Dr Roberta Mock: Avant-Garde Performance.

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.

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Dr Mark Miodownik – How to Make The Perfect Cup Of Coffee

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.

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Prof Malcolm Miles: Herbert Marcuse’s idea of society as a work of art

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

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Dr Magnus Marsden – Muslim Village Intellectuals

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.

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Prof Esther Leslie: Spam, Rubbish and Leftover Culture

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.

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Prof Christine Kinnon – An Introduction To Gene Therapy

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.

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

Duration: 16:00.

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Dr Monica Janowski: Potency, Hierarchy and Food in Borneo

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

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Dr Aeriel Hessayon – On The Jews In England

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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Dr Ariel Hessayon: Restoring the Garden of Eden in England’s Green and Pleasant Land.

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.
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Duration: 54:37.

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A C Grayling provides the keynote address for this year’s FUoTA.

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

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