Manchester Uni talks for the current academic year

CIDRAL Calendar of Events 2014-2015: 

SALC, The University of Manchester

http://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/cidral/

Semester One

CIDRAL Research Seminar: Differently Queer: Sexuality and Aesthetics in Pier Paolo Pasolini and Elsa Morante

Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford)

16 October 2014
4pm - 7pm

University Place 3.211

CIDRAL Two Day Event: Commemoration Fever: Anatomizing the Habits of Collective Remembrance


Ann Rigney (Utrecht)

Public Lecture: 22 October 2014 5pm - 7pm
John Casken Lecture Theatre, Martin Harris Centre
Postgraduate Masterclass: 23 October 2014 10am-12pm

Ellen Wilkinson C1.18

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: On Marx

Bob Jessop (Lancaster)

6 November 2014
12pm - 2pm

Ellen Wilkinson C1.18

CIDRAL Public Lecture: No Accounting for Quality: Universities and Society

Stefan Collini (Cambridge)

25 November 2014
5pm - 7pm

Samuel Alexander Lecture Theatre

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: On Derrida

Rachel Fensham (Melbourne)

26 November 2014
2pm - 4pm

Ellen Wilkinson C1.18

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Dancing Nature: Scientific Thought and the Ecological Choreography of Modern Dance

Rachel Fensham (Melbourne)

2 December 2014
5pm - 7pm

Venue tbc

CIDRAL Two Day Event: Prefiguration in Contemporary Activism

Speakers include: Marianne Maeckelbergh (Leiden)

Workshop: 4 December 9.30am – 5pm

Ellen Wilkinson C1.18
Postgraduate Masterclass: 5 December 9.30am – 2pm

Ellen Wilkinson C1.18

CIDRAL Event: Digital Humanities and cultural criticism

Speakers include Martin Bright (The Creative Society)

10 December 2014

Venue & Times tbc

Semester Two

CIDRAL Roundtable with Adam Phillips

Adam Phillips (Freelance Psychoanalyst and Writer)

4 February 2015
5pm – 7pm

Venue tbc

CIDRAL Theory Intensive on Spivak

Anastasia Valassopoulos (EAC)

11 February 2015
2pm - 4pm

Ellen Wilkinson C1.18

Poetry Reading in Centre for New Writing 


Denise Riley (UEA)

16 February 2015
5pm – 7pm

Venue tbc

(Jointly with CNW)

CIDRAL Public Lecture: On the Lapidary Style

Denise Riley (UEA)
17 February 2015
5pm – 7pm
Venue tbc

CIDRAL Theory Intensive on Queer Theory
J. Jack Halberstam
25 February 2015 1pm -3pm

Ellen Wilkinson C1.18

CIDRAL Theory Intensive on McLuhan

Vincenzo Susca (Sorbonne)

4 March 2015
2pm - 4pm
Ellen Wilkinson C1.18

Poetry Reading in Centre for New Writing


Susan Stewart (Princeton)

16 March 2015
5pm – 7pm

Venue tb

(Jointly with the CNW)

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Poetry, Thinking, and the Senses

Susan Stewart (Princeton)

17 March 2015
5pm – 7pm

Venue tbc

CIDRAL Public Lecture: The History of Emotions as a Window on the Past: Early Modern Witches and their Dances


Charles Zika (Melbourne)

14 April 2015
5pm – 7pm
Venue tb

(Jointly with History)

CIDRAL masterclass: The History of Emotions and Visual Culture


Charles Zika (Melbourne)

15 April 2015

10am – 12pm

Venue tbc

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Elizabeth I as Diva

Elisabeth Bronfen (Zurich)

28 April 2015
5pm – 7pm

Venue tbc

CIDRAL masterclass


Elisabeth Bronfen (Zurich)
29 April 2015
10am – 12pm

Venue tbc

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Sensing Race

Robyn Wiegman (Duke)

5 May 2015
5pm – 7pm
Venue tbc

CIDRAL masterclass

Robyn Wiegman (Duke)

6 May 2015
10am – 12pm

Venue tbc

CIDRAL Roundtable on Little Madnesses: Winnicott and the Imagination

Annette Kuhn (Queen Mary)
12 May 2015
5pm – 7pm
Venue tbc

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Title tbc 


Dick Hebdige (Art institute, UC Santa Barbara)

2 June 2015
5pm – 7pm

Venue tbc

(Jointly with CRESC)

CIDRAL Masterclass

Dick Hebdige (Art institute, UC Santa Barbara)

3 June 2015
10am – 12pm

Venue tbc