The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts and Languages - CIDRAL
All lectures 5-7pm in John Casken Lecture Theatre (unless stated otherwise).
Martin Harris Arts Centre, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road M13 9PL
2012-3 Theme: Public Intellectuals
Tuesday 13 November
Professor Thomas Elsaesser
(University of Amsterdam/IKKM Weimar)
How to Create a Public Intellectual, Posthumously
School of Arts, Languages and Cultures Launch: Closing Event
Thursday 15 November
Dr Katherine O’Donnell (University College Dublin)
In conversation with Dr Eleanor Casella (Archaeology)
Ireland's Magdalene Laundry System
1922-1996: Sin and the Public Sphere
Event starts at 6pm
Tuesday 27 November
Dr Michael Mack (University of Durham)
Revisiting the Two Cultures Debate:
Affect, Economics and Science
2013
Tuesday 5 February
Professor Ranjana Khanna (Duke University)
and Professor Carol Mavor (AHVS)
In conversation on Franz Fanon
Tuesday 12 February
Professor Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University)
The New Language of Politics?
CIDRAL with LEL
Wednesday 20 February
Professor Vijay Mishra
(Oxford University and Murdoch University, Australia)
In the Salman Rushdie Archive
CIDRAL with EAS and Drama
Monday 25 February
Susie Orbach (Psychoanalyst)
In conversation (tbc)
Tuesday 5 March
Professor Susan Bassnett FRSL (University of Warwick)
Translating Today’s World
Thursday 14 March
Symposium: The History of the Public Intellectual
Organised by Professor Stuart Jones (History)
Monday 18 March
Professor Michael Lambek (University of Toronto)
Continuous and Discontinuous Persons:
Reflections on Ethical Life
CIDRAL with Anthropology
Friday 22 March
Music and Public Engagement in Manchester
CIDRAL with the Institute of Cultural Practices
Tuesday 23 April
Dr Margaret Reynolds (Queen Mary, London University)
Poetry and People: The Real Language
of Men (and Woman and Children)
Monday 3 June
Jean-Luc Nancy (Visiting Pilkington Professor, AHVS)
What Does Politics Mean?
CIDRAL with AHVS (5.30pm start)
Monday 10 June
Professor Lauren Berlant (University of Chicago)
In conversation with David Alderson (EAS)
on Cruel Optimism (2011) and Public Feelings Project
For details of Postgraduate Masterclasses, see the CIDRAL website (address below).
CIDRAL Theory Intensives (all academic staff and postgraduates welcome)
Wednesday 21 Nov: 2-4pm
Dr David Alderson (EAS)
On Herbert Marcuse
Wednesday 28 Nov: 10-12pm
Dr Michael Mack (University of Durham)
On Hannah Arendt
Wednesday 5 Dec: 4-6pm
Professor Vicki Kirby (UNSW, Australia)
and Professor Joanna Hodge (MMU)
On Derrida and Technicity
Tuesday 5 Feb: 5-7pm
Professor Ranjana Khanna (Duke University)
and Professor Carol Mavor (AHVS)
On Franz Fanon
Wednesday 6 March: 2-4pm
Professor Jeremy Tambling (EAS)
On Melanie Klein
Wednesday 1 May: 4-6pm
Professor Carol Mavor (AHVS)
On Roland Barthes
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Website:
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/cidra/.
Follow us on twitter: @cidral_uom
Jackie Stacey
Director of CIDRAL