Events
Everyone is welcome to our public events. Masterclasses and Theory Intensives are reserved for staff and postgraduate students in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures.
Usually no booking is required, but when it is, this will be clearly marked on the event information.
View our current CIDRAL programme which has a different theme each semester, and below you'll find a list of our upcoming events. Please check back as details of our events may change.
CIDRAL Programme
The theme for CIDRAL this semester is Work, Leisure, Culture.
Past Events
Past events at The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Arts and Languages.
Upcoming events
Empire and the Affective Archive: Understanding Bureaucracy, Emotion, and Activism in Records of the Colonial Object II
The second workshop of Empire and the Affective Archive series is entitled 'Colonialism's Material Culture and Emotion'. Each of three CIDRAL-funded one-day workshops aims to develop thinking on the still little considered area of emotion-centred histories of the imperial archive, exploring how feeling, sense, and emotion are archived - both..
Sound as an Archive of Memories: Constructing the Andalusi Past
This workshop will study sound, broadly understood, as a political archive that mobilises the past to support different contemporary identity projects in the present. The event will begin by introducing the attendants to basic theory on the relationship between sound, music and memory. The speakers will then present two short, interrelated cas..
Heritage and Archival Correspondences: The attentive public and the ‘impact’ of discovery
This one-day workshop explores the direct engagement of an ‘attentive public’ with researchers and heritage institutions by means of personal and/or official ‘correspondence’ of all kinds: letters, emails, tweets, direct messages, and even Freedom of Information requests. Questions for discussion include: • how we can best understan..
Empire and the Affective Archive: Understanding Bureaucracy, Emotion, and Activism in Records of the Colonial Object III
The third workshop of the Empire and the Affective Archive series is entitled 'Affective Archives and Activist Archiving'. Each of the three CIDRAL-funded one-day workshops aims to develop thinking on the still little considered area of emotion-centred histories of the imperial archive, exploring how feeling, sense, and emotion are archived -..
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