Programme

This is the programme of sessions for the Battle of Ideas 2016 festival for Sunday 23 October. Use the buttons below to view the whole weekend, Saturday only, check out strands of debates or refine the list by theme.

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10.00-11.30 Sunday 23 October

Who are we? Identity politics dissected

The fall of the technocratic experts

Comedy and censorship: are you kidding me?

Thomas More's Utopia

From snobbery to slobbery: the erosion of formality in Britain

Teaching to the text: textbooks or technology?

Get real: where will virtual reality take us?

Britain’s infrastructure: the road to nowhere?

Turkey: is there hope for democracy?

What is gender?

12.00-13.15 Sunday 23 October

What is the truth about 'post-factual politics'?

12.00-13.00 Sunday 23 October

You're hired! Who wants to be an apprentice?

Do we need a classical education for the 21st century?

Soweto to #RhodesMustFall: the changing face of South African resistance

Have we lost the art of conversation?

Driverless cars: who's in control?

Religious education in a secular age

The war on drugs: time for a truce?

'The past, we want no part of it': the legacy of Futurism

What's wrong with men's rights?

Fake Sheikh: free speech and the ethics of media stings

13.10-13.50 Sunday 23 October

How to understand statistics

Post-Socratic dialogue on love

Podcasts: Past, Present, and Future

14.00-15.00 Sunday 23 October

Ferrante furore: what’s the story?

14.00-15.30 Sunday 23 October

What's God got to do with it?

Does the Eurozone have a future?

Why does Kierkegaard still matter?

Empathy and sentimentality: the rise of virtue signalling

Why, robot? Can we teach AI to be ethical?

Skool rules: made to be broken?

What’s happened to the University? Lessons from America

Eastern Menace: a new European culture war?

Utopia myopia: the future of cities

Peer-to-peer sexual abuse: myth or time bomb?

16.00-17.15 Sunday 23 October

Cosmopolitanism and sovereignty: what next for Europe?

René Descartes: I think, therefore I am

Death and the meaning of life

Tax wars and inequality

The fintech revolution: will it break the bank?

Are schools producing Generation Snowflake?

Is doping ruining sport?

Humanity’s big challenge: water wars

Crumbling BRIC: what future for Brazil?

Is masculinity toxic for boys?

17.30-18.45 Sunday 23 October

Decolonising education: is the curriculum 'too white'?

The UK economy after Brexit: sink or swim?

Dating apps: the end of romance?

Nihilism and terror: how political is the new jihadism?

Is utopian thinking dead? Attitudes to the future

Women’s trouble? The pay gap debate

18.45-20.30 Sunday 23 October

End of festival drinks