Battle of Ideas 2007 | partners | Bishopsgate Institute

2007 Programme

-	Festival weekend
-	Festival attractions
-	Satellite events

Themes

-	Academy in one day
-	Arts & Culture
-	Education
-	Health & Well-being
-	International Relations & Development
-	Liberty & Law
-	Lifestyle & Society
-	Media
-	Politics & Ideology
-	Science & Environment
-	Technology & The City

Strands

-	UK satellite events
-	Plenary
-	What next for...?
-	Salon Debates
-	Breakfast Banter
-	Contemporary Questions
-	Provocation Lecture
-	Rethinking...
-	Lunchtime Debates
-	Bar-room Rants
-	Can Films Change the World?
-	Battle for Science
-	Battle for Africa
-	Battle for Music
-	Battle for New Technologies
-	Battle Talk
-	Keynote Controversies
-	Café Conversations

Bishopsgate Institute

Bishopsgate Institute is proud to support the Battle of Ideas conference 2007. The Institute has been a centre of debate for over 100 years, and our library and archive collections represent figures and organisations at the cutting edge of political and social discourse in the 19th and 20th centuries. Bishopsgate Institute is currently developing its programme of topical debates to continue and strengthen this tradition, and we are delighted to be undertaking this in partnership with the Academy of Ideas.

- Anna Salaman, Director of Public Programmes, Bishopsgate Institute

Festival Buzz

'Turn That Racket Off' [Opens in new window]

"The 2006 Battle of Ideas did what it said on the tin: prejudices were punctured, common wisdom was questioned and original thinking honoured. The saying was coined in Texas, but I suggest that the Battle of Ideas adopts it as the conference motto: ‘sacred cows make the best burgers."
George Brock, Saturday Editor, The Times