Event posters
Below you can browse and download PDFs of our posters for previous public lectures and seminar series.
CIDRAL public events: Spring 2018
View a PDF of our semester 2 events on the theme of 'Constraints of Creativity'.
Theory Intensives 2017-18
Seminars dedicated to the work of major figures in the humanities.
Judith Walkowitz public lecture
Feminisim and the Politics of Prostitution in the 1980s: A Tale of North and South (24 April 2018).
Where is British History Now?
Seminar (25 April 2018).
A Cultural History of Business in the Middle
Themes, Approaches and Sources roundtable (18 April 2018).
Stefano Ercolino
The Dialectic of Realism workshop (17 April 2018).
Peter Burke
An Endangered Species? The Polymath in the Age of Specialization (20 February 2018).
Tim Ingold
The Creativity of Habit public lecture (7 February 2018).
CIDRAL public events: Winter 2017
View a PDF of our semester 1 events on the theme of 'Constraints of Creativity'.
The Prince of Tricksters
Roundtable with Matt Houlbrook, Professor of Cultural History at the University of Birmingham (4 December 2017).
Bodies of Song
Performance lecture and round-table discussion with the Judaica Project (26 October 2017).
Enrico Terrinoni
'Awaking the "plultiple": translating Joyce's Finnegans Wake into Infinitalian' (26 October 2017).
Alejandro Tantanian
'Private and Public Cultural Management in Argentina: Complementary or Opposing Models?' (19 October 2017).
Elisabeth Lebovici
'Precious Liquids' public lecture (12 October) and 'Interdisciplinarity as Resistance' seminar (13 October 2017).
Massimo Fusillo
'Negative Empathy, Fear, Catharsis: An Intermedial Itinerary' public lecture (5 October) and 'The Object-Fetish: From Memory to Alterity' seminar (6 October 2017).
CIDRAL public events: Spring 2017
View a PDF of our semester 2 events on the theme of 'Precarity'.
Judith Walkowitz
Professor Emerita History, John Hopkins University. Simon Visiting Professor, The University of Manchester, April - May 2017 events.
Games Culture
A symposium (10 February 2017).
Elizabeth Povinelli
A public lecture on 'Primitive Accumulation and Original Precarity: Vulnerability Outside Settler Geontopolitics' (10 February 2017).
CIDRAL public events: Winter 2016
View a PDF of our semester 1 events on the theme of 'Possible Worlds'.
CIDRAL Theory Intensives
Postgraduate workshops for 2016-17.
Alessandro Schiessaro
'Arduus ad solem', a public lecture by Head of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures (29 November 2016).
Harold James
The Euro as a Battle of Ideas (17 November 2016).
V. Spike Peterson
Intimate Politics and Global Inequalities: The pleasure and pain of border crossings (11 October 2016).
Dick Hebdige
High and Dry (2 June 2015) and 40 Years in the Labyrinth (3 June 2015)
CIDRAL / SALC book launch
Semester 2 academic publications (5 May 2015)
Annette Kuhn
Public lecture: Winnicott, Psychoanalysis and Cinema (12 May 2015)
Elisabeth Bronfen
Gendering War Dispatches (28 April 2015)
Charles Zika
The History of Emotions as a Window on the Past
Susan Stewart
Poetry, Thinking, and the Senses (17 March 2015)
Denise Riley
On the Lapidary Style (17 February 2015)
Adam Phillips
Psychoanalysis, Mortality and the Senses (4 February 2016)
Sensing the Arts
CIDRAL public events for semester 2 (spring 2015)
Theory Intensives
Four postgraduate workshops (spring 2015)
Digital Humanities
Traditional / Digital Humanities and Cultural Criticism (10 December 2014)
Preconfiguration
in Contemporary Activism: A CTIS / CIDRAL workshop (4 December 2014)
Dancing Nature
Professor Rachel Fensham on Scientific Thought and the Ecological Choreography of Modern Dance (2 December 2014)
CIDRAL / SALC book launch
Semester 1 academic publications (1 December 2014)
Stefan Collini
No Accounting for Quality: Universities and Society (25 November 2014)
Commemoration Fever
Anatomizing the Habits of Collective Remembrance (22 and 23 October 2014)
Differently Queer
Sexuality and Aesthetics in Pier Paolo Pasolini and Elsa Morante (16 October 2014)
Open Theme
CIDRAL public lectures and events for semester 1 (autumn 2014)