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Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts

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Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts (CIDRA)



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What we do

The purpose of CIDRA is to foster, develop, and promote high-quality interdisciplinary research and postgraduate teaching in Arts subjects.  [more]

Annual Theme 2011-12: Science, Technology and the Arts

This year's theme will address the following: convergences (and divergences) in the histories of the arts and the sciences; theoretical influences crossing the science/arts divide;... [more]

Main Events 2011-2012

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15 May 2012
Professor Lucy Suchman (Lancaster University)

7 June 2012
Professor Barbara Creed (University of Melbourne)

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16 November [2011]
Professor Martin Kemp (Pilkington Visiting Scholar in AHVS)

13 December [2011]
Lynn Hershman Leeson  (artist, filmmaker and Art Institute of San Francisco) and Maria Balshaw  (Director of Whitworth & Manchester City Art Galleries), In Conversation

14 February [2011]
Bobby Baker (Performance Artist and Writer) and Professor Gail Hornstein (Mount Holyoke), In Conversation

 

 

Upcoming Events

Tuesday 15 May 5pm, John Casken Lecture Theatre, Martin Harris Centre

Public Lecture: Professor Lucy Suchman (Lancaster University)
"Reconfiguring Agencies at the Interface: New Entanglements of Bodies and Machines" 

Wednesday 16 May 10-11.30am, Samuel Alexander S1.7 

Masterclass with Lucy Suchman and Albena Yaneva (MARC)

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