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Doctor Faustus

Christopher Marlowe’s seminal ‘Doctor Faustus’ sees ambition meet the supernatural in a gripping tale of power, temptation, and tragedy.

12 December 2024 - 14 December 2024

7:30 PM - 10:00 PM

Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre

  • Theatre
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The Christmas Lecture 2024 'Space: Shaping Tomorrow’s World'

Space is already a crucial part of our everyday lives from checking the weather report, hitting ‘buy now’ or calling family at home. Recent developments are making space more accessible as we move from large, expensive, state-driven missions to smaller, low-cost satellites developed by private companies.

17 December 2024

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

D110 (Dawson Building)

  • Accessible
  • Lecture
  • Outreach & community
  • Public
  • Department of Physics

The Christmas Lecture 2024 'Space: Shaping Tomorrow’s World'

Space is already a crucial part of our everyday lives from checking the weather report, hitting ‘buy now’ or calling family at home. Recent developments are making space more accessible as we move from large, expensive, state-driven missions to smaller, low-cost satellites developed by private companies.

18 December 2024

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

D110 (Dawson Building)

  • Accessible
  • Lecture
  • Outreach & community
  • Public
  • Department of Physics

19 December 2024

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Zoom

  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences

Delhi Alumni Gathering 

You are warmly invited to join fellow Durham alumni and friends for a catch-up dinner before the holidays, organised by the Delhi Alumni Chapter. 

21 December 2024

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Chido, M-18, Outer Circle, Connaught Place, New Delhi 110001

  • Alumni

Are you sure? How to become better in being (un)certain

IAS Fellows' Public Lecture by Dr Ullrika Sahlin (Lund University)

01 January 2025

12:00 AM - 12:00 AM

TBC - South College

  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences
  • Research Institute

New publications of The Spanish Gallery Collection Studies Series (CEEH)

The Zurbarán Centre is looking forward to celebrating the inaugural publications in ‘The Spanish Gallery Collection Studies’ series, produced by the Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica (CEEH) in Madrid. This series commences with four volumes authored by distinguished experts on Spanish art, who conducted their research during a CEEH-funded fellowship at the Zurbarán Centre between 2021 and 2023.

08 January 2025

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Online

  • Exhibition
  • Online

The landscape of public-service delivery: changes, challenges and compromises in a modern society

The International Centre of Public Accountability (ICOPA) at Durham University is delighted to announce its third international workshop taking place on 9th and 10th January.

09 January 2025 - 10 January 2025

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Waterside Building, Durham University University Business School

  • Research event
  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences
  • Business School

"No (Disciplinary) Limits": A Workshop for the 'Pasts in the Present' Project

The ‘Pasts in the Present’ project revolves around two fundamental questions: what is the cultural and social impact of former eras in the 21st century, and how does this interact with academic discourses? These questions have become increasingly important in the 21st century as ideologies of nation, often connected to racism and intolerance, have weaponised ideas about the past for contemporary political ends--and implicated academic disciplines in doing so.

09 January 2025

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Seminar Room, Institute of Advanced Study, Cosin‘s Hall, Palace Gree

  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences

Biophysical Sciences Institute January Symposium

Research symposium to share new research directions and new members of staff across the biophysical sciences.

10 January 2025

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Maths and Computer Science Scott Logic/2068

  • Research event
  • Research Institute

How the US Election will Impact Climate Change

We are very excited to introduce you to our first panel discussion where we invite exciting researchers from multiple disciplines to come together and discuss contemporary environmetal issues.

13 January 2025

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

L50, Psychology building

  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences
  • Department of Psychology

Neurodiversity Global Seminar Series 2025

The Center for Neurodiversity Studies (CNS) at O.P. Jindal Global University (India) and the Centre for Neurodiversity & Development at Durham University (UK) cordially invite you to the online Neurodiversity Global Seminar Series 2025. This year-long monthly, online seminar series aims to facilitate a global interdisciplinary dialogue on neurodiversity by bringing together researchers and practitioners from various cultural contexts.

15 January 2025 - 26 November 2025

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Online

  • Online
  • Department of Psychology

CHESS Weekly Research Meetings - Epiphany Term 2025

CHESS Weekly Research Meetings (term time only)

16 January 2025

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

PO004, 48 Old Elvet

  • Research event
  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences
  • Department of Philosophy

16 January 2025

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Zoom

  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences

Dr Aslı Zengin (Rutgers), Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World (Duke University Press, 2024).

We will be hosting Dr Aslı Zengin (Rutgers) for a book talk on her recently published Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World (Duke University Press, 2024) which has just been awarded the Ruth Benedict Prize for Queer Anthropology.

16 January 2025

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

W010 (Geography)

  • Research event

Centre for Catholic Studies Research Seminars

Centre for Catholic Studies Research Seminars once a month on Thursdays 5.00pm, seminar room B. Contact ccs.admin@durham.ac.uk for more information.

16 January 2025

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Usually in person and in seminar room B; on 13 Feb 2025 Seminar Room C. On 13 Feb 2025 and 13 March 2025 also Online. Contact ccs.admin@durham.ac.uk for information how to attend the seminar online.

  • Lecture
  • Research event
  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences

Catholic Theology Research Seminar - Dr Liam Temple

In this Catholic Theology Research Seminar, Liam Temple of Durham University gives a talk on “This Poverty of Spirit”: The Capuchins on the margins of Catholicism in England and Wales, 1850-1873.

16 January 2025

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Seminar Room B, Abbey House and Online

  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences

Law Formal

‘Once a Johnian’ Formals are vocation themed formal dinners to which all Johnians are warmly invited.

16 January 2025

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

St John‘s College, 3 South Bailey, Durham, DH1 3RJ

  • Alumni
  • St John’s College

Understanding the Atypical Pioneering Role of Durham University in the Development of Higher Education in British West Africa

IAS Fellows' Seminar by Professor Apollos Okwuchi Nwauwa (Bowling Green State University)

20 January 2025

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Cosin‘s Hall, Seminar Room, Palace Green

  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences

International Scholars of the History of Women Religious Association - Joanne Myers

In this seminar for the International Scholars of the History of Women Religious Association, Joanne Myers of Gettysburg College, gives a talk on “I chuse the better subject”: Original Verse by English Nuns in Exile (1600s–1700s).

21 January 2025

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Online

  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences