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Events from the 01 January 2024 - 31 December 2024 Reset
Tile Talks - A Victorian Decorative Tiles workshop (CNCS-CVAC joint event)
This CNCS-CVAC in person event brings together 3 leading experts in the field of Victorian Decorative Tiles for a lively hands-on workshop covering tile design, production, conserving and collecting.
29 April 2024
Palatine Law PCL054, Palatine Centre, Stockton Road, Durham, DH1 3LE
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
"Thinking Images and Making Thoughts" - seminar and film screening with Professor Mieke Bal
Join us for a seminar (11th June) and workshop (12th June) with Professor Mieke Bal! Exploring aspects of cultural analysis and 'the visual'. Part of the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) Visual Methods Workshop Series 2023-24.
11 June 2024
2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Teaching and Learning Centre, Durham University, South Rd, Durham DH1 3LS
- Creative
- Discussion
- Partnerships & Collaboration
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Workshop
- Research Centre
"Image-Thinking: Art-making as Cultural Analysis" (practical workshop with Professor Mieke Bal)
Join us for a seminar (11th June) and workshop (12th June) with Professor Mieke Bal! Exploring cultural analysis and 'the visual (full details to follow). Part of the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) Visual Methods Workshop Series 2023-24.
12 June 2024
9:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Teaching and Learning Centre, Durham University, South Rd, Durham DH1 3LS
- Creative
- Discussion
- Partnerships & Collaboration
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Workshop
- Research Centre
Book launch: Art and Entertainment by Professor Andy Hamilton
The Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) warmly invite you to join us for our colleague Professor Andy Hamilton in conversation with Andrew Cooper (Warwick), and to celebrate the launch of his book, 'Art and Entertainment: A Philosophical Exploration'. Andy's analysis throws light on the not-so-obvious connections between the seemingly exclusive worlds of popular entertainment and art. Held in person at the Department of Philosophy, Durham University. All welcome!
18 June 2024
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Room 005, Department of Philosophy, Durham University, 48 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HN, United Kingdom
- Discussion
- Partnerships & Collaboration
- Public
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Department of Philosophy
Film-making Course for Researchers, 16-20 September 2024, Durham Campus
The Durham Research Methods Centre in conjunction with the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture are offering a week-long course in non-extractive filmmaking. Led by filmmaker and educator Jigar Ganatra, the course will equip you with all the skills you need to devise, script, shoot, and edit high-quality film, with ethical considerations to the fore.
16 September 2024 - 20 September 2024
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Durham Campus, venue TBC
- Creative
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Workshop
BFI-CVAC Video Essays workshop - with film Journalist and video essayist Leigh Singer
Join us for a BFI-Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) collaborative workshop with Leigh Singer, exploring ways to bring your most compelling research stories to life on screen!
26 September 2024
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Room W007, Geography building, Science Site, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE
- Creative
- Discussion
- Doctoral
- Partnerships & Collaboration
- Research event
- Student experience
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
"The large microhistory of a small book: the Reverend Thomas Perkins' Handbook of Gothic Architecture for Photographers (1897)"
Join us for the annual CNCS Welcome Event co-hosted with the Centre for Visual Arts and Cultures (CVAC). We are delighted to be joined by Professor Elizabeth Edwards, Professor Emerita, Photographic History, who will give her lecture on "The large microhistory of a small book: the Reverend Thomas Perkins' Handbook of Gothic Architecture for Photographers (1897)" .
02 October 2024
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Concert Room, Music Department, Palace Green, Durham.
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
CVAC Welcome and programme launch 2024-2025
Do you work with visual culture? Do you use visual data, visual storytelling, visual methods or visual materials? Join us for the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) 2024-2025 welcome reception and programme launch with flash symposium!
07 October 2024
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Hotel Indigo, 9 Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HL
- Creative
- Discussion
- Doctoral
- Partnerships & Collaboration
- Research event
- Student experience
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Science Through the Lens: Historical Photographs, Unexpected Narratives, and the Reframing of American Science
Join us with colleagues from the department of History, for a master class on using photographs in historical research Professor Ron Doel (Florida State University). All are welcome, and you’re invited to bring along a photograph that you are using, or that is relevant to your current research to contribute to the discussion. Doel’s expertise is in the history of science and images of scientists, but the discussion will be broader - anyone with an interest is welcome to attend!
23 October 2024
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
PG21, Pemberton Rooms, Palace Green, Durham
- Creative
- Discussion
- Doctoral
- Partnerships & Collaboration
- Research event
- Student experience
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Féerie and the Sound of Nineteenth-Century Parisian Commercial Theatre
Join us with colleagues from the department of Music, the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) and Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies (CNCS), for a seminar to reveal the magic of the féerie! This French fairy play was a once ubiquitous genre analogous in some respects to the English Christmas pantomime! With music historian Dr Tommaso Sabbatini (University of Bristol).
05 November 2024
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Students Union, Dunelm house, Durham
- Creative
- Discussion
- Doctoral
- Partnerships & Collaboration
- Research event
- Student experience
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences