Lectures and Seminars

Ustinov College Café des Arts presents: “In Conversation with Fenwick Lawson”

Join our artist-in-residence Alan O'Cain for a lively, entertaining and relaxed discussion with one of Britain's most esteemed sculptors, Fenwick Lawson. This event will feature an opportunity to see and hear about Fenwick's group sculpture "The Weeping Women" which has been newly cast into bronze and which will be brought into the college especially for the evening

Contact ustinov.college@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Cell Mechanics and Cell-Matrix Interactions

This workshop aims to provide an overview state of the art of research on tissue mechanics for an interdisciplinary audience. From a soft matter/biophysics perspective tissues can be modelled as biologically active matter, made of cells, capable of exerting forces and responding to stresses.

Contact alex.probert@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Grimmer Up North? Health in An Age of Austerity

This joint event is the curtain raiser for a larger programme of engagement between the Wolfson Research Institute for Health & Wellbeing and Demos on the theme of public health. The debate will be chaired by Chris Jackson, presenter of BBC1's Inside Out and will feature an expert panel consisting of Professor Clare Bambra, Director of fthe Wolfson Research Institute for Health & Wellbeing, Claudia Wood, Deputy Director of Demos, Peter Kelly Director of Public Health for Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council, Ian Greener, Professor in the School of Applied Social Sciences and Director of the ESRC North East Doctoral Training Centre, Chi Onwurah, Labour MP for Newcastle Central and Guy Opperman, Conservative MP for Hexham.

Contact paul.ging@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Human Suffering and Humanitarian Response

Durham Castle Public Lecture Series
Professor Craig Calhoun, Director of the London School of Economics
Humanitarian emergencies are not simply brute facts, appealing directly to our emotions or our moral sensibilities. They are one of the important ways in which perceptions of human life, sympathy for suffering, and responses to social upheaval have come to be organized in recent decades. Like nations and business corporations, they are creatures of social imaginaries, but no less materially influential for that.

Indigenous Business Development from a Network Position and Identity Perspective

Inaugural Lecture Series - Prof Nick Ellis
Prof Ellis joined Durham in June 2011. His work focuses on inter-organizational relationships and identity construction in business-to-business (B2B) contexts. He explores marketing and purchasing management, industrial networks, supply chain ethics and entrepreneurship. His broadly interpretivist research approach embraces marketing and organization studies, with publications in leading journals across both disciplines.

Ustinov College '10th Anniversary' Cafe Politique: 'Global Governance, Global Citizenship, Global Leadership'

Ustinov College is delighted to invite you to the 10th Anniversary Cafe Politique. Speakers:
• Mr David Arkless (ArkLight Consulting/Future Work Consortium)
• Roberta Blackman-Woods (Member of Parliament for Durham) 
• Prof David Held (Durham University)
• Ms Alison Leslie (University of Leeds)
• Dr Peter Sicking (Peter Ustinov Foundation)

Contact ustinov.college@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Prof. Chris Higgins - 'Stems Cells Research - Science, Medicine and Ethics'

Van Mildert College SCR Public Lecture</>
Prof. Chris Higgins, Vice Chancellor of Durham University will speak on 'Stem cells research - science, medicine and ethics'.
All are very welcome to attend but please book by emailing v.h.brown@durham.ac.uk

Contact v.h.brown@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Reimagining Gender, Reimagining Sexualities

CSGS Summer Workshop 2013
This workshop is for postgraduate taught and research students with an interest in sex, gender and sexualities as well as interested academic staff. Plenary speakers include Prof James Messerschmidt and Prof Wendy Chapkis, both from the University of Southern Maine. The workshop also includes a parallel methodology session and two parallel paper sessions.

Contact jphoenix.csgs@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Advanced Research Computing Workshop - Interdisciplinary Perspectives Inspiring Transformative Research

The new Durham Institute of Advanced Research Computing (iARC) is hosting a one-day workshop to bring together different academic disciplines to explore common ground, create novel partnerships and identify opportunities for cutting edge research across disciplines using advanced computing research methods.

Contact event.two@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Why Economics Needs Philosophy

Inaugural Lecture Series - Prof Julian Reiss
 Julian Reiss is Professor of Philosophy at Durham University. He has a degree in economics and finance from the University of St Gallen and a PhD in philosophy from the London School of Economics. His main research interests are methodologies of the sciences (especially causality and causal inference, models, simulations and thought experiments, and counterfactuals), philosophy of economics, and science and values.

Hidden influences on health & wellbeing through life course

A joint collaborative event between the Institute of Advanced Study, the Durham Forum for Health and the Wolfson Research Institute for Health & Wellbeing.

Contact julie.mcloughlin@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Counter-Terrorism Everywhere

Inaugural Lecture Series - Prof Fiona de Londras 
In this lecture, Fiona de Londras will explore the omnipresence of counter-terrorism in the contemporary world. In doing this she will identify counter-terrorism as a phenomenon bounding our everyday activities and movements. As such, this lecture will argue that counter-terrorism is a matter of concern on a far wider scale than is often supposed; rather than impacting on the lives of ‘terrorists’ and ‘suspect communities’ alone, it in fact deeply influences the lives and activities of us all in both seen and unseen ways

International Conference on Advanced Polymers via Macromolecular Engineering (APME)

Sunday 18th to Friday 23rd August

Contact conferenceadministration.service@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

IMRS Latin & Palaeography Summer School 2013

Monday 19th - Friday 30th August
The IMRS is pleased to announce that the Latin and Palaeography Summer School will run this summer 2013. Charges apply for this event. Places must be pre-booked by visiting the website https://www.dur.ac.uk/conference.booking/

Contact conferenceadministration.service@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

National Orchid Show

Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th September
The 3rd National Orchid show will be held at Durham University. There will be displays from orchid societies and the chance to buy orchids from a variety of growers. As usual, visitors are welcome to bring any of their own plants along to the show if they would like advice about them. There will also be several talks by guest speakers and a chance to meet the Royal Horticultural Society judges for a question and answer session on plant judging.

Contact botanic.garden@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Deliberating Policy: Where morals and methods mix – and not always for the best

Inaugural Lecture Series - Nancy Cartwright
A good policy decision requires a mix of considerations: who benefits? who suffers? who pays? how much? what are possible good side effects? bad ones? will the effects last? Etc. Central among these are issues of effectiveness and legitimacy: Will the policy achieve the desired ends? And, is it morally, politically, culturally acceptable?