Theme: Politics & Ideology

 Saturday

10.30am to 12.00pm Henry Moore Gallery Battle Talk
Is identity politics undermining democracy?

12.15pm to 1.15pm Student Union Bar-room Rants
Why do people hate America?

3.30pm to 5.00pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
The resurrection of religion

5.15pm to 6.00pm Seminar Space What next for...?
What next for... democracy in Europe?

 Sunday

10.00am to 10.45am Lecture Theatre 2 Breakfast Banter
Rebels without a cause

11.00am to 12.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
Democracy and its discontents

2.00pm to 3.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
Post Ideology

4.00pm to 5.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
The new heresies

4.00pm to 5.30pm Henry Moore Gallery Battle Talk
Frederick Engels

5.45pm to 6.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Rethinking...
Terrorism

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"The Battle of Ideas is like a huge intellectual fair where a bewildering number of thinkers set out their stalls."
Julian Baggini, editor, The Philosophers' Magazine