3
February
2010

Contemporary Japanese Cinema - Domestic Appeal vs International Prestige - Dr John Berra

Dr John Berra is an Independent Scholar and Author who has written extensively about American and Japanese Independent Cinema. His most recent book is The Directory of World Cinema: Japan to be released in February 2010.

This talk was organised by the Coventry University East Asian Film Society.

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3
February
2010

The True Cost of Tiger Woods’ Fall - Professor Simon Chadwick

Professor Simon Chadwick continues the examination of Tiger Woods’ downfall with a focus on the real costs of what has happened.

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3
February
2010

The Fall of Tiger Woods - Jim White

Jim White is a sports columnist for the daily telegraph as well as an author and broadcaster. He was a founding member of The Independent in 1986 and worked there for a decade before moving to The Guardian. He won sports columnist of the year during his time there and established himself as one of the most well-respected sports journalists. He now writes for the Daily Telegraph as a regular columnist and arts critic.

He talks today about the fall of Tiger Woods.

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3
February
2010

My Brilliant Career - Steve Cropley

Steve Cropley is editor-in-chief of Haymarket’s Autocar magazine. He began working in journalism on the Adelaide Advertiser as a cadet in 1967. He was recruited by CAR in 1978, and became editor from 1981 – 1988.

He is still a day to day contributor and columnist at Autocar and still loves it. Here he discusses getting on and getting into journalism

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2
February
2010

The Intelligent City - Towards Informed Personal Travel

The Intelligent City project has been developed as a way to help manage congestion in Birmingham. It demonstrates how the exploitation of technology can be a cost effective and innovative route to increase the usage of public transport during the morning peak and subsequently reduce levels of congestion.

Coventry University has developed this project with Birmingham City Council, Centro, Microsoft and Shoothill.

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1
February
2010

The Chinese are Coming…. - Professor Tom Donnelly

Professor Tom Donnelly is from the Applied Research Centre Sustainable Regeneration (SURGE) at Coventry University.

In this talk he discusses the growing influence of China in the Automotive Industry and describes some of the barriers that Chinese industry needs to overcome in order to become a global player.

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31
January
2010

Deleuze’s Postscript on the Societies of Control - Liquid Theory TV - Episode 2

The second episode in the Liquid Theory TV series takes as its focus Gilles Deleuze’s short essay ‘Postscript on the Societies of Control’ and asks why this text remains so relevant in contemporary culture.

Liquid Theory TV is an experiment looking into alternative ways of disseminating academic ideas and research in the digital age. It is a collaboration between Dr Clare Birchall (University of Kent), Professor Gary Hall (Coventry University) and Peter Woodbridge (Coventry University). This episode first featured in the culture and theory journal ‘Culture Machine‘ in January 2010.

You can also watch this episode of Liquid Theory TV on Coventry University TV

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January
2010

The Future of Multimedia Journalism at the BBC - Pete Clifton

Pete Clifton is the head of BBC News Interactive and the BBC’s head of editorial development for multimedia journalism. He has been in charge of BBC News Interactive since 18 October 2005 - first as Chief Operating Officer then as controller.

The News Interactive department includes BBC News Online, the BBC News website, CBBC Newsround, the Ceefax teletext service, the digital text service, On This Day, BBC’s Interactive TV, the Action Network and a variety of news services to mobile phones and other mobile devices.

Here he discusses the future of multimedia journalism at the BBC.

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22
January
2010

Editing the Coventry Telegraph - Darren Parkin

Darren moved to the Midlands in 1993 as Chief Reporter on the Solihull Times and later Birmingham Metro News, winning the UK Press Gazette Young Journalist of the Year three years in succession.

He became the country’s youngest newspaper editor at the age of 24, editing the News of Wolverhampton. He was appointed editor of the Coventry Telegraph in November 2009.

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22
January
2010

Weapons of Maths Instruction - Professor Huw Williams

From the Coventry University Professorial lecture series Huw Williams gives a lecture on Mathematics entitled ‘Weapons of Maths Instruction’.

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