Lecture Series: Crises and RecoveriesTuesday 23 February, 5-7pm: James Heartfield (Independent Researcher), ‘Covid-19 and the Medicalization of Social Life’Tuesday 2 March, 5-7pm: Rian Thum (University of Manchester), ‘China’s Mass Internment of the Uyghurs and the...
Category: Lectures
CIDRAL Lecture: Oliver Leaman on Crises in Religion
CIDRAL Public Lecture - Zoom Event(a joint event with the Centre for Jewish Studies)5.00pm Tuesday 8 DecemberOliver Leaman (University of Kentucky), '"It's Not Just the Same": How Rituals and Religions Cope with Crises'One familiar feature of operating while the...
The Inevitability of Crisis – Can We Escape Decline?
Wednesday 2nd December, 12 noon -2pm: Georg Christ (History)Zoom event - details - david.alderson@manchester.ac.ukAround two key-thinkers, ´Abd ar-Rah’man Ibn Khaldûn (end of 14c.) and Joseph A. Tainer (end of 20c.), we shall rethink crisis not so much as a mistake,...
CIDRAL event – Tuesday 17 November, 5-7pm
Sarah M. Price (University of Sheffield), ‘Crisis or Evolution? The Continuing Challenge of Finding Audiences for Classical Music’ Classical music organisations in the UK often come under fire for attracting a fairly homogenous audience, since the majority of...
British Library webinars for new PhD students
British Library Webinars for New PhD Students We know that 2020 has been a testing time for everyone, and that challenges are ongoing for researchers and academics at all levels. In light of the ongoing pandemic, we too have had to make significant changes to the...
CIDRAL Key Ideas: New directions in postcolonial studies
CIDRAL Key Ideas: New Directions in Postcolonial StudiesDear all, The first Key Ideas seminar will take place next Wednesday, 4th November, 12noon-2pm, when our Manchester colleagues, Robert Spencer and Anastasia Valassopoulos, will lead a discussion on 'New...
CIDRAL online events winter 2020
Lecture Series: Crises and RecoveriesTuesday, 20 October, 5-7pm: Eithne Quinn (University of Manchester)‘Manchester Murder Rap: Prosecution Gang Narratives and the Use of Black Youth Expressive Culture in Creating a Joint Enterprise Case’If you are on the CIDRAL...
CIDRAL online events winter 2020
Lecture Series: Crises and Recoveries Tuesday, 20 October, 5-7pm: Eithne Quinn (University of Manchester), ‘Manchester Murder Rap: Prosecution Gang Narratives and the Use of Black Youth Expressive Culture in Creating a Joint Enterprise Case’ Tuesday 17 November,...
Reminder: Stachniewski memorial lecture
Reminder: Stachniewski Memorial Lecture, 18 March 2020The Stachniewski Memorial Lecture will take place this year on 18 March 2020Farah Karim-Cooper will talk about ‘Gesture and Empathy in the Shakespearean Theatre’Farah is Head of Higher Education and Research at...
CIDRAL Events
Tuesday 4th February, 5.30-7pm Lecture: 'Capitalism and Communication: Critical Theory in the Age of the Internet and Communicative/Digital Capitalism' International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Cambridge Street, Manchester Drinks reception Wednesday 5th February,...
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