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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
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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

Bárbara Lissa and Maria Vaz: Paisagens Móveis seminar on "When Time Lasts a Tone."

Tuesday 17 March 2026 - Tuesday 17 March 2026
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Elvet Riverside - ER143
a collection of 9 photographs in black and white depicting various objects on white sheet background.

Post-Extractive Imaginaries talk series: Helene Engnes Birkeli

Wednesday 1 April 2026 - Wednesday 1 April 2026
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Online - Teams
The image shows a glazed ceramic figurine with mixed in gems depicting a person in 18th century clothing mining gems.

Photography as a Research Method - 23rd and 24th April at Durham University.

Thursday 23 April 2026 - Friday 24 April 2026
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
W007 and W414 - Geography Building
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CVAC Symposium: Post-Extractive Visualities

Monday 15 June 2026 - Tuesday 16 June 2026
9:30 AM to 5:00 PM
Hotel Indigo, 9 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL
a montage of images including a film reel, a forest floor, a drop of water, a leaf, a soil horizon
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Enquiries about the Centre for Visual Arts and Cultures should be sent via the email below.

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Centre for Visual Arts and Cultures 
Durham University 
Elvet Riverside 
Durham, DH1 3JT