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.
9 to 5: The Musical
20 November 2024 - 23 November 2024
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
‘Pour yourself a cup of ambition’ and book your tickets, as Durham University Light Opera Group (DULOG) meets Dolly Parton in this hilarious and heart-warming tale of friendship, female empowerment and fighting for what’s right!
- Music
- Performance
- Public
- Theatre
UCNP Workshop 2: Berlin 2024
21 November 2024 - 22 November 2024
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
UCNP Project to hold next major in-person meeting in Germany this autumn.
- Partnerships & Collaboration
Chatting, not Analyzing: Why Generative Artificial Intelligence is the Wrong Tool for Qualitative Data Analysis
21 November 2024 - 21 November 2024
10:00 AM - 11:30 PM
A seminar by Prof Catherine Welch from Trinity College Dublin and Dr Duc Nguyen from University of Manchester.
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
CHESS Weekly Research Meetings - Michaelmas Term 2024
21 November 2024 - 21 November 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
CHESS Weekly Research Meetings (term time only)
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Syntactical Structures and the Evolution of Mind and Culture - Workshop 6 (Narrativity, causality, meaning)
21 November 2024 - 21 November 2024
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
The sixth of eight workshops over the course of Michaelmas term in conjunction with the large-scale cross-faculty research project, Syntactical Structures and the Evolution of Mind and Culture, which explores the syntactical basis of a wide range of phenomena spanning cognitive and cultural domains, from learning and reasoning to narrative and memory to music and dance, to shed new light on the human mind, cultural evolution, and aesthetics.
- Research event
CHESS Research Group Meeting
21 November 2024 - 21 November 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
CHESS organises weekly research meetings for its members and interested colleagues. Meetings take place each Thursday during term time from 11:00am - 12:00pm online via Zoom (until further notice).
- Research event
Religion & Society Seminar Series
21 November 2024 - 21 November 2024
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
The Durham Religion and Society Research Seminar is a fortnightly forum for scholarly engagement with issues in the social scientific study of religion.
- Lecture
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Making a knife dual purpose: Revisiting the impact of China’s new environmental protection law on firm-level total factor productivity
21 November 2024 - 21 November 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Dr Wenjuan (Wendy) Ruan, Assistant Professor , Department of Finance, Durham University Business School
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Centre for Strategy, Technological Innovation, and Operations (CSTIO) Seminar with Dr. Andrew Aldrin
21 November 2024 - 21 November 2024
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Dr. Andy Aldrin from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University (USA) will present his work on " New Space Economy: What could go wrong? "
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
T. S. Eliot, Verse Drama, and Dance
21 November 2024 - 21 November 2024
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Staff and postgraduates are welcome to our first English Studies research seminar of the academic year.
- Research event
Zurich Alumni Gathering
21 November 2024 - 21 November 2024
6:00 PM - 9:01 PM
Durham alumni and friends are warmly invited to attend the Durham Alumni Zurich Chapter drinks social.
- Alumni
Washington, DC Alumni Gathering
21 November 2024 - 21 November 2024
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Durham alumni and friends are warmly invited to a gathering organised by the Washington DC Alumni Chapter. David Heller, International Officer at Durham, will join and share the latest updates from the University.
- Alumni
St John's London Alumni Drinks
21 November 2024 - 21 November 2024
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Join us for connections, conversations and refreshments in London. All Johnians are most welcome.
- Alumni
Bishop Dunn Memorial Lecture - Fr Hyacinthe Destivelle OP
21 November 2024 - 21 November 2024
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
In the first of two Bishop Dunn Memorial Lectures for 2024-25, Fr Hyacinthe Destivelle gives a talk on 'Abemus Papam. An Ecumenical Primacy in a Synodal Church'.
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
St John's Alumni London Drinks
21 November 2024 - 21 November 2024
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Join us for a relaxed evening of conversation, connection and refreshment with fellow Johnians in London
- Alumni
Culinary Landscapes: Talk and Tasting
21 November 2024 - 21 November 2024
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
To celebrate the opening of Leighton and Landscape (16 November - 27 April), come and taste delightful and little known historic dishes from South West Asia and North Africa, based on recipes researched by culinary historian Professor Daniel Newman.
- Public
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.