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
Christopher Coker , professor of international relations, LSE; books include Future War and Can War Be Eliminated?

Frank Furedi, sociologist and social commentator; author, What's Happened to the University?, Power of Reading: from Socrates to Twitter, On Tolerance and Authority: a sociological history

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

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

Christina Hoff Sommers, writer and resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute; host, weekly video series, The Factual Feminist

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

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

Brendan O'Neill, editor, spiked; columnist, Big Issue; contributor, Spectator; author, A Duty to Offend: Selected Essays

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Readings

On the threat to vapers and vaping in Sweden, Atakan Befrits

Women and Islamic Militancy, Rafia Zakaria

'Sexual consent contracts’ are now a thing. Would you sign?, Olivia Goldhill

How the 'SlutWalk' Has Transformed the Rape Culture Conversation, Kaitlynn Mendes

How’s your beef burger? Champion., Rob Lyons

The ethics of ‘gifted’ genes: the road to Gattaca? , Julian Savulescu

Against Modern Football: the controversial movement to reclaim a sport from capitalism gone mad, Leander Schaerlaeckens

How one country came together after a terror attack, Sumaya Bakhsh

Without freedom of expression our other liberties are jeopardised, insists a searing polemic, Rod Liddle

What is creativity?, Bob Borson

Enter the Anthropocene—Age of Man, Elizabeth Kolbert

The biggest threat to comedy to self censorship, Tom Slater

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