Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 October, Barbican, London
Atheism: what’s the point?
Sunday 21 October 2012
SPEAKERS: Andrew Copson, Dr Michael Fitzpatrick, Alom Shaha, Mark Vernon
Building an intellectual legacy – the Battle for which ideas?
Sunday 21 October 2012
SPEAKERS: Andrew Keen, Ivan Krastev, Dr Ellie Lee, Rob Riemen
Risk, regulation and red tape
Sunday 21 October 2012
SPEAKERS: Marco Amitrano, Josie Appleton, Nick Butler, Mark Littlewood, Simon Nixon
The Giants of Asia
Sunday 21 October 2012
SPEAKERS: Professor Barry Buzan, James Woudhuysen, Dr Linda Yueh
Free will: just an illusion?
Sunday 21 October 2012
SPEAKERS: Joe Friggieri, Dr Daniel Glaser, Neal Lawson, Dr Ellie Lee
Can the law make us equal?
Saturday 20 October 2012
SPEAKERS: David Allen Green, Alex Deane, John Fitzpatrick, Wendy Kaminer
Capitalism: kill or cure?
Saturday 20 October 2012
SPEAKERS: Ferdinand Mount, Phil Mullan, Vicky Pryce, Mike Short
Lessons from America: the new culture wars
Saturday 20 October 2012
SPEAKERS: Professor Frank Furedi, John Haldane, Wendy Kaminer, John Waters
High and low culture: separated at birth?
Saturday 20 October 2012
SPEAKERS: Ivan Hewett, Tiffany Jenkins, Roly Keating
What’s wrong with equality?
Saturday 20 October 2012
SPEAKERS: Sue Christoforou, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Joyce McMillan, Brendan O’Neill, Trevor Phillips
Battle of Ideas festival 2012: welcome address
Saturday 20 October 2012
SPEAKERS: Sean Gregory, Alison Sharpe, Raymond Tallis, Mike Wright
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