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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
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- 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
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- Doctoral
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- 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
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- Doctoral
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- Student experience
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Digital Twins: Understanding 3D images, and thinking of their methods of creation and reuse
Join us for a workshop on creating a digital replica of an existing object, suitable for people without any background in computer science, as well as providing worthwhile content for computing specialists. Come prepared for an eye-opening session! Part of the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) Visual Methods Workshop Series 2024-25.
20 November 2024
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Mathematical Sciences & Computer Science Building, Durham University, Upper Mountjoy Campus, Stockton Road, Durham, DH1 3LE.
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- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
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- Department of Computer Science
- Research Centre
Ukrainian Avant-Garde: Main Centres, Leading Artists, Key Concepts
Join us for this Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) and the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) seminar with Ukrainian art curator Oksana Barshynova (National Art Museum of Ukraine; NAMU, Kyiv), for insights into the Ukranian Avant Garde! Hosted as part of the IAS Project 'Looking Back to Move Forward: History, Recovery, and Sustainability in Understanding the War in Ukraine on a Global Scale’, in collaboration with CVAC.
28 November 2024
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Cosin‘s Hall seminar room, the Institute of Advanced Study, Palace Green, Durham
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- Doctoral
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- Student experience
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Stand-Ins and Extras: Exploiting Migration’s Precarity
Join us for this seminar with Dr Kay Dickinson (University of Glasgow). Kay's work reveals how displaced persons fleeing from nations were it can be tricky or dangerous to shoot film productions, e.g. Pakistan, or Iraq, are often drawn into working as underpaid extras and 'local' crew on big budget film productions in their destination locations, which are being used as a substitute for these migrants' home country. Hosted by the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC).
24 January 2025
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room TLC101, Teaching and Learning Centre, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LS
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- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Research Centre
Atlas of Finance: Mapping the global story of money
Join us for this seminar with Dr Vladimír Pažitka - one of the authors of the remarkable 'Atlas of Finance' - a tour de force beyond data visualisation into the extraordinary, hidden story of money (one of the most compelling stories ever told!!) and its various exploits and shifting forms and identities through time. This seminar will reshape the way we think about what money is! Be there!! Co-hosted by Geography and the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC).
12 February 2025
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Lecture theatre W309, Geography West Building, Science Site, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE
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- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
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Picturing Peace: Photography, Conflict Transformation, and Peacebuilding
Can images help us imagine peace in a world plagued by war? To find out, join us for a round table and drinks reception with Dr Tom Allbeson, Dr Pippa Oldfield & Prof Jolyon Mitchell, co-editors of 'Picturing Peace: Photography, Conflict Transformation, and Peacebuilding', together with contributors Prof Jonathan Long, and Dr Jennifer Wallace. This wide-ranging discussion will focus on imagery's power in proposing, creating, visualising and sustaining peace. Hosted by John's College & CVAC.
05 March 2025
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
St John’s College, 3 South Bailey, Durham, DH1 3RJ
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Political Cartoons and Visual Satire: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Join us for a roundtable discussion of cartoons and graphic arts across political regimes, times and cultures, with Lord Crewe Fellow Dr Deepali Yadav (Banaras Hindu University) in conversation with Durham colleagues Dilshaad Hossain (Anthropology), Prof. Nayanika Mookherjee (Anthropology), Prof. Christina Riggs (History) and Rhodri Sheldrake Davies (MLAC Spanish). Hosted by the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC).
13 March 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Confluence building, Lower Mountjoy Centre, Stockton Rd, Durham DH1 3LE
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*WORKSHOP FULL* Visual storytelling: Workshop with specialist documentary maker Amanda Rubin
How can we use images to tell powerful narrative stories? To find out, sign up now for this workshop with documentary filmmaker and director Amanda Rubin. this full-day event will explore visual storytelling skills and methods, including storyboarding, mood boarding, scripting and adapting archival materials. Hosted by the Centre for Jewish Culture, Society, and Politics & the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC).
26 March 2025
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
TLC117, Teaching and Learning Centre, Durham University, South Rd, Durham DH1 3LS
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