Uni of Manchester talks for the Autumn

CIDRAL, The University of Manchester (room tbc)
October – December 2013
Semester 1: Border Crossings

1. Friday 11 October
Professor Rey Chow (Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature at Duke)
Public Lecture: ‘On the Transcultural and Intermediality’
With Chinese Film Forum UK and Cornerhouse
Masterclass before public lecture
http://literature.duke.edu/people?subpage=profile&Gurl=%2Faas%2FLiterature&Uil=rey.chow

2. Tuesday 22 October
Professor Ella Shohat (Professor of Art and Public Policy, Middle Eastern Studies, NYU)
Public Lecture: ‘The Sephardic-Moorish Atlantic’
Masterclass: Wednesday 23rd October
http://meis.as.nyu.edu/object/ella.shohat

3. Tuesday 5 November
Professor Li Wei (Linguistics, Birkbeck)
Public Lecture on migration, diaspora and trans-languaging practices
(title and masterclass tbc)
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/linguistics/our-staff/li-wei

4. Tuesday 3 December
Professor Max Silverman (French, Leeds University)
Public lecture: ‘Intercultural Memory’
Masterclass: Wednesday 4 December
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/people/20053/french/person/738/max_silverman