'Sexuality, Gender and The Body' Lecture and Graduate Masterclass Series, 2007-8
All are welcome to the CIDRA 2006-7 lecture series entitled 'Visual Knowledge'. The events are open to both external visitors, and to internal staff and students. Please also see information on the graduate seminars below.
Download the Lecture and Graduate Masterclass Series schedule.
October 17 2007
Judith Walkowitz: Simon Visiting Professor (History, Johns Hopkins University)
Part of Inter-Faculty Lecture series
Erotic display: middlebrow culture and the spirit of the Blitz
November 7 2007
Frank Mort (CIDRA/History,The University of Manchester)
A thoroughly modern scandal: the Profumo affair, London 1963
December 5 2007
Rosi Braidotti (Humanities, Utrecht University)
Part of Inter-Faculty lecture series Affirmative Ethics and Bio-Politics
February 13 2008
Carol Mavor (Art History and Visual Studies, The University of Manchester)
Contemporary photography and the image of the boy
March 12 2008
Susan Leigh Foster (Dance Studies, UCLA)
Throwing like a girl? Cultivating kinaesthesia in a post-human world
April 30 2008
Elizabeth Grosz (Simon Visiting Professor, Rutgers University)
Sexed Bodies. Deleuze and the animal in art
Day: Wednesdays
Location: Bragg Lecture Theatre, Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama , unless specified as the Whitworth Art Gallery
Time: 5-7 pm, followed by a reception in G16, unless at the Whitworth, with a 5.30pm start.
Booking: No formal booking required. All welcome.
For further details contact Frank Mort: frank.mort@manchester.ac.uk; Tel: 0161 275 8965
Graduate Masterclasses to accompany the lecture series
A series of graduate masterclasses (co-sponsored by SAGE ) accompany the lecture series, in which visiting speakers explore key aspects of interdisciplinary research in cultural material in conjunction with postgraduate students. The series is open to all students in SAHC, and a limited number of places are available to students in other schools and Faculties. Staff are also welcome to attend, so long as students are "given the floor".
October 18 2007: 11 - 1 Keepers Room, Whitworth Building
Judith Walkowitz: Simon Visiting Professor (History, Johns Hopkins University)
Sex and the City
Readings for this event will be available to collect from the Taught Programmes Office reception in Samuel Alexander Building, A5, from Friday 5 October. There is no need to book separately.
Previous Events
'Visual Knowledge' Lecture and Graduate Masterclass Series, 2006-7
All are welcome to the CIDRA 2006-7 lecture series entitled 'Visual Knowledge'. The events are open to both external visitors, and to internal staff and students. Please also see information on the graduate seminars below.
This lecture series is intended to open discussion on the ways in which a variety of disciplines have considered the visual image as a source of knowledge of the social world. The development of the relatively new field of visual and cultural studies, as well as recent work on the history of vision and visuality, has highlighted the central role of the image in social and political life. At the same time, continuing debates in the areas of documentary photography and ethnographic film should illuminate some crucial questions of the still and moving image and the access this gives us to the world. In cultural theory, the idea of a (literal or metaphoric) imagistic social history has become popular in the past few years, influenced by the work of Walter Benjamin, Georg Simmel, W.G. Sebald and others. And although with a limited lecture series of six speakers it will not be possible to introduce all the fields of inquiry in which visual knowledge is discussed, the sessions should begin to open up ways to think about other issues: for example, new media and digitally-based pedagogy, and computer-based community history projects.
25 October 2006
Professor Janet Wolff (CIDRA, University of Manchester)
The Sociological Image
8 November 2006
Professor Douglas Crimp (University of Rochester)
Way Out on a Nut: Returning with Daniel Buren to the Guggenheim
6 December 2006 (Whitworth)
Dr Charlie Gere (Institute for Cultural Research, University of Lancaster)
Digital Culture and the Analogical Imagination
21 February 2007
Professor Jennifer Mason (Sociology, University of Manchester)
Kinship, Affinities and Resemblances
21 March 2007 (Whitworth)
Dr Mary Bouquet (Cultural Anthropology and Museum Studies, University College Utrecht)
From Dull to Brilliant: The Bilboa Effect and the Da Vinci Code Syndrome at the Museum
9 May 2007 Professor Victor Burgin (Goldsmiths)
'The responsibility of the artist'
Graduate Masterclasses to accompany the lecture series
A series of graduate masterclasses (co-sponsored by SAGE ) accompany the lecture series, in which visiting speakers explore key aspects of interdisciplinary research in cultural material in conjunction with postgraduate students. The series is open to all students in SAHC, and a limited number of places are available to students in other schools and Faculties. Staff are also welcome to attend, so long as students are "given the floor".
26 October 2006 (3-5)
Professor Janet Wolff (CIDRA, University of Manchester)
Imagery and the sociological imagination
9 November 2006 (3-5)
Professor Douglas Crimp (University of Rochester)
Memoir, history, and visual culture
6 December 2006 (2-4)
Dr Charlie Gere (Institute for Cultural Research, University of Lancaster)
Theology and media and cultural studies
21 February 2007 (2-4)
Professor Jennifer Mason (Sociology, University of Manchester)
Family Resemblances and Visual Knowledge
21 March 2007 (2-4)
Dr Mary Bouquet (Cultural Anthropology and Museum Studies, University College Utrecht)
The museum effect revisited
10 May 2007 (11-1)
Professor Victor Burgin (Goldsmiths)
Following on from the lecture, including 'populism'
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