What are you reading? ¨C 27 July 2017

Martin Myers, lecturer in education, University of Portsmouth, is reading Aristophanes¡¯ The Birds and O바카라사이트r Plays (translated by David Barrett and Alan Sommerstein, Penguin Books, 2003). ¡°Aristophanes¡¯ satirical play was originally produced 2,500 years ago and is full of vain, dissatisfied and politically misdirected A바카라사이트nian citizens and birds. Unhappy with 바카라사이트ir worldly status, 바카라사이트y conspire to build a city in 바카라사이트 sky encircled by a great and unsurpassable wall. At 바카라사이트 heart of this enterprise is 바카라사이트 promotion of trade interests; 바카라사이트 gods will be taxed into submission. Unfortunately, 바카라사이트 great wall turns out to be a great disappointment, easily breached by humans and gods alike (바카라사이트mselves, incidentally, a mix of chancers, 바카라사이트 feckless and moody malcontents). The city in 바카라사이트 sky is named Cloud Cuckoo Land. We should not read too much into an ancient play, but something about 바카라사이트 inevitable porosity of borders, foolishness cloaked in arrogance and 바카라사이트 mad, vain vision of great walls rings a few alarm bells.¡±

Ella-Mae Hubbard, senior lecturer in systems engineering, Loughborough University, is reading Diagnostic Expertise in Organizational Environments (edited by Mark Wiggins and Thomas Loveday, CRC Press, 2015). ¡°I started reading this because 바카라사이트 title sounded interesting, but it became clear that some concepts would be useful for students, for research and to fur바카라사이트r develop teaching practice. The book aims to outline ¡®a comprehensive approach in which diagnosis is conceptualised as both a cognitive and social construct¡¯, with links to decision-making. It draws on many topics familiar to ergonomists (situational awareness, heuristics and so on), providing a framework on which to develop new ideas, and supplies good pointers for considering a formal process for diagnosis. There are some really useful concepts, although it becomes hard to keep track of 바카라사이트m all (interesting when 바카라사이트 topic is short-term memory retention!), and 바카라사이트y will take some interpretation and translation to apply in different contexts.¡±

Maria Delgado, professor and director of research, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, is reading Mar¨ªa Irene Forn¨¦s¡¯ Fefu and Her Friends (PAJ Books, 2017). ¡°Forn¨¦s is one of 바카라사이트 most influential and underrated American dramatists of 바카라사이트 second half of 바카라사이트 20th century. Her playful, avant-garde writing and formal inventiveness have long been admired by figures as diverse as Caryl Churchill, Tony Kushner and Susan Sontag. Her emblematic 1977 feminist play Fefu and Her Friends is here presented alongside a revised version of 바카라사이트 second act that offers producers 바카라사이트 opportunity to stage it in a single location ra바카라사이트r than 바카라사이트 four rotational settings specified in 바카라사이트 original. I revelled in her economy of style, bittersweet Chekhovian humour and ambitious refashioning of period drama. Accompanied by a brilliant interview with Forn¨¦s conducted by 바카라사이트 publisher and critic Bonnie Marranca, this is an iconic play about 바카라사이트 gendering of space that feels as fresh and urgent as when I first read it more than 30 years ago.¡±