Dr Roberta Mock: Avant-Garde Performance
10.00 - 11.00
Written Texts cited in this lecture:
Arnold Aronson (2000) American Avant-Garde Theatre: A History. London & New York: Routledge.
Gunter Bergaus (2001) ‘Artaud’s Jet de Sang: A Critical Post-Production Analysis’ in Studies in Theatre & Performance, Vol 21, Number 1.
Gunter Bergaus (2005) Avant-Garde Performance: Live Events and Electronic Technologies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Peter Bürger (1984) Theory of the Avant-Garde. Trans. Michael Shaw. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Colin Counsell (1996) Signs of Performance: an introduction to twentieth-century theatre. London: Routledge.
RoseLee Goldberg (1988 ed) Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present. London: Thames & Hudson.
James M. Harding & John Rouse, eds. (2006) Not the Other Avant-Garde: The Transnational Foundations of Avant-Garde Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Christopher Innes (1993) Avant Garde Theatre 1892-1992. London & New York: Routledge. An short excerpt from the introduction can also be read in Lizbeth Goodman with Jane de Gay (eds.) (2000) The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance. London: Routledge.
Richard Kostelanetz (2001) Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes, 2nd edition. New York & London: Routledge.
Annabelle Melzer (1994 ed) Dada and Surrealist Performance. Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Patrice Pavis (1982/1998) ‘Avant-Garde Theatre and Semiology: A few Practices and the Theory Behind Them’ in George W. Brandt (ed) Modern Theories of Drama. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Patrice Pavis (1992) Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture. London: Routledge.
David Savran (2005) ‘The Death of the Avantgarde’, The Drama Review 49, 3 (T187), Fall.
Henry M. Sayre (1989) The Object of Performance: The American Avant-Garde since 1970. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Richard Schechner (1993/2002) ‘The Five Avant-Gardes or… Or None?’ in Michael Huxley and Noel Witts (eds) The Twentieth Century Performance Reader. London & New York: Routledge.
Rebecca Schneider (1997) The Explicit Body in Performance. London & New York: Routledge.
Creative Work used as illustrations:
The following material was used as illustration during this lecture. As it is likely to be excised from podcasts for copyright reasons, listeners are directed to the following online resources:
Laurie Anderson. ‘O Superman’ [online] http://www.last.fm/music/Laurie+Anderson/_/O+Superman
Antonin Artaud. Pour finir avec le jugement de dieu [online] http://www.ubu.com/sound/artaud.html
Diamanda Galas. The Litanies of Satan [online] http://www.last.fm/music/Diamanda+Gal%C3%A1s/_/The+Litanies+of+Satan
Philip Glass/Robert Wilson. Einstein on the Beach [online] http://www.last.fm/music/Philip+Glass/Einstein+on+the+Beach
Kurt Schwitters. Ursonate. [online] http://www.ubu.com/sound/schwitters.html
Ariel Hessayon: On the Jews in England
12.00 - 13.00
Cecil Roth, A History of the Jews in England, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964
David Katz, Philo-Semitism and the Readmission of the Jews to England 1603-1655 Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982
David S. Katz, The Jews in the History of England 1485-1850
Ariel Hessayon, ‘Gold Tried in the Fire’: The Prophet Theaurau:John Tany and the English Revolution, Ashgate Publishing, 2007
Professor Christine Kinnon: Gene Therapy
14.00 - 15.00
Selected reading:
Santilli G, Thornhill SI, Kinnon C, Thrasher AJ (2008) Gene therapy of inherited immunodeficiencies. Expert Opin Biol Ther 8 (4): 397–407.
Kinnon C (2006) Gene therapy: has it delivered what it promised?. Br J Hosp Med (Lond) 67 (5): 228–9.
Molecular Immunology Unit homepage:
http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ich/academicunits/Molecular_immunology/Homepage


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