Events & Opportunities
| | | Posted on 22.10.2010 | Posted by DAH
Battle of Ideas
Battle of Ideas festival, an annual event organised by the Institute of Ideas and taking place at the Royal College of Art, London on October 30-31. Over the course of a weekend over 2,000 people will be taking part in over 75 different debates involving hundreds of incisive and thought-provoking speakers. Every year a large number of students from across the UK (and, indeed, further afield) take the opportunity to both follow “strands” of topics related to their subject, but also to engage in a wide range of cutting-edge debates on contemporary political and cultural issues.
** This year we are pleased to make available a limited number of half-price Student Champion tickets, giving university students full access to the weekend festival for just £25. Click here<http://www.romancart.com/cart.asp?storeid=21540&itemcode=BoIWEStudent> to purchase tickets. **
This year’s festival includes strands of debates on medical ethics http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/2010/strand/4069/>, social policy<http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/2010/strand/4070/>, scientific evidence<http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/2010/strand/4067/> and the battle for the past<http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/2010/strand/4067/>, and keynote debates on trust in an age of cynicism, whether the public is engaged or imagined, the economic and cultural future of the West, the promise and risks of engineering the future, the rights and wrongs of social justice, and what it means to be a liberal today, as well as many more discussions on current themes in the arts, science, health, parenting, education, design, fashion, international relations, religion and secularism, sport and everyday life.
Speakers include: David Aaronovitch columnist; Sarah Churchwell academic; Frank Furedi professor of sociology, University of Kent, Canterbury; Anil Gupta professor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; John Harris professor of bioethics; Bettany Hughes broadcaster; Virginia Ironside agony aunt; Wendy Kaminer US-based writer on liberty; Irma Kurtz writer; Norman Lebrecht cultural commentator; Paul Mason broadcaster; Gáspár Miklos Tamás Hungarian philosopher and dissident; Brendan O’Neill editor, spiked; Tim Parks novelist; Fred Pearce author; Anthony Seldon author and master, Wellington College; Roger Scruton philosopher; Dr Richard Smith author; Tarun J Tejpal Indian journalist and novelist; Professor Sir Mark Walport director of the Wellcome Trust; David Willetts MP Science Minister; David Yelland former editor, The Sun; Peter York cultural commentator; and many more. Click here<http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/2010/speaker_index> for a full list.
Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, said the Battle of Ideas is: ‘a unique opportunity to learn from vigorous exchanges among some of the world’s best-informed and most provocative people’ and the neuroscientist Professor Colin Blakemore called his experience, ‘adrenaline for the mind. A chance for intellectual fisticuffs with some of the best-known and most stimulating thinkers in the world.’
Visit http://www.battleofideas.org.uk to view this year’s entire festival programme, including an expanded programme of national and international Satellite events<http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/2010/satellites/>, as well as carefully selected readings for each session, specially commissioned Battle in Print essays on selected themes, and videos of previous years’ sessions. The festival brochure can also be downloaded as a PDF document<http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/2010/news/5201/>.
Tickets are available through online booking<http://www.instituteofideas.com/tickets/index.html>, or by phone: 0207 269 9220.
** This year we are pleased to make available a limited number of half-price Student Champion tickets, giving university students full access to the weekend festival for just £25. Click here<http://www.romancart.com/cart.asp?storeid=21540&itemcode=BoIWEStudent> to purchase tickets. **
This year’s festival includes strands of debates on medical ethics http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/2010/strand/4069/>, social policy<http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/2010/strand/4070/>, scientific evidence<http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/2010/strand/4067/> and the battle for the past<http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/2010/strand/4067/>, and keynote debates on trust in an age of cynicism, whether the public is engaged or imagined, the economic and cultural future of the West, the promise and risks of engineering the future, the rights and wrongs of social justice, and what it means to be a liberal today, as well as many more discussions on current themes in the arts, science, health, parenting, education, design, fashion, international relations, religion and secularism, sport and everyday life.
Speakers include: David Aaronovitch columnist; Sarah Churchwell academic; Frank Furedi professor of sociology, University of Kent, Canterbury; Anil Gupta professor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; John Harris professor of bioethics; Bettany Hughes broadcaster; Virginia Ironside agony aunt; Wendy Kaminer US-based writer on liberty; Irma Kurtz writer; Norman Lebrecht cultural commentator; Paul Mason broadcaster; Gáspár Miklos Tamás Hungarian philosopher and dissident; Brendan O’Neill editor, spiked; Tim Parks novelist; Fred Pearce author; Anthony Seldon author and master, Wellington College; Roger Scruton philosopher; Dr Richard Smith author; Tarun J Tejpal Indian journalist and novelist; Professor Sir Mark Walport director of the Wellcome Trust; David Willetts MP Science Minister; David Yelland former editor, The Sun; Peter York cultural commentator; and many more. Click here<http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/2010/speaker_index> for a full list.
Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, said the Battle of Ideas is: ‘a unique opportunity to learn from vigorous exchanges among some of the world’s best-informed and most provocative people’ and the neuroscientist Professor Colin Blakemore called his experience, ‘adrenaline for the mind. A chance for intellectual fisticuffs with some of the best-known and most stimulating thinkers in the world.’
Visit http://www.battleofideas.org.uk to view this year’s entire festival programme, including an expanded programme of national and international Satellite events<http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/2010/satellites/>, as well as carefully selected readings for each session, specially commissioned Battle in Print essays on selected themes, and videos of previous years’ sessions. The festival brochure can also be downloaded as a PDF document<http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/2010/news/5201/>.
Tickets are available through online booking<http://www.instituteofideas.com/tickets/index.html>, or by phone: 0207 269 9220.
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