Centres within the Institute for Transnational Studies
Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies
The Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies has an established international reputation for the quality of its research and teaching in translation/interpreting studies and intercultural communication. CTIS has the largest concentration of translation and interpreting studies specialists in the UK and among the largest worldwide. Publications by CTIS members constitute standard references in the field, including the Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, In Other Words, Translation and Conflict: A Narrative Account, Introducing Corpora in Translation Studies, and The Translator.
Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
The Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies is a focal point for the diverse and geographically dispersed research activities associated with Latin America and the Caribbean at the University of Manchester. It brings together one of the largest teams of Latin-Americanists and Caribbeanists in Europe, from a wide array of disciplines and departments: Social Anthropology; Literature, Cultural Studies and Linguistics; History and Art History; Geography; Drama and Screen Studies; Political Sciences; Development Studies; Economics; and Business. Read more.
Centre for Cultural Forms of Politics in Modern Europe
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. Following the Centre's successful inaugural conference in March 2006, the Centre is hosting a wide-ranging programme of research projects, international conferences and roundtables, as detailed under events.
Migration and Diaspora Cultural Studies Network
The Manchester Migration and Diaspora Cultural Studies Network is a collaborative framework for academic research into the cultural transformations brought about by the global movement of peoples, languages, objects, images, sounds, beliefs and ideas. The network embraces a wide range of disciplines, with a strong core in language-based disciplines, which gives it a distinctive, internationally comparative dimension, and illuminates the interpenetration of cultures from within. Themes include intercultural communication, cultural memory, representation, and diasporic subjectivities, across a spectrum of modes of migration, from refugee studies, through border studies and language contact to transnational cinema and 'queer diasporas'.
Centre for Chinese Studies
The Centre for Chinese Studies at the University of Manchester is a part of the consortium, the British Inter-University China Centre (BICC), jointly set up with counterparts at the University of Oxford and University of Bristol. Funded at a total of almost £5 million in the five-year lifespan (2006-1011) of the grant by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), BICC aims to develop the UK's premier research and teaching facility on China.
Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
The Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies was created in 2004 to faciliate collaboration in research, teaching and postgraduate supervision between academic staff across the University of Manchester with expertise in Russia, other countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern and East Central Europe. Members also include representatives from other universities in the North of England.
Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arabic World
CASAW is the result of a UK government initiative to build crucial expertise on the Arab World based on a knowledge of the Arabic language coupled with advanced research methods skills in the social and political sciences, arts and humanities.
The Centre is a collaboration between the Universities of Edinburgh, Durham and Manchester. It fields one of the largest concentrations of expertise in the UK, bringing together over 50 full-time members of staff drawn from a variety of departments in the arts, humanities and social and political sciences, all working on areas directly related to the Arabic-speaking world. CASAW's priority is to serve national strategic interests by safeguarding the future health of Arab World expertise in the UK, training the next generation of academics and providing a vital flow of expertise to sustain the needs of the public and private sectors.
Centre for Research in the Visual Cultures of the French-Speaking World
CRIVCOF gathers a critical mass of staff engaged in visual research, and as a result is uniquely placed to contribute decisively to the field. It seeks to enhance visual research within French Studies, while also fostering a culture of intellectual exchange with researchers in other areas who specialize in visual culture.
Jean Monnet Centre for Excellence
The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence aims to provide a portal website for European Studies-related activities and research in Greater Manchester and the North West of England. The Centre aims to develop a platform to strengthen the intellectual community in European Studies, while also facilitating local and regional links with practitioners, researchers, students and others interested in European affairs. We are commited to organising more public events and liaising with endusers of research such as Manchester City Council, the North-West Regional Development Office, and the Manchester Chamber of Commerce.