27
February
2010
IEMS has a catalogue of opportunities to help Coventry University students and recent graduates acquire the skills and attributes to gain international experience and become globally-employable.
In this interview Thomas a European Engineering Business Management graduate talks about his experiences studying and working abroad in china, USA, Spain and Luxembourg.
To find out more please visit http://www.coventry.ac.uk/internationalexperience
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27
February
2010
Jana Bennett was appointed Director of BBC Vision in November 2006. Jana is in charge of one of the world’s leading multimedia content groups, commissioning, producing and broadcasting across BBC Television and the web. She heads BBC One through to BBC Four, BBC HD, CBBC and CBeebies. The Vision group also includes BBC Films – Britains second largest funder of UK film. In addition, Jana has overall responsibility for BBC Archive Content and editorial management of UKTV and BBC America.
She discusses her thoughts about the future of BBC here.
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26
February
2010
Ewa Jasiewicz is a writer, journalist and activist who takes a radical approach to her work.
She was in Baghdad during the US/British occupation of Iraq (including a group protest inside the press conference of the Supreme Commander of the US Occupation Forces General Sanchez where she got physically ejected) and was reporting from inside Gaza during the 2008 siege by Israel. She is currently involved in the Free Gaza floatilla taking sail this spring and is featured in the recent film ‘To Shoot an Elephant’ by Alberto Arce and Mohammad Rujailah. Ewa is also co-editor of Le Monde Diplomatique Polish Edition.
In this talk Ewa discusses a different point of view from the embedded and self-censored reporting that Sky and the BBC are so fond off.
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21
February
2010
Chris Nathaniel is CEO of the NVA Entertainment Group, a leading company working across the entertainment and sports industries.
Chris has negotiated deals for John Terry and works closely with Rio Ferdinand, Micah Richards, Obafemi Martins and Ryan Babel.
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20
February
2010
Andrew Davies has written screenplays for Pride and Prejudice, Middlemarch, Vanity Fair, Wives and Daughters and Tipping the Velvet and many more. He is considered to be British television's adaptation master.
In this Coventry Conversations he discusses his approach to writing.
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19
February
2010
Alan Hunter is Professor of Asian Studies at Coventry University. In this talk he discusses the social, cultural and political impact that the internet has had on China- exploring a number of interesting case studies of web-enabled activism within the People's Republic.
To find out more about Professor Alan Hunter's work you can visit the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies at Coventry University http://www.coventry.ac.uk/peacestudy
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18
February
2010
Amanda Smyth and Mez Packer are both published authors. They speaking here as part of the Coventry Conversations Literary Festival.
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14
February
2010
After many years as a journalist, Peter Sissons' first stint as a newsreader came in 1976 when he began anchoring ITN’s News at One bulletins. In 1987 he left for the BBC and in 1989 he took over as presenter of Question Time. He continued until December 1993. He has worked for ITN, Channel 4 News and BBC News.
Here he discusses his career.
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12
February
2010
Dhiren Katwa is with the Environment Agency as External Relations Advisor. He has been a trustee of Birmingham Rathbone (a charity for people with mild to moderate learning difficulties) since 2007. In addition, he sits on the ITV Central Diversity Panel and on the Diversity Board of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and a member of the Equality Council of the National Union of Journalists.
Here he discusses the current issues in making the media a more diverse and equal industry.
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12
February
2010
Matthew Goodwin, an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, discusses far right politics and the BNP.
Recorded at iCoCo on the 25th February 2009
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