Events from the 01 May 2025 - 31 May 2025 Reset
WEDNESDAY 7 MAY - Speaker is Ellen Schallig (University of Oxford). The seminar is titled 'Braiding Glass: Building an Integral Field Unit for the WEAVE Instrument'.
07 May 2025
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
OCW017, Ogden Centre West
Durham Classics & Ancient History research seminars, Easter term
CL007, Classics and Ancient History Department / Online
Seminar by Professor Salome Bukachi (University of Nairobi)
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Seminar Room, Institute of Advanced Study, Cosin‘s Hall, Palace Green
This lecture is being given as part of our Durham Lectures Series 2025
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
CG85 (Chemistry Department)
Is your research in film or TV studies? In screen production? In other forms of screen culture such as streaming, social media, gaming? Are you just interested in learning more about the research in these areas that’s currently going on across our region? If so, join us for the North East Universities Screens Network (NEUSN) Research Sandpit!!
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room 116, Teaching and Learning Centre, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LU
Guest lecture by Professor Allan C. Hutchinson (Osgoode Hall Law School - York University). In this guest lecture, Professor Hutchinson will deliver a talk based on a forthcoming book chapter: ‘Speaking Out: the More, the Better’.
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
PCL048, Palatine Centre, Durham Law School & Online via Teams
The Durham Centre for Sustainable Development Law and Policy (CSDLP) is delighted to invite you to the next event of the Climate Mobilities Speaker Series. 'Climate Mobilities and the Role of Borders and Bordering'
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Online
CHESS Weekly Research Meetings (term time only)
08 May 2025
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
PO004, 48/49 Old Elvet
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).
Philosophy Department (PO004) and on Teams
Join us to discover more about the international field trip on our Business Analytics masters programme.
Join us for a Workshop on Matching and Market Design hosted by the DREAM research centre.
08 May 2025 - 09 May 2025
12:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Durham University Business School, Waterside Building
How does feminist speculative fiction critique capitalism and ecological neglect, reimagining solidarities in the face of planetary crises?
Hybrid: Institute for Medical Humanities | Online
Join us for a seminar sharing rare insights into the folmmaking process during the Soviet era, with writer, curator and filmmaker Daniel Bird. Jointly hosted by the School of Modern Languages and Cultures (MLaC) and the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC).
In person, room ER140, Elvet Riverside, New Elvet, Durham, DH1 3JT
Joyce Havstad (Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Utah; Fellow at the University of Hannover) visits Durham and gives a lecture on methodological choice in science.
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Elvet Riverside ER278
In this Catholic Theology Research Seminar, Dr Clare Watkins of the University of Durham gives a talk on 'The challenge of ‘clericalism’: looking beyond clergy for a liveable theology of ordained ministry in the Catholic Church'.
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Seminar Room B, Abbey House and Online
The Philosophy Department's annual E.J. Lowe Lecture 'A more-or-less recent history of essence' with Dr Jessica Leech (King's College, London).
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Lecture hall TLC033, Teaching and Learning Centre, South Road, DH1 3LS or via Teams (hybrid event)
Join us for a book presentation of The Poetics of Prophecy (Cambridge University Press), where Dr Yosefa Raz explores how Romantic poetry and biblical scholarship intertwine in the reinvention of prophecy. In conversation with Dr Yael Almog, MLAC, she examines the dynamics of prophecy – its back and forth movement between authority and anxiety, strength and weakness –—across British, German, and Hebrew literary traditions.
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
LRC Lecture Room St John‘s College, 3 South Bailey, Durham, DH1 3RJ
Things are about to get a little wild in "Little Shop of Horrors," at the Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre! Watch as an ambitious florist faces a killer plant with dark humour and unforgettable songs. Don’t miss this twisted night of fun!
08 May 2025 - 10 May 2025
7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms
The IAS has established a writing group for Durham academics and current IAS Fellows and IAS Associate Fellow who want to spend undisturbed time focusing on their papers, books, grants, talks, and other creative activities.
09 May 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Senior Common Room (SCR) Dining Room, Hatfield College
A seminar by Zeynep Akşin, Professor of Operations Management at Koç University
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Durham University Business School Waterside Building