durham Centre for Law and Philosophy will welcome Professor Ko Hasegawa (Hokkaido), who will be discussing a piece called, 'Legality, the Paradigm of Law, and Legal Tradition.'
Gather round and join us (online) this Halloween for stories exploring some of the 'haunted' locations of our city of Durham and the Northeast region - if you dare!
01 November 2023
PhD and MPhys in Physics (University of Leeds). Postdoctoral work at Weill Cornell Medicine (New York, NY, USA, 2017-2019) and the School of Biomedical Sciences (University of Leeds, 2015-2017). University Academic Fellow at University of Leeds since 2019.
Dissertation for Philosophy Level 2 Students
Elvet Riverside - Room 140
Join us at Anthony's Priory, Durham, for a seminar with Clinton Collister (University of Cambridge)
St Antony’s Priory, 74 Claypath, Durham, DH1 1QT.
7:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Durham Law School hosts first UCNP project in-person workshop.
02 November 2023
Grey College, Durham University
This is the first in a series of workshops which form part of the UCNP project.
The Biosciences department runs two seminar series: Departmental seminars that cover a wide range of biological topics, and EEE seminars that cover topics related to Ecology, Evolution and Environment.
L50, Psychology
IAS Fellows' Public Lecture by Dr Adam Gordon (University of Albany)
Join alumni in Washington to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
Elephant & Castle Pub 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004
Celebrate Dunelm Days in Accra with fellow alumni and representatives from Durham University
The Regent Hotel Airport West Accra Ghana 237/238 Accra
The UCNP project is delighted to kick off a series of workshops specifically for our Doctoral Candidate and Postdoctoral Fellow team members, focused on career development in academia and achieving a work/life balance. The workshops will cover a range of topics, including navigating the academic job market, building presentation skills, publishing a doctoral dissertation as a book and writing beyond the dissertation.
03 November 2023
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Durham Law School
The purpose of this informal interdisciplinary workshop is to bring together academics and performers with interests in how the human capacity for combining elements into complex sequences underpins and is manifested in movement. Through the collaboration of the sciences, the humanities and the arts, we will explore the concept of ‘embodied syntax’ – the bodily manifestations of a more general cognitive and sensory-motor capacity that is distinctively human. We see dance as a prime example
12:30 PM - 5:00 PM
L50, Psychology Building
Join alumni in Kathmandu to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
British Embassy Sterling Club Lainchaur Kathmandu
Bailey Ball is the event of the year for many Johnians with a grand night of entertainment, dancing and celebrating. Every Bailey Ball is a magical night with a different theme, from Peter Pan to Willy Wonka to Alice in Wonderland.
5:30 PM - 5:00 AM
Blackfriars will host, in partnership with Durham University’s IMEMS (*), the 22nd Public lecture on The Culinary Recipe in Late Medieval England: An Experiment in Taste.
04 November 2023
Blackfriars Banquet Hall, Friars St, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4XN
Join alumni in Chicago to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
The Pleasant House Pub 2119 South Halsted Street Chicago IL 60608
Celebrate Dunelm Days in Lagos with fellow alumni and representatives from Durham University
Sheraton Hotel Lagos 30 Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way Ikeja 021189 Lagos
06 November 2023
The Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) Microeconomics Unit, the Department of Economics and the DREAM Research Centre are organising a small in-person workshop on 6-7 November 2023.
06 November 2023 - 07 November 2023
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Professor Tong King Lee (University of Hong Kong)
Leadership Seminar Series, Sponsored by the International Centre for Leadership and Followership, Durham University Business School
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
MHL 427 and Online
Join us for the Music Research Forum where we welcome Neal Peres Da Costa, Associate Dean of Research and Professor of Historical Performance at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (SCM), University of Sydney
07 November 2023
Join alumni in Bonifacio Global City to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
Dr Wine Parklane Forbestown Rd Taguig Metro Manila Philippines
Alexander McCall Smith is one of the world’s most prolific and best-loved authors.
Join alumni in São Paulo to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
Bardega Wine Bar Rua Dr. Alceu de Campos Rodrigues 218 Itaim Bibi - São Paulo SP - 04544-000
Hosted by the Centre for Consumers and Sustainable Consumption
08 November 2023
MHL427 and Zoom
Conversation topic: Research with Under-18s, 8th November 2023, 1100-1230
Nine DTP/DRMC Hub. 1st Floor, Arthur Holmes Building. Left of the Calman Learning Centre. Signposted DRMC.
Buildings shelter from rain, wind, heat and cold, provide sufficient space, and meet other requirements to serve their purpose. Whether a building achieves this can often be quantified and measured, and thus determined objectively.
Everyone is warmly welcome to this online event.
This event is open to undergraduate and postgraduate students with an interest in competition law, public and administrative law, regulation of utilities, judicial review and consumer law.
Durham Law School, Palatine Centre PCL048 Hogan Lovells Lecture Theatre
Sivamohan Valluvan - Climate Collapse and the Spectre of Nationalism, and Peter Mitchell - Nostalgic apocalypses: reaction and the catastrophic imaginary
Department of Sociology Room 113, 32 Old Elvet Durham DH13HN
Join Cat Chong and Jon Venn for a discussion of representations of suicidality and self-harm in video games.
IAS Fellows' Public Lecture by Dr Jorge Dagnino (University of San Sebastian, Chile)
Sir James Knott Hall, Trevelyan College
A Friends of the Oriental Museum event with speaker Ms Tanju Sen, Volunteer, Oriental Museum
09 November 2023
This years free DEI annual conference will take place in the Radisson Blu hotel in Durham City. Come along to take part in the discussion and inform the debate on the steps required to shape energy policy through just transition finance. Registration essential for catering purposes.
Radisson Blu Hotel, Durham City, DH1 5TA. If travelling by car, there will be a tablet placed at the conference registration desk for people to register their vehicle for the complimentary parking.
Durham Energy Institute would like to invite postgraduate students who are studying in the broad field of ‘Energy’ to take part in our ‘Energy Day’ at The Radisson Blu hotel in Durham City on the 9th of November 2023.
Radisson Blu Hotel, Durham City
Celebration of the ICU garden as a ‘transformative’ space for Health and Wellbeing of inpatients, carers and staff
Durham Botanic Gardens
In this online CTRS seminar, Cathleen Kaveny of Boston College gives a talk on ‘East of Eden - A Case against Nostalgia’.
As part of the Durham Inspired: Live Programme Associate Professor Dr Sownak Bose will be discussing 'Creating virtual universes in our quest to understand the cosmos'.
Join alumni in Seattle to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
Rapport 700 Broadway E Suite A Seattle WA 98102 USA
In celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio, the Durham University-BFI Partnership is delighted to bring you a specially selected series of silent movie clips celebrating the work of the Bard.
Concert Room, Durham University Music Department, Palace Green
Join alumni in Dublin for a tour of the world famous Guinness Brewery followed by a gathering in Dublin's oldest pub
10 November 2023
4:15 PM - 8:00 PM
The Guinness Storehouse The Brazen Head Pub
Blackhall Community Centre, Hesleden Rd, Blackhall Colliery, Hartlepool TS27 4LG
Join alumni in Riyadh to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
Al Mamlaka Social Dining Kingdom Centre Olaya St, Al Olaya Riyadh 12271 Saudi Arabia
Join fellow alumni in Karachi to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
Cafe Flo d82, 1 26th Street Block 4 Clifton Karachi, Karachi City Sindh 75500 Pakistan
Join fellow alumni in Santiago to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Residence of host (details to be provided)
Join fellow alumni in Shanghai for the 'Walk towards a better life' event.
11 November 2023
1:00 PM - 6:00 PM
City centre
Join alumni in Chengdu to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
City centre (TBC)
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Magdalena Zira (Fantastico Theatro)
13 November 2023
We warmly invite researchers at any stage of their career to join us for a practical workshop exploring collage making as a mode of inquiry which complements activities across the research process; from project design to data collection, analysis and dissemination. Hosted by the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC).
Penthouse A, Collingwood College, Durham, DH1 3LT
The Centre for Catholic Studies and the Michael Ramsey Centre for Anglican Studies are delighted to welcome Fr Hans Boersma to give the Richardson Lecture for 2023, with a talk titled "Creation is Love".
PG20 and Online
IAS Fellows' Public Lecture by Dr Urs Büttner.
Platform 3, Stephenson College
14 November 2023
One and a half day symposium
14 November 2023 - 15 November 2023
2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Lindisfarne Centre, St Aidan‘s College
On Tuesday, the 14th of November, the Durham Centre for Law and Philosophy will welcome Dr Tom Adams (Ox), who will be discussing his new research with us. The title of his work is “Legitimacy and the Justification of Authority.”
Durham Law School, Palatine Centre Room PCL 051
The Research strand 'Spiritual Writings from the Low Countries 1200-1550: Context, Influence and Transmission’ will organize a webinar via zoom and the speaker is Grantley McDonald, University of Vienna.
IAS Fellows' Public Lecture by Dr Youssri Abdelwahed (Minia University)
Celebrate the Indian Festival of Lights with this special late night opening. Visitors can enjoy traditional puja prayers to the goddess Lakshmi, music delicious food, games and more.
Oriental Museum, Elvet Hill, Durham
When it comes to health, what is ‘reasonable’? How can poetry and music help us to understand our lived experiences? What even is ‘reason’ when we think about mental health? Our research cabaret will explore these issues and present research in a way that you’ve probably never seen before!
Radisson Blu Hotel, Durham Frankland Lane Durham DH1 5TA
In this seminar for the International Scholars of the History of Women Religious Association, Nilanjana Paul of The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley, USA, gives a talk on 'Loreto Nuns and Indian women: a study of curriculum and convents in nineteenth- and twentieth-century colonial India’.
15 November 2023
ES230 (TR3)
Join us for a CBID-hosted seminar with Professor Ioannis Floros (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Essay Writing Workshop
Elvet Riverside, Room 201.
CELLS presents a seminar with Dr Li Jiang, Associate Professor, Shanghai International College of Intellectual Property, Tongji University.
The event is an opportunity for colleagues from across the University, including Deputy Deans (Research), Directors of Research, Heads of Department, staff from Estates and Facilities, Library and Collections, to hear about the skills, state of the art equipment and latest digital work carried out in the Department of Archaeology.
Durham University Department of Archaeology Dawson Building (D/D110, Common Room and Birley Room) South Road Durham DH1 3LE
This event will explain and utilise the power of the festival of Diwali for health and wellbeing, a key aspect of self-managing persistent pain. This continues the Fuse Health award winning programme, Unmasking pain, from last year’s highly successful programme ESRC Festival event.
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Botanic Gardens, Durham
In this hybrid seminar, professor Karen Throsby explores how - within the self-help domain - giving up sugar is never simply a benign health intervention.
IMH (Confluence building) & Online
Join alumni in Stockholm to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
Elverket Bar Linnégatan 69 112 43 Stockholm
IAS Fellows' Public Lecture by Professor Tong King Lee (University of Hong Kong)
A casual gathering of Johnians to catch up and meet the new Principal over drinks.
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
The Escapologist Bar Seven Dials WC2H 9LD
16 November 2023
Zoom seminar with Alejandro Caparo, Durham University Business School
Lumiere is back to light up Durham from 16 – 19 November.
16 November 2023 - 19 November 2023
4:30 PM - 11:00 PM
All over Durham city
Join alumni in Rome for an aperitivo to celebrate Dunelm Days
L’Angolo Divino Enoteca Vineria Via dei Balestrari 12-14 00186 Roma RM Italy
Join fellow alumni in Tübingen to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
Die Wurstküche Am Lustnauer Tor 8 72074 Tübingen Germany
Join alumni in Milan to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
Friends Pub Viale Monte Santo 12 20124 Milan
Join fellow alumni in Oxford for a game of crazy golf
The Royal Blenheim Junkyard Golf Club
The Dunelm Society London Annual Dinner
The House of Lords, The Palace of Westminster, London, SW1A OPW
FoSS Event - Developing and sharing best practice to support victims of gender-based violence with learning disabilities and/or autism.
17 November 2023
Fountains Hall, Grey College
This talk is part of the Department of Psychology (Durham University) seminar series.
L50, Psychology building
Romantic Dialogues and Legacies, Department of English Studies, Durham University presents a Transcontinental Joint Symposium featuring decorated panels from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA and Durham University, UK.
Join alumni in Brussels to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
4:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Maison Antoine Place Jourdan 1 1040 Bruxelles (Etterbeek)
Join us for a two-hour seminar unpacking the possibilities and challenges of decolonial narrative work in healthcare.
A free public talk organised by Lumiere producers Artichoke which explores the inspiration and collaboration at the heart of the light festival.
Rochester Building, Lower Mount Joy Science Site, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE.
Join alumni in Exeter to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
18 November 2023
Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery Queen St Exeter EX4 3RX
Join alumni in Shenzhen to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
2:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Shenzhen city centre
Prior’s Hall, Durham Cathedral.
Join us at the QS Masters and MBA fair in Bangkok, Thailand
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit 250 Sukhumvit Road Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
20 November 2023
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Adam Gordon (University of Albany)
Celebrate Dunelm Days in Ho Chi Minh City
Lotte Hotel 2A-4A Đ Tôn Đức Thắng Bến Nghé Quận 1 Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh
The Principal of Van Mildert College, Professor Tom Mole, invites Van Mildert alumni for a pre-Christmas drinks event.
Killik & Co, London
IAS Fellows' Public Lecture by Dr Diana Johns (University of Melbourne)
Tom Percival Annex, Parson‘s Field, St Cuthbert‘s Society
Why are we here? What's the point of existence? On the 'big questions' of meaning and purpose, Western thought has been dominated by the dichotomy of traditional religion and secular atheism. In this pioneering work, Philip Goff argues that it is time to move on from both God and atheism.
Collected Books, 44 The Riverwalk, Durham, DH1 4SL
Join alumni and Durham University staff in Johannesburg to celebrate Dunelm Days
Protea by Marriott Hotel Johannesburg Balalaika Sandton Maude St Sandown Sandton 2126 South Africa
Join us at the QS Masters and MBA Fair in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Lotte Hotel Saigon 2A-4A Ton Duc Thang Street, Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam
Seminar Topic - TBC
21 November 2023
Join us for an afternoon workshop exploring the Durham Oriental Museum's collection of Japanese Anime materials. Our international panel will discuss how these artefacts are curated, displayed and researched, along with the diverse meanings and value of these objects, both within and beyond Japanese culture. Sponsors: The British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) and the DAIWA Anglo-Japanese Foundation. Hosted by Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC)
Durham Oriental Museum, Elvet Hill, Durham, DH1 3TH
Join us for the Music Research Forum where we welcome Dr Samantha Ege, concert pianist and Anniversary Research Fellow at the University of Southampton.
21 November 2023 - 08 December 2023
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Join alumni in Manchester to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
5:15 PM - 8:00 PM
Dukes 92 Castle St Deansgate M3 4LZ
Celebrate Dunelm Days in Zurich
Insider Bar Löwenstrasse 64 8001 Zürich
Department of Music, Palace Green, Durham
Hosted by the Centre for Strategy, Technological Innovation and Operations
22 November 2023
MHL452
Conversation topic: Researching Sensitive Topics, 22nd November 2023, 1100-1230
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more important. Sanitation is one of modern urban life’s most neglected issues.
Online - https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/93558938810?pwd=QUIvNTZvdnBLeDFxR0g0MmZrSS9mdz09
A Workshop in the Theory of Change - presented by Dr Helen Cramman.
All welcome to our next online research seminar.
This talk/seminar is titled Magnetic skyrmion materials
Manufacturer Certification in Second-Hand Markets
This event will take place in the Business School room 223 and online via Zoom.
Final Year Philosophy Students - Careers Support: Choosing and Applying For Jobs
Virginia Mantouvalou and Michael Veale ‘Blurred Boundaries: Rescuing Workers’ Privacy in the Process of Searching Data and Devices’
Online-Zoom Webinar
IMEMS and the History Department will organize an Early Modern Seminar on Wednesday 22 November at 3.00–4.30pm. The title is: "Antiracism, Antislavery, and Anti-imperialism: Quobna Ottobah Cugoano's Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1787, 1788, 1791) in Context" and the speaker is John Marshall (Johns Hopkins University).
Palace Green, Pemberton Rooms, PG20, Ground Floor DH1 3RL
Join us online for the Anglican Communion Office Seminar (speaker and title TBC). All welcome!
This year’s prestigious Annual Higginson Lecture will take place on Wednesday 22nd November 2023. The speaker is Phil Peel, BSc (Hons), MEng, CEng, FIMechE, Chief Engineer at Steam Turbines GE Vernova Steam Power, the 2022/23 President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. The title is "The steam turbine and its future in a Net Zero world."
Rosemary Cramp (CLC202), Calman Learning Centre, Durham University Science Site, Lower Mountjoy. Refreshments available from 17:15 in Derman Christopherson (CLC406)
Artist Stephen Livingstone will launch his new exhibition "Seabird Necropsy" and local ornithologist Dan Turner will talk about his North Sea coastline seabird project and how the scientist and artist have interacted.
Cosin‘s Hall, Institute of Advanced Study, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RL
Join fellow alumni in Tokyo to celebrate and toast Dunelm Days
Hobgoblin Pub 3 Chome-16-33 Roppongi Minato City Tokyo 106-0032
23 November 2023
IAS Fellows' Public Lecture by Dr Magdalena Zira
Penthouse Suite, Collingwood College
As part of the Durham Inspired Live Programme and in collaboration with Durham University Business School, Associate Professor Zsófia Tóth will discuss the use of AI robots.
St John‘s College, 3 South Bailey, Durham, DH1 3RJ
Come and join us at Mildert for the next open discussion in our Critical Conversations series. Share your ideas and hear from others on this event’s big question which is about democracy. Bring your curiosity and an open mind.
24 November 2023
The Centre for Chinese Law & Policy (CCLP) will host a talk by Dr. Ewan Smith (UCL)
PCL 054, Durham Law School
Join us to explore narrative in secular magic, optical illusions and dream cognition.
TLC113 & Online
Join fellow alumni in Dubai to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
Ritz Carlton DIFC off - Sheikh Zayed Rd Dubai
Join fellow alumni in Singapore to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
RedDot Brewhouse 25A Dempsey Road #01-01 Singapore 247691
‘Dido/Elissa’ is a Stage Reading and Work in Progress by IAS Fellow Dr Magdalena Zira in collaboration with Durham University Classics Society members as cast, the production team, and dramaturgs. It features an all-female ensemble who will tell the unknown and riveting story about legendary Carthaginian Queen Dido.
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Concert Room, Divinity House, Department of Music, Palace Green, Bailey Court, Durham
Join alumni in Toronto to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
25 November 2023
3:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Prohibition Social House 696 Queen St East Toronto ON M4M 1G9
Join fellow alumni in Lahore to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
Cafe Aylanto M.M Alam Road Gulberg Lahore
Join fellow alumni in Hong Kong over a Cantonese dinner to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
Luxe Garden Chinese Cuisine 1/F 1 Lyndhurst Tower 1 Lyndhurst Terrace Central Hong Kong
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Tetiana Vodotyka (Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
27 November 2023
Our informal London Christmas After Hours event
The Counting House
On Tuesday, the 28th November, the Durham Centre for Law and Philosophy will welcome Professor Claudio Michelon (Edi), who will be discussing his new research with us. The title of his work is, "Shortcomings of the Kantian Accounts of Tort Remedies.”
28 November 2023
Durham Law School, Palatine Centre Room PCL 058
An evening of conversation and provocation to launch Professor Stuart Murray’s new book "In/Disciplines".
Business School (Durham University) & Online
Join fellow alumni in Paris for Dunelm Days 2023
La Felicità 5 Parv Alan Turing 75013 Paris
Join fellow alumni in Sofia to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
Pri Orlite restaurant Dyakon Ignatiy St 11 1000 Sofia Center Sofia
29 November 2023
All welcome to our Departmental Research Seminar, featuring Dr Ruth Abbott of the University of Cambridge.
Part of the School of Education Research Seminar Series.
This event will be in-person in room CB-0011 of the Confluence Building and online via Zoom. Contact ed.research@durham.ac.uk for more details about how to take part.
BiCuxMn7-xO12: Polar antiferromagnetism by inverse exchange-striction and an emergent helical texture of electric dipoles
Ph8 (followed by refreshments in Ph132 James Knott Library)
Join us Wednesday 29 November to learn more about the Business School as part of the Durham University Postgraduate Open Day.
You are warmly invited to attend the Postgraduate Durham University Open Day events to experience Durham campus first-hand and find out more about the taught MA in Medical Humanities!
Adolescent sex crime or criminalising adolescent sex? An analysis of a sample of contemporary UK cases.
Department of Sociology Room 113 32 Old Elvet Durham University DH13HN
Join fellow alumni in Edmonton to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
Hotel MacDonald Confederation Lounge 10065 100th Street Edmonton
Join fellow alumni at Durham Castle to celebrate Dunelm Days in Durham
Durham Castle Durham DH1 3RW
A morning of discussion, online or in person, to untangle safety and security with/for children & young people.
30 November 2023
St Cuthbert‘s Society (Tom Percival Annex) and online
Celebrate Dunelm Days Swiss-style, with a fondue dinner in Geneva
Cafe du Soleil Pl. du Petit-Saconnex 6 1209 Genève Switzerland
Join alumni in New York to celebrate Dunelm Days in a British pub
The Churchill Tavern 45 E 28th St New York NY 10016
Join alumni in London to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
The Globe 83 Moorgate London Greater London EC2M 6SA
Join alumni in Frankfurt to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
The Ash Mainzer Landstraße 1 60325 Frankfurt
Join us for a seminar hosted by the Centre for Leadership and Followership with Prof Wing Lam (Alliance Manchester Business School)
01 December 2023
Online and In-Person, Durham University Business School
Climate Mobilities, Ethics, and International Governance Seminar The inaugural event of the Centre for Sustainable Development Law and Policy's Climate Mobilities Speaker Series
Dowrick Suite, Trevelyan College, Durham University
The Durham University Ukrainian Talk series returns with this roundtable, in which our panellists from Zaporizhzhia National University and Durham University discuss the outcomes, challenges and future prospects of collaborating between British and Ukrainian institutions today.
Chemistry Building, Arthur Holmes Lecture Theatre (or attend online via registration link above)
Join fellow alumni in Delhi to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
PSOI Club Vinay Marg Chanakyapuri New Delhi 110021
Join us for our MBA Open Day and find out more about our world-leading MBA programmes. The MBA Open Day will take place at Durham University Business School and will give you the opportunity to find out more about our MBA programmes in a relaxed and informal group setting.
02 December 2023
Workshop on ‘Reading Museums: translation, spaces and cognition’ on Saturday, 2 December 2023, 1200 -1730 in the Arthur Holmes Lecture Theatre (CG91), Chemistry Building, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE
12:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Arthur Holmes Lecture Theatre (CG91), Chemistry Building, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE
Join fellow alumni in Islamabad to celebrate Dunelm Days 2023
Brew Cafe Block 4F Shaheen Market Islamabad Pakistan
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Urs Büttner (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
04 December 2023
Hosted by the Centre for Experimental Methods and Behavioural Research
MHL 452 and Zoom
Get together with fellow alumni at the British Embassy in Warsaw
British Embassy Kawalerii 12 00-468 Warszawa Poland
05 December 2023
A Centre for Poetry and Poetics Event
CHESS Workshop: Intellectual Humility in the Sciences
PO005, 48/49 Old Elvet, Department of Philosophy
Join us on our next Masters Online Information Session to gain valuable insight into our Durham Masters programmes and participate in a live Q&A chat with Business School staff, where you can ask those all-important questions.
06 December 2023
Conversation topic: Organising a Hackathon, 6th December 2023, 1100-1230
Hosted by the Centre for Organisations and Society
Join us online for a seminar with Johannes Makar (Harvard University), exploring the historical relations between the Coptic Church and Anglican communion, with implications for these churches today. All welcome!
07 December 2023
We would be delighted if you could join us for our annual London Teachers and Advisers Conference on Thursday 7 December. The conference is completely free of charge. You can also join us afterwards for some light refreshments!
3:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Pullman London St Pancras, 100 - 110 Euston Rd., London NW1 2AJ.
This seminar aims to provide an overview of the recently published monograph Fashioning Italian youth: Young people’s identity and style in Italian popular culture, 1958-74 (Manchester University Press, 2023).
Elvet Riverside and online (zoom)
Join fellow alumni in Sydney for an exclusive guided ghost tour of the Hero of Waterloo’s historical cellars with canapes and drinks
The Hero of Waterloo 81 Lower Fort St Millers Point NSW 2000 Australia
A Christmas COP-out
08 December 2023
Engineering Building: Room E101
Join alumni in San Francisco to enjoy wine, local brews, and small bites!
09 December 2023
The Library Social Club 1506 N Main St Walnut Creek CA 94596 United States
The International Centre of Public Accountability (ICOPA) at Durham University is delighted to announce its second international workshop taking place on 11th and 12th December.
11 December 2023 - 12 December 2023
Following on from the recent annual meeting of the Roman Finds Group, this one-day workshop brings together scholars and professionals in the field of Roman material culture studies in the UK to share knowledge about current approaches to artefacts and small finds as a particular aspect of material culture. This workshop is sponsored by The Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East, Durham University.
11 December 2023
Durham University Department of Archaeology Dawson Building South Road Durham DH1 3LE
Are you an ECR looking for constructive feedback on a research idea or proposal for funding (e.g., an internship or PhD proposal, a fellowship application, internal or external grant funding) that is related to health and wellbeing (broadly construed)?
Teams
Chad’s alumni are invited to St Chad's annual London carol service which will be held in St Margaret's Church, Westminster on Monday 11 December from 6.30pm.
St Margaret‘s Church, London
Book launch & symposium to discuss all matters related to being a student (and supporting students) in marketised higher education!
12 December 2023
Pemberton Rooms, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RL
Dr Maizatul Farisah, Senior Lecturer at the Islamic Science University of Malaysia and a Visiting Scholar in Durham CELLS
13 December 2023
Hybrid: Durham Law School, PCL057 and Online: Zoom
In this seminar for the International Scholars of the History of Women Religious Association, Brian Heffernan of KU Leuven, Belgium, gives a talk on 'Modern Carmelite Nuns and contemplative identities: shaping spirituality in the Netherlands'.
GLAD welcomes Professor Michelle Oberman, Katharine and George Alexander Professor of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law
Join us for the northern book launch of Robert Chapman's new book on history of neurodiversity and capitalism at ReCoCo.
In person only: Recovery College Collective (ReCoCo), No 1 Carliol Square Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 6UF
Join fellow alumni to celebrate Dunelm Days in Perth
14 December 2023
Ruinbar 165 Beaufort St Perth WA 6000
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