Events from the 01 January 2024 - 31 December 2024 Reset
Join us for the annual CNCS Welcome Event co-hosted with the Centre for Visual Arts and Cultures (CVAC). We are delighted to be joined by Professor Elizabeth Edwards, Professor Emerita, Photographic History, who will give her lecture on "The large microhistory of a small book: the Reverend Thomas Perkins' Handbook of Gothic Architecture for Photographers (1897)" .
02 October 2024
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Concert Room, Music Department, Palace Green, Durham.
Do you work with visual culture? Do you use visual data, visual storytelling, visual methods or visual materials? Join us for the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) 2024-2025 welcome reception and programme launch with flash symposium!
07 October 2024
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Hotel Indigo, 9 Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HL
Join us with colleagues from the department of History, for a master class on using photographs in historical research Professor Ron Doel (Florida State University). All are welcome, and you’re invited to bring along a photograph that you are using, or that is relevant to your current research to contribute to the discussion. Doel’s expertise is in the history of science and images of scientists, but the discussion will be broader - anyone with an interest is welcome to attend!
23 October 2024
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
PG21, Pemberton Rooms, Palace Green, Durham
Join us with colleagues from the department of Music, the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) and Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies (CNCS), for a seminar to reveal the magic of the féerie! This French fairy play was a once ubiquitous genre analogous in some respects to the English Christmas pantomime! With music historian Dr Tommaso Sabbatini (University of Bristol).
05 November 2024
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Students Union, Dunelm house, Durham
Join us for a workshop on creating a digital replica of an existing object, suitable for people without any background in computer science, as well as providing worthwhile content for computing specialists. Come prepared for an eye-opening session! Part of the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) Visual Methods Workshop Series 2024-25.
20 November 2024
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Mathematical Sciences & Computer Science Building, Durham University, Upper Mountjoy Campus, Stockton Road, Durham, DH1 3LE.
Join us for this Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) and the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) seminar with Ukrainian art curator Oksana Barshynova (National Art Museum of Ukraine; NAMU, Kyiv), for insights into the Ukranian Avant Garde! Hosted as part of the IAS Project 'Looking Back to Move Forward: History, Recovery, and Sustainability in Understanding the War in Ukraine on a Global Scale’, in collaboration with CVAC.
28 November 2024
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Cosin‘s Hall seminar room, the Institute of Advanced Study, Palace Green, Durham