Events from the 01 April 2023 - 30 April 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
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
Book a Discover Durham Live Virtual Session- come and hear from our current students!
06 February 2023 - 29 June 2023
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Virtual
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)
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
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
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
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Online
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
Zoom
Join us this Sunday for an event celebrating medieval Arab food as part of MACFEST (Muslim Arts and Culture Festival)
09 April 2023
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
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
D210 and online
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
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
D104, Dawson Building
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
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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'
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
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.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
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.
21 April 2023
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
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
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Durham University Business School
Join us for the Music Research Forum session with Michael Tenzer, Professor of Music at the University of British Columbia
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Online via Zoom
Join writer and historian Kit Heyam to discuss their latest book Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
Palatine Centre, Durham University
Vice-Chancellor’s Reception in San Francisco
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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).
Taster session for the Durham Doctorate in Business Administration - Organisational Ecology.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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.
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Durham Law School and Online
All welcome to our next Inventions of the Text seminar, available online.
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Online (Zoom)
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.
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
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
A staff and postgraduate research seminar.
Elvet Riverside 1 and online via Zoom
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.
Durham University
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
Cosin‘s Hall, Palace Green
Prospective students can join us for this Global DBA Online Event - Meet the Programme Directors.
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.
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
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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
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