{"id":675,"date":"2016-02-16T09:13:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T09:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/?p=675"},"modified":"2016-03-04T13:49:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T13:49:20","slug":"675","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/2016\/02\/16\/675\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Esler &#8211; &#8216;In Conversation&#8217; talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-677\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/files\/2016\/02\/gavin-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"An image of Gavin Esler, University of Kent Chancellor\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/files\/2016\/02\/gavin-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/files\/2016\/02\/gavin.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Throughout the 2015\/16 academic year, University of Kent Chancellor Gavin Esler is holding a series of \u2018In Conversation\u2019 talks.<\/p>\n<p>The events take place at the University of Kent campus in Canterbury; there is free parking on campus after 17.00 and at weekends.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers so far have included film critic Mark Kermode, author Ian Rankin OBE and cartoonist Gerald Scarfe CBE.<\/p>\n<p>These public talks are a great way to learn more about the careers of these high profile individuals and understand their respective fields, particularly if you have a similar interest in terms of what you would like to study.<\/p>\n<p>A full list of future talks can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/events\/in-conversation\/\">Gavin Esler &#8211;\u00a0<em>In Conversation<\/em> web page<\/a>, with Gavin welcoming journalist Alastair Stewart OBE, novelist Louis de Bernieres and musician Robert Wyatt. Videos of each talk are also available.<\/p>\n<p>You can also follow the conversation and suggest questions for each talk on Twitter using #GavinAsks<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a guest post written by the digital communications officer at the University of Kent.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the 2015\/16 academic year, University of Kent Chancellor Gavin Esler is holding a series of \u2018In Conversation\u2019 talks. The events take place at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/2016\/02\/16\/675\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40560,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[143728],"tags":[214,72963,8814,37,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40560"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}