A limited number of press passes are available for all Battle of Ideas events and there are usually a wide range of opportunities to interview speakers.
For any media-related enquiries, or to request a press pass, please contact Dave Bowden on: (020) 7269 9221/ 07751 942606 or email: davebowden@instituteofideas.com
For general Battle of Ideas related queries, contact: (020) 7269 9220
As the Eurozone crisis demands focus on the state of European democracy, some of Europe’s leading public intellectuals will gather at London’s Battle of Ideas festival in October at a pan-European summit to contest the case for freedom in the twenty-first century. Can freedom be traded off against other important values? Is it worth defending the freedom to exploit, pollute and behave irresponsibly? Is free will simply an illusion or ideal which is no longer relevant to the contemporary West?
Going nowhere? Staying local in a global village
"The Battle of Ideas is a weekend like no other. I found the 2011 festival immensely stimulating. It gave me a great deal to think about, and a whole new list of books to read - from Virgil to Vygotsky. On to greater battles in 2012!"
Ken Macleod, award-winning science fiction writer; author, The Restoration Game and Intrusion
follow the Academy of Ideas