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Events from the 01 January 2025 - 31 December 2025 Reset
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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- Doctoral
- Partnerships & Collaboration
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- Student experience
- 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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- Doctoral
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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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- Doctoral
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- Student experience
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
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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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- Doctoral
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- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
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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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North East Universities Screens Network (NEUSN) Research Sandpit
Is your research in film or TV studies? In screen production? In other forms of screen culture such as streaming, social media, gaming? Are you just interested in learning more about the research in these areas that’s currently going on across our region? If so, join us for the North East Universities Screens Network (NEUSN) Research Sandpit!!
07 May 2025
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room 116, Teaching and Learning Centre, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LU
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- Doctoral
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- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
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Sayat Nova Outtakes: Using Archival Film Elements to Re-evaluate Sergei Parajanov’s The Colour of Pomegranates (1969)
Join us for a seminar sharing rare insights into the folmmaking process during the Soviet era, with writer, curator and filmmaker Daniel Bird. Jointly hosted by the School of Modern Languages and Cultures (MLaC) and the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC).
08 May 2025
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
In person, room ER140, Elvet Riverside, New Elvet, Durham, DH1 3JT
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- Outreach & community
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Wanted, More than Human Intellectual Property Animal Authors and Human Machines
Join us for a thought provoking discussion on AI intellectual property and creativity, with Professor Johanna Gibson (Queen Mary College, University of London). Jointly hosted by the Durham Law School, Durham Institute for Commercial and Corporate Law, and the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture.
20 May 2025
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
In person, venue TBC
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- Outreach & community
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Visuality and Extraction: Materiality, Interpretation, Power
*CFP - SUBMIT PAPERS BY 31ST MARCH!** Block out your calendar now to ensure you join our cross-disciplinary, inter-faculty symposium addressing the multi-faceted dimensions of extraction through visual media, storytelling traditions, creative and interpretive practices! The symposium and discussion includes a Keynote address with David Campbell, and a postgraduate workshop/masterclass with Laura Sillars. Hosted by the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC).
16 June 2025 - 18 June 2025
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Hotel Indigo, 9 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL
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