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

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

Film-making Course for Researchers, 16-20 September 2024, Durham Campus

Monday 16 September 2024 - Friday 20 September 2024

9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Durham Campus, venue TBC
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
"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.
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