A discussion of distributive justice, the legacy of logical positivism, ignorance and good. Professor Wolff is Head of Department of UCL Department of Philosophy.
www.ucl.ac.uk/philosophy/academic-research/staff-jw.htm
Duration: 42:30.

Ben Watson broadcasts every week on Resonance FM. He is the author of numerous books, poems, provocations and polemic aplenty. Visit www.militantesthetix.co.uk/

Duration: 65:53.

Dr Simpson is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS:

www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff36082.php

For recommended further reading and accompanying images, see Tuesday’s FUoTA page at http:resonancefm.com/free-university

Duration: 37:41.

A layperson’s guide to graphic design – what it is, its use in commerce, education and the dissemination of information, and its cultural significance. Why are so many people choosing to study it (design is third most popular degree course in UK!), and why so many people want to make a living doing it?

Dr Alpa Shah is a Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology,
Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research focuses on addressing the reproduction of inequality and the resultant implications for and experiences of marginalised people.
Visit www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/
For accompanying images and futher reading, visit our on-line page at www.resonancefm.com/free-university
Duration: 40:59.

Jean Seaton is Professor of Media History at the University of Westminster ; and the Official Historian of the BBC. She is the Director of the Orwell Prize. Visit www.theorwellprize.co.uk

Peter Rea is Hon. Professor Intermedia Studies, HfK Bremen, Germany. He is the con-instigator and chairman of the long-running Profile Intermedia design conference.

An analysis of the construction of male identity in South Asia.

Caroline Osella is Reader in Anthropology with reference to South Asia at SOAS. Her specialisms are Kerala, South Asia, South Asian diaspora: ethnophysiology, concepts of person, gender, ethnicity, psychology and anthropology.

For accompanying photographs and recommended further reading see Wednesday’s FUoTA page at http://resonancefm.com/free-university/wednesday-20th-august

Duration: 40:32.

]]> http://podcasts.resonancefm.com/archives/1350/feed 0 http://podcasts.resonancefm.com/archives/1363 http://podcasts.resonancefm.com/archives/1363#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:00:08 +0000 Matt http://podcasts.resonancefm.com/?p=1363 Prof Ben Neill: A Beginner’s Guide to Just Intonation

Composer Ben Neill, who studied under LaMonte Young, provides a beginner’s guide to Just Intonation.
Ben Neill is Professor of Music Technology and Music Industry at Ramapo College, New Jersey, USA.

Visit www.benneill.com/ and Kyle Gann’s website, to which this talk makes extensive reference: www.kylegann.com/

With thanks to Kyle Gann.

Julian Stallabrass lectures in modern and contemporary art at the Courtauld Institute. This lecture accompanies his work on the Brighton Photo Biennial 2008.

Visit www.bpb.org.uk/2008/blog/3105/holiday-snaps/

[WARNING: contains disturbing images which maybe considered unsuitable for children.]

and

www.courtauld.ac.uk/people/stallabrass-julian.shtml

Duration: 24:16.

Roberta Mock is Associate Dean (Research) and Reader in Performance, Faculty of Arts.

Dr Roberta Mock is Reader in Performance and Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Plymouth where she also leads the MRes Theatre & Performance programme. She is the editor of Walking, Writing & Performance (Intellect, forthcoming) and Performing Processes (Intellect, 2000), and author of Jewish Women on Stage, Film, and Television (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). She is co-convenor of the Performance & the Body Working Party of TaPRA (Theatre & Performance Research Association) and a member of the AHRC Peer Review College. For further details: www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/rmock

For bibliography and references cited in this lecture, see our on-line page at www.resonancefm.com/free-university

Duration: 42:21.

Mark Miodownik: How to make the perfect cup of coffee.

What elements are involved in the making of a simple beverage. The Director of the Materials Library and Head of the Materials Research Group at King’s College London provides an audibly practical demonstration of the answer.

Visit http://www.materialslibrary.org.uk

Duration: 43:10.

Malcolm Miles is Professor of Cultural Theory at the University of Plymouth. Visit www.malcolmmiles.org.uk/

Magnus Marsden: Muslim village intellectuals.

An account of “Islamisation” in Northern Pakistan based on ten years of field work by Dr Marsden of the School of Oriental and African Studies.

http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff36079.php

Duration: 45.11.

http://audio.resonancefm.com/Free_University/The_Free_University_of_the_Airwaves_Muslim_Village_Intellectuals.mp3

Lecture: Hunting.”Never before have so many people been equipped with cameras, hunting out bits of the real…”

Esther Leslie is Professor in Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck: www.bbk.ac.uk/eh/staff/LeslieEsther

Duration: 36:18.

Christine Kinnon: An Introduction to Gene Therapy and Molecular Immunology.

Prof Christine Kinnon is Theme Leader in Infection & Immunity, UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust.

Visit

http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ich/academicunits/Molecular_immunology/Homepage

Duration: 16:00.

Dr Janowski is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sussex. Visit www.sussex.ac.uk/anthropology/
Duration: 21:29.

Ariel Hessayon: The Jews in England from their expulsion in 1290 to their readmission in 1659. Dr Hessayon is based at Goldsmiths’ Department of History.
For recommended further reading see the FUoTA page at http://resonancefm.com/free-university/thursday-21st-august
Duration: 56:53.

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What meaning does the activity of The Diggers, 1649-50, and the thinking of Gerrard Winstanley now hold? Dr Hessayon is based at Goldsmiths’ Department of History.
For recommended further reading see the FUoTA page at http:resonancefm.com/free-university
Duration: 54:37.

AC Grayling is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford.

Visit www.acgrayling.com/

What are our relations to the air and how have they changed over the last 100 or 200 years?

Professor Connor is the Academic Director, London Consortium School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, London. http://www.stevenconnor.com/

Duration: 37:23.

Kevin Buzzard is Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College, London. Visit www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~buzzard/
For further reading, go to Wikipedia and search for “RSA”.

Duration: 35:46.

The programming director of Resonance FM and co-editor of the Works of Thomas De Quincey discusses the essayist’s autobiographical sequence “A Sketch from Childhood” (1851, 1852).

http://www.pickeringchatto.com/major_works/

The series of landmark radical works made fifty years ago for British radio are discussed by the author of “Set Into Song: Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker, Peggy Seeger and the Radio Ballads.”

Duration: 69:29.