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
16 November
Professor Martin Kemp (Pilkington Visiting Scholar in AHVS)
13 December
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
Bobby Baker (Performance Artist and Writer) and Professor Gail Hornstein (Mount Holyoke), In Conversation
15 May
Professor Lucy Suchman (Lancaster University)
7 June
Professor Barbara Creed (University of Melbourne)
Upcoming Events
14th February
Bobby Baker & Gail Hornstein In Conversation: Whose Story Counts? Madness from the Inside Out [more]
15th February
Postgraduate Masterclass with Bobby Baker & Gail Hornstein [more]
29th February
Workshop: ‘Lives and Letters: Epistolarity and (Auto-)biography’
Keynote: Mary Beard [more]
14th March
Workshop: ‘The Poetics and Physics of Clay: Diverse Approaches to Materiality’ [more]
