Battle of Ideas 2015
17 & 18 October |
London

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Thanks to James Berry, Paul Brocklehurst, Lameya Chaudhury and Tom Fenn for the pictures.
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2015 speakers include
Clare Gerada, GP; past chair, Royal College of General Practitioners

Julie Bindel, journalist, author, broadcaster and feminist activist; research fellow, Lincoln University

Lesley Curwen, business, economics and personal finance journalist, BBC; writer and speaker

Philippe Legrain, visiting senior fellow, LSE’s European Institute; author, Immigrants: your country needs them and European Spring: Why Our Economies and Politics are in a Mess – and How to Put Them Right

Trisha Greenhalgh, professor of primary care health sciences, University of Oxford

David Chandler, professor of international relations, University of Westminster; author, Resilience: the Governance of Complexity

Cathy Young, contributing editor, Reason magazine; author, Ceasefire! Why women and men must join forces to achieve true equality

Roxana Silbert, artistic director, Birmingham REP Theatre

Jan Zalasiewicz, professor of paleobiology, University of Leicester; chair, Anthropocene Working Group of the International Commission on Stratigraphy

+ Full list of speakers
Readings

If young people don’t vote; Why should politicians represent them?, Peter Hall

There's No Such Thing As 'Free-Range' Parenting — It's Just Parenting, Madeleine Deason

Zero-hours contracts, Doug Pyper and Aliyah Dar

The Rise of Visual Content and the Fall of Attention Spans, Lori McNee

Time to reclaim the classoom, Joanna Williams

Can Creativity Be Taught?, August Tarak

'Cool' London is dead, and the rich kids are to blame, Alex Proud

Syrian refugees near four million amid intense fighting, Diana Al Rifai

Big Data: The Next Revolution of Sport, Richard Attias

D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time, Melvyn Stokes

The Failure of Multiculturalism, Kenan Malik

Five Theses on Identity Politics, Richard D Parker

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