Events from the 01 January 2024 - 31 December 2024 Reset
UCNP Project to hold next major in-person meeting in Germany this autumn.
21 November 2024 - 22 November 2024
Berlin
A seminar by Prof Catherine Welch from Trinity College Dublin and Dr Duc Nguyen from University of Manchester.
21 November 2024
10:00 AM - 11:30 PM
Business School Waterside Building WB-2011
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.
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Seminar Room, Institute of Advanced Study, Cosin‘s Hall, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RL
Dr Wenjuan (Wendy) Ruan, Assistant Professor , Department of Finance, Durham University Business School
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Zoom
Dr. Andy Aldrin from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University (USA) will present his work on " New Space Economy: What could go wrong? "
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Business School Waterside Building
Staff and postgraduates are welcome to our first English Studies research seminar of the academic year.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Hallgarth House 004
Durham alumni and friends are warmly invited to attend the Durham Alumni Zurich Chapter drinks social.
6:00 PM - 9:01 PM
Sablier Rooftop Restaurant & Bar, The Circle 23-Flughafen CH, 8058 Zürich, Switzerland
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.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Elephant & Castle, 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004, United States
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'.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
St Cuthbert‘s Catholic Church, Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL
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.
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Leighton House, 12 Holland Park Road, London, W14 8LZ
Jonathan Craig, ENI Confirm attendance to dei.admin@durham.ac.uk
22 November 2024
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
CLC406, Calman Centre
Join us for a Centre for Strategy, Technological Innovation, and Operations (CSTIO) Seminar with Dr Xiaolong Li (Durham University)
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Waterside Building, Durham University Business School
Reading Group, Mike Wheeler leading on DINGS, “The Dynamic and Recursive Interplay of Embodiment and Narrative Identity."
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Online
Join fellow Durham alumni and friends for an authentic and delicious Thai dinner organised by the Hong Kong Alumni Chapter.
23 November 2024
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
The Balcony, Aberdeen Marina Club, 8 Shum Wan Road, Aberdeen, Hong Kong
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Kateryna Ivashchenko-Stadnik (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
25 November 2024
Cosin‘s Hall, Seminar Room, Palace Green
An event for IMH Fellows with research interests in trauma, violence and memory.
Institute for Medical Humanities
The seventh and penultimate workshop in a series of eight 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.
26 November 2024
Pradeep Narayanan delivers the following seminar as part of the Centre for Social Justice & Community Action group seminar series.
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room 113, 32 Old Elvet (Department of Sociology, Durham University)
The Workshop will offer up to 5 academic colleagues and PhD students the opportunity to discuss their work with Prof Sousa
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Durham University Business School
Emily Williams discusses “The materiality of absence: a conversation about preservation, decay and the teaching and writing of the past.”
27 November 2024
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
7 Owengate
The third interactive workshop in a series of four, supported by the IAS, on soil
28 November 2024
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Join us for a Centre for Consumers and Sustainable Consumption (CCSC) hosted Seminar with Dr Miriam McGowan (Durham University)
Join current students, members of our alumni network as well as our expert admissions staff for a drop in question and answer session.
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
The event will take place on Zoom
Interconcept talk No. 4 by Mike Wheeler 'The case of music' (Narrative and Cognition Lab)
Institute for Medical Humanities, Confluence Building, Durham University
Here, we combine laboratory evidence and a field investigation in the Mississippi River delta to explore the controls on the riverine transport and deposition of mud. We show that the flocculation of mud, with floc diameters greater than 10 μm, in freshwater is a ubiquitous phenomenon, causing the sedimentation of mud to be driven by changes in local hydrodynamics.
W414 (Geography)
On her return from the UN Biodiversity Conference, Dr Simona Capisani will give a CHESS talk and host a Q&A regarding her experiences.
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Elvet Riverside ER 149
Our next research seminar, open to staff and postgraduates.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Elvet Riverside 155
Join us for this Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) and the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) seminar with Ukrainian art curator Oksana Barshynova (National Art Museum of Ukraine; NAMU, Kyiv), for insights into the Ukranian Avant Garde! Hosted as part of the IAS Project 'Looking Back to Move Forward: History, Recovery, and Sustainability in Understanding the War in Ukraine on a Global Scale’, in collaboration with CVAC.
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Cosin‘s Hall seminar room, the Institute of Advanced Study, Palace Green, Durham
IAS Visiting Scholar's Lecture for World Soil Day by Dr Anna Krzywoszynska (University of Oulu)
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Tom Percival Annex, Parsons Field Site, St. Cuthbert‘s Society, Durham University
Passport Talk by Paul Armstrong: 'The Neuroscience of Literary Time-Travel: How Literary Works Cross Historical Distance'
29 November 2024
2:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Daria Shapovalova, Senior Lecturer in Energy Law, University of Aberdeen. She is the director of the Centre for Energy Law and coordinator of the Just Transitions Lab. With research interests in energy and environmental law, Daria is working on interdisciplinary approaches to climate, energy, and just transition regulation.
Alderman Professor Emma Edhem is going to speak about the space in practice. Dr Can Eken is going to moderate this event.
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Durham University, Palatine Centre, Hogan Lovells Lecture Theatre (PCL048)
The next research seminar organised by Operations Management group and the Centre for Strategy, Technological Innovation and Operations (CSTIO) will take place on Friday, 29 November at 13:00-14:30 at Waterside Building WB-4002. Dr. Zhe Liufrom Imperial College London will present his work on "Operating Three-sided Marketplace". You are welcome to join us over lunch for sandwiches, coffee and drinks and meet the speaker before the seminar from 12:00 to 13:00.
Lunch for sandwiches, coffee and drinks and before the seminar from 12:00 to 13:00 at the Executive Hub Lounge in WB-4002. The seminar will be held in WB-4002 13:00 to 14:30
Walkabout returns with an innovative, thrilling, immersive take on the beloved Dickens classic, beating their record for the UK’s largest work of immersive student theatre.
29 November 2024 - 30 November 2024
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Dunelm House
This concert will take you on a tour celebrating European national identity. From the tone poems of Sibelius’ Finlandia and Smetana’s Vltava, to the Russian folklore of Borodin’s Symphony No. 2.
30 November 2024
Elvet Methodist Church
In-person Paper Development Workshop
02 December 2024
Durham University Business School Waterside Building, The Sands Durham DH1 1SL Waterside Building Executive Suite
Join us ‘Wearing it Red’ on 2 December for World Aids Day send us your photos!
Durham University
Are you interested in being involved in research that makes a positive impact on health and wellbeing? Would you like to meet other like-minded people, from all disciplines and faculties of Durham University, in the early stages of their research careers?
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
W215 (Geography Building)
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Giuliana Furci (Fungi Foundation of Chile)
Personhood: The New Civil War over Reproduction What’s next for the battle over abortion? Mary Ziegler argues that simply undoing Roe v. Wade has never been the endpoint for the antiabortion movement. Since the 1960s, the larger goal has been to secure recognition of fetuses and embryos as persons under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, a step that the modern antiabortion movement argues would make liberal abortion laws unconstitutional.
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
This event is taking place online via Zoom.
The International Day for Persons with Disabilities (IDPWD) on 3rd of December, seeks to raise awareness about the challenges faced by people with disabilities.
03 December 2024
The last workshop in a series of eight 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.
Vicky Kasprowicz, Research Fellow in Energy Demand, University of Sussex Business School
Chaotic systems are hard to predict - this much has been known for decades. However, studying the fractal geometry that underpins chaotic systems reveals so much more. From a practical point of view it tells us when we can trust predictions and when we can’t.
TLC033 (lecture commences at 6pm, with the book signing from 5pm)
IAS Fellows' Public Lecture by Professor Paul Armstrong (Brown University)
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Kenworthy Hall, St Mary‘s College
The Dunelm Society London present an Advent Service at The King's Chapel of the Savoy in London.
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
The King’s Chapel of the Savoy in London. Savoy Hill, London WC2R 0DA
Join us for an online seminar on Academic (Accounting) Research: Interdisciplinarity, Engagement and Impact
04 December 2024
3:30 AM - 4:30 AM
A fourth and final interactive workshop in a series on soil, supported by the IAS
Book Launch: Ian Collins: Blythe Spirit: Blythe Spirit: The Remarkable Life of Ronald Blythe, John Murray, 2024
Online Only at: https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/97204008125?pwd=WSfXWptegD5T9YrpReDcbvm8Zk319H.1 Meeting ID: 972 0400 8125 Passcode 796168
A musical about the most infamous bank robbing & murdering duo in American history - romance, crime, and an incredible soundtrack.
04 December 2024 - 07 December 2024
Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre
An international workshop with scholars from cognitive sciences and narrative studies advancing on the problem of 'implicit narrativity'
05 December 2024
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Join current students, members of our alumni network, and our expert admissions staff for an online drop-in Q&A session on Thursday 5 December 2024 from 12pm - 1pm (GMT).
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Matthew Eddy discusses “Information Against Empire: Black Doctors, Biodata and Democracy in the Atlantic World.”
In this Catholic Theology Research Seminar, Emma Percy from the University of Aberdeen gives a talk on ''Can Aquinas offer some hope to trauma theology?'.
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Seminar Room B, Abbey House and Online
A celebration of World Soil Day and the launch of the SMART Soils SRF project with special guests Merlin Sheldrake, Cosmo Sheldrake, Jo Pearl, IAS Fellow Giuliana Furci and IAS Visiting Scholar Anna Kryzwoszynska
Elvet Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HL
A workshop and networking event held by the Centre for Strategy, Technological Innovation, and Operations on behalf of Durham University Business School, and Business Durham.
06 December 2024
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Durham University Business School Waterside Building
Anoush Etheshami, Government and International Affairs, Durham University Confirm attendance to dei.admin@durham.ac.uk
The research seminar titled "Chinese Rules and Procedures for Addressing Mass Actions" was presented by Dr. Cong-rui Qiao, Founder and Director of Law4Sustainability.
Online via Zoom.
Join Durham University Big Band and Durham University Jazz Orchestra for their yearly Jazzy Christmas charity gig at the Assembly Rooms Theatre for an evening of festive classics, blazing solos and Christmas cheer!
08 December 2024
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Anna Krzywoszynska (University of Oulu)
09 December 2024
Next Talk in the The (women) In Parenthesis Online Work in Progress Seminar Series 2024-5 is Ian James Kidd, ‘Midgley, Wickedness, and Vices’ on 10th December 2024 between 3pm and 4.30pm.
10 December 2024
On Zoom - further information available on Woman in Parenthesis Website- www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk
A webinar by Professor Alex Mold and Dr Simon Cook exploring one of the most popular sports and pastimes in the UK - Running.
online
In this seminar for the International Scholars of the History of Women Religious Association, Patricia Stoop of the University of Antwerp, gives a talk on 'Women Religious in the Low Countries (c. 1350–1600) and Their Roles in the Production and Circulation of Literature and Knowledge'.
The Affective Experience Lab’s ‘Making Sense’ workshops bring together colleagues from across disciplines to reflect on keywords that relate to our shared interest in affect, emotion and embodiment.
11 December 2024
IMH Atrium, 1st floor, Confluence Building, DH1 3LE
Supported by the Economy & Culture research cluster at Durham Geography, this workshop aims to explore ‘Venture Capital Geographies’ broadly conceived.
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
W007, Geography West building.
This is an event to celebrate the launch of the launch of the Classics Education Research and Engagement (CERES) Centre.
2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Hogan Lovells Lecture Theatre Durham Law School (PCL 048)
Zoom talk presented by Claudia Hopkins
This talk will be delivered online via Zoom
A Leadership Seminar by Professor George Banks from UNC Charlotte. The seminar will be arranged in the room WB1005 and on Teams. The seminar information is as below. If you would like to have 1-1 meeting, please sign up here.
12 December 2024
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
The Business School‘s Waterside Building room WB-1005 and on Teams.
Recent developments in Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) have unlocked our ability to quantify landscape and forest structure at unprecedented spatial scales, resolving individual branching structure and fine scale microtopographic variability in tandem. We have applied this technology to a collection of forest plots across Europe, capturing data across a climate gradient, and representing a broad range of species distributions and landscape forms.
In 2019, the Durham Commission on Creativity and Education, a partnership between Durham University and Arts Council England, launched its first report investigating the teaching of young people to be creative and to think creatively, and made ten recommendations across not only schools, but also Early Years, apprenticeships, Universities and the arts.
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
CB008, Confluence Building, on the main Durham University Science Site off Stockton Road.
This lecture explores the current race in both the Global North and South to secure much needed critical minerals, and the attendant human rights abuses and impacts on local communities arising from the new resource rush.
6:15 PM - 7:30 PM
PCL048, Hogan Lovells Lecture Theatre, Durham Law School, Palatine Centre, Durham
Christopher Marlowe’s seminal ‘Doctor Faustus’ sees ambition meet the supernatural in a gripping tale of power, temptation, and tragedy.
12 December 2024 - 14 December 2024
How has resistance to destructive extractivist investment affected the outcomes of natural resource politics? This talk reflects on how social movements, NGOs, and other forms of active citizenship contesting the illegalities or socio-environmental injustices of over-extractive natural resource operations have influenced the economic outcomes in different contexts.
13 December 2024
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Online via Zoom
You are warmly invited to join fellow alumni in Durham for a December social event, organised by the North East Alumni Chapter.
Head of Steam, 3 Reform Place, North Road, Durham, DH1 4RZ
Space is already a crucial part of our everyday lives from checking the weather report, hitting ‘buy now’ or calling family at home. Recent developments are making space more accessible as we move from large, expensive, state-driven missions to smaller, low-cost satellites developed by private companies.
17 December 2024
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
D110 (Dawson Building)
18 December 2024
Pedro Fonseca, Master of Laws, Stanford University
19 December 2024
You are warmly invited to join fellow Durham alumni and friends for a catch-up dinner before the holidays, organised by the Delhi Alumni Chapter.
21 December 2024
Chido, M-18, Outer Circle, Connaught Place, New Delhi 110001
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