Past events
RICC Workshops 2009/10
RICC ran a series of workshops exploring the following topics:
Cosmopolitan Imaginaries: Interiority and Affect; Alterity, Otherness and Difference; Memory and Forgetting, Objects and Places; Cities and Mobilities; Borders and Boundaries; Violence, Conflict and Legality. More details.
Sexuality Summer School & Queer up North 2010 Public Lectures Series
Registration is now open for the Sexuality Summer School 2010.The School is intended for postgraduates and researchers working in the broadly defined area of sexuality studies and is coordinated by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture (CSSC) and theQueer Up North International Arts Festival. It will take place 24 - 27 May 2010 with several exciting speakers confirmed. Download Programme. Summer School Poster
Alongside the Summer School there was a Public Lecture Series:
Queer Up North 2010 Public Lecture Series
All lectures are at 5pm, University Place Lecture Theatre A (University of Manchester, Oxford Rd)
5pm, Mon 24 May - David Eng (UPenn)
The Queer Space of China
A lecture exploring the contemporary emergence of gay and lesbian life in the People’s Republic of China in relation to liberal distinctions between public space and private desires. Following anthropologist Lisa Rofel’s recent work on expressive desire, David Eng investigates the ways in which certain self-identified Chinese gays and lesbians are positioning themselves as individuals who are uniquely capable of embracing their private desires and thus claim to represent the vanguard of a new modernity in China. (co-sponsored by RICC)
8.40pm, Mon 24 May: Screening of Lan Yu
Stanley Kwan, China, 2001 In Mandarin with English subtitles, 86 min.
Controversial for its frank depiction of homosexual themes and contemporary politics, the film follows the tragic love affair between two men against the rapid changes facing China during the 1980s and 1990s.
Introduction by Professor David L. Eng, University of Pennsylvania. In collaboration with the Sexuality Summer School and Queer Up North 2010. Supported by the Research Institute of Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC) at the University of Manchester, and co-presented with the Chinese Film Forum UK.
Public Lecture Poster (with abstract details)
Relationalities: A Response to 'Difference' - Conference, Tuesday 18 May 2010
RICC are hosting an intimate, one-day conference titled "Relationalities: A Response to 'Difference'" on Tuesday 18 May 2010. Full details.
Lecture and Q&A: Sara Dickey, Professor of Anthropology, Bowdoin College, USA 'The Afterlife of an Indian Film Star/Politician: Fans' Narrative Re-Visions of MGR' (27 April 2010)
Feminist ‘Desert Island’ Texts, MFTN Round Table (4 Nov 2009)
The Race and Ethnicity Reading Group (11 Nov 2009)
'Pyschic Life of Power' Judith Butler Reading Group (16 Nov 2009)
The Cosmopolitan and the Provincial, Adrian Favell (23 Nov 2009)
Theorising Violence, A Symposium (30 Oct 2009)
The Impasse of Cultural Constructionism, Vicki Kirby MFTN Public Lecture (20 Oct 2009)
Once Upon a Time in China, Cornerhouse, Manchester. Presented by the Chinese Film Forum UK and supported by the Confucius Institute at The University of Manchester (1-5 Oct 2009)
Cosmopolitanism in the Landscape of Modernity, Princeton-Manchester Colloquium (25-26 Sep 2009)
Feminism and the Question of Rape Seminar with Joanna Burke (Birkbeck College, University of London), Tanya Horeck (Anglia Ruskin University) and Nayanika Mookherjee (Lancaster University).
Organised by Jane Kilby (University of Salford) (16 September 2009)
Manchester Feminist Theory Network: Workshop with Elizabeth Wilson (Department of Women's Studies at Emory University). Abstract available: '"Would I had Him with me Always": Sexuality and Affects of Longing in early Artificial Intelligence (AI).' (23 June 2009, at The University of Manchester)
Pathways to Cosmopolitanism, Singapore-Manchester Research Programme (24 - 26 June 2009)
Haunted Futurities, Keynote Speaker: Prof. Avery Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara (4 June 2009)
Manchester Feminist Theory Network: Workshop with Sarada Balagopalan (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi). Abstract available: 'The Girl Child and Schooling in India: A Critical Reading.' (16 June 2009, Gaskell Lecture Theatre, Manchester Metropolitan University)
Creating the Cosmopolitan City: Manchester Migrants Old and New, CUBE Gallery, Portland Street, Manchester (22 April and 27 May 2009)
Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Flows in East Asia (21 - 22 May 2009)
Institutionalising gender studies in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan. RICC lunchtime seminar given by Bakty Kydyrmysheva, RICC Visiting Scholar (20 May 2009)
Sexuality Summer School, Performing Queerness, Samuel Alexander Building, The University of Manchester (17-21 May 2009).
Feminism, Anti-Racism and Cosmopolitan Cultures, Seminar and Workshop with Nira Yuval Davis (University of East London) and Mica Nava (University of East London), Council Chambers in the Whitworth Building, The University of Manchester (5 May 2009).
Animation and Automation Conference, The University of Manchester and Lancaster University (26 - 27 March 2009)
Manchester Histories Festival, Manchester Town Hall (21 March 2009)
Xiang Biao, Lunchtime Lecture: 'Making Order from Transnational Migration: Labor, Recruitment Agents and the State in Northeast China, The University of Manchester (10 March 2009)
Launch Festival 2009 Whose Cosmopolitanism. In March 2009 RICC held an academic and cultural festival to celebrate its launch. Featured speakers include Professors David Harvey, Tariq Ramadan and Jacqueline Rose, as well as Don Flynn, Irene Kahn, Alex Poots and Katya Sander:
Archive of Events
Professor Gyan Prakash (Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University/ RICC) The Tabloid and the City: Bombay in the Late 1950s. Part of the CIDRA 2008-9 The City/Urban Cultures Seminar Series (25 February 2009)
Lauren Berlant, Seminar: 'After the Good Life, the Impasse: Time Out, Human Resources and the Neoliberal Present', Samuel Alexander Building, at The University of Manchester. In conjunction with the School of English and American Studies and the Manchester Feminist Theory Network. Co-sponsored by the University of Salford (10 February 2009)
World Literatures: National Post Graduate Workshop. Ken Kitchen Committee Room, John Owens Building, The University of Manchester (6 February 2009) Programme
Judith Butler, Public Lecture: 'Frames of War', Lecture Theatre B, University Place, The University of Manchester (5 February 2009)
Feminist Theory Network Launch Event: The Child and Childhood in Feminist Theory (10-11 December 2008)
Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism The University of Manchester (20-21 November 2008)
Katya Sander Talk, Tuesday Talk Series at the Whitworth Art Gallery (4 November 2008) More details
Paper by Felicia Chan: "Wong Kar-Wai and the Hong Kong Star System" at the Cornerhouse. Accompanies the screening of Ashes of Time Redux. (15 Oct 2008) More details
International Colloquium "Responding to Cosmopolitanism: The New Identities of Literary Theory" (Ljubljana 6-7 June 2008) Programme
Manchester-Princeton Research Meeting "Genealogies of Cosmopolitanism" (Manchester, 9-10 June 2008) Programme
Multiplicities: World Cinema, Globalised Media and Cosmopolitan Cultures (17-18 June 2008)
Queering Culture Sexuality Summer School (May 2008)