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Beyond the Thermometer: uncovering the hidden air quality crises Inside global heatstorms

IAS Seminar by Nandhini Srinivasan (Sir Harry Evans Fellow in Investigative journalism)

12 October 2026

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Cosin‘s Hall, Seminar Room, Palace Green, DH1 3RL

  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences
  • Research Institute

The cases for plural, innovative and novel evidence to inform public reasoning

IAS Seminar by Dr Claire Craig (independent researcher)

19 October 2026

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Cosin‘s Hall, Seminar Room, Palace Green, DH1 3RL

  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences
  • Research Institute

Extraterrestrial Life and Science Fiction Cinema: an anthropological perspective

Lecture by Perig Pitrou, CNRS – Collège de France, University College London, Leverhulme Visiting Professor

20 October 2026

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Cosin‘s Hall, Seminar Room, Palace Green, DH1 3RL

  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences
  • Department of Anthropology

Building Bridges: Fairness in Allocation - Symposium

Questions about fairness arise whenever difficult decisions have to be made about who gets what, when, and on what basis. These questions matter in many areas of life, including public housing, healthcare, organ donation, humanitarian aid, environmental governance, and questions about how shared domains such as the deep sea should be used and divided fairly. They also matter in the rules, institutions, and decision-making systems that shape everyday choices.

22 October 2026

9:00 AM - 1:30 PM

Waterside Building, Durham Business School, Riverside Place, Durham DH1 1SL

  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences
  • Business School

Segregation, Collective Emotions, and Social Change within the Settler-Colonial Context in Palestine: From Intergroup Contact to Colonial Infrastructures

IAS Seminar by Dr Mai Albzour (Berzeit University)

26 October 2026

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Cosin‘s Hall, Seminar Room, Palace Green, DH1 3RL

  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences
  • Research Institute

Identifying & Tackling Misinformation Workshop

Identifying & Tackling Misinformation Workshop with the Durham/Reuters 2026 Sir Harry Evans Fellow in Investigative Journalism, Nandhini Srinivasan

27 October 2026

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

School of Government and International Affairs: Room TBC

  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences

Success & Failure and (In)Visibility of Resistance - Workshop

This event is part of the Major Project 'Reconceptualising Resistance' which explores several key areas around disciplinary and methodological orientations; divergence between empirical, theoretical, and normative framings of resistance, and the role academic research can play in conceptualising resistance. 

28 October 2026

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Venue to be confirmed

  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences

Introduction to Journalism

Introduction to Journalism - a masterclass with the Durham/Reuters 2026 Sir Harry Evans Fellow in Investigative Journalism, Nandhini Srinivasan

29 October 2026

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

School of Government and International Affairs: Room TBC

  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences

"What is the Value of Olympic Victory?"

A joint lecture from the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East and Durham Centre for Classical Reception

29 October 2026

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Elvet Riverside 149, Durham University, New Elvet, Durham Durham DH1 3AQ

  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences
  • Department of Classics and Ancient History

Resistance and Repression: understanding and engaging contested system change in politics and the academy

IAS Seminar by Professor Winnifred Louis (University of Queensland)

02 November 2026

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Cosin‘s Hall, Seminar Room, Palace Green, DH1 3RL

  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences
  • Research Institute

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