2012 Programme: Keynote Controversies

Big sessions discussing big ideas

Saturday 20 October 2012
10.30am to 12.00pm Cinema 1
What's wrong with equality?
Saturday 20 October 2012
1.30pm to 3.00pm Cinema 1
Lessons from America: the new culture wars
Saturday 20 October 2012
3.30pm to 5.00pm Cinema 1
Capitalism: kill or cure?
Sunday 21 October 2012
10.30am to 12.00pm Cinema 1
Free will: just an illusion?
Sunday 21 October 2012
1.30pm to 2.45pm Barbican Theatre
The 21st-century case for freedom
Sunday 21 October 2012
3.15pm to 4.45pm Cinema 1
Risk, regulation and red tape
Sunday 21 October 2012
5.00pm to 6.15pm Cinema 1
Building an intellectual legacy – the Battle for which ideas?

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Academy of Ideas

Are the Germans still European?

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Richard Swinburne, emeritus professor, philosophy of religion, University of Oxford; author, 'The Existence of God and The Evolution of the Soul'

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