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Our Events will give you the opportunity to learn more about what Durham Business School has to offer for postgraduate study.
01 September 2024 - 31 December 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Durham Business School
Led by Helen Fenwick and Patrick Zuk
01 January 2025 - 01 January 2026
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
TBC
Led by Dr Alice Nah
01 September 2025 - 31 July 2028
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Hosted by the International Centre of Public Accountability (ICOPA)
15 December 2025 - 16 December 2025
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Durham University Business School, Waterside Building
A workshop for historians of Modern Europe
15 December 2025
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The Lit & Phil, 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1SE
with film journalist and video essayist Leigh Singer. Join CVAC for another BFI Video Essay Training session! Event is limited to Durham staff and Postgraduates.
16 December 2025
9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Room TLC040, Teaching and Learning Centre, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LS
International workshop on Postcolonial Readings of Late Antique Literature
1:00 PM - 12:45 PM
The Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 7 Owengate
An opportunity to find out more about the Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowships scheme.
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Online
The Measurement Lab's monthly online reading group. Each paper will have an author's/commentator’s introduction, and have group discussion.
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Research seminar organised by Durham Centre for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
17 December 2025
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
CL007, Classics and Ancient History Department
Join Durham alumni for an informal gathering in New York.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
The Wheeltapper Pub, 141 East 44th Street, Manhattan, NY, 10017
This workshop aims to explore how the Court’s case law in relation to minorities and other marginalised groups has evolved over the past 30 years.
08 January 2026
Palatine Centre, Room PCL050, Durham Law School
An opportunity to find out more about developing your research idea for your application to the scheme.
09 January 2026
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Discover how EDI moves from theory into practice across energy research. Co-hosted by UKERC, Supergen Energy Networks, EDI+, and IGNITE, this event is open to all—from early-career researchers to established professionals committed to fostering inclusive and equitable research environments.
14 January 2026
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
The Exchange, 3 Centenary Sq, Birmingham B1 2DR
Seminar by Imran Rasul, University College London (UCL). External seminar series by the Department of Economics.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room MHL405, Durham University Business School, Mill Hill Lane,
This seminar is being given as part of our weekly seminar series.
CB0008
This workshop aims to explore how the case law of the European Court of Human Rights on Armed Conflict, Terrorism, and National Security has developed over the last 30 years.
15 January 2026
Durham University, Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC) Room 040
CHESS Weekly Research Meetings (term time only)
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
PO004, 48 Old Elvet
Daniel Molin, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
The IAS writing group is open to Durham academics and current IAS Fellows and IAS Associate Fellows who want to spend undisturbed time focusing on their papers, books, grants, talks, and other creative activities.
16 January 2026
SCR Dining Room, Hatfield College
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Professor Louise Bethlehem (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
19 January 2026
Cosin‘s Hall, Seminar Room, Palace Green
An interview of David N. Livingstone about his latest book, followed by a Q&A.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Institute for Medical Humanities, Confluence Building
MUSICONversations is a new series of music appreciation evenings in which members of Durham’s renowned Music Department introduce music they love and would like to share with a wider audience. They will give a short introduction before playing a recording of the music, followed by time for reflection and conversation. No special musical knowledge is necessary to enjoy a MUSICONversation - we invite you to come and explore something new in the company of an expert guide.
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Birley Room, Hatfield College
CVAC and the Music Department are delighted to invite you to a lecture on Richard Rijnvos new composition "lettura del labirinto", as part of the Music department's Research Forum series.
20 January 2026
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Concert Room, Divinity House, Music Department, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RL
Join us for a hybrid roundtable on “Seasonal Bodies: Weather, Movement, and Wellbeing”.
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
TLC116, Teaching and Learning Centre, DH1 3LS
Seminar by Stefano Corbellini, Sheffield University, External seminar series by the Department of Economics.
21 January 2026
CG85
Departmental Research Seminar for students and staff.
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Po005, 48 Old Elvet
MUSICON is thrilled to welcome virtuoso harpsichordist Jane Chapman to give the UK premiere of Richard Rijnvos’ major new work.
7:30 PM - 8:45 PM
Department of Music, Palace Green, Durham
22 January 2026
Dr Virginia Passalacqua (University of Turin) will give a DELI lunchtime seminar entitled "Legal Mobilization for Migrant Rights: Opportunities and Barriers at the European Court of Justice".
Online via Teams
The Centre for Strategy, Technological Innovation and Operations (CSTIO) and the Global Studies Centre (GSC) invite you to join them for a seminar with guest speaker Professor Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki from the University of Vienna. This virtual seminar will take place on Thursday 22nd January 2026 from 1.30pm to 2.30pm on Microsoft Teams.
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Online via Microsoft Teams
Wrap up Van Mildert College's 60th Anniversary at our finale event in London.
London
23 January 2026
Royal Northern Sinfonia, directed by dynamic violinist Maria Włoszczowska, return for their second visit of the season in an evening of music packed full of wit, sparkle and passion.
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Elvet Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Professor Carmen Gonzalez (Loyola University Chicago School of Law)
26 January 2026
IAS Fellows' public Lecture by Professor Louise Bethlehem (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
27 January 2026
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Kenworthy Hall, St Mary‘s College, Elvet Hill Road, Durham, DH1 3LR
Join us online via Zoom for Graham Barrett, ‘Imagining the Visigoths in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Art’ on January 27th, 6pm
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Online via Zoom, link in the description
Funny, frank and upbeat, Grease has remained one of the world’s most popular and enduring musicals since its electric Broadway and West End debut in the early 1970’s.
27 January 2026 - 31 January 2026
7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Gala Durham
28 January 2026
A staff and postgraduate research seminar.
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Join us at the Access Masters Event in London, UK on Wednesday 28 January.
4:45 PM - 9:00 PM
CEMAP will be hosting their annual mini workshop with colleagues from Durham, Newcastle and York.
29 January 2026
9:30 AM - 3:00 PM
‘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
30 January 2026
The forces of Durham University’s Orchestral and Choral Societies will come together to present Verdi’s mighty Requiem in Durham Cathedral this January.
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Durham Cathedral
CMP seminars to take place on Wednesdays in the Dowrick room in Trevelyan College. We hope people will stay for discussions over lunch in Trevelyan College cafeteria (card and contactless payments only).
04 February 2026
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Dowrick Room, Trevelyan College
Lab Coat Lunches 2026 – visual and material practices within and beyond the medical humanities (online)
05 February 2026
IAS Fellows' Public Lecture by Dr Ben Raffield (Uppsala University)
Saltwell Event Hall, Josephine Butler College, South Road, Durham University, DH1 3DF
06 February 2026
Join us at the Access Masters Fair in Paris, France, on Friday 6 February.
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Paris
Advocate General Tamara Ćapeta (Court of Justice of the European Union) will give the DELI Annual Lecture on Friday 6th February 2026.
In person - PCL048, Hogan Lovells Lecture Theatre
Join us at the Access MBA Fair in Paris, France, on Saturday 7 February.
07 February 2026
We are delighted to welcome singers of all ages and levels to our latest Come and Sing workshop, in conjunction with the Durham Vocal Festival.
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Concert Room, Music Department
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Chisoni Mumba (University of Zambia)
09 February 2026
An online talk by Dr Clare Hickman about Air, Weather and Multispecies Encounters in the British Tuberculosis Sanatoria.
IAS Fellows' public Lecture by Professor Carmen G. Gonzalez (Loyola University Chicago, School of Law)
10 February 2026
TBA
11 February 2026
CVAC is delighted to welcome Dr Sage Brice, who is a researcher in practice in cultural and human geography.
CLC406 - Derman Christopherson room, Calman Learning Centre, Durham University, Stockton Rd, Durham, DH1 3LE.
12 February 2026
13 February 2026
IAS Fellow's Seminar by Dr Varna Venugopal (CWIT)
16 February 2026
17 February 2026
Musica Antica Rotherhithe present cantatas and extracts from operas written for Venice’s public theatres in the mid-seventeenth century, many of which have lain unperformed for over 350 years.
Elvet Methodist Church
18 February 2026
CG93
19 February 2026
Dr Thibault Schrepel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) will give a DELI seminar entitled "Competition Policies Around AI's Self-Reinforcing Dynamics".
20 February 2026
In augural workshop of the Durham International Centre for Ancient Theatre (DICAT)
Join us at the Access Masters Event in Mumbai on Sunday 22 February 2026.
22 February 2026
Mumbai, India.
Applied mathematics Group Lunchtime Seminar (Mixer lunch Sponsored by BSI and WRI)
23 February 2026
To be confirmed.
Our Vice-Chancellor and Warden, Professor Karen O’Brien, invites you to join her on Monday 23 February 2026 on campus for this year’s annual meeting of Convocation.
Durham University Business School, The Waterside Building, Riverside Place, Durham DH1 1SL
IAS Fellows' Public Lecture by Dr Chisoni Mumba (The University of Zambia)
24 February 2026
The Hub, Mount Oswald, John Snow College, South Bailey, DH1 3RJ
25 February 2026
Join us at the Access Masters Event in New Delhi on Wednesday 25 February 2026.
4:00 PM - 9:00 PM
New Delhi, India.
Durham University’s Institute for Medical Humanities is in the unique position of having its own Creative Facilitation Unit. We know that creative facilitation can make a real difference – from developing innovative research methodologies to running meetings more effectively – and want to spread the skillset.
26 February 2026 - 27 February 2026
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
to be announced
26 February 2026
26 February 2026 - 04 June 2026
27 February 2026
Join us at the Access Masters Event in Bangalore on Friday 27 February 2026.
Bangalore, India.
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Ben Raffield (Uppsala University)
02 March 2026
Public Lecture by Judge Sir Horward Morrison
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
PCL048
Department of Music, Palace Green
Prof Chloé Brière and Dr Julia Burchett (Université Libre de Bruxelles) will give a DELI lunchtime seminar entitled "Accountability for Core International Crimes: New Role and New Expectations for the EU?".
03 March 2026
Of interest to students and researchers of bioethics, medical law and biolaw, Professor Rebecca Bennett will present her research on the policy around IVF treatment and disability screening based on the concerns around the welfare of future children.
04 March 2026
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
TBD
PCL 050
05 March 2026
06 March 2026
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Cameron Cross (University of Michigan)
09 March 2026
Join us at the QS MBA Connect in Milan on Monday 9 March 2026.
6:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Milan, Italy
Join us at the QS Discover Masters Event in Milan on Tuesday 10 March 2026.
10 March 2026
4:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Join us on Zoom on Tuesday March 10th at 6pm for 'Natalia Sassu Suarez Ferri, ‘Mapuche Silverware and Decolonial Performance in Neyen Pailamilla’s My Body is a Museum’
Online Zoom Event, link in description
11 March 2026
Baroness Brown of Cambridge
Mountjoy Centre, Upper Mountjoy, Durham University, Stockton Rd, Durham, Durham City DH1 3UP
12 March 2026
Prof Marija Bartl (University of Amsterdam) will give a DELI lunchtime seminar entitled "Reimagining Prosperity: Toward a New Imaginary of Law and Political Economy in the EU".
13 March 2026
We are delighted to extend a cordial invitation to all members of our alumni community to join us in celebrating the 25th Anniversary of our College.
14 March 2026
The Refinery Bankside, London
Join us for a half-day event focused on Planetary Health, the science and practice of safeguarding human health by protecting the Earth’s natural systems. This workshop will bring together academics from across Durham University to explore the health and environment intersection and foster interdisciplinary collaboration.
16 March 2026
Mountjoy Centre
Professor Woolley specialises in her research on supporting progress towards ecological sustainability through law. In the seminar, she will argue that interdisciplinary interaction between specialists in law, ethics, and ecology is central to developing societal structures for moving away from an inherently unsustainable present and promoting ecological sustainability.
18 March 2026
PCL050
19 March 2026
20 March 2026
This two-day conference provides an interdisciplinary platform for academic and non-academic stakeholders to interrogate the concept of climate apartheid. It will be focused on, but not limited to, putting the realms of law, economy, and culture into dialogue around a set of questions that pertain to the term or concept
24 March 2026 - 25 March 2026
St Mary‘s College, Elvet Hill Road, Durham
What principles should justify the distribution and amount of punishment?
24 March 2026
Penthouse Rooms, Collingwood College, Durham University
Join us for this CNCS Workshop examining the impact of the half decade from 1903-1908 as a 'global moment'
tbc
25 March 2026
Led by Dr Andy Hayward and Dr Dafni Lima
01 April 2026
Led by Dr Jessie Blackbourn
01 April 2026 - 31 December 2028
12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
The Third International Franciscan Conference - April 2026. Life and Love Transfigured: Exploring New Horizons in the Franciscan Tradition. A Conference to Mark the 800th Anniversary of the Death of St. Francis of Assisi. 11.30am Tue 14 Apr - 1pm Thu 16 Apr
14 April 2026 - 16 April 2026
Durham
Join us at the QS Discover Masters Event in Seoul on Tuesday 14 April 2026.
14 April 2026
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Seoul, South Korea
The next spring meeting of the British Epigraphy Society is taking place 10:00-17:15 on Saturday 18 April in the Ritson Room, Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University.
18 April 2026
10:00 AM - 5:15 PM
21 April 2026
29 April 2026
30 April 2026
11:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Workshop on Big Data, Algorithmic Intelligence, and the Future of Market Information Efficiency - Call for Papers
06 May 2026
Waterside Building, Durham University Business School
07 May 2026
For their final visit of the season, RNS bring two Viennese Classical masterworks to Durham. Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of our Saviour on the Cross, heard tonight in its well-known arrangement for string quartet, moves with reflective grace: a series of slow, searching movements inspired by the final phrases spoken by Jesus Christ on the cross.
08 May 2026
An online talk by Dr Martin Savranksy as part of the Weather, Climate, and Health Research Theme
11 May 2026
13 May 2026
14 May 2026
19 May 2026
QRFE Workshop on Climate Change - Call for Papers
20 May 2026
21 May 2026
28 May 2026
04 June 2026
The 2026 Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries (SEEDEC) will be organized by the Centre for Experimental Methods and Behavioural Research (EMBR) at Durham University on June 11th and 12th, 2026
11 June 2026 - 12 June 2026
Durham University Business School
11 June 2026
Save these dates to join our cross-disciplinary, inter-faculty symposium addressing the multi-faceted dimensions of extraction, and in particular non-extractive approaches and opportunities, through visual media, storytelling traditions, creative and interpretive practices. Hosted by the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC).
15 June 2026 - 16 June 2026
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Hotel Indigo, 9 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL
18 June 2026
Music – Nature – Mental Health
21 June 2026
Durham University Botanic Garden
25 June 2026
The call for papers is now open for the fifth Early Modern British and Irish Catholicism conference.
29 June 2026 - 01 July 2026
9:30 AM - 6:30 PM
University of Notre Dame (USA) in England, London, UK
08 July 2026
The International Nineteenth Century Studies Association (INCSA) - in collaboration with the Nineteenth Century Studies Association (NCSA), Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies (INCS), and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History - invites proposals for its second biennial conference.
21 July 2026 - 24 July 2026
National Union Building, Washington, DC and Online
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