Battle of Ideas 2015
Festival weekend: Politics & Ideology

Fuller details of sessions are available where the title is in bold.

Saturday 17 October: 9.30-9.50
Festival Attractions Free Stage
Battle of Ideas 2015 Welcome Address: Je suis...what? Free speech after Charlie Hebdo
Saturday 17 October: 10.00-11.30
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Is there a future for liberalism?
Eye on the World Pit Theatre
After Ferguson: policing and race in America
Growing Pains Frobisher 1-3
Generation wars: Is it time to stop the 'Boomer Blaming'?
Contemporary Controversies Conservatory
Trust me, I'm a professional: surviving scandals and regulation
Saturday 17 October: 13.45-15.00
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Reassessing paternalism: is autonomy a myth?
Saturday 17 October: 14.00-15.30
Contemporary Controversies Barbican Library
Joining the party: Gen Y and politics today
Saturday 17 October: 17.30-18.45
Contemporary Controversies Conservatory
Is the pope a Catholic?
Sunday 18 October: 10.00-11.30
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Why are young people joining ISIS?
Feminism and Its Discontents Frobisher Auditorium 1
Rape culture: menace or myth?
Academy in One Day Hammerson Room
Plato, The Republic
Sunday 18 October: 12.00-13.15
Feminism and Its Discontents Frobisher Auditorium 1
The Personal is Political: is identity politics eating itself?
Sunday 18 October: 12.00-13.00
Academy in One Day Hammerson Room
Machiavelli, The Prince
War and peace Conservatory
The 1916 Easter Rising: Ireland's history wars
Contemporary Controversies Cinema 3
The culture war on tradition
Sunday 18 October: 14.00-15.30
Academy in One Day Hammerson Room
Georg Lukács, History and Class Consciousness
Contemporary Controversies Cinema 3
Libertarians of the world unite?
Sunday 18 October: 16.00-17.15
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Religious tolerance: can we keep the faith?
Hot Off the Press Cinema 3
The Great Migration Crisis: a pan-European debate
Sunday 18 October: 17.30-18.45
Keynote Controversies Frobisher 1-3
The Corbyn Effect: are the old parties dead?
Feminism and Its Discontents Frobisher Auditorium 1
Campus Wars: safe or sanitised?
Academy in One Day Hammerson Room
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

In conversation: Israel

"Some of the freest speech I have enjoyed in years."
Baroness Ruth Deech QC, crossbench peer; chairman, Bar Standards Board

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