Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 October, Barbican, London

Is technology limiting our humanity?

Sunday 18 October 2015
SPEAKERS: Dr Tom Chatfield, Dr Norman Lewis, Juliette Morgan, Andrew Orlowski, Dr Paul Zanelli

From literature to Twitter: the death of the reader?

Sunday 18 October 2015
SPEAKERS: Professor Teresa Cremin, Professor Frank Furedi, Sam Leith, Laurence Scott

Why are young people joining ISIS?

Sunday 18 October 2015
SPEAKERS: Kalsoom Bashir, Professor Ted Cantle, CBE, Professor Bill Durodié, Shiraz Maher, Mohsen Ojja

The battle over geek culture

Sunday 17 October 2015
SPEAKERS: Allum Bokhari, Serena Kutchinsky, Dr Maren Thom, Jason Walsh, Milo Yiannopoulos

Reassessing paternalism: is autonomy a myth?

Saturday 17 October 2015
SPEAKERS: Dr Tim Black, Dr Katerina Deligiorgi, Dr Daniel Glaser, Professor Mike Kelly, Georgios Varouxakis

Can we manufacture a new economy?

Saturday 17 October 2015
SPEAKERS: Frances Coppola, Katie Evans, Phil Mullan, Bauke Schram, Mike Wright

Is there a future for liberalism?

Sunday 17 October 2015
SPEAKERS: Andrew Adonis, Steven Erlanger, Dr Katrina Forrester, Professor Frank Furedi

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