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In-person Paper Development Workshop
02 December 2024
Durham University Business School Waterside Building, The Sands Durham DH1 1SL Waterside Building Executive Suite
Join us ‘Wearing it Red’ on 2 December for World Aids Day send us your photos!
Durham University
Are you interested in being involved in research that makes a positive impact on health and wellbeing? Would you like to meet other like-minded people, from all disciplines and faculties of Durham University, in the early stages of their research careers?
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
W215 (Geography Building)
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Giuliana Furci (Fungi Foundation of Chile)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Cosin‘s Hall, Seminar Room, Palace Green
Personhood: The New Civil War over Reproduction What’s next for the battle over abortion? Mary Ziegler argues that simply undoing Roe v. Wade has never been the endpoint for the antiabortion movement. Since the 1960s, the larger goal has been to secure recognition of fetuses and embryos as persons under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, a step that the modern antiabortion movement argues would make liberal abortion laws unconstitutional.
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
This event is taking place online via Zoom.
The International Day for Persons with Disabilities (IDPWD) on 3rd of December, seeks to raise awareness about the challenges faced by people with disabilities.
03 December 2024
The last workshop in a series of eight over the course of Michaelmas term in conjunction with the large-scale cross-faculty research project, Syntactical Structures and the Evolution of Mind and Culture, which explores the syntactical basis of a wide range of phenomena spanning cognitive and cultural domains, from learning and reasoning to narrative and memory to music and dance, to shed new light on the human mind, cultural evolution, and aesthetics.
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Seminar Room, Institute of Advanced Study, Cosin‘s Hall, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RL
Vicky Kasprowicz, Research Fellow in Energy Demand, University of Sussex Business School
Zoom
Chaotic systems are hard to predict - this much has been known for decades. However, studying the fractal geometry that underpins chaotic systems reveals so much more. From a practical point of view it tells us when we can trust predictions and when we can’t.
TLC033 (lecture commences at 6pm, with the book signing from 5pm)
Our unique cultural attractions include Durham Castle, Botanic Garden, Palace Green Library, Oriental Museum and the Assembly Rooms Theatre. Sitting right at the heart of this historic city, we are perfectly placed to offer a dazzling array of events and activities.