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• Jennifer Smith Maguire

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/author/jbs7/

  Jennifer is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Production and Consumption. Her research focuses on the intersection of processes of cultural production and consumption in the construction of markets, tastes and value.

• The World that Management Made

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2016/04/20/the-world-that-management-made/

  Posted by Gibson Burrell in School of Business Blog on April 20, 2016 Robert MacFarlane’s excellent piece on the ‘Anthropocene’ age in a recent issue of The Guardian deserves attention in a number of ways.

• Cider in Unexpected Places? Rural Chile and the Cider Pressing – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/08/24/cider-in-unexpected-places-rural-chile-and-the-cider-pressing/

  Deborah Toner discusses the social and cultural importance of cider making in rural Southern Chile in South America, summarising the work of Anton Daughters that appears in recent book Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural History, edited by Gretchen Pierce and...

• Academic Freedoms and the University Ltd.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/04/09/academic-freedoms-and-the-university-ltd/

  Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on April 9, 2014 Voltaire once wrote “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize”. Professor of Organisation and Culture Martin Parker recently found out precisely what he meant.

• The Story of Pulque, Part 1

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/03/10/the-story-of-pulque-part-1/

  Posted by Deborah Toner in Consuming Authenticities on March 10, 2015 In the 17th century, the Mexican historian Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl recorded a pre-Columbian legend about the origins of pulque.

• Willis from Tunis: An Interview with Cartoonist Nadia Khiari

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/covid-in-cartoons/2022/01/11/willis-from-tunis-interview-cartoonist-nadia-khiari/

  Political cartoonist Willis from Tunis (Tunesia) is interviewed by Shout Out UK Young Writer Laura Brick.

• New telescope to be the ‘GOTO’ for gravitational wave events

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/07/26/new-telescope-to-be-the-goto-for-gravitational-wave-events/

  Leicester space scientists will contribute to a huge new telescope, made up of identical arrays on opposite sides of the planet, to track down sources of gravitational waves.

• Are museums ‘safe spaces for debate’? Not always…

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2017/09/06/are-museums-safe-spaces-for-debate-not-always/

  Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on September 6, 2017 I keep hearing people talk about museums being ‘safe spaces for debate’, and this always makes me feel a little uncomfortable.

• Joe Orton exhibition runs until 31 August 2014

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/07/14/joe-orton-exhibition-runs-until-31-august-2014/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on July 14, 2014 Our current exhibition in the Library, ‘Joe Orton in 1964’, which runs until 31 August 2014, commemorates the 50th anniversary of Orton’s first major success, Entertaining Mr Sloane .

• The many languages of Sue Townsend

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/08/22/the-many-languages-of-sue-townsend/

  Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on August 22, 2014 The Special Collections team has been joined for the last couple of weeks by Claire Preval , an undergraduate intern from the Department of the History of Art and Film.