Centre for Visual Arts and Culture

The Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) stimulates, strengthens, and supports wide-ranging interdisciplinary visual culture research and training, at Durham University and beyond

About CVAC

Durham CVAC promotes interdisciplinary research on visual culture in all its diverse forms, across visual materials, media and visual storytelling, to the creation and curation of visual data and resources

We offer an engaging, open environment for connection and conversation, bringing together expertise from across all disciplines within and beyond our University, to share insights and seed new collaborations. Our programme of events for 2024-25 includes symposia, seminars and workshops in innovative digital, technical and creative visual methods for researchers at all career stages.

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Upcoming events

Wanted, More than Human Intellectual Property Animal Authors and Human Machines

Tuesday 20 May 2025 - Tuesday 20 May 2025

3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

In person: CG60, Chemistry Department, Durham University, Lower Mountjoy, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE
Visuality and Extraction: Materiality, Interpretation, Power

Monday 16 June 2025 - Wednesday 18 June 2025

9:30 AM to 5:00 PM

Hotel Indigo, 9 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL
Making and Visualising British Beauty: Provincial Women and Miss Great Britain, 1945- 1970

Thursday 26 June 2025 - Thursday 26 June 2025

3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

In person, room ER140, Elvet Riverside, New Elvet, Durham, DH1 3JT
From the Archive to the Screen: The Opportunities, Process and Pitfalls of Performing History in Public

Friday 27 June 2025 - Friday 27 June 2025

10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

In person, room ER152, Elvet Riverside, New Elvet, Durham, DH1 3JT