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04 February 2021
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Online (via Zoom).
This is the second event in our series on Life Under Overshoot. It focuses on geoengineering, with guest speakers Dr Jessica Hope (St Andrews) and Dr Kevin Surprise (Mount Holyoke)
05 March 2021
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
online
Professor Hannah Knox (UCL) discusses her new book, Thinking Like a Climate.
15 November 2021
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
online, Zoom
The emerging fantasy of the bio- is associated with economy, security, and politics. Proliferating biotechnological innovations produce various kinds of bioeconomy, such as biomaterials for manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries. The proliferation of the bioeconomy provokes the concept of biosecurity and biopolitics, as it relates to industrial development and human-animal health.
09 February 2022
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Online (Zoom)
Paper discussion session between PhD scholars and AbdouMaliq Simone with Michele Lancione on their paper titled "Dwelling in liminalities, thinking beyond inhabitation."
18 November 2022
9:30 AM - 10:30 PM
Room 414 West Building
AbdouMaliq is a one of the most innovative thinkers writing on cities today, and a brilliant speaker. Come learn more about his latest work.
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
A reflection on, and celebration of, the research legacy of Professor Ash Amin.
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room 414, West Building
Jane Dyson and Craig Jeffrey, from the University of Melbourne, will discuss their recent research exploring how youth in Uttarakhand approach living a 'good life' in the face of environmental and socio-economic crisis. Ritwika Basu, from Durham's Department of Geography, will be the discussant.
09 December 2022
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Zoom
The Futures Research Collective wraps up the year with a Christmas Screening (film tbc) and social!
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
West Building Room 414
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
Cross-cluster workshop on extraction and future fantasies.
25 January 2023
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
West Building: W007
A one-day symposium focused on the (de)coloniality of knowledge for and from the Americas.
24 February 2023
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Hybrid (10am-1pm); in person 1pm onwards. Room TBA.
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.
06 March 2023
Geography Building, Room W414
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.
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.
28 March 2023
Location: Palatine Centre PCL054
Seminar on the organisation of working lives as a mode of logistics. Panelists from Glasgow, Oxford, SOAS, Newcastle and Durham.
28 April 2023
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room Location: TLC 117; zoom link to follow.
Join Dr Sage Brice in this latest event in the Creative Methods Series
16 May 2023
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: CB-0015 (Confluence Building)
Dr Gareth Bryant, University of Sydney, presents research from his forthcoming book on climate finance.
17 May 2023
Location W103
A one-day event across disciplines on the topic of Arctic knowledges and uncertainties
19 May 2023
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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.
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: Durham Union Society, Palace Green, Room PG20 (ground floor, ramp access)
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