Events
Browse our recent and upcoming events at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Arts and Languages (CIDRAL).
Events Grants 2025/26
- Queer Bodies in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain
Organised by: Ben Jackson (JRRIL), Noelle Gallagher (EACW), Emma Merkling (AHCP). - Blood Flows in Interdisciplinary Perspective
Organised by Laure Humbert (History), Alice Robinson (HCRI) - Feminism and Art-making in Manchester: Spaces, Networks, Somatics
Organised by Jenna Ashton, Baeza Ruiz (AHCP), and Hannah Curran Troop (EACW) - Sensing, Knowing, Making: Embodied Knowledge, Sensory Methods, and Practice Research
Organised by Henry McPherson (Music), Manon Raffard (MLC) - Encountering Biblical Bodies
Organised by Holly Morse (R&T), Gillian Redfern (EACW) - Timeless Bodies: Death, Grief, and Healing Across Cultures
CIDRAL Visiting Fellow Programme 2025: Dr Anna Mazanik
Dr Mazanik will host a CIDRAL reading group on Monday, 11 May from 1-3pm - if you are not signed up for the reading group but would like to attend, please email salc.cidral@manchester.ac.uk for the readings.
On Tuesday, 12 May from 2-4pm Dr Mazanik will host a masterclass for PGRs and Postdoctoral researchers on medicine and the 'species turn' in humanities. Please email salc.cidral@manchester.ac.uk by Friday, 8 May to sign up for this event.
On Thursday, 14 May at 4pm Dr Mazanik will give a keynote lecture “Viruses, vectors and Stalinist medicine in the Pacific borderlands: Japanese encephalitis in the Soviet Far East and North Korea, 1930-1950”. The lecture will take place in Samuel Alexander building, A7. All are welcome to attend.