Events from the 01 October 2024 - 31 October 2024 Reset
Unequal Treatment: how investigative reporting revealed a useless, dangerous paediatric cancer medicine flooding the world
A seminar by this years' Sir Harry Evans Fellow, Rosa Furneaux (Reuters)
14 October 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Cosin‘s Hall, Seminar Room, Palace Green
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
The History of Black Students at Durham - walking exhibition and tour launch
An afternoon celebration of the history of Black students at Durham University, including short talks from staff and students. This event will also launch the Black history walking tour website of Durham
15 October 2024
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
The Great Hall, University College (Castle), Palace Green, Durham
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Joint Project Launch - Durham and Tübingen
The joint Durham-Tübingen project on ‘Belonging’ will launch at 1pm on Thursday 17th October in the IAS seminar room, joining online with colleagues in Tübingen.
17 October 2024
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
IAS Seminar Room, Cosin‘s Hall, Palace Green, Durham
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
The Five Senses of Soil
The first interactive workshop in a series of four on soil, supported by the IAS
18 October 2024
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Seminar Room, Institute of Advanced Study, Cosin‘s Hall, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RL
- Research event
Is the way we make up our minds, the way that our minds are made up?
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Professor Louise Barrett (University of Lethbridge)
21 October 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Cosin‘s Hall, Seminar Room, Palace Green
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Baboons, Bodies and Brains: How to Think like an Animal
IAS Fellows' Public Lecture by Professor Louise Barrett (University of Lethbridge)
22 October 2024
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
The Chapel, Hatfield College
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Research Institute
The Role of Higher Education in National Recovery of Ukraine: Strategies for Economic Development
IAS Fellows' Public Lecture by Dr Nataliia Ishchenko (Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University)
23 October 2024
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Seminar Room, Ustinov College, Sheraton Park
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Research Institute
The Neuroscience of Literary Time-Travel: How Literary Works Cross Historical Distance
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
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Syntactical Structures and the Evolution of Mind and Culture - Workshop 1 (Mind, brain, cognition)
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
- Research event