Lectures and Seminars
At Durham University you'll find an extensive programme of public lectures and seminars. With an impressive line up of experts and renowned academics speaking on a myriad of topics, the aim is to share knowledge and encourage debate. Lectures on thought provoking subjects as diverse as history and astro-physics are aimed at a general audience and delivered at various locations across the University. Lectures in the Castle Public Lecture Series take place within the Great Hall of historic Durham Castle, while with the new Inaurgural Lecture Series, our most recently appointed or promoted academics will be hosted at one of the University's colleges, showcasing some of our lesser known venues.
Public lectures are Free of charge and open to all.
Thursday 2 May 2013
“Persons, Hierarchies and Urban Growth in Balkan Prehistory”
Inaugural Lecture Series
Join Prof John Chapman as he delivers this inaugural lecture, focusing on three ways to deepen our understanding of past societies. The Neolithic and Copper Age of the Balkans (6500 – 4000 BC) represents a classic case of ‘Balkanisation’, with the rich material culture of the deep past parcelled up into a perpetually shifting mosaic of small groups modelled on modern nation-states.
Contact conferenceadministration.service@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Friday 3 May 2013
Prof John Morill On Scholarly Editing
We are pleased to invite you to a workshop to be led by Prof John Morrill (University of Cambridge), On Scholarly Editing. John Morrill FBA, Professor of British and Irish History at the University of Cambridge, is an enormously experienced academic editor.
Contact administrator.imrs@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Saturday 4 May 2013
Ustinov College Seminar: Globalisation
Ustinov seminars are both social and academic gatherings, intended to strengthen the postgraduate research community in Durham, and to provide an informal opportunity for debate and cross-fertilisation between disciplines.
Contact ustinov.college@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Tuesday 7 May 2013
Ustinov College Café Politique: 'Inside Israel: Critical reflections on current internal challenges'. May 7th @6pm.
Ustinov College warmly invites you to the next Cafe Politique exploring the internal challenges Israel is facing today. This is an opportunity for anyone who is interested in finding out more about the topic to participate in an informal seminar and contribute to the discussion with the panelists and other members of the audience.
Contact ustinov.college@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Edith Thompson and the Gendering of the Scaffold, Dr Lizzie Seal, University of Sussex
Centre for Sex, Gender and Sexualities Speaker Series
The hanging of Edith Thompson in 1923 for the murder of her husband demonstrates how the execution of women in twentieth-century Britain was culturally troubling.
Contact jphoenix.csgs@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
iQuiz
This is a general knowledge quiz bought you by i, the concise quality newspaper, in association with Latitude and National Express. The winning team from Durham will travel to a national final and be in with a chance of winning the grand prize. Register your team of 4 now for FREE at i.durhamuni@gmail.com
Contact i.durhamuni@gmail.com for more information about this event.
Thursday 9 May 2013
Prof. Dr. Torsten Wilholt, 'on the Purely Instrumental Value of True Belief'
Prof. Dr. Torsten Wilholt, Leibniz Universitat Hannover, will delilver this public lecture. Epistemologists widely hold that true belief must have some value, as truth is the goal of inquiry.
Contact n.j.craigs@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Monday 13 May 2013
: 'Time and Nationhood: beyond the invertion of tradition and imagined communities
This is the final pubic lecture in the About Time series.Thispublic lecture - free to attend and open to all.
Contact enquiries.ias@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Tuesday 14 May 2013
on Modeling Climate Policies: A Critical Look at Integrated Assessment Models
Prof Mathias Frisch University of Maryland will deliver this public lecture asking, How do we bridge the gap between climate models and policy decisions?
Contact n.j.craigs@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
‘Building a Protestant Church: Architecture and Religious Change in the British Isles, c. 1559 – 1662.’
Bishop Van Mildert Annual Lecture
Prof. Andrew Spicer will be presenting the first Bishop Van Mildert Lecture at Van Midlert College. He will be speaking about ‘Building a Protestant Church: Architecture and Religious Change in the British Isles, c. 1559 – 1662.’ The talk will start at 5.30 pm in the Ustinov Room, Van Mildert College. For further information please contact vm.development@durham.ac.uk
Contact vm.development@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 15 May 2013
CK Barrett Public Lecture
‘Almost Thou Persuadest Me’. . .
The Importance of Greco-Roman Rhetoric For Understanding the New Testament.
Charles Kingsley Barrett, distinguished Professor of Divinity at Durham University (1945-82), stood as one of the greatest British New Testament scholars of the 20th century. The Department of Theology & Religion is delighted to hold a public lecture in his honour, to be given by Prof Ben Witherington III, who completed his PhD here under the supervision of Professor Barrett.
Contact j.m.hagen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Iconography and Iconology: Theological thinking of the early church behind the veneration of Icons
Dr Elena Nariskaya will look at the development of church art and its place in theology. Various concepts about theological appropriation of icon veneration vs idolatry will be discussed.
Contact oriental.museum@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
The Future of the Book
Durham Castle Public Lecture Series
Professor John B. Thompson, Professor of Sociology and Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge
Today, the publishing business is in turmoil. For 500 years, the methods and practices of book publishing remained largely unchanged, but today the industry finds itself faced with the greatest challenges since Gutenberg.
Sunday 26 May 2013
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.
Contact ustinov.college@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 29 May 2013
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.
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.
Tuesday 4 June 2013
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.
Tuesday 11 June 2013
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.
Sunday 18 August 2013
International Conference on Advanced Polymers via Macromolecular Engineering (APME)
Contact conferenceadministration.service@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Monday 19 August 2013
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.
Saturday 7 September 2013
National Orchid Show
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.
Subscribe to this events listingLindisfarne Gospels
1st July - 30th September 2013
The Lindisfarne Gospels Durham exhibition will be on display at Durham University's Palace Green Library, which has been completely redesigned and refurbished for this event.