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color=#000000>CONSORTIUM ROUND-TABLE <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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color=#000000>ON <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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color=#000000>ASIAN PERFORMANCE: PEDAGOGY AND RESEARCH IN UK HEIs
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">A consortium
of UK academics, working in the diverse fields of theatre, dance and
ethnomusicology, come together for the first time in this unique,
multidisciplinary, roundtable discussion on the future of Asian theatre, dance
and music in the UK HEIs. </SPAN></I><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></FONT></P>
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color=#000000> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">Date
& Venue: 17 May 2014:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Centre
for Creative Collaboration, </SPAN></B><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US
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Acton Street, London (WC1X 9NG)</SPAN></B><B
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin"><FONT
color=#000000>Consortium: <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin"><FONT
color=#000000>Asian Performing Arts Forum, Centre for International Theatre and
Performance Research, Royal Holloway, University of
London<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin"><FONT
color=#000000>Theatre, Consciousness & Asian Performance Research Group,
University of Lincoln<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT color=#000000>Centre for
Dance Research, University of Roehampton, London<SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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color=#000000> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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color=#000000><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">Keynote
Speaker: </SPAN></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: arial; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa; mso-font-kerning: 0pt">(TBC)
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
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color=#000000><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">Asian
performance research and pedagogy play a significant role in the UK HEIs. Asian
theatre, music and dance, </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: times; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa; mso-font-kerning: 0pt">particularly
the classical forms originating from East, South-East and South Asia,
</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">have
been</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: times; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa; mso-font-kerning: 0pt">
‘visible presences’</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">
in the curriculum of a number of university drama and theatre departments in the
country, </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: times; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa; mso-font-kerning: 0pt">either
in all three years of the degree or as an option or part of an option for a
specific year (Thorpe 2009; </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: times; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa; mso-font-kerning: 0pt">Meduri
2005, 2010</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: times; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa; mso-font-kerning: 0pt">).
Asian forms, practices, practitioners and productions are also studied in the
contexts of intercultural theatre, world music and world dance, </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">potentiating
a vibrant and dynamic ‘space’ for theoretical and practical enquiry into what we
think about performance today. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 12pt 0cm; TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-hyphenate: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
color=#000000><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: times; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa; mso-font-kerning: 0pt">Earlier
generations of scholars looked at Asian performance practices anthropologically
or as tools for performer training or root sources of the international
avant-garde, </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">investigating
and reframing an exploratory language and a performance vocabulary while today,
increasingly, Asian arts and artists are framed within discourses of
globalization and travelling cultures. </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: times; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa; mso-font-kerning: 0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 12pt 0cm; TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-hyphenate: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
color=#000000><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">For
a reasonably lengthy time of five to six decades in the past, the HEIs in the UK
hosted and preserved some of the excellent moments of this encounter with Asian
performance. The creation of actor training methods; innovative production
approaches; emergence of new academic disciplines such as performance studies,
theatre anthropology, ethnomusicology, theatre & consciousness and world
dance; recent publication of research monographs and edited anthologies and
journal special issues on a wide range of topics related to Asian performance,
intercultural and diasporic theatre, music and dance (Barba, Blacking, Brown,
</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: courier; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa; mso-font-kerning: 0pt">Chatterjee,
</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">Cohen,
Coldiron, Cooley, Daboo, Dadswell, David, Furse, </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: courier; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa; mso-font-kerning: 0pt">Grau,
Haney, </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">Hingorani,
Kapsali, Ley, Li, Lloyd, Madhavan, Malekin, Martin, Meduri,
Meyer-Dinkgr</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'">ä</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">fe,
Mitra, Merriam, Morcom, Nair, Nettl, Pavis, Post, Prickett, Purkayastha, Rice,
Schechner, Seeger, Stobart, Tan, Thorpe, Yarrow, Yoo, Zarrilli et al.) all
helped the HEIs in the UK becoming leading producers of new knowledge in the
field of Asian performance. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
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color=#000000>The understanding of the history of practice and a genealogy of
concepts emanating from the encounter with Asian performance raises a number of
questions that are currently relevant and the roundtable proposes to address the
following issues in terms of Asian research, pedagogy and performance practice
in the UK HEIs: <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">What
kind of concerns, issues and possibilities does Asian performance research and
pedagogy raise in the current scenario in UK HEIs? <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 12pt 0cm 12pt 36pt; TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; mso-hyphenate: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
color=#000000><SPAN
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style="mso-list: ignore">·<SPAN
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</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">How
‘visible’ are the people who are currently active in the field in the UK HEIs?
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 12pt 0cm 12pt 36pt; TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; mso-hyphenate: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
color=#000000><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: symbol"><SPAN
style="mso-list: ignore">·<SPAN
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</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">How
and in what ways will Asian practice enable the enhancement of the
psychophysical, tactile and cognitive capabilities of the par-takers of drama
and theatre in the UK HEIs—what are the new approaches and applications?
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="mso-list: ignore">·<SPAN
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</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">Can
the study of Asian performance express transnationalism? Reflect localism?
Highlight, or even critique, globalisation? Or do students interpret Asian
performance as a neo-colonial impulse, the introduction of an island nation to
the Other?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 12pt 0cm 12pt 36pt; TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; mso-hyphenate: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
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style="mso-list: ignore">·<SPAN
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</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">What
sort of postgraduate training is needed in order to support and produce the next
generation of world-class researchers?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 12pt 0cm 12pt 36pt; TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; mso-hyphenate: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
color=#000000><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: symbol"><SPAN
style="mso-list: ignore">·<SPAN
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</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">What
ethical principles might be agreed upon by academics in order to interrogate,
enhance or disrupt global circulations of Asian
performance?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 12pt 0cm 12pt 36pt; TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; mso-hyphenate: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
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</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">What new futures can be
imagined for Asian performing arts research within the new benchmark standards
set by AHRC’s recent ‘Techne’ initiative?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">What
is the future for Asian performance in UK HEIs</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">; what are the new challenges and opportunities that
Asian scholars, researchers and students grapple with the UK HEI’ sector
today?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin"><FONT
color=#000000>SCHEDULE:<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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Introduction: Dr. Sreenath Nair, University of Lincoln<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: tahoma; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa; mso-font-kerning: 0pt"><FONT
color=#000000>3.10-3.40 Keynote: </FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
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lang=EN-US
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lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: tahoma; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa; mso-font-kerning: 0pt"><FONT
color=#000000>3.40 Consortium Roundtable: <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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color=#000000><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: courier; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa; mso-font-kerning: 0pt">Professor
Matthew </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: courier; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa; mso-font-kerning: 0pt">Isaac</SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US
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Cohen, Royal Holloway, University of London</SPAN></FONT></P>
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lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: courier; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa; mso-font-kerning: 0pt"><FONT
color=#000000>Dr. Arya Madhavan, University of Lincoln
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: courier; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa; mso-font-kerning: 0pt"><FONT
color=#000000>Dr. Ashley Thorpe, Royal Holloway, University of London <SPAN
style="BACKGROUND: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US
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color=#000000>Dr. Avanthi Meduri, University of
Roehampton<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; mso-hyphenate: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
color=#000000><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: courier; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa; mso-font-kerning: 0pt">Dr.
</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
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Ee Tan, Royal Holloway, University of London<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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color=#000000> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US
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color=#000000>4.30 Responses<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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color=#000000><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: courier; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa; mso-font-kerning: 0pt">Professor
(Emeritus) Ralph Yarrow, University of East Anglia </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
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<P class=MsoNormal
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lang=EN-US
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color=#000000>Professor Keith Howard, SOAS <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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color=#000000> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US
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color=#000000>4.50 discussion by participants <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: tahoma; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa; mso-font-kerning: 0pt">5.20
summing up: </SPAN><SPAN
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Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, University of Lincoln<B
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color=#000000>5.30 end<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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color=#000000> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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color=#000000>All welcome!</FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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color=#000000>For more information about the Consortium Round-Table and
confirmation of your attendance please contact: Dr. Sreenath Nair, University of
Lincoln: </FONT></SPAN></B><A href="mailto:snair@lincoln.ac.uk"><B
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