Members of the School are part of a wide range of collaborative research centres and institutes at the University of Nottingham. These collaborative ventures as well as the more informal research groupings reflect the strength of our research.
Centre for Contemporary East Asian Cultural Studies
The Centre for Contemporary East Asian Cultural Studies (CEACS) was founded in 2012. The Centre facilitates innovative research into and critical debate on cultural thinking and practices related to China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea as well as associated diasporic communities around the world. The Centre also collaborates with major cultural institutions, creative industries and cultural practitioners to support the critical dissemination of knowledge about East Asian cultures within an international context.
Go to the Centre for Contemporary East Asian Cultural Studies website.
Centre for Critical Theory
Building on over twenty years of excellence in the field of critical theory at The University of Nottingham, the Centre for Critical Theory facilitates and promotes cutting-edge research that aims to maintain critical theory’s relevance for contemporary society, politics and culture.
We believe that critical theory ought to distance itself from established and emergent orthodoxies through an engagement with the complexity of the present. We therefore believe that today’s critical theory must continue to concern itself with ethical and political matters of resistance, transgression, and transformation. Go to the Centre for Critical Theory website.
Centre for the Study of Post-Conflict Cultures
Established in June 2004 at the University of Nottingham, the Centre for the Study of Post-Conflict Cultures aims to facilitate cutting-edge research into the interrelations between war, conflict, history, culture, gender and national identity. Its programme of international events provides a forum for scholars and practitioners, from Europe and beyond, who are working in areas as diverse as Media and Communications, History and Political Science, International Relations and International Law, Cultural Studies and Cultural Memory, Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies, and Comparative Literature and Literary and Critical Theory. Go to the website.
Cuba
The Centre for Research on Cuba brings together researchers working on Cuba from the Department of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, other institutions in Europe and especially the University of Havana, Cuba. The Hennessy Collection (an archive of Cuban books, newspapers and journals unique in this country) is maintained by the Centre and housed in the university and is open to researchers from outside the University. The Centre also hosts the Cuba Research Forum which is an international discussion group which initiates collaboration, academic exchange and conferences on a regular basis.Go to the Centre for Research on Cuba website.
Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies
The Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies is a member of the Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies| (CRCEES), a partnership of eight universities set up under the Higher Education Funding Council’s initiative for Language-based Area Studies. CRCEES provides a range of activities including funding opportunities, an annual research forum, summer schools, and research training.
Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies
The Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies is based in the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, with links to the School of English and the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies. Particular research strengths include film and audio-visual translation, literary translation, postcolonial translation, translation theory, the translation of philosophical thought, and comparative literary and cultural studies.
The Centre will be officially launched on 17 November 2011 with a lecture by Professor Lawrence Venuti (Temple, USA).
Go to the Centre for Translation website
Institute for Screen Industries Research
The Institute is the only one of its kind in the UK offering ideas incubation and production opportunities for industry.
Find out more about ISIR by visiting the
website.