{"id":5042,"date":"2015-10-15T10:07:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T09:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=5042"},"modified":"2015-10-15T12:13:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T11:13:07","slug":"william-rowlandson-tedx-talk-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/10\/15\/william-rowlandson-tedx-talk-on-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"William Rowlandson TEDx talk on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/staff\/rowlandson.html\">Dr William Rowlandson<\/a>, Senior lecturer in Hispanic Studies\u00a0in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/index.html\">Department of Modern Languages<\/a>,\u00a0has given a talk\u00a0for the University of Kent&#8217;s TEDx\u00a0event, which is now available on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>The talk, entitled &#8216;John Lennon in Havanna&#8217;, looks at Lennon as an iconic figure in modern Cuban culture. Through a melodic retelling of Lennon&#8217;s influence on Cuban history, William explores the importance of a statue, dedicated to Lennon, in a park in Havana.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tedxtalks.ted.com\">TEDx<\/a> is an international community that organises TED-style events celebrating locally-driven ideas and elevating them to\u00a0a global stage. TEDx events are produced independently of TED conferences, each event curates speakers on their own, but based on TED&#8217;s format and rules.<\/p>\n<p>The University\u00a0of Kent&#8217;s TEDx event was organised as part 0f the 50th anniversary celebrations with the theme of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tedxuniversityofkent.com\/\">&#8216;Milestones&#8217;<\/a>.\u00a0William&#8217;s\u00a0video is available below\u00a0or\u00a0at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=inQgsef0rOw\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=inQgsef0rOw<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='1140' height='672' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/inQgsef0rOw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr William Rowlandson, Senior lecturer in Hispanic Studies\u00a0in the Department of Modern Languages,\u00a0has given a talk\u00a0for the University of Kent&#8217;s TEDx\u00a0event, which is now available &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/10\/15\/william-rowlandson-tedx-talk-on-youtube\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":5056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5042"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5052,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions\/5052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}