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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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A visual of an abstract eye

Upcoming events

BFI-CVAC Video Essays workshop - with film Journalist and video essayist Leigh Singer

Thursday 26 September 2024 - Thursday 26 September 2024
9:30 AM to 4:00 PM
Room W007, Geography building, Science Site, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE
video journalist (Image: wikimedia commons)

"The large microhistory of a small book: the Reverend Thomas Perkins' Handbook of Gothic Architecture for Photographers (1897)"

Wednesday 2 October 2024 - Wednesday 2 October 2024
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Concert Room, Music Department, Palace Green, Durham.
Photograph of the interior of Salisbury Cathedral showing the early English Gothic arches

CVAC Welcome and programme launch 2024-2025

Monday 7 October 2024 - Monday 7 October 2024
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Hotel Indigo, 9 Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HL
Two camera phones held in front of cherry blossom, each taking a picture (Image source: Wikimedia commons)

Get in Touch

Enquiries about the Centre for Visual Arts and Cultures should be sent via the email below.

Contact Us

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