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.
Discover Durham Live Virtual Sessions
06 February 2023 - 29 June 2023
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Book a Discover Durham Live Virtual Session- come and hear from our current students!
- Open days & visits
Take a Stitch 2 Durham
01 April 2023 - 30 June 2023
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Durham Castle
Creative textile artists and stitchers Take a Stitch 2 Durham present their 2023 exhibition inspired by 950 years of Durham Castle.
- Public
- Everyone
IDAS/IAS week on modelling: Computer Models, Simulations, Data and Reality
02 May 2023 - 05 May 2023
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
The Institute of Advanced Study and the Institute of Data Science are hosting this workshop in May on the topic of ‘Computer Models, Simulations, Data, and Reality’.
- Research event
MIB Seminar by Johann Fortwengel (King's College London)
03 May 2023 - 03 May 2023
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Join us at this week's MIB Seminar by Dr Johann Fortwengel (King's College London)
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Absence/presence of Durham's Black History: exploration of institutions, archives, students and pedagogies
03 May 2023 - 03 May 2023
11:30 AM - 2:30 PM
This Event is by invitation only event due to logistical restrictions: please contact Nayanika Mookherjee (nayanika.mookherjee@durham.ac.uk) or Liam Liburd (liam.liburd@durham.ac.uk) This meeting will focus on the concept of ‘archives’ and explore the concept across various disciplines and the connotations of power that it has.
- Research event
Mass Spectrometry Networking Event
03 May 2023 - 03 May 2023
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Given recent investment and funding successes with mass spectrometry instruments across several departments, we'd like to invite anyone interested in mass spectrometry to a networking event in May.
- Other
Scattering from magnetic monopoles and antiferromagnetic domain manipulation in a frustrated pyrochlore iridate
03 May 2023 - 03 May 2023
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Dr Goddard's research lies in the development and understanding of materials in which strong electronic correlations give rise to theoretically or technologically significant properties.
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
External Economics Seminar Series - Philip Schnattinger
03 May 2023 - 03 May 2023
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Repugnant transactions: The role of agency and severe consequences
- Research event
Unilateral Sanctions in the Wake of US - China Sanctions War
03 May 2023 - 03 May 2023
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
CCLP and Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies will host a joint research seminar titled 'Unilateral Sanctions in the Wake of US - China Sanctions War'
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
'Objects of Conservation: exploring heritage ethnographically'
03 May 2023 - 03 May 2023
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
You are warmly invited to our Department Seminar next week on Wednesday 3 May at 3pm in Lecture Room D110, in which Tom Yarrow will present his Professorial Inaugural lectur
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Into the Ghostworld: Conversations with Ananda Devi
03 May 2023 - 03 May 2023
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
A Centre for Poetry and Poetics event in collaboration with the School of Modern Languages and Cultures
- Research event
Primary Education Online Taster Session
03 May 2023 - 03 May 2023
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Get a taste for what it's like to study Primary Education at Durham University!
- Open days & visits
Primary Education Online Taster Session
03 May 2023 - 03 May 2023
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Explore our BA Primary Education course at our online taster session on 3rd May, 4-5:30pm, on Zoom.
- Open days & visits
E.J. Lowe Lecture 2023 with Professor David Oderberg (Reading University)
03 May 2023 - 03 May 2023
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Philosophy Department's annual E.J. Lowe lecture 'Action, Passion, Power' with Professor David Oderberg (Reading University).
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Urban infrastructure, climate change, disaster and risk: lessons from the past for the future with Professor Robin Coningham FSA FRAS
03 May 2023 - 03 May 2023
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Join Professor Robin Coningham FSA FRAS the University’s UNESCO Chair in Archaeological Ethics and Practice in Cultural Heritage. He will be speaking at the invitation of the United Kingdom’s Ambassador to the European Union, Mr Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby CMG.
- Alumni
- Lecture
- Online
MUSICON: Arctic Soundscapes: UNDERCURRENT
03 May 2023 - 03 May 2023
7:30 PM - 8:45 PM
The sounds of the modern Arctic are explored in two astonishing new works, created as part of Durham University’s Exploring Arctic Soundscapes project. Renowned sound-artist Jana Winderen presents 'Bleikdjupet'
- Music
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.