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

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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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