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
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..
Venetian Seminar - in Memoriam Brian Pullan 1935-2022
10.00 Coffee 10.30-12.00 Georg Christ (Manchester): Provincializing Venice? Consolidation of the Veneto-Mamluk alliance in the wake of the Cypriot Crusade (1365-1403) Jane Stevens Crawshaw (Oxford Brookes): Institutions and identities: the case of Jacomo Coppa Stefania Silvestri (Liverpool): Virgins, widows, orpha..
Decoding Codices: Mesoamerican Manuscripts and Indigenous Knowledge
Did you know that the Northwest of England holds some of the rarest Indigenous manuscripts that have survived the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, as well as other important Mesoamerican manuscripts from the colonial era? Join us at the Library for the opportunity to see the collection of Native American manuscripts held at the John Ryla..
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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