Events from the 01 January 2024 - 31 December 2024 Reset
Do you study cinema? Do you like watching films? Do you make films?
22 October 2024
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Online, registration required.
Join us at the QS MBA Fair in Munich on Tuesday 22 October.
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Munich
IAS Fellows' Public Lecture by Professor Louise Barrett (University of Lethbridge)
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
The Chapel, Hatfield College
Join us with colleagues from the department of History, for a master class on using photographs in historical research Professor Ron Doel (Florida State University). All are welcome, and you’re invited to bring along a photograph that you are using, or that is relevant to your current research to contribute to the discussion. Doel’s expertise is in the history of science and images of scientists, but the discussion will be broader - anyone with an interest is welcome to attend!
23 October 2024
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
PG21, Pemberton Rooms, Palace Green, Durham
Talk titled: Linking Structure and Properties in Energy Materials: Intercalation in Hybrid Perovskites
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
W309 (Geography West)
Visit the STEM careers fair on Wednesday 23 October for advice and information from a wide range of industries.
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Teaching and Learning Centre
Departmental Research Seminar for students and staff.
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
PO005, 48 Old Elvet.
LLM Student Event
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Law School Foyer
IAS Fellows' Public Lecture by Dr Nataliia Ishchenko (Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University)
Seminar Room, Ustinov College, Sheraton Park
Welcome to the future of banking! We are excited to invite you to an exclusive and thought-provoking workshop on “Climate Change and Banking Regulation and Supervision”, hosted by the Banking Research Group at the University of Bristol Business School. Mark your calendars for October 24th, 2024, as we gather at the University of Bristol for a day of ground-breaking insights and collaborative exploration.
24 October 2024
9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Lady Hale Moot Court Room, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol BS8 1HH
!!! Due to personal circumstances Dr Hendry has been unable to travel to the UK this week, therefore this event is cancelled !!! We hope to re-schedule in the near future.
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
DRMC/Nine DTP Hub, 1st Floor, Arthur Holmes Building, left of The Calman Learning Centre, up the stairs, turn left. Door signed ‘DRMC’ and ‘Nine DTP’
We greatly look forward to visiting Shanghai and hosting an alumni reception with Durham University Vice-Chancellor and Warden, Professor Karen O’Brien.
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Venue: Waldorf Astoria, Shanghai on the Bund
Meet the Programme Director and discover more about our Global DBA programme on Friday 25 October.
25 October 2024
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Online
Reading Group, Richard Walsh leading on ABBOTT, P.H. 'Narrativity' in The Living Handbook of Narratology.
Join us at the QS MBA Fair in Tokyo on Saturday 26 October.
26 October 2024
10:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Tokyo
Book onto our Discover Durham Live! webinars now.
28 October 2024 - 01 November 2024
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Virtual
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Professor Paul Armstrong (Brown University)
28 October 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Cosin‘s Hall, Seminar Room, Palace Green
Join us this half-term, on Palace Green from Tuesday 29 October to Thursday 31 October (10am-4pm) and enjoy three fun-packed and fascinating days of free family activities.
29 October 2024 - 31 October 2024
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Palace Green, Durham
The first 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.
29 October 2024
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Seminar Room, Institute of Advanced Study, Cosin‘s Hall, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RL
On the 100th anniversary of the death of Gabriel Fauré, this concert celebrates the composer’s lyrical romanticism with works from the 1870s to the 1890s, including the great first Sonata. Saint-Saëns’ own first Sonata and Ravel’s one movement Sonate Posthume complete a programme that will transport you to the magic of fin-de-siècle Paris.
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Durham Cathedral, Durham, DH1 3EH
Visit the business, finance & consulting careers fair on Wednesday 30 October for advice and information from a wide range of institutions.
30 October 2024
Dr. Amanda Herbert presents her talk, entitled: "Authorship, Identity, and Black Erasure: British Atlantic Manuscript Recipe Books, 1600-1850."
7 Owengate, Durham
Join us for an online event with the authors Sasha Marianna Salzmann and Ofer Waldman for a reading and discussion of their important book Gleichzeit
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Online via Zoom
Join the Dunelm Society for their annual dinner in London.
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Apothecaries’ Hall, Blackfriars Lane, London EC4V 6EJ
Join us for this free online event exploring the theme of Nature and Horror in the Nineteenth Century. Please note all times are Central European Time (CET).
31 October 2024
Zoom
In this seminar, Alessandro Silvano will explore the oceanic processes that drive melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, and consequent global sea level rise.
W414 (Geography)
Book now and find out more about our compressive package of MBA scholarships available at Durham University Business School.
01 November 2024
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Interconcept talk No. 2 by Richard Walsh by the Narrative and Cognition Lab
Institute for Medical Humanities, Confluence Building, Durham University
In international commercial arbitration, and with particular reference to when it is taking place under the model law, arbitrations can require the assistance of the courts.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
PCL054 (Palatine Centre)
You are warmly invited to join fellow Durham alumni and friends for a gathering organised by the Philadelphia Alumni Chapter.
02 November 2024
Prohibition Taproom, 501 N 13th St, Philadelphia, PA 19123, United States
Join us for a Centre for Leadership & Followership (CLF) Seminar with Professor Rebecca Greenbaum (Rutgers University)
04 November 2024
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Waterside Building, Durham University Business School
IAS Visiting Scholar Seminar by Dr John Elliott (University of St Andrews)
IAS Fellows' Public Lecture by Dr Kateryna Maltseva (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Bishop‘s Dining Hall, University College, Durham Castle
Professor Daniel Newman will be a speaker at this year's 'Food Meets Science' conference in Dubai
05 November 2024
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Dubai
The second 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.
Michael Marder is Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. His work spans the fields of environmental philosophy and ecological thought, political theory, and phenomenology.
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
W010 (Geography West building)
This workshop, designed specifically for postgraduates, offers the opportunity to engage further with Marder’s lecture and work more broadly, and invites participants to think through how the topic of joints might relate to their own research interests. We look forward to your participation in this discussion of what it means to think about the body when we begin to think about the body when we begin with its joints.
W010 (Geography)
Join us with colleagues from the department of Music, the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) and Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies (CNCS), for a seminar to reveal the magic of the féerie! This French fairy play was a once ubiquitous genre analogous in some respects to the English Christmas pantomime! With music historian Dr Tommaso Sabbatini (University of Bristol).
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Students Union, Dunelm house, Durham
A talk by Alex Fry brought to you by the Affective Experience Lab.
IMH Atrium, 1st floor, Confluence Building, DH1 3LE
IBRU Professional Training Workshop on international boundary dispute resolution held in Paris in partnership with Foley Hoag LLP
06 November 2024 - 08 November 2024
Paris
GSC (Global Studies Centre) is excited to announce that Prof Keith Brouthers (King's College London, Fellow of AIB), a leading scholar in international business and international management will be joining us for a Workshop on Publishing.
06 November 2024
9:00 AM - 12:15 PM
WB-1005, Waterside Building, Durham University Business School; Zoom link upon request
An in-person gathering for our postgraduate network.
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location TBC
Do you watch video essays? Do you want to make your own? If the answer is yes, join film journalist, programmer, and video essayist Leigh Singer for two afternoons of practical video essay training.
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
What does it mean “to follow plants”? How to re-learn the work and the play of thinking from them? I propose shifting the focus and perspectives of our thought and attention from the extremes to the middle, whence the extremes emerge and develop in their tireless interplay.
The Agora, 9th Floor of Henry Daysh Building, Newcastle University
The Prayer Book Society Conference.
Online only at Zoom: https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/95599561688?pwd=It6Ub7aNr0X2DuGqg26V81EvdrcEta.1
The event will include a range of speakers (inc researchers, practitioners, teachers, young people) and information from a diverse range of current research projects, applied projects within schools across the County, and young people's insights/lived experiences.
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Teaching and Learning Centre Durham University South Road Durham DH1 3LS
ESRC Festival of Social Science event - ‘Autism, Neurodiversity & School Life’
Recent developments in jurisprudence determining the law applicable to an arbitration agreement: a discussion of the Supreme Court Judgment in UniCredit Bank GmbH (Respondent) v RusChemAlliance LLC (Appellant).
This is a hybrid event. It will be taking place in person at PCL054 and online via Zoom.
At this celebratory launch event, Prof. Karen Kilby (CCS Director), Prof Clare Watkins (Durham and the University of Roehampton) and Sr Jo Robson (Carmelite Nuns will be in conversation with Dr Catherine Sexton (CCS Honorary Fellow).
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
GSC (Global Studies Centre) is excited to announce that Prof Keith Brouthers (King's College London, Fellow of AIB), a leading scholar in international business and international management will be joining us for a Workshop on Research Feedback.
07 November 2024
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
WB-1005, the Waterside Building, Durham University Business School
The 4th International Symposium on Social Work Practitioner Research, sponsored by the Social Science Festival at Durham University
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
DEI is a world leader on interdisciplinary research across the sciences, social sciences, humanities and engineering and was one of the first truly interdisciplinary energy research institutes in the UK. The DEI Energy Day 2024 celebrates 15 years of Durham Energy Institute bringing people together to think differently about energy. Find out about the cutting edge of energy research here at Durham and join us to think about how we should get to Net Zero. Come along to take part in the discussion
Radisson Blu Hotel, Frankland Lane, Durham, DH1 5TA
Durham International Dispute Resolution Institute (DIDRI) invites you to a great book launch event on third-party funding (TPF). TPF may raise complex procedural and ethical issues. Some jurisdictions and international arbitration centres have started addressing this development in their laws and rules. Interesting case laws are developing in some jurisdictions in international commercial arbitration as well as case law in investment arbitration.
PCL54 (Palatine Centre)
The annual World Heritage Site Public Lecture, featuring a lecture delivered by Ross Forbes, Chief Executive of the Durham Miners' Association, on the subject of "Mining World Heritage: What Makes Us Who We Are?"
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Chapter House, Durham Cathedral, Durham UK
‘Once a Johnian’ Formals are vocation themed formal dinners to which all Johnians are warmly invited.
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
St John‘s College, 3 South Bailey, Durham, DH1 3RJ
You are warmly invited to join the North East Alumni Chapter for an exciting talk on ‘The James Webb Space Telescope’, presented by Professor Martin Ward
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Zing Cafe and TLC 113 Lecture Room, Teaching and Learning Centre, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LS
In 2024 Ben Hall, a CPT in Energy Student, took a three month break from his PhD in energy and climate change law to complete a UKRI-funded policy internship at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. He applied to the scheme because he wanted to understand how energy policy is developed, implemented and evaluated; whether current changes are sufficient to meet the demands of decarbonisation, and to see who calls the shots on these.
08 November 2024
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
CLC406, Calman Centre
Durham alumni and friends are warmly invited to attend the DunelmOTTAWA pub social.
09 November 2024
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Lieutenant‘s Pump, 361 Elgin Street, Ottawa, ON K2P 1M9
Join us at the QS Masters fair in Bangkok.
6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Bangkok
Join us at the QS MBA fair in Bangkok.
Interfaith Event
10 November 2024 - 17 November 2024
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11 November 2024 - 15 November 2024
11:00 AM - 3:30 PM
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IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Kateryna Maltseva (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)
11 November 2024
Dr Sophie Webber is a geographer in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney. Her research investigates the impacts of attempts to make adaptation to climate impacts ‘economic’ through market and financial instruments. She has conducted research about large-scale climate transformations in Southeast Asia and the Pacific region.
W007 (Geography building)
Join us at the QS Masters fair in Kuala Lumpur.
12 November 2024
7:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Kuala Lumpur
The third 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.
One night only! Come along for an evening of live performance, music, and research as you’ve never seen it before.
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Radisson Blu Hotel, Durham Frankland Lane Durham DH1 5TA
This fascinating programme explores the instrumental music that passed between these ports and countries in the 16th and 17th centuries, from dances to sonatas, including Pavans inspired by John Dowland’s famous Lachrimae to elaborate music by major figures such as the German/Danish organist Dietrich Buxtehude, a precursor of Bach. In the virtuosic hands of Gawain Glenton’s In Echo, these rarely-heard gems will sparkle as brightly as they did in centuries past.
Elvet Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL
Join us for our next face to face Postgraduate Open Day on Wednesday 13 November.
13 November 2024
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Durham
A warm invitation for donors to attend a thank you gathering in London.
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Venue: Arundel House, London
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.
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Neurodiversity-Curious Durham Scoping Event
Earth Sciences 231, Durham University
IAS Fellows' Public Lecture by Giuliana Furci (Fungi Foundation of Chile)
This unique concert, curated by Dr Amanda Hsieh, presents a selection of extremely beautiful early twentieth-century Japanese art songs, rarely heard in the UK. Music by composers such as Rentarō Taki, Kōsaku Yamada and Tatsunosuke Kishitani will be interwoven with European songs and operatic excerpts, just as they would have been performed in their original context.
Durham University Department of Music, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RL
The second interactive workshop in a series of four on soil, supported by the IAS
14 November 2024
Join us for a Centre for Consumers and Sustainable Consumption seminar with Dr Yionglei Yu (Newcastle University)
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
This Competition and Markets Authority and Durham University Business School workshop is designed to facilitate a dialogue between academic researchers and policymakers trying to understand what makes an economy competitive, innovative and productive.
14 November 2024 - 15 November 2024
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Durham University Business School
In this seminar Ivan Haigh (University of Southampton) will discuss the work he has done in his research to assess changes in the frequency of storm surge barriers and their implications.
CHESS will host a research seminar where the Department of Philosophy combines forces with the School of Modern Languages and Culture (MLAC).
Durham University, Elvet Riverside, ER149
The fourth 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.
15 November 2024
Dr Paula Street, Senior Science Engagement Specialist, Durham University This training session will discuss: • Why do we engage? • Who are we engaging with? • Why would they want to engage with us? • How can we most effectively engage? There is an opportunity to practice communicating complex topics and key messages. Confirm attendance to dei.admin@durham.ac.uk
Join our Digital Supply Chains Masterclass to learn how to optimise your supply chain using the latest digital tools and technologies.
Join us for a Centre for Strategy, Technological Innovation, and Operations (CSTIO) hosted seminar with Dr George Chen (London Business School)
Interconcept talk No. 3 by Richard Walsh (Narrative and Cognition Lab)
The Durham Centre for Sustainable Development Law and Policy proudly welcomes you to view the live stream of our Official UNFCCC Side Event taking place at COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan – “Just Transition – a Fairness Discourse for Enhancing Adaptation and Improving Social Resilience”.
18 November 2024
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
CG 218 (DU) - Side Event Room 5 (COP29)
Talk titled: Machine learning in supercooled liquids
OCW017
Join us for this seminar - 'Weight discrimination in healthcare settings: Reflections on training provision, stigma and legal protection' in which Dr Rachel Colls and Dr Kimberly Jamie present their working paper.
PCL050 (Palatine Centre)/Online via Zoom
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Nataliia Ishchenko (Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University)
The fifth 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.
19 November 2024
Join us for a Centre for Global Studies seminar with Professor Dariusz Dąbrowski (Gdańsk University of Technology)
20 November 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Durham University Business School and Online
Join us for a Centre for Ethical Finance, Accountability and Governance seminar with Professor Victor Maas (University of Amsterdam)
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Online and in-person at Durham University Business School, Mill Hill Lane
Join Nigel Swycher (Chad’s/Law) and Richard Kempner (Aidan’s/ Law) for presentations from two alumni who graduated from Durham in the 1980s and reached the pinnacle of the Intellectual Property profession.
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Hogan Lovells Lecture Theatre
Join us for a workshop on creating a digital replica of an existing object, suitable for people without any background in computer science, as well as providing worthwhile content for computing specialists. Come prepared for an eye-opening session! Part of the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) Visual Methods Workshop Series 2024-25.
Mathematical Sciences & Computer Science Building, Durham University, Upper Mountjoy Campus, Stockton Road, Durham, DH1 3LE.
Centre Public Lecture - Dr Tony Lloyd (CEO of the ADHD Foundation, UK).
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
L50, Psychology Department
Inventions is a fascinating trans-national project to promote and present unusual music for solo harpsichord, drawing primarily on historical and contemporary music by female composers from Scotland, Ireland and England. Three beautiful new commissions are set alongside historical works, making links between different countries and centuries, and performed by Katarzyna Kowalik, a creative and skilled performer of both historical and contemporary keyboard music.
Durham University Department of Music, Palace Green, Durham DH1 3RL
‘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!
20 November 2024 - 23 November 2024
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre
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.
Dr Wenjuan (Wendy) Ruan, Assistant Professor , Department of Finance, Durham University Business School
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.
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
Join us for a Centre for Strategy, Technological Innovation, and Operations (CSTIO) Seminar with Dr Xiaolong Li (Durham University)
Reading Group, Mike Wheeler leading on DINGS, “The Dynamic and Recursive Interplay of Embodiment and Narrative Identity."
Join fellow Durham alumni and friends for an authentic and delicious Thai dinner organised by the Hong Kong Alumni Chapter.
23 November 2024
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
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
27 November 2024
Emily Williams discusses “The materiality of absence: a conversation about preservation, decay and the teaching and writing of the past.”
7 Owengate
The third interactive workshop in a series of four, supported by the IAS, on soil
28 November 2024
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.
The event will take place on Zoom
Interconcept talk No. 4 by Mike Wheeler 'The case of music' (Narrative and Cognition Lab)
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.
On her return from the UN Biodiversity Conference, Dr Simona Capisani will give a CHESS talk and host a Q&A regarding her experiences.
Elvet Riverside ER 149
Our next research seminar, open to staff and postgraduates.
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.
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)
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.
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
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.
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)
Kenworthy Hall, St Mary‘s College
The Dunelm Society London present an Advent Service at The King's Chapel of the Savoy in London.
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
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).
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
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'.
11 December 2024
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
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.
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
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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