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/.

Jackie Stacey

Director of CIDRAL