Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts
Associated Research Centres
An important part of CIDRA's work is to co-ordinate and support the activities of a range of established research centres and research groupings located within SAHC. Wide ranging in their historical and cultural scope and intellectual interests, they reflect the rich diversity of approaches to interdisciplinary work in the arts at Manchester.
American Studies Research Group
A cluster of researchers at the University of Manchester working on various aspects of American Studies, ranging from the colonial period to the present.
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/englishamericanstudies/research/americanstudies/
Centre for Applied South Asian Studies
Conducting research on social, cultural and religious developments within Britain's Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi minorities
http://www.art.man.ac.uk/CASAS/index.htm
Centre for Applied Theatre Research
The Centre for Applied Theatre Research (CATR) is built on the Drama subject area's reputation for developing theatre practice beyond the University in a variety of education and social contexts. 'Applied Theatre' refers to the practice of theatre and drama in non-traditional settings and/or with marginalised communities. It refers to theatre practice that engages with areas of social and cultural policy such as public health, education, criminal justice, heritage site interpretation and development.
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/drama/research/centreforappliedtheatreresearch/
Centre for the Cultural History of War
The Centre for the Cultural History of War, which has established close links with the Imperial War Museum North, is a research and teaching centre dedicated to understanding the cultural attributes and representation of war in the modern world, focusing upon three interlocking themes: population displacement; humanitarianism; and collective memory.
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/history/research/cchw/
Centre for Late Antiquity
The Centre for Late Antiquity is dedicated to fostering interdisciplinary inquiry into the history and cultures of the late ancient and early medieval Mediterranean.
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/cla/
Centre for Museology
The Centre for Museology is an interdisciplinary centre with an aim to develop and promote research and teaching in museum theory and practice. The Centre also promotes academic and professional collaboration between the University and the museum profession in the North West, throughout the UK and overseas.
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/museology/
Centre for Screen Studies
The Centre for Screen Studies was created in 1998 to foster and facilitate research in the areas of Film and Television Studies, and to serve as a nucleus for developing postgraduate studies and attracting visiting scholars and speakers.
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/centreforscreenstudies/
The Centre for Research in the Cultural Forms of Modern European Politics
Formed in 2006, CULTMEP is an interdisciplinary research centre which aims to develop new approaches to the study of political identities in modern Europe. It brings together recent trends in political history - notably the focus on citizenship, liberal governmentality, and mechanisms of political exclusion - with cultural historians' focus on imagined communities, memory, and the symbolic representation of belonging.
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/cultmep/
The Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture is an interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary research Centre, focusing on the relationships between sexuality, culture, and history. The Centre aims to foster pioneering scholarship that challenges current understandings of sexuality and gender by interrogating cultural identities, cultural production and cultural theory in relation to other power systems, such as race, ethnicity and class.
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/englishamericanstudies/research/cssc/
Italian Forum
Italian Forum is a grouping of international scholars specialising in the arts, architecture and archaeology of Italy. Italian Forum casts a wide disciplinary and chronological net, involving not only specialists in Italian art and architectural history, archaeology and museology but also, more generally, those with academic interests in Italian visual studies, material culture, built environments and heritage management, from antiquity to the present day.
http://www.italianforum.org.uk/
Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies
MANCASS was formed in 1984 by Donald Scragg, following a tradition of distinguished scholars with interests in Anglo-Saxon Studies at the University. The Centre aims to promote research into all aspects of the life and culture of England before the Norman Conquest.
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/mancass/
Manchester Centre for Music in Culture
Established in 2002, Manchester Centre for Music in Culture ('MC2') exists to bring together researchers based in the North West region of England and beyond with an interest in music and its relationship to culture.
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/mc2/
Formed in 2005, the group looks to promote interdisciplinary research on modern British Studies from 1800, to the present. The group is particularly on focused on research crossing history, literature, sociology and the visual arts.
http://arts.stage.manchester.ac.uk/cidra/events/conferences/modernbritishstudies/