Satellite Events

Satellite Events are here again for 2009, a series of events throughout the year designed to make the Battle of Ideas more than just a weekend!


Satellite Archive
Sunday 3 May 2009
12.30pm to 2.00pm Apollo Piccadilly Circus, 19 Lower Regent Street, London, SW1Y 4LR
Dystopia – Are we Doomed?
Saturday 16 May 2009
9.30am to 6.00pm Goodenough College, London
The Battle for the Economy
Tuesday 6 October 2009
7.00pm to 9.00pm Notre Dame University, London
Going back to our roots? History and Identity
Wednesday 7 October 2009
7.00pm to 8.30pm British Library, London
Don and dusted: is the age of the scholar over?
Monday 12 October 2009
7.00pm to 8.30pm Foyles Charing Cross Road
Age of Autism: rethinking 'normal'
Tuesday 13 October 2009
7.00pm to 9.00pm Notre Dame University, London
Divining art? Culture and the sacred in the 21st century
Wednesday 14 October 2009
6.30pm to 8.30pm Manchester
Do children need protecting from adult carers?
Thursday 15 October 2009
6.30pm to 8.30pm Leeds
Rethinking Freedom in the age of health and safety
Thursday 15 October 2009
7.00pm to 9.00pm Belfast
Face the Future: Reimagining Belfast
Thursday 15 October 2009
7.30pm to 9.30pm BDP's offices, Brewhouse Yard, London EC1V 4LJ
Sustainability in Architecture: Late-Nite Review
Saturday 17 October 2009
6.00pm to 8.00pm Brighton
The Future of Collaboration: Sharing and Work in the Networked Age
Wednesday 21 October 2009
6.30pm to 8.00pm Tate Britain, London
Museums for world peace? The pros and cons of cultural diplomacy
Thursday 22 October 2009
7.00pm to 9.00pm Kowalsky Gallery, London
Drawing the line: political cartooning in an inoffensive age
Friday 23 October 2009
8.00pm to 10.00pm Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London
Space: from infinite dreams to recurring nightmares
Monday 26 October 2009
7.00pm to 9.00pm Shortwave Cinema, London
Science on Screen – not testing enough?
Tuesday 27 October 2009
7.00pm to 9.00pm Notre Dame University, London
'We don't do McDonald's': America and World Culture
Wednesday 4 November 2009
4.00pm to 6.00pm St John's College, University of Oxford
Post-recession ideologies: what ideas will shape the world after the credit crunch?
Friday 6 November 2009
1.45pm to 3.15pm Sheffield
Campaigning documentaries: the thin line between passion and propaganda
Monday 9 November 2009
5.00pm to 6.30pm Barnes & Noble, Lincoln Triangle Branch, Broadway and 66th Street, New York
The Recession, Obama and the future – where do we go from here?
Tuesday 17 November 2009
5.30pm to 7.00pm London School of Economics
Who owns culture?
Saturday 28 November 2009
4.00pm to 6.00pm MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
We are – or were – the people: Germany 20 years after the Wall came down
Monday 30 November 2009
10.45am to 12.30pm Civitas
The Myth of Racist Kids - Launch Satellite

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