Time To Talk
Kolja Zydatiss is a pyschologist and an editor of Novo Argumente. A graduate of both pyschology and neuroscience and statistics, he used to work in clinical research before joining the team at Novo Argumente. Information valid as of summer 2016.
Agota Revesz is a researcher at Berlin’s Freie Universität, who previously spent six years in China as a Hungarian diplomat. Her current research looks at contemporary practices in Chinese public diplomacy. And. before moving to China, she spent several years working as a stage director, writing her doctorate on traditional Chinese theatre, the connection between culture and diplomacy and the role assigned to traditional…
Sabine Beppler-Spahl is an economist who lives in Berlin. She is a regular contributor to several magazines and newspapers, including NovoArgumente, The European and MiGAZIN etc.. She is also the director of the Freiblickinstitut e.V.. Information valid as of summer 2016.
This page featured a live stream of the Free Word evening entitled Stories of each other: do we care?. This event saw Free Word host writers, poets, migrants and refugees look at where creativity, migration and flight intertwine. With readings, discussion and performance, the evening looked to provide a clearer picture of why people leave their homes and what it is like both to reach…
David Aaronovitch is a journalist, broadcaster and author. He is a regular columnist for The Times and a recipient of the George Orwell Prize for political journalism. He is the author of Voodoo Histories and Party Animals, his memoir about growing up in a Communist household. David has been the chair of Index on Censorship since 2013. Information valid as…
Ola Larsmo is an award-winning Swedish author and journalist. Ola has written and debated extensively on topics such as press freedom, the internet and democracy. He has written several books, fictional and non-fictional, and works as a freelance writer and critic, mainly for Sweden’s biggest daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter. Ola is also the long-time president of Swedish PEN. Information valid…
Mariane Pearl is an award-winning journalist and author and the managing editor of Chime for Change, an organisation promoting education, health and justice for girls and women. Her acclaimed books include In Search of Hope and A Mighty Heart, a memoir telling the story of the kidnap and murder of her husband, the journalist Daniel Pearl, in Pakistan. Information valid…
Francesca Unsworth is the director of the BBC World Service Group and the deputy director of BBC News and Current Affairs. She leads a team of more than 1,300 employees in 116 countries, reaching a global audience of 320 million each week. Francesca also chairs the BBC’s international development charity, BBC Media Action. She is the first female director in…
This page featured a live stream from The Red House, entitled The price of media dependency: the media, banks and offshore financing. This Bulgarian-language debate, featuring Tihomir Bezlov (Centre for the Study of Democracy), Nikoleta Daskalova (Media Democracy Foundation), Nikolay Stajkov (Читалище.то and Протестна мрежа) and Nikolay Stoyanov (KTБ – какво се случи? and Капитал), looked at the demise of the Bulgarian…
Lucy Popescu is a writer, editor and arts critic with a background in literature, theatre and human rights. She worked with English PEN – the international association of writers – for over 20 years and was the director of its Writers in Prison Committee from 1991 to 2006. In 2007, she co-edited the PEN anthology Another Sky (Profile Books), featuring the…
Jan Krasnowolski, born in 1972 in Krakow, Poland, is a writer, essayist and translator. He is the author of three books of creative fiction, 9 łatwych kawałków [9 simple pieces] (2001), Klatka [Cage] (2006) and Afrykańska elektronika [African Electronics] (2013). His book African Electronics is made up of four long stories, which explore the life and work of contemporary Polish…
Rita Chadha was born in East London and has worked locally, nationally and internationally for a variety of community and voluntary organisations. Her work has always been focused on equality and cohesion issues as well as on campaigning for a vibrant and dynamic civil society. In 2006, Rita was bought into the Refugee and Migrant Forum of Essex and London…