What’s On Events Calendar
Building closure - upcoming dates
Due to extensive roofing works at Palace Green Library, there will be times when we have to close the building to visitors between summer 2024 and spring 2025, with no access to Museum of Archaeology, Cosin’s Library, Penned and Printed exhibition and World Heritage Site Visitor Centre.
Visit our Tickets and Times pages at each venue for more information.
Introduction to International Boundaries: Definition, Delimitation and Dispute Resolution
01 January 2021 - 31 December 2025
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
This online training course provides a simple, contextual overview of international boundaries and the practical measures that can be taken to resolve international boundary disputes. Through a series of short online lectures and a final practical exercise, the course explores the relevance of borders and looks at land and maritime boundary disputes, before covering methods available for dispute resolution.
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Radical Dragons Exhibition: Fearsome Beasts and the Making of the North East
20 June 2022 - 17 July 2022
10:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Dare you meet the White Dragon of Durham, slumbering in Brancepeth Castle’s Armour Gallery?
- Exhibitions
- Research event
Is there a Doctor in the House? Pandemic Comedy, Dance and Disguise in the Times of Shakespeare and Molière
28 June 2022 - 28 June 2022
2:30 PM - 6:30 PM
In honour the 400th anniversary of the French playright and actor, Molière. Join us for highlights from French, Italian and English theatre about hypochondriacs, vile doctors, and their patient victims. No registration required - simply come.
- Research event
- Theatre
Is there a Doctor in the House?
28 June 2022 - 28 June 2022
2:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Pandemic comedy, dance and disguise in the times of Shakespeare and Molière.
- Outreach & community
- Public
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Theatre
Lafcadio Hearn and the Global Imagination at the Fin de Siècle
29 June 2022 - 01 July 2022
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
This online conference will consider the writer and translator Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo, 1850-1904) and his significance for conceptions of global and transnational cultural exchange, both in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries and in his legacies today.
- Research event
MIB in-person seminar with Professor Carlos Sousa
29 June 2022 - 29 June 2022
10:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Marketing and International Business research group are delighted to invite you to our next in-person event with Professor Carlos Sousa (Molde University College, Norway) on 29th June at the Business School.
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Impact and Implications of COVID-19 & Gender Equality in HE
29 June 2022 - 29 June 2022
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
We hope you can join us for this interactive seminar considering the impact and implications of COVID-19 for gender equality in higher education. The event takes place on 29 June 2022, 13:00 – 15:00 in room TLC123.
- Research event
Energy transition in Latin America: Towards is the region headed?
29 June 2022 - 29 June 2022
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
In this seminar, Lira will discuss the tensions between the energy transition processes underway and countries whose economic model depends on oil incomes obtained through national-owned companies, and if the ongoing energy transitions are contributing to sustainable development goals.
- Research event
IHRR PG Forum 29th June 2022, 14:30 to 16:30
29 June 2022 - 29 June 2022
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
The Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience presents the Postgraduate Forum: Perspectives on Risk, 29th June 2022, from 2:30pm to 4:30pm
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
JC Gaillard reading group and drinks reception, 30th June 2022 from 2:00pm to 4:30pm
30 June 2022 - 30 June 2022
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
JC Gaillard in person reading group and drinks reception, 30th June 2022 from 2:00pm to 4:30pm Join the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience for a one-off reading group tutorial surrounding his new book ‘The Invention of Disaster: Power and Knowledge in Discourses on Hazard and Vulnerability’. The reading group will be followed by drinks reception. Room to be confirmed.
- Research event
Georgian North: Interventions (political, theological, social, economic, international)
01 July 2022 - 01 July 2022
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Georgian North: Interventions (political, theological, social, economic, international)
- Other
- Partnerships & Collaboration
- Public
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Remembering Srebrenica Commemorative Event - Sunday 3rd July 2022
03 July 2022 - 03 July 2022
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
An interfaith commemorative event marking Remembering Srebrenica 2022 Memorial Week
- Student experience
- Support services
What’s on across our venues
Our unique cultural attractions include Durham Castle, Botanic Garden, Historic Libraries at Palace Green, Oriental Museum, Museum of Archaeology and our World Heritage Site Visitor Centre. Whatever your interest, there's something for everyone to enjoy.