What’s On Events Calendar

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

The ancient Egyptian king Amunhotep III was the grandfather of the famous boy king Tutankhamun.

• Exhibitions
• Everyone

This exhibition showcases the work of the professional artists and craftswomen who do so much to preserve and transfer traditional knowledge and skills, adapting them for new audiences and popularising Central Asian folk art. Alongside photographs of the women practicing a variety of traditional craft techniques will be examples of their textile work.

• Exhibitions
• Everyone

This exhibition explores how photography turned Tutankhamun into a global sensation. It shows the most famous photographic images in archaeology, from the most famous of archaeological finds: the tomb of Tutankhamun. Marking the 100th anniversary of the tomb’s discovery in November 1922, this exhibition created by Durham University academic, Prof Christina Riggs, examines the striking images created by photographer Harry Burton during the decade-long excavation.

• Exhibitions
• Everyone

This interdisciplinary forum covers a wide range of medieval and early modern topics. It is designed to bring together members, including students, from across our departments, as well as from outside Durham University.

• Other
• Outreach & community
• Public
• Research event
• Talks, training, seminars & conferences

Book a Discover Durham Live Virtual Session- come and hear from our current students!

• Open days & visits

Book a Discover Durham Live Virtual Session- come and hear from our current students!

• Open days & visits

Want to find out more about the STEP programme? Come and talk to the STEP team at one of our information events.

• Open days & visits

The exhibition explores the stories connected through objects discovered in the River Wear, evoking the social history of Durham’s past 800 years. It has been co-curated by underwater archaeologist Gary Bankhead and the Museum of Archaeology. It will feature around 200 of the 13,500 artefacts that have been found in the River Wear by Gary since 2008, in a friendly-family display.

• Exhibition
• Everyone

• Research event
• Talks, training, seminars & conferences

• Research event
• Talks, training, seminars & conferences

This is a hybrid event with an online option via zoom. Zoom login details will be sent closer to the event.

• Public
• Research event
• Talks, training, seminars & conferences

A one-day symposium focused on the (de)coloniality of knowledge for and from the Americas.

• Research event

• Research event
• Talks, training, seminars & conferences

• Research event
• Talks, training, seminars & conferences

A Network for Heating and Cooling Research to Enable a Net-Zero Carbon Future (H+C Zero Network) has been established by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to maximise the impact of UK-funded research and innovation.

• Research event

A webinar to understand (a) sexuality and (a)romanticism, and to celebrate the A spec community.

• Research event
• Talks, training, seminars & conferences

In this public talk, the Durham Department of Classics & Ancient History's 5th annual LGBT+ History Month event, Dr Simona Martorana (former Durham PhD student, now at the University of Kiel) will explore queerness in the Roman receptions of Sappho. This talk will take place on Zoom only, and is free and open to all.

• Talks, training, seminars & conferences

All are welcome to our next Inventions of The Text seminar.

• Public
• Research event
• Everyone