The Battle of Ideas Is an Annual Festival Which Brings Together 400

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The Battle of Ideas is an annual festival which 2 Ticket prices and festival information 3 Why the Battle of Ideas? brings together 400-plus speakers for over 3 Registration times 100 debates over the course of the weekend, and through stand-alone satellite events held SATURDAY from September to November throughout the 4 Welcome Address UK and Europe. You can find out more about 4 Saturday Keynote Controversies 6 The Politics of the Personal these satellite events on pages 52–59. 8 Intellectual Life 10 Understanding America This brochure will help you plan and navigate your visit to 12 The New Political Landscape the festival weekend. The debates are organised by room 14 Battle for the Economy or by themed topic areas we call ‘strands’. For example, the 16 Culture Wars ‘Science and Ethics’ strand covers contemporary issues in 18 City Life medicine, genetics and space exploration. The festival is 20 Contemporary Controversies organised so that you can follow one strand throughout the day, or pick and choose debates from different strands on WEEKEND ATTRACTIONS topics that interest you. 22 Battle Specials Whatever you decide to do, with such a wide range of 23 Book Club Salons debates and discussion, we are sure there will be plenty for 24 Lunchtime Shorts everyone to think about. 25 Festival Attractions and Entertainment

ESSENTIAL INFORMATION 28 Battlefields: Barbican maps 30 Saturday Timetable 31 Sunday Timetable

SUNDAY 32 Sunday Keynote Controversies 34 Eye on the World 36 Debating the Past 38 Law and Order 40 Tech Futures 42 Crisis of Political Language 44 Battle for Education 46 Contemporary Controversies 48 State of the Nation 50 Science and Ethics

SATELLITES 52 UK Satellite Events 56 Battle of Ideas Europe 60 Thanks

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The Battle of Ideas takes place at the Barbican, London, on Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 October. SPECIAL TICKET OFFER FOR SCHOOL PUPILS HARGRAVE FOUNDATION SCHOOLS CHAMPION WEEKEND RATE A limited number of FREE ONE-DAY tickets are available to Standard ticket £100 school pupils. Standard concession ticket £45 Standard IoI associate ticket £60 Just email [email protected] stating IoI associate concession ticket £40 which day you would like to attend free, the name of your School Students £20 school and give a postal address to send the free ticket to. And Immunocore Student and STEM Under-30 Champion £27.50 if you want to attend the whole weekend you can do so for just £10 for the other day! DAY TICKETS (Saturday or Sunday) Standard ticket £55 GETTING TO THE BARBICAN Standard concession ticket £30 The Barbican is located in the heart of the City of London IoI associate ticket £40 and is accessible by rail, road and underground. The nearest IoI associate concession ticket £25 Underground stations are Barbican, Moorgate and St Paul’s. School Students £10 For more information about accessibility and travel options, visit: barbican.org.uk/your-visit Tickets are available from the Barbican Box Office or online at www.battleofideas.org.uk/tickets INTERNET ACCESS Free wifi: search for WiFi Zone – The Cloud TWITTER IMMUNOCORE STUDENT AND STEM The festival hashtag is #battleofideas and you can follow the UNDER-30 CHAMPION Institute of Ideas @instofideas

SPECIAL TICKET OFFER FOR STUDENTS PRESS, PARTNERS AND SPONSORSHIP A limited number of CUT-PRICE weekend tickets for For partnership enquiries or to arrange press passes, request undergraduate and postgraduate students are available for £27.50. interviews and for general media enquiries, please contact Adam Rawcliffe: SPECIAL STEM UNDER-30 TICKET OFFER [email protected] / +44 (0)20 7269 9231 If you are 30 or under, and work in any STEM activity, leading biotechnology company Immunocore is sponsoring weekend FURTHER ENQUIRIES tickets for this year’s Battle of Ideas for £27.50. If you have any questions about Battle of Ideas tickets, contact: Geoff Kidder: [email protected] / +44 (0)20 7269 9220 or Barbican Box Office: +44 (0) 20 7638 8891

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WELCOME TO THE BATTLE OF IDEAS 2017 holding people to account by critically engaging with their Society in 2017 is in a very fluid state. There is a palpable views and policies. Yet too often, we walk away, throwing out sense of momentous change in the air. Recent events have cavalier insults as we leave. shown that political life doesn’t follow a preordained script, that democracy throws up unexpected results and voters are BREAKING OUT OF THE ECHO CHAMBERS not a stage army to be called up to give a mandate and then When new Labour MP Laura Pidcock told an interviewer be returned to barracks. If once we were told that we had she would never hang out with Tory women because they reached the ‘end of history’, now there is a sense that the are ‘the enemy’, she caused controversy. But she is not alone centre will not hold - a widespread feeling that, after years of in preferring to avoid engaging her opponents. Too many political failure, the status quo is not good enough. Whether are happy to be confined to the safety of ‘echo chambers’, you are inspired by the likes of Brexit as a democratic unwilling to hear and discuss other points of view. As a rebellion against the establishment, or worried about its consequence, there is an increasing tendency to caricature consequences for stability, this sense of the world order and defame those ‘on the other side’. We promiscuously brand unravelling, of history being made, can be as disorientating as people as terfs, deplorables, white supremacists or Nazis for it is exhilarating. raising awkward questions about identitarian orthodoxies. Brexit voters, who have suffered the consequences of a DEALING WITH UNCOMFORTABLE QUESTIONS stagnating economy for years, are accused of wrecking This new period creates both new uncertainties and UKplc by billionaire business leaders or written off as poorly possibilities right across society. We face uncomfortable educated, xenophobic dupes by enlightened professors. questions about everything from Western values to national sovereignty, from the alleged rise of the far right in Europe In response, it is too easy to lash out and label millions who and America to the pros and cons of automation and Big voted Remain as traitors and elitists if they query the fiasco Data. Establishing a space and willingness to discuss these that passes for Brexit negotiations. Yet whatever side we are on, shifting trends is an essential antidote to knee-jerk posturing, ascribing the most malign of motives to each other can mean whether in response to Islamist terror attacks or the horrific debate is reduced to shallow name-calling and lashing out at tragedy at Grenfell Tower. If ever we needed a sense of straw men. This is less a battle of ideas than a negation of the solidarity, a shared project of opening up public dialogue, to very enterprise of intellectual inquiry and political change. weigh up future options, to reflect on which philosophical and intellectual values matter, it is now. And yet contemporary JOIN THE CONVERSATION trends seem inhospitable to this much-needed robust, grown- The Battle of Ideas festival aims to be different - a uniquely up debate. The free speech wars are intensifying, with ever open forum, where you can meet your ‘enemy’, listen to more restrictions emerging daily on what we can and cannot opinions you have never heard before, argue back, and even say. Accusations of that weasly notion ‘hate speech’, cultural occasionally change your mind. We promise no off-the-shelf appropriation, whitewashing, mansplaining, triggering, etc are answers. More modestly, we bring together a vast range frequently used to chill our ability to discuss freely at the very of international speakers to kick-start passionate, serious- time when we need to talk openly about how we respond to minded discussion and public conversations with free- unprecedented challenges. thinking, inquisitive, opinionated attendees. Between us all, we will try and untangle everything from the bastardisation You don’t have to be a Conservative to agree with Prime of political language to understanding what makes modern Minister Theresa May when she declared to her party America and Brexit Britain tick, beyond the headlines. conference (between coughs and pranks): ‘[We] must come Since 2005, the festival’s slogan has been FREE SPEECH together… to win the battle of ideas in a new generation …at ALLOWED, a crucial rebuttal to today’s climate of offence- stake are the very things we value’. Yes, the stakes are high taking. If you’re willing to challenge and be challenged, and the importance of a battle of ideas has never been more and leave the comfort of the echo chamber, see you at the pressing. However, despite such rhetoric, battling over ideas Barbican on 28 and 29 October. is in jeopardy. Winning others’ hearts and minds means a Claire Fox, director, Institute of Ideas, on behalf of the Battle commitment to persuading those you don’t agree with and of Ideas Committee 2017

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IS THERE A CULTURE WAR DIVERSITY: DOES IT MATTER? KEYNOTE AGAINST POPULISM? 12:00—13:15 CONTROVERSIES 10:00—11:30

These sessions take on some of Do the votes for Brexit and Trump signal Diversity is widely celebrated in the big ideas and themes of our a new populism? While some identify contemporary society. Big employers have time, setting the tone for the populism with xenophobia and a lurch to adopted elaborate strategies to recruit the right, others see in the surge of support more diverse workforces. On the world festival as a whole. for Sanders and Corbyn the rise of a left- stage, diversity is posited as a progressive wing populist trend. Perhaps this signals a antidote to ‘backward forces’ clinging more general clash of values with distant to outdated national cultures. But has WELCOME ADDRESS elites. In The Road to Somewhere, David diversity become an illiberal orthodoxy? FREE STAGE Goodhart perceives a rebellion by those When Google engineer James Damore 09:30–09:50 who feel connected to a particular place notoriously inquired whether diversity was against a deracinated elite. In Populism and an incontestable virtue, he lost his job. Do The thirteenth annual Battle of the European Culture Wars, Frank Furedi diversity policies invite a permanent war of presents the prevalent scorn for populism cultures, resulting in a society increasingly Ideas festival will open with a as a way of demonising those who reject segmented along the lines of identity? Can Welcome Address. the authority of technocratic elites. Is the we achieve fair treatment and equal access apparent rise of populism a form of reaction to jobs without creating discriminatory and MUNIRA MIRZA or a sign of democratic renewal? divisive hiring practices? adviser on arts and philanthropy; former deputy mayor of London for PROFESSOR FRANK FUREDI JOSIE APPLETON education and culture; author, sociologist and social commentator; author, director, civil liberties group, Manifesto The Politics of Culture: the case Populism and the European Culture Wars, Club; author, Officious: rise of the busybody for universalism Invitation To Terror and On Tolerance state; blogs at notesonfreedom.com

SEAN GREGORY DAVID GOODHART AMALI DE ALWIS director, Creative Learning, Barbican/ author, The Road to Somewhere; head of CEO, Code First: Girls; chair, BIMA Guildhall School of Music and Drama Demography, Policy Exchange Diversity panel; fellow, RSA

CHAIR: CLAIRE FOX ELIF ŞAFAK DREDA SAY MITCHELL director, Institute of Ideas; panelist, political commentator; award winning author, journalist, broadcaster and BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze; author, novelist; most widely read author in Turkey; campaigner; winner, CWA’s John Creasey I Find That Offensive most recent novel, Three Daughters of Eve Dagger for debut novel, Running Hot; latest novel, Blood Daughter CHAIR: CLAIRE FOX director, Institute of Ideas; panelist, BBC CATHY YOUNG Radio 4’s Moral Maze; author, US journalist and commentator; weekly I Find That Offensive columnist, Newsday; author, Ceasefire!: why women and men must join forces to achieve Produced by Claire Fox true equality CHAIR: CLAIRE FOX director, Institute of Ideas; panelist, BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze; author, I Find That Offensive Produced by Claire Fox

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SAFETY FIRST: DO WE LIVE IN CULTURAL APPROPRIATION: A ‘COTTON-WOOL SOCIETY’? COMPLIMENT OR THEFT? 14:00—15:30 16:00—17:15

Safety has become one of the Successful societies have always been open to fundamental values of Western society. cultural exchange. Today, however, borrowing Every terrorist incident is followed by from other cultures is viewed with suspicion, calls for higher levels of security and even labelled ‘racist theft’. Novelists and further restrictions on civil liberties. artists have been criticised for representing Parents go to extreme lengths to keep cultures other than their own. Celebrities children safe, producing over-protected have been denounced for ‘culturally ‘cotton-wool’ kids. Is there a danger that appropriating’ everything from dreadlocks always anticipating the worst possible to bindis. In response, some now argue that outcomes results in over-reaction to the very concept of cultural appropriation unavoidable risks? Critics warn that threatens the essence of culture as the constant official scaremongering has the mixing of influences and ideas. Is cultural effect of increasing existential insecurities. appropriation a zero-sum game analogous Attempting to keep us safe by imagining to the seizure of land or artefacts? Do the worst reinforces cultural assumptions particular cultures have distinct essences? Are about human vulnerability. Has the dogma Enlightenment notions of common humanity of ‘safety first’ become divorced from a nothing more than a cloak for imperialism? commonsense assessment of risk? DR SARAH CHEANG RICHARD ANGELL senior tutor, history of design, Royal director, Progress College of Art; co-editor, Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion TERRY BARNES principal, Cormorant Policy Advice; fellow, DR TIFFANY JENKINS Institute of Economic Affairs; former special writer and broadcaster; author, Keeping adviser to two Australian health ministers Their Marbles PROFESSOR BILL DURODIÉ KUNLE OLULODE chair of international relations, University director, Voice4Change England; creative of Bath; expert in risk and security director, Rebop Productions DR CLARE GERADA BIJAN OMRANI medical director, NHS Practitioner Health historian and classicist; author, Caesar’s Programme; former chair, Royal College of Footprints: Journeys to Roman Gaul General Practitioners SAMEER RAHIM LENORE SKENAZY managing editor, Prospect Magazine ‘America’s Worst Mom’; president, Let Grow; founder, Free-Range Kids book, blog CHAIR: CLAIRE FOX and movement director, Institute of Ideas; panelist, BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze; author, CHAIR: CLAIRE FOX I Find That Offensive director, Institute of Ideas; author, I Find That Offensive; panelist, BBC Radio 4’s Produced by Claire Fox Moral Maze Produced by Claire Fox

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WOMEN VERSUS FEMINISM: BANTER AND BESTIES: IS THE POLITICS OF DO WE ALL NEED FRIENDSHIP IN PERIL? THE PERSONAL LIBERATING FROM THE 12:00—13:00 GENDER WARS? ‘The personal is the political’ 10:00—11:30 was a slogan of the second- Girls do better at school than boys, Prince George has started to attend a wave feminist movement, and the gender pay gap is fast disappearing private primary school where pupils are has been contested ever since. and women are in positions of political discouraged from having best friends Is feminism itself now a spent leadership internationally. Though it because this ‘could leave other children force, or should it be? With seems there has never been a better time feeling ostracised and hurt’. We are told to be a woman, many women consider that being rejected in the playground ‘can some schools now discouraging themselves disadvantaged and vulnerable. reduce self-esteem, a sense of control, and ‘best friends’ for fear of other A new generation of feminists complain a sense of having a meaningful existence’. kids feeling left out, has the that women are victims of rape culture Under the Equality Act, grown-ups too politics of the personal now on campus, cat-calling on the street and can bring claims of discrimination if pervaded every sphere of life? ‘mansplaining’ in the office. Has women’s they believe they have been subjected to Or conversely, should we do liberation been achieved, or is there still a exclusionary jokes and banter at work. But long way to go? How equal are women and are attempts to clamp down on certain more to help those suffering men today? Is there still a role for feminism? forms of bonding and banter an assault on in silence from an epidemic normal human relationships? of loneliness? Meanwhile, ESZTER KOVATS some have decided the new programme manager, Friedrich-Ebert- MARTIN DAUBNEY Stiftung Budapest; general editor, Solidarity award-winning editor; journalist; social divide is not gender but in Struggle: feminist perspectives on neo- broadcaster; co-founder, The Men and generation. Is it fair to blame liberalism in East-Central Europe Boys Coalition the elderly for the struggles of their grandchildren? All of this HELENA MORRISSEY DR SHIRLEY DENT and more may come up when head of personal investing, Legal and communications specialist and PR lecturer; General Investment Management; chair, author, Radical Blake veteran novelist Fay Weldon Diversity Project; author, A Good Time to talks to spiked editor Brendan be a Girl ABBOT CHRISTOPHER JAMISON O’Neill about her life and work. recently elected Abbot President, English JOANNA WILLIAMS Benedictine Congregation; author, Finding author, Women Versus Feminism, Sanctuary and Finding Happiness Consuming Higher Education and Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity; CHAIR: DR PIERS BENN education editor, spiked philosopher; author, Commitment and Ethics; adjunct professor, Fordham ALISON WOLF University London Centre author, The XX Factor: how the rise of working women has created a far less equal Produced by Dr Piers Benn world; cross-bench peer CHAIR: SALLY MILLARD co-founder, IoI Parents Forum See also Barbican foyer installation Produced by Sally Millard Interlock: Friends Pictured Within, a modern-day artistic response to the theme of friendship inspired by Sir Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations

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FAY WELDON: IN ALL BY MYSELF: IS BED BLOCKERS AND CONVERSATION WITH LONELINESS A BIGOTS: HAVE WRINKLIES BRENDAN O’NEILL SOCIAL PROBLEM? CHEATED MILLENNIALS? 14:00—15:30 16:00—17:15 17:30—18:45

Fay Weldon first made her mark on the Loneliness seems to be a growing problem. Once respected for their wisdom and literary scene with her 1983 novel, The The decline of the traditional family, experience, the elderly are increasingly Life and Loves of a She Devil. She returned churches and social clubs is experienced scorned as reactionaries who are likely to the limelight this year with the highly all too personally, especially by the elderly. to become a burden on welfare services. anticipated (and long overdue) sequel, Some studies claim loneliness is a bigger Matters came to a head following the EU Death of a She Devil. Dubbed ‘not your killer than cancer or heart disease. Is referendum when it emerged that many typical feminist’, Weldon - creator and it time to take loneliness seriously as more older than younger people had voted nourisher of 34 novels and numerous a social problem or would that detract in favour of Brexit. Some complained that TV dramas - has defied orthodoxy and from the intensely subjective nature of ‘The young have been screwed by the older convention throughout her long career. the phenomenon? As many a writer has generation’, others that ‘They have stolen Asking the questions will be spiked editor, observed, human creativity requires a our future’. Others still suggested that ‘We Brendan O’Neill, in a no-holds-barred measure of solitude. So is the experience take pensioners’ driving licences away – why discussion of feminism, literature and of being alone necessarily negative, or not their vote?’ Why have society’s attitudes everything in between. can it be an adventure? If we do face an to older people seemingly flipped from epidemic of loneliness, what, if anything, respect to contempt? Is it wise to interpret FAY WELDON CBE might be done about it? social issues in generational terms? novelist, playwright and screenwriter; author, Death of a She Devil and The Life LAURA ALCOCK-FERGUSON PROFESSOR STEVE FULLER and Loves of a She Devil director, Campaign to End Loneliness Auguste Comte chair in social epistemology, University of Warwick CHAIR: BRENDAN O’NEILL ABBOT CHRISTOPHER JAMISON editor, spiked recently elected Abbot president, English HILARY SALT Benedictine Congregation; author, Finding actuary; founder, First Actuarial Produced by Izzy Lyons Sanctuary and Finding Happiness ALEX SMITH JOSH LOWE founder and chief executive, the staff writer,Newsweek Cares Family BEVERLEY MARSHALL REUBEN YOUNG volunteer, The Samaritans director, PricedOut CHAIR: DAVE CLEMENTS CHAIR: GINNY HUME adviser to local government; blogger, Local authority lead commissioner, care for Guardian, Huffington Post; founder, Social older people Policy Forum Produced by Ginny Hume Produced by Beverley Marshall

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GROUPTHINK UNIVERSITIES THE ACADEMIC ROOTS OF INTELLECTUAL LIFE 10:00—11:30 POST-TRUTH SOCIETY 12:00—13:00

Once regarded as fusty conservatives, the Some claim that we are living in a new age It is impossible completely professors seem to have shifted en-masse of post-truth politics. Liberal critics and to separate ideas from the to liberalism. According to a recent report, academics blame right-wing politicians for historical circumstances that 75 per cent of British academics are now disparaging the importance of expertise. left-liberals. A study in the US found the But arguably the origins of ‘post-truth’ give rise to them. But have proportion of college faculty who described thinking can be traced to the radical universities in Britain and the US themselves as ‘far left/liberal’ has risen philosophers of postmodernism, a major become captive to a particular from around 40 per cent in 1989 to more influence on academic life. Theorists socioeconomic group and its than 60 per cent today. Some fear that such as Lyotard, Foucault and Derrida unquestioned ideology? And such ideological convergence risks bias repudiate Enlightenment values of in scholarship. But are such accusations objectivity and universalism, claiming that are elements of that ideology, in of ‘groupthink’ merely the complaint of they legitimise diverse forms of oppression particular epistemic relativism, old-fashioned academics who have become in modern capitalist societies. If these the unlikely origins of Trumpian marginalized in the modern university? ideas are widely accepted among the most ‘post-truth politics’? When Or is there a real danger that academic educated sections of the public, should we political movements claim the homogeneity may impair critical thinking? look to the academy for the roots of post- truth society? mantle of leaders and thinkers of DR NOAH CARL the past, like Martin Luther King, postdoctoral researcher, Nuffield ROBERT EAGLESTONE do they honour or distort their College, Oxford professor of contemporary literature intellectual legacies? Finally, will and thought, Royal Holloway, University DENNIS HAYES of London Brexit and other international professor of education, University of developments undermine Derby; founder and director, Academics JAMES HEARTFIELD cooperation between scientists? For Academic Freedom (AFAF) lecturer; author, The Equal Opportunities Revolution NICK HILLMAN director, Higher Education Policy Institute HELEN PLUCKROSE writer and researcher, Areo Magazine and DR PAUL A. TAYLOR Conatus News senior lecturer in Communications and Cultural Theory, University of Leeds CHAIR: DR ALKA SEHGAL CUTHBERT CATHY YOUNG educator, writer and researcher; co-author, US journalist and commentator; weekly What Should Schools Teach? disciplines, columnist, Newsday; author, Ceasefire! subjects and the pursuit of truth CHAIR: DR NIKOS SOTIRAKOPOULOS Produced by Dr Alka Sehgal Cuthbert lecturer in sociology, University of Loughborough; author, The Rise of Lifestyle Activism: from new left to occupy Produced by Dr Nikos Sotirakopoulos

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THE LEGACY OF ARE SCIENCE AND MARTIN LUTHER KING: MEDICINE THREATENED FROM CIVIL RIGHTS TO BY BORDERS? IDENTITY POLITICS 16:00—17:15 14:00—15:30

Martin Luther King famously hoped that Scientists and doctors have emerged his children would ‘not be judged by the as among the most vociferous critics colour of their skin, but by the content of Brexit and Trump. The March for of their character’. But despite the Science expressed the concerns of many widespread reverence for King’s vision, researchers and clinicians on both sides of it seems at odds with today’s identity the Atlantic about the future of funding politics. Anti-racists now argue that the and about the movement of researchers idea of ‘colour blindness’ is itself racist, and students across national borders. and some demand racially-segregated safe Many were also alarmed at the apparent spaces on US campuses. Even the son of lack of respect for expertise and evidence Martin Luther King says ‘I don’t think we in public policy. But whose responsibility can ignore race’. Is this a betrayal of King’s should it be to fund scientific research? legacy, or does it reflect the need for a How can science and medicine best be more complex approach to the legacy of defended and pursued, in an uncertain racism in America and beyond? world of shifting borders? DR NICK DENNIS DR ELIOT FORSTER deputy headteacher, Hertfordshire; CEO, Immunocore; chairman, MedCity teacher historian; governor, Greenwich Free School DR JOE KAPLINSKY assistant professor, DTU Nanotech; co- VINCENT GOULD author, Energise! a future for energy innovation artist, actor and satirist DR JULES MONTAGUE COURTNEY HAMILTON neurologist and writer photographer and writer RAFAEL YÁÑEZ-MUÑOZ RIHAM MANSOUR professor of advanced therapy, Royal trade policy expert; former community and Holloway University of London welfare officer, LSE Students’ Union CHAIR: SANDY STARR DR TERRI MURRAY communications officer, Progress blogger, Conatus News; contributor Educational Trust; webmaster, BioNews to Philosophy Now; director of studies, Hampstead College of Fine Arts Produced by Sandy Starr and Humanities CHAIR: DR CHERYL HUDSON lecturer in American history, University of Liverpool Produced by Dr Helene Guldberg

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IS THERE SUCH A THING AMERICA’S NEW SOUTH: UNDERSTANDING AS TRUMPISM? FROM SLAVERY TO AMERICA 10:00—11:30 ECONOMIC POWERHOUSE? 12:00—13:00 IN ASSOCIATION WITH

Donald Trump won the Republican Long associated with backwardness and presidential nomination despite bigotry, the American South has recently discarding nearly every tenet of modern acquired a more dynamic and progressive conservativism. He even abandoned image. Sunbelt cities, such as Dallas and Donald Trump’s victory in traditional commitments to free trade and Houston, Miami and Atlanta, have seen military intervention overseas. In office, tremendous economic growth, generating last November’s presidential however, Trump has failed to live up to new jobs in technology and finance. After election has caused turmoil, not his election rhetoric. He has endorsed air decades of northward migration, many just in US politics but around attacks in Syria and Afghanistan and has African Americans are now returning to the the world, as an exemplar of a fired several advisers thought to be key South. But has the region really changed? ‘new populism’. So who voted ideological supporters. Is Trump no more If the South has left behind its racist past, than an opportunist? Now that many are why are symbols such as Confederate flags for him and why? And while speculating the he will not survive his first still so contested? How should the South be there has been much focus term, the question arises whether Vice understood today in comparison with other on Trump’s sometimes erratic President Mike Pence would keep the regions of America? behaviour, is there some method Trumpist flame alive? Or does the term in his ‘madness’? But the new give Trump too much credibility? DR BRUCE E BAKER lecturer, American history, Newcastle era of American politics is not KATE ANDREWS University; co-editor, Remembering just about The Donald, as the news editor, Institute of Economic Affairs; Reconstruction: struggles over the meaning of rise of the New South shows. columnist, City A.M. America’s most tumultuous era How did states that were once MATTHEW D’ANCONA MICHAEL GOLDFARB strongly associated with slavery columnist, Guardian, Evening Standard, New journalist and historian; founder and host, and racism become a new York Times and GQ; author, Post-Truth: the FDRH podcast ‘powerhouse’ for blacks? new war on truth and how to fight back DR ZOE HYMAN JAMES MATTHEWS lecturer in US history, University College New York based commentator, US politics London, Institute of the Americas and current affairs DR KEVIN YUILL DR NATHAN PINKOSKI senior lecturer in American history, Thomas W. Smith postdoctoral research University of Sunderland; author, The associate, Princeton University Second Amendment and Gun Control: freedom, fear, and the American Constitution TOM SWITZER incoming executive director, Centre for CHAIR: TOM BAILEY Independent Studies in Sydney; presenter, content editor, Money Observer; Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s columnist, spiked Radio National Produced by Tom Bailey CHAIR: TOM BAILEY content editor, Money Observer; columnist, spiked Produced by Tom Bailey

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THE RUST BELT AND FROM PEPE THE FROG TO THE DEPLORABLES CHARLOTTESVILLE: 14:00—15:30 THE RISE OF THE ALT-RIGHT 16:00—17:15

Many commentators have argued that the The violence and racism on public mostly white Americans who live in the so- display at the ‘Unite the Right’ rally in called ‘rust belt’ areas of industrial decline Charlottesville, Virginia in August drew have legitimate grievances that have been international attention to the American ignored by mainstream politicians. Hillary ‘alt-right’. Though the Charlottesville Clinton notoriously dismissed them as protest attracted support from long- ‘deplorables’. It perhaps should not have established far-right groups, the broader been such a surprise that many of them alt-right phenomenon is more novel and voted for Donald Trump. Is white the new less clearly defined. The term was first black? Are poor whites simply suffering used to describe a disparate group of ‘anti- the loss of privileges they once enjoyed? PC’ internet crusaders. As it evolved, the Whatever their problems, does Trump alt-right became more explicitly political, offer any solutions? Is there anything and some of its more strident supporters positive about the populist sentiments backed Donald Trump’s election campaign. expressed in the electoral repudiation of Is the alt-right dangerous, a new American the Washington elite? fascism, or is it merely an infantile reaction to divisive identity politics? NICK GILLESPIE US journalist and commentator; editor in SPEAKER: ANGELA NAGLE chief, Reason.com and Reason TV, the online cultural critic; author, Kill All Normies: from and video platforms of Reason Magazine 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the alt-right GRAHAM LANKTREE RESPONDENTS: US politics reporter, Newsweek JAMIE BARTLETT JAMES MATTHEWS director, Centre for the Analysis of New York based commentator, US politics Social Media, Demos; author The Dark Net and current affairs and Radicals ERIKA ALICE SCOTT MILLER SABRINA HARRIS board member, Republicans Overseas UK technical author; commentator on internet subcultures DR GREG SCORZO director and editor, Culture on the Offensive CATHY YOUNG US journalist and commentator; weekly CHAIR: JEAN SMITH columnist, Newsday; author, Ceasefire!: why specialist development consultant; co- women and men must join forces to achieve founder and director, NY Salon true equality Produced by Jean Smith CHAIR: DR NIKOS SOTIRAKOPOULOS lecturer in sociology, University of Loughborough; author, The Rise of Lifestyle Activism: from new left to occupy Produced by Dr Nikos Sotirakopoulos

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PARTY POLITICS: THE NATION STATE IN THE THE NEW POLITICAL REALIGNMENT OR MODERN WORLD LANDSCAPE DISINTEGRATION? 12:00—13:00 10:00—11:30

A run of unpredictable results has taught The decline of the nation state has politicians that they ‘can’t take the been widely regarded as the inevitable electorate for granted’. Does the recent consequence of the hidden hand of It’s politics, Jim, but not as we volatility of voters mean the end of the globalization. Multinational corporations old party system? Can we really have have encouraged borderless free know it. This year’s UK general arrived at a state of affairs in Britain in trade. Supranational institutions have election did not go according to which the Conservatives are the party of promoted the spirit of cosmopolitan script. The ‘Brexit election’ in the ‘left-behind’ proletariat and Labour internationalism. But recent events which Brexit hardly featured. represents the educated middle classes? Is – including the votes for Brexit and The Tory landslide that failed the traditional left/right divide obsolete? Trump and the rise of anti-immigration to happen. Relative success for Does realignment open up space for a parties in Europe – seem to suggest new politics beyond career politicians and that reports of the death of the nation the supposed electoral liability technocratic parties? Or can we expect the state have been greatly exaggerated. that is Jeremy Corbyn. Are we old party machines to make a comeback? Is there really a revival of nationalism seeing a great realignment of in the Western world? If so, is the new British politics? Or is national ALEX DEANE nationalism reactionary or a potentially politics itself a thing of the managing director, FTI Consulting; progressive force? Where does the balance panellist, BBC Dateline London lie between chauvinist flag-waving and past? Despite Brexit, should we asserting democratic sovereignty? see the future in multinational PAUL EMBERY political formations? Some Executive Council member, Fire Brigades PROFESSOR FRANK FUREDI Union; National Organiser, Trade Unionists sociologist and social commentator; author, see that as the dream of the Against the EU elite, while ordinary people still Populism and the European Culture Wars, Invitation To Terror and On Tolerance see themselves as citizens of a RESHAM KOTECHA particular place. If so, which side Conservative parliamentary candidate, ANGIE HOBBS will win out? What will happen 2015 and 2017; head of engagement, professor of the public understanding of Women2Win; policy ambassador, philosophy, University of Sheffield with Brexit? This strand also Conservative Policy Forum includes an opportunity to ask CHAIR: NEIL DAVENPORT politician and author Douglas MATTHEW GOODWIN sociology and politics teacher; writer on Carswell all of the above professor of political science, University of culture; former music journalist Kent; senior fellow, Chatham House; co- and more. author, Brexit: why Britain voted to leave the Produced by Neil Davenport EU and Revolt on the Right TOM SLATER deputy editor, spiked CHAIR: JOEL COHEN communications manager, BeyondMe, associate fellow, Institute of Ideas Produced by Joel Cohen

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FOOTLOOSE BREXIT – WHERE ARE WE AT? BOOKSHOP BARNIE: COSMOPOLITANS OR 16:00—17:15 DOUGLAS CARSWELL ON CITIZENS OF NOWHERE? REBEL: HOW TO OVERTHROW 14:00—15:30 THE EMERGING OLIGARCHY 17:30—18:45

When Theresa May said that people who As things stand, the UK will depart from Bookshop Barnies challenge authors to call themselves ‘citizens of the world’ are the European Union on 29 March 2019. justify their work. Douglas Carswell has in fact ‘citizens of nowhere’ she caused an But what leaving the EU means remains been both a Tory and a UKIP MP and outcry. Many interpreted her statement a long way from being determined. is now neither. His Rebel is a maverick as a post-Brexit revival of nationalism Negotiations have not yet properly begun manifesto with a twist: a critique of and xenophobia. They responded by and major stumbling blocks are still to be capitalism and of the dangers posed reasserting their desire to be world citizens overcome. Does the uncertainty about the by anti-capitalists. It is an argument or, indeed, ‘citizens of nowhere’. In a world meaning of Brexit hold out the prospect of for liberal democracy and against the in which national identities have become a ‘soft Brexit’ that does not really amount illiberalism of contemporary democrats. more fluid and borders more porous, to leaving the EU at all? If Brexit does While Guardian accuses him of ‘exuding global citizenship has widespread appeal. go ahead, can it be made to succeed, and unwavering confidence in his own But is it possible to be a world citizen in create a better future for Britain? Or is infallibility’, the Independent praises any meaningful sense? Is this merely a Jean-Claude Juncker right that we will soon his ‘thoughtful, inventive mind’. Has fashionable label signalling a rejection of be made to ‘regret’ our referendum vote? Carswell’s credibility been undermined the obligations of citizenship in favour of a by his swinging between parties? Is he as cosmopolitan lifestyle? JOHN MILLS much of a rebel as he thinks he is? chair, Labour Future and Labour Leave; DOLAN CUMMINGS secretary, Labour Euro-Safeguards; DOUGLAS CARSWELL author, That Existential Leap: a crime story; entrepreneur and economist former Member of Parliament; author, Rebel: associate fellow, Institute of Ideas; co- how to overthrow the emerging oligarchy founder, Manifesto Club DANIEL MOYLAN former deputy chairman, Transport for CHAIR: AUSTIN WILLIAMS DAVID GOODHART London; Conservative councillor; co- senior lecturer, Dept of Architecture, author, The Road to Somewhere; head of chairman, Urban Design London Kingston University, London; honorary Demography, Policy Exchange research fellow, XJTLU, Suzhou, China; BRENDAN O’NEILL author, China’s Urban Revolution ANGIE HOBBS editor, spiked professor of the public understanding of Produced by Austin Williams philosophy, University of Sheffield CHLOE WESTLEY campaign manager, TaxPayers’ Alliance; KARL-ERIK NORRMAN former head of social media, Vote Leave secretary general, European Cultural Parliament; opera soloist; author, The Crisis CHAIR: BRUNO WATERFIELD of Democracy Brussels correspondent, The Times; co- author, No Means No CHAIR: DR JIM BUTCHER reader in geography of tourism, Canterbury Produced by Claire Fox Christ Church University; co-author, Volunteer Tourism: the lifestyle politics of international development Produced by Dr Jim Butcher

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REBOOTING BRITAIN: CAN BIOTECH LEAD AN BATTLE FOR THE INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY FOR ECONOMIC REVOLUTION? ECONOMY THE 21ST CENTURY 12:00—13:00 10:00—11:30 IN ASSOCIATION WITH

Last January, the Conservative If synthetic chemistry catalysed industrial government launched its ‘modern’ development in the nineteenth century, industrial strategy. This promised an could synthetic biology kickstart a new exciting new economic future for Brexit industrial revolution? Biotech promises Britain, with the state taking the helm a dazzling future of new products and A decade on from the rather than leaving the future of the services, notably in pharmaceuticals and beginnings of the global financial economy to the market. But many are still other areas of healthcare. The fusion of to be convinced that the government is biotech and information technology offers crisis, Western economies capable of delivering actions to match the a further startling range of possibilities. remain sluggish, and now hype. While there is considerable potential But while there is much to be excited Brexit raises further questions for new industries to create new wealth about, is the potential for biotech as a about the future of the British and well-paid jobs, the government seems substantial, durable, and job-creating economy in particular. Some see to be relying on old remedies – R&D, sector overstated? Now that Britain is it as an opportunity for a new skills training and infrastructure. Can this leaving the EU, will a new regulatory strategy produce an economic miracle, or framework help or hinder the industry? industrial revolution, perhaps will it merely prop up lame ducks? spearheaded by exciting new DR ELIOT FORSTER spheres such as biotech. Others ANGELA FRANCIS CEO, Immunocore; chairman, MedCity contend that Brexit means acting head of economics and resources, Green Alliance PROFESSOR ROBIN LOVELL-BADGE retreating from the world. But group leader in stem cell biology and with the election of the avowedly ALI MIRAJ developmental genetics, Francis Crick Institute protectionist Trump in the US, is social entrepreneur; DJ; political activist; financier; founder, Contrarian Prize BETHAN WOLFENDEN the expansion of global trade and co-founder, Bento Bio cooperation coming to an end PHIL MULLAN anyway? And what do economic economist and business manager; author, CHAIR: SANDY STARR developments mean for ordinary Creative Destruction: how to start an communications officer, Progress workers and consumers? Does economic renaissance Educational Trust; webmaster, BioNews the ‘gig’ economy signal the JOHN MERRY Produced by Sandy Starr end of ‘proper jobs’? Should the deputy city mayor of Salford City Council; state guarantee everyone a basic portfolios have included North West income regardless of work? Development Agency and Local and National Learning and Skills Councils CHAIR: ROB LYONS science and technology director, Institute of Ideas; convenor, IoI Economy Forum Produced by Rob Lyons

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IS GLOBALISATION OVER? THE GIG ECONOMY: THE UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME: THE FUTURE OF WORLD CHANGING FACE OF WORK WORKFARE OR FREEDOM? TRADE 16:00—17:15 17:30—18:45 14:00—15:30

Globalisation is widely acclaimed as Uber, Airbnb and Deliveroo were only The idea that the state should provide a a world-wide success story. It has recently hailed as heralding a service basic income for all citizens has come to improved income, raised living standards sector revolution. These new ‘sharing attract support from across the political and prolonged life expectancy. But economy’ ventures offered consumers spectrum. For those unable to work, a is globalisation now grinding to a low-cost alternatives while opening up ‘universal basic income’ would provide halt? Many countries are imposing new opportunities for individuals to earn enough to guarantee a decent living. For protectionist tariffs and negotiations over income. But critics now argue that these those who can work, it would allow them international trade deals have stalled. firms merely offer a more sophisticated to escape the ‘poverty trap’. Some propose Yet some suggest that a retreat from version of the low-paid, low-skilled, shift that UBI could sustain a new contract globalisation might be beneficial. While work employment that has dominated the between the individual and society, with President Trump promises to bring jobs UK labour market since the financial crisis. recipients doing community service back to the US, leftist critics argue that Is the rise of the gig economy a triumph in return for the payment. For critics, the global economy only benefits big for technology, or a hi-tech mask for a this conjures up visions of Victorian business, at the expense of workers. struggling economy? Should policy-makers workhouses and failed ‘workfare’ schemes. Where does global capitalism now stand? be more willing to intervene to protect Is the concept of UBI flawed? Could it be If it really is reaching the end of the road, workers’ rights, even at the expense of made to work? should we celebrate? reducing their employment options? KATE ANDREWS DR GERARD LYONS URSULA HUWS news editor, Institute of Economic Affairs; economist; co-author, Clean Brexit professor of labour and globalisation, Columnist, City A.M. University of Hertfordshire PROFESSOR MICHAEL MAINELLI DAVE CLEMENTS executive chairman, Z/Yen Group; ROB KILLICK adviser to local government; blogger, alderman, City of London CEO, Clerkswell; author, The UK After Guardian, Huffington Post; founder, Social The Recession Policy Forum VICKY PRYCE board member, Centre for Economics and LAUREN RAZAVI STEWART LANSLEY Business Research managing director, Flibl; award-winning visiting fellow, City University; writer, writer and consultant broadcaster, co-author, A Universal Basic ALLEN SIMPSON Income: an idea whose time has come? chief operating officer, Labour in the City; DANIEL TOMLINSON economic and financial policy specialist research and policy analyst, JOHN RENTOUL Resolution Foundation chief political commentator, Independent; JAMES WOUDHUYSEN visiting professor, King’s College, London visiting professor, London South CHAIR: DAVID BOWDEN Bank University associate fellow, Institute of Ideas CHAIR: MARTIN WRIGHT director, Positive News; former editor in CHAIR: ROB LYONS Produced by David Bowden chief, Green Futures science and technology director, Institute of Ideas; convenor, IoI Economy Forum Produced by Martin Wright Produced by James Woudhuysen

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PLAYING POLITICS: SHOULD A REVOLUTION IN ART: A CULTURE WARS THEATRE BE A SAFE SPACE? VISUAL APPRECIATION OF 10:00—11:30 THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH 12:00—13:00

When Vice President elect Mike Pence The October Revolution shook the world. was booed at a Broadway performance It had a particularly seismic impact on of Hamilton, a protective Donald Russian artists, who, whatever their Trump tweeted ‘The theater must attitude to the Bolshevik cause, acquired an The arts and culture reflect always be a safe and special place’. Stage international reputation for their innovative wider ideas and debates in performers around the world responded works. Artists as different as Kandinsky society, sometimes subtly, that, on the contrary, their art form and Malevich, Popova and Rodchenko sometimes explicitly or even has a responsibility to make people defy political categorisation. Does their uncomfortable. But beyond the rhetoric, art transcend the moment in which they propagandistically. Some argue some fear that there are more and more lived and the ideas (political and otherwise) that making and enjoying ‘art restrictions on what is acceptable in the that they explored or espoused? In this for art’s sake’ should mean modern theatre. Anybody who dissents visual lecture, artist and art history teacher steering clear of politics; others from current conventions regarding Dido Powell will survey a selection of key relish politics in the arts. In the race and gender risks censure. Is artistic works by Russian artists working at the freedom enhanced or threatened by self- time of the revolution, and offer a critical centenary year of the Russian consciously transgressive productions or appreciation of their artistic legacy. Revolution, this strand looks by fashionable trends like identity politics back on how art and artists and diversity agendas? DIDO POWELL inspired and were inspired by painter; lecturer and tutor in art history that political upheaval, as well as PAUL CAISTER and painting founder and director, The Poor School asking what role there might be CHAIR: DR WENDY EARLE for politics in the theatre, and PATRICK MARMION impact development officer, Birkbeck, what the popularity of detective playwright; critic, spiked and Daily Mail University of London; convenor, Institute of Ideas Arts and Society Forum fiction says about our society. STELLA ODUNLAMI And looking forwards, can Brexit artist and director; PhD researcher, Produced by Dr Wendy Earle – rather than thwarting the University of Hull cultural sector – help shape and DR JULIA PASCAL spark a new era of creativity? playwright; research fellow, King’s College, London BRODIE ROSS acting and widening participation tutor, Guildhall School of Music and Drama CHAIR: JOSEPHINE HUSSEY chair, Huntingdon Drama Group; school teacher Produced by Josephine Hussey

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IGNITING THE SPARK OF WHAT IS TO BE DONE? WATCHING THE DETECTIVES: CREATIVITY IN BREXIT LITERATURE AND THE CRIME FICTION AND BRITAIN RUSSIAN REVOLUTION THE ZEITGEIST 14:00—15:30 16:00—17:15 17:30—18:45

For many in the creative sector, the Brexit The closing decades of Tsarist autocracy From Sherlock Holmes to Nordic noir, it vote proved an unexpected trauma. From were a golden era of Russian literature. seems that crime stories never go out of architecture and design to the arts and Writers such as Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky fashion. Readers have continued to enjoy film, there is deep anxiety that leaving and Chekhov had a major influence on detective novels, crime mysteries and cop the EU will damage the cosmopolitan contemporary cultural controversies shows regardless of the critical disdain spirit of British culture. For the artist and have sustained an international they often attract. Some crime writers Grayson Perry, however, Brexit offers reputation. Chernyshevsky’s 1863 novel undoubtedly churn out titles according opportunities to challenge the ‘same What is to be done? provided Lenin to well-established formulas. Other old comfortable ideas’ and ‘reach new with the title of one his most famous authors, however, have found in the crime audiences’. Should the disruption caused polemical pamphlets. In this period, and detective genre the raw material for by Brexit be embraced as a chance to literature became a battleground of genuinely creative and psychologically rich reignite artists’ capacity to inspire and ideas about the state of Russian society works. Are we drawn to mystery stories enthral? Can creatives take advantage and for debates about the shape of the for the satisfaction of seeing all the pieces of the escape from EU bureaucracy to political change that everybody knew was fall into place at the end? Is the plot less pursue imaginative ideas and new options inevitable. What can we learn today from important than the atmosphere conjured for collaboration. Perhaps Brexit can literature born in an age of censorship up and the characters explored? stimulate innovation and creativity? and impending revolution? DOLAN CUMMINGS DR NORMAN LEWIS DOLAN CUMMINGS author, That Existential Leap: a crime story; director, Futures-Diagnosis Ltd; co-author, author, That Existential Leap: a crime story; associate fellow, Institute of Ideas Big Potatoes: the London manifesto for associate fellow, Institute of Ideas; co- innovation founder, Manifesto Club DR RUTH DUDLEY EDWARDS journalist and writer; award-winning JOHN MCRAE JULIE CURTIS author, 12 crime novels including Murdering director, Orms professor of Russian literature, University Americans and Killing the Emperors of Oxford MUNIRA MIRZA IMRAN MAHMOOD advisor on arts and philanthropy; former ADAM RAWCLIFFE barrister and writer; author, You Don’t Know Me deputy mayor of London for education and director of external affairs, Institute of Ideas culture; author, The Politics of Culture: the DREDA SAY MITCHELL case for universalism MARTIN ROBINSON author, journalist, broadcaster; educational consultant and teacher; author, winner, CWA’s John Creasey Dagger for COLIN TWEEDY Trivium 21c: preparing young people for the debut novel, Running Hot; latest novel, CEO, Built Environment Trust; governor, future with lessons from the past Blood Daughter University for the Creative Arts CHAIR: EMILY HILL CHAIR: HELEN BIRTWISTLE CHAIR: AUSTIN WILLIAMS writer and journalist; author, Bad Romance; co-head of the history and politics, South senior lecturer, Dept of Architecture, columnist, The Sunday Times Style London college Kingston University Produced by Adam Rawcliffe Produced by Helen Birtwistle Produced by Alastair Donald and Austin Williams

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HOUSING: REFORM OR FROM BASQUIAT TO BANKSY: CITY LIFE REVOLUTION? STREET ART AND URBANISM 10:00—11:30 12:00—13:00 IN ASSOCIATION WITH

The large scale loss of life in the fire at Once regarded as vandalism, graffiti has Grenfell Tower exposed a wider housing become a contemporary art form. The crisis. The blundering incompetence of mainstream popularity of Americans the local council in arranging alternative Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring accommodation for the displaced and Bristol’s Banksy has provoked debate residents reflects the wider lack of about whether respectability compromises convincing solutions to the housing the rebellious roots of street art. This shortage. Experts admit that we build controversy has become intensified by the City air makes you free, as they barely half of the 300,000 new homes growing appetite amongst public bodies say in Germany. Taking place that are needed each year. According for public artworks and tensions over in one of the most bustling to The Economist, despite more than what is acceptable in public spaces. If the cities in the world, the Battle of 200 new housing initiatives since 2010, ‘guerrilla’ element is removed, can such ‘Britain’s housing market is broken’. What works still be regarded as art? Does street Ideas always features debates action do we need? More planning or less art offer a challenge to the sanitisation of about urbanism and city regulation? Greater public provision or public space, or has it simply become a life. This year, we look at the increased freedom for developers? More form of approved ‘artwashing’? vibrancy and ubiquity of street skyscrapers in the inner city or building on the greenbelt? STEPHANIE BOLAND art, but does the coolness of head of digital, Prospect Magazine the contemporary city mask SIMON ELMER deeper problems? The strand commissar for counter-propaganda, MANICK GOVINDA also considers whether local Architects for Social Housing head of Artists’ Advisery Services; speaking in a personal capacity democracy is up to the job of KATH SCANLON city regeneration, especially assistant professorial research fellow, LSE; MUNIRA MIRZA after the municipal failings editor, Social Housing in Europe adviser on arts and philanthropy; former before and after the Grenfall deputy mayor of London for education disaster, the threat posed to DR PATRIK SCHUMACHER and culture principal, Zaha Hadid Architects; author, urban living by toxic smog, and The Autopoiesis of Architecture KARIM SAMUELS perhaps the biggest issue of creative director; artist all in British cities: the chronic LISA TAYLOR chief executive, Future of London DR RAFAEL SCHACTER housing shortage. What is the teaching fellow, University College London; future of the city, and how might JAMES WOUDHUYSEN author, World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti citizens help shape it? visiting professor, London South Bank University; co-author, Energise! a future CHAIR: DAVID BOWDEN for energy innovation; author, Why is associate fellow, Institute of Ideas Construction so Backward? Produced by David Bowden CHAIR: ALASTAIR DONALD associate director, Institute of Ideas; co- director, Future Cities Project Basquiat Boom for Real is the first Produced by Alastair Donald and large-scale exhibition in the UK of the Austin Williams work of American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960—1988): 21 Sep 2017 – 28 Jan 2018, Barbican Art Gallery.

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IS LOCAL DEMOCRACY TOXIC SMOG: HAZARD BALLOON DEBATE: WHAT BROKEN? OR HYPE? IS THE BEST CITY? 14:00—15:30 16:00—17:15 17:30—18:45 FREE STAGE

The apocalyptic images of the Grenfell According to London mayor Sadiq Khan, Paris in the nineteenth century, New Tower fire and seeming municipal impotence toxic air is a major public health issue in York in the twentieth. Sometimes in response might suggest that councils the capital. A smog, largely attributed one fabled city seems to be the lack the capacity, resilience and popular to diesel fumes, enveloped London in place everyone wants to be. But accountability to advance the interests of early 2017 and some schoolchildren what makes a city great? Should we their communities. The disconnect between were kept indoors. Commentators drew judge greatness by the happiness officialdom and residents is not confined comparisons with the ‘airmageddon’ of of the citizens or the importance to well-to-do Conservative boroughs with Beijing. Reports suggest that more than of the elites? Will cities without similar criticism directed at Rotherham’s half the UK population lives in areas with history always lack soul, or does a Labour administration and independent illegal levels of air pollution. How worried preoccupation with heritage risk Tower Hamlets. But does media attention should we be? Is pollution really an ‘assault creating living museums? As the on individual failures blind us to a reality on a basic right to breathe clean air’ and balance of global power shifts, where of robust, popular and effective local is redesigning cities and banning cars are we likely to find the greatest cities governance up and down the country? sensible? Are ‘grey plaque’ health warnings of the twenty-first century? Do the Are we at risk of missing the positive on buildings in areas of high risk useful, or citizens make the city, or does the collaboration between councillors and simply scaremongering? city inspire greatness? citizens, beneath the notice of critics and centralisers? FIONA HARVEY THEO DOUNAS award-winning environment senior lecturer, Scott Sutherland LIAM BOOTH-SMITH journalist, Guardian School of Architecture and the Built chief executive, Localis Environment LAURIE LAYBOURN-LANGTON DOUGLAS CARSWELL assistant editor, Progressive Review; senior ELISABETTA GASPARONI former Member of Parliament; research fellow, IPPR; founder, Bring Back teacher; convenor of the Future Cities author, Rebel: how to overthrow the the NHS Project Readers’ Group emerging oligarchy KEVIN MCCONWAY HOLLY JOHAL SALLY GIMSON emeritus professor of applied statistics, The student, Queen Mary University councillor, Camden Council Open University; former academic adviser, of London More or Less, Radio 4 HEATHER JAMESON ALAN MILLER editor, The MJ and TheMJ.co.uk AUSTIN WILLIAMS chairman, Night Time Industries senior lecturer, Dept of Architecture, Association (NTIA); leading DANIEL MOYLAN Kingston University, London; honorary campaigner, #SaveNightlife former deputy chairman, Transport for research fellow, XJTLU, Suzhou, China; London; Conservative councillor author, China’s Urban Revolution JAMES MULLIGHAN film, arts and festivals consultant CHAIR: MICHAEL OWENS CHAIR: ALASTAIR DONALD commercial director, Bow Arts Trust; associate director, Institute of Ideas; co- ALICE THWAITE ex head of development policy, London director, Future Cities Project founder, Echo Chamber Club Development Agency Produced by Alastair Donald and CHAIR: DAVID BOWDEN Produced by Alastair Donald Austin Williams associate fellow, Institute of Ideas Produced by David Bowden

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FROM FGM TO CHARLIE SHOULD FASHION CONTEMPORARY GARD: WHAT ARE THE LIMITS STATEMENTS BE POLITICAL CONTROVERSIES TO PARENTAL FREEDOM? STATEMENTS? 10:00—11:30 12:00—13:00 These sessions aim to dig beneath the headlines on a wide Parents’ right to raise children free from Fashion seems to have gone political. range of topical issues. state intervention used to be regarded The international Women’s March as fundamental to family life. In recent featured pink ‘pussy hats’ and ‘This is years, however, the law and social policy what a feminist looks like’ T-shirts. Trump have insisted on the primacy of the supporters have their ‘Make America welfare of the child over the rights of Great Again’ caps. The fashion industry parents. The authorities seem not to trust stands accused of failing to represent parents to make decisions about medical minorities. Vogue was condemned for interventions, to discipline their children ‘cultural appropriation’ when white or teach them about sex. Professionals model Karlie Kloss posed as a geisha are authorised to report on families in in the magazine’s ‘diversity’ issue. But which children are considered to be at should our clothes become a platform risk of ‘radicalisation’ or FGM. Has the for promoting political causes? Should protection of children become a crusade the fashion industry display a social disproportionate to the problem of abuse? conscience? Or is fashion an art form that should push our imagination beyond DR EDWARD CONDON our contemporary preoccupations? canon lawyer; writer, Catholic Herald MAGGIE ALDERSON DR CLARE GERADA novelist, editor and journalist; former medical director, NHS Practitioner Health editor, British ELLE Programme; former chair, Royal College of General Practitioners OLI FOSTER journalist, Sky News BRID HEHIR writer and researcher; blogger at Shifting VICKY RICHARDSON Sands; retired nurse & fundraiser curator and writer on architecture, design and fashion; associate director, London DAVID MCKENDRICK School of Architecture lecturer in social work, Glasgow Caledonian University BRADLEY TUCK contributing and general editor, DR ROSEMARY RIZQ Exploding Appendix psychologist and psychotherapist CHAIR: JANE SANDEMAN CHAIR: DR PIERS BENN convenor, IoI Parents Forum; contributor, author, Commitment and Ethics; visiting Standing up to Supernanny; director of lecturer in philosophy, Heythrop College, finance and central services, Cardinal adjunct professor, Fordham University Hume Centre London Centre Produced by Jane Sandeman Produced by Brid Hehir

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CAN SATIRE SURVIVE IN THE FAKE NEWS: A MEDIA PANIC? NEW LIFE FOR THE UNDEAD: ERA OF FAKE NEWS? 16:00—17:15 WHY ARE WE FASCINATED 14:00—15:30 BY ZOMBIES? 17:30—18:45

As the political theorist Hannah Arendt From Donald Trump to Jeremy Corbyn, Since George A Romero’s 1968 Night of once observed, the most effective means everyone is obsessed with fake news. the Living Dead, the zombie has become a to undermine authority is to hold it up to The term caught on during last year’s US cipher for the ills of modern society. The ridicule. But in the era of the internet, election, with examples ranging from the zombie has been depicted as the source of satire is increasingly misinterpreted as false claim that the Pope had endorsed racism, ecological disaster, scientific excess, ‘fake news’. How can comedians hold a Trump to baseless allegations that senior and rampant consumerism. In recent years, mirror up to the world when the news Democrats were involved in a paedophile however, the zombie has lurched from the - both real and fake - is often stranger ring meeting in pizza restaurants. But the relative obscurity of B-movie cultdom to than satire? The prevailing atmosphere of term has stuck, and is now frequently used the cultural mainstream. The success of political correctness may limit the ways not only about blatantly made-up stories, AMC’s reboot, The Walking Dead, reflects satirists can poke fun at the absurdities but also merely partisan claims that would the impact of the zombie on the popular of politicians, censoring - or at least previously have warranted a counter- imagination. Is our fascination with the living censuring - those who say the ‘wrong argument. Should we be more discerning dead just a fad for an anxious age? Or does it thing’. Given all these pressures, is there a about what is and isn’t labelled fake news, say something about what it is to be human? future for satire? or is the very concept flawed? DR EMMA AUSTIN SIMON EVANS GEORGE HARRISON senior lecturer, School of Media and comedian; regular panelist, BBC Radio 4’s writer, Sun Online Performing Arts, University of Portsmouth; The News Quiz researcher, horror in popular culture CHARLOTTE HENRY WILL FRANKEN media commentator; author, Not Buying It DR TIM BLACK satirist; contrarian; academic editor, spiked review; columnist, spiked BENJAMIN KING ANDREA MANN vice president, public affairs and policy, 21st EVELYN HUNSTON writer and digital creative; lead writer, Century Fox postgraduate student, University of comedy political podcast Strong And Stable Southampton; researcher, representations CHRISTIAN MAY of the zombie in contemporary British film KARL SHARRO editor, City A.M. architect; satirist; commentator on the PHIL SMITH Middle East MARTIN WRIGHT author, A Footbook of Zombie Walking; director, Positive News; former editor in writer and performance-maker; associate TOM WALKER chief, Green Futures professor, Plymouth University actor and satirist; aka the satirical character Jonathan Pie; co-author, Jonathan Pie: off CHAIR: ELLA WHELAN CHAIR: DR CARLTON BRICK the record assistant editor, spiked; author, What Women lecturer in sociology, School of Media, Want: fun, freedom and an end to feminism Culture and Society, University of the CHAIR: ANDREW DOYLE West of Scotland writer and comedian; co-author, Jonathan Produced by George Harrison Pie: off the record Produced by Dr Carlton Brick Produced by Andrew Doyle

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FILM PREMIERE SILENCING HATE SPEECH: DEBATING MATTERS 1917: WHY THE RUSSIAN CENSORSHIP OR CIVILITY? INTERNATIONAL 2017: REVOLUTION MATTERS 16:00—17:15 ONLINE PRIVACY 13:30—15:30 CINEMA 2 17:30—18:45 CINEMA 2 FROBISHER AUDITORIUM 1

On the centenary of the October The Conservatives’ 2017 General Election The seventh International Final Revolution, Battle of Ideas hosts the manifesto pledged to prevent online showcases the best debaters from world premiere of this new account of providers from directing users to ‘hate the UK and Berlin. 2016/17 UK the Bolshevik Revolution which became speech, pornography or other sources champions Loreto College from a defining moment in the politics and of harm’. The EU-funded Hate Speech Manchester take on the winners international relations of the twentieth Watch encourages people to report, of Debating Matters Berlin 2017, century. Crowdfunded and crowd-filmed denounce and monitor hate speech. But Nelson Mandela School, in a debate by the charity WORLDwrite and a crew what is hate speech? Who should decide on whether privacy is an absolute of volunteer citizen TV-makers, and what is hateful? Some claim it is hate that we should protect online as well interweaving archive film and interviews, speech to criticise Islam, to disagree with as offline the film explores the context, causes and a person’s right to identify as the opposite consequences of what the US author gender, or to join a Facebook group called MOTION: John Reed famously described as The Ten ‘I Hate Christians’. Does hateful speech ‘In a digital age we should not expect Days That Shook the World. The film will lead directly to violent acts? Should we our online activities to remain private’ be followed by a Q&A with a panel of distinguish between spouting abuse and contributors to the film throwing sticks and stones? DEBATE TEAMS: LORETO COLLEGE, DR PHILIP CUNLIFFE YASMIN AHMED MANCHESTER senior lecturer in politics and international broadcast journalist, BBC; Blavatnik scholar Nichita Matei and Francesca Sellers relations, University of Kent; author, Lenin in public policy, University of Oxford Lives! reimagining the Russian revolution NELSON MANDELA BENJAMIN DAVID SCHOOL, BERLIN CERI DINGLE writer and editor in chief, Conatus News Julia Danneman and Alec Dent director, WORLDwrite and WORLDbytes EMILY DINSMORE JUDGES: DR MICHAEL FITZPATRICK free speech campaigner; staff writer,spiked JUSTINE BRIAN writer on medicine and politics; author, The director, Civitas Schools Tyranny of Health PAUL EMBERY Executive Council member, Fire Brigades DR ELIOT FORSTER CHAIR: MARISA PEREIRA Union; National Organiser, Trade Unionists CEO, Immunocore assistant director, WORLDwrite and Against the EU WORLDbytes PATRICK HAYES CARL MILLER director, British Educational Produced by Marisa Pereira research director, Centre for the Analysis Suppliers Association of Social Media, Demos CHAIR: NADIA BUTT CHAIR: IZZY LYONS project officer, Generating Genius journalist, Telegraph Produced by Izzy Lyons

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CULTURE AND ANARCHY, READ THE WORLD: HARRY POTTER AT 20: 150 YEARS ON: TEACHING LITERARY TRANSLATION THE WONDER OF THE BEST THAT IS KNOWN TODAY CHILDREN’S LITERATURE AND THOUGHT? SATURDAY 14:00—15:30 SUNDAY 14:00—15:30 SATURDAY 10:00—11:30 BARBICAN LIBRARY We remain in a golden age of Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy, To many, translation is a technical children’s literature, with more books first published in 1867-68, was a major skill and the translator an anonymous and readers every year. Picture books influence on the modern education wordsmith. But increasingly proliferate, and the classics – by Enid system. For Arnold, education meant translation is viewed as an art to be Blyton, CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien and access to ‘the best which has been thought celebrated and not concealed. The more – are alive and well. Yet some and said in the world’. Is today’s national Man Booker International Prize 2016 perennial questions remain. What is curriculum capable of fostering the quality was shared by Han Kang, author of the purpose of children’s literature, of judgment that Arnold advocated? The Vegetarian, and Deborah Smith, and why do an increasing number who translated it from Korean. of authors choose to write it? Is it Hywel Jones, headteacher, West London Should we celebrate translators just escapism or are there important Free School Martin Robinson, author, being recognised as artists in their moral and social lessons imparted? Trivium 21c: preparing young people for the own right? Or does the recognition Genevieve Clarke, programme future with lessons from the past Dr Alka of the creativity of the translator manager, The Reading Agency Richard Sehgal Cuthbert, co-author, What Should mean accepting a certain distance Swan, author, children’s fantasy novel Schools Teach? Gareth Sturdy, science from the author? Are there limits to Melody’s Unicorn Chair: Dr Shirley teacher; co-organiser, IoI Education Forum the freedom a translator can exercise Dent, author, Radical Blake Chair: Dr Alex Standish, co-author, What in interpreting a text? Should Schools Teach? Gerry Feehily, Europe editor, Courrier International Nicky Harman, prizewinning literary translator; BURGESS AT 100: A co-chair, Translators Association CLOCKWORK ORANGE Professor Duncan Large, academic director, British Centre for Literary RECONSIDERED Translation, University of East Anglia SUNDAY 17:30—18:45 A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST..., Dr Vanessa Pupavac, associate The centenary of Anthony Burgess’s 100 YEARS ON: JOYCE professor, University of Nottingham birth offers an opportunity to AND THE EMERGENCE OF Chair: Dr Shirley Lawes, researcher; reassess his best known novel and University teacher, specialising its relationship to the famous, and MODERNISM in teacher education and modern famously censored, film. Stanley SATURDAY 17:30—18:45, foreign languages Kubrick’s 1971 film departs in myriad James Joyce’s A Portrait of theArtist as ways from the book with the visual a Young Man shattered preconceptions storytelling creating a work of art of what a novel should be. It combines which has a unique set of thematic ideas about the life of the mind and concerns not present in Burgess’s 1962 the essence of literature itself in a novel. Is it prophetic, visionary, or just way that redefined fiction in the a great movie? English language. How does the novel’s reputation hold up today? Dr Greg Scorzo director and editor, Culture on the OffensiveChair: Justin Smyth, librarian; co-founder, Lizzie Soden, director, Culture on Dublin Salon Chair: Bernie Whelan, the Offensive events coordinator, Institute of Ideas

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CONSTRUCTIVISM: ART, SATURDAY FILM PREMIERE: ARCHITECTURE AND LUNCHTIME JAZZ BREXIT BAST**DS! SOCIAL CHANGE SATURDAY 13:10—13:50 SUNDAY 13:10—13:50 SATURDAY 13:10—13:50 FREE STAGE BEECH STREET, CINEMA 2 FROBISHER 4–6 Esteemed jazz musicians Jekaterina This dark comedy encourages a fresh The geometrical purity and dynamism of Sarigina and Eduardas Armonas perspective on a divisive topic. Inspired Constructivism expressed the optimism perform a range of songs inspired by conversations between writer Thor of the decade following the Russian by the greats of swing and bebop, Holt and two friends, a Muslim Turkish Revolution. In this illustrated talk, American songbook jazz standards, with man and a gay Australian, this short architect Theo Dounas reflects on the the emphasis on vocal improvisations film premiere challenges you to re- impact of Constructivism 100 years ago, and crafty guitar accompaniment. consider what you think about people and asks what it would take to create a who voted Brexit. Followed by Q&A. EDUARDAS ARMONAS new revolutionary style for today. Lithuanian jazz guitarist who plays Thor Holt, writer, Brexit Bast**ds Theo Dounas, senior lecturer, Scott regularly throughout Europe, having Fraser Myers, producer, WORLDbytes Sutherland School of Architecture and completed his Masters in Music Chair: Alison Small, CEO, Production the Built Environment Chair: Vicky Performance from the Guildhall School Guild of Great Britain Richardson, associate director, London of Music and Drama School of Architecture JEKATERINA ŠARIGINA award-winning jazz vocalist from Latvia. Studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, won numerous awards for her singing and currently working on her debut album

SCHOOLS THROUGH THE AGES: AN ILLUSTRATED YOU CAN’T SAY THAT! HISTORY SATURDAY 13:10—13:50 SUNDAY 13:10—13:50 FROBISHER 1–3 FROBISHER 1–3 As new technologies give a platform This short illustrated talk traces the to express any idea, anywhere, journey from the first grammar school, the potential for instant offence set up by Augustine of Canterbury in has grown. What limits should be the sixth century, to the creation of the placed on what we can say? Are state education system in 1870. Shuffle there ideas so abhorrent that they in, settle down and prepare to learn. must be eliminated from public life? Philosopher Dr Greg Scorzo uses video Harley Richardson director of clips to interrogate types of censorship design and development, Discovery and restrictions on speech. Education; organising committee, IoI Education Forum Chair: Gareth Dr Greg Scorzo, director and editor, Sturdy science teacher; co-organiser, Culture on the OffensiveChair: Lizzie IoI Education Forum Soden, director, Culture on the Offensive

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HOT OFF THE PRESS 2017 BATTLE OF IDEAS 2017 FREE STAGE FESTIVAL DRINKS RECEPTION SATURDAY 18:45–21:00 SATURDAY CONSERVATORY 12:00–13:00 A chance for festival attendees to 16:00–17.15 relax, continue the debates informally and enjoy a drink on behalf of Diageo. Listen to musicians from the Guildhall SUNDAY School of Music and Drama. The 12:00–13:00 Guildhall one of the world’s leading 13:10–13:50 conservatoires and drama schools, offers musicians, actors, stage managers 16:00–17.15 and theatre technicians an inspiring environment in which to develop. On each day of the festival there will be a number of informal ‘popup’ CLAIRE FOX conversations between Battle of director, Institute of Ideas. Ideas speakers on topics ‘in the news’ or book launches on contemporary With themes. These will be programmed in DAN ENACHESCU the days leading up to the festival to head of public policy for Europe, FESTIVAL ensure they are as topical as possible. SPEAKERS’ SUPPER Diageo plc Tony Matharu, managing director, Details of issues and speakers will DR ELIOT FORSTER Grange Hotels, will give a welcome be published online the week before CEO, Immunocore; chairman, address at the private supper for the Battle of Ideas and look out for MedCity speakers and sponsors following the details over the weekend. reception on Saturday. SEAN GREGORY All Hot Off the Press sessions are director, Creative Learning, Barbican/ free and open to non-ticket holders. Guildhall School of Music and Drama Throughout the evening, attendees will be entertained by Guildhall musicians

IDEAS MARKET 2017 FESTIVAL BOOKSHOP SATURDAY 10:00–17:30 MEZZ LEVEL SUNDAY 10:00–17:30 The new Barbican Shop stocks a range of books exploring essential ideas LEVEL G discussed at the festival and top titles Come and have a coffee while from key festival speakers. Look out browsing a range of stalls promoting for signings on the mezzanine level ideas to get you thinking and talking – throughout the weekend, come along with Index on Censorship,IEA, Invoke and browse, buy or takeaway some new Democracy Now, Prospect, spiked, ideas to mull over post-Battle. Thames Water and WORLDbytes.

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LIVE MUSIC: MAEVE REFRESHMENTS ARCHITECTURE TOUR FITZPATRICK PERFORMS SATURDAY 17:30–19:00 LEVEL G WAKE UP ALONE Barbican Kitchen offers hot meals, pizza, FREE FOR BATTLE OF SUNDAY 15:35–15:55 salads and cakes throughout the day. FREE STAGE Benugo serve a great range of coffee, IDEAS ATTENDEES. cakes and sandwiches to take away from LIMITED CAPACITY– Enjoy some live music as Mayor of their espresso bar on the foyer. TICKETS AVAILABLE ON A London Big Busk Competition finalist Maeve Fitzpatrick sings an eclectic mix LEVEL 1 FIRST COME FIRST SERVED of old jazz, throwing in the occasional Bonfire offers a range of burgers, BASIS. pop tune. The perfect accompaniment rotisserie chicken, salads and shakes to a coffee before the final debates of from noon until 10:30pm. If the TOUR DEPARTS FROM the weekend. weather is fine you can take advantage MEZZ LEVEL , TICKET of their terrace with wonderful views

over the Lakeside. INFORMATION DESK Explore the architecture of the Barbican via the highwalks and LEVEL 4 / CINEMA FOYERS discover its history, the origins of its Coffee and snacks available. designs, and the ideas, values and agendas that shaped the vision of this unique architectural endeavour.

Schools with a long tradition of debating as well as others just starting can enter and use our online resources to get the most out of our local Championships across the country. Adult volunteer judges who take young people seriously play an important role in fostering intellectual curiosity and rigour.

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FREE BARBICAN The following are Institute of Ideas INSTALLATIONS LIVING Initiatives. For more information about the Institute of Ideas or any of these SATURDAY 10:00–18:00 events, contact Geoff Kidder on: BARBICAN CENTRE FREEDOM [email protected] or The People’s Forest, by Gayle Chong Living Freedom is a unique visit instituteofideas.com Kwan; this contemporary visual art opportunity for 40 keen young project in the Barbican foyer explores the advocates of freedom to participate history, politics, and people of London’s in meaningful debate and engage in a ancient woodland, Epping Forest. series of intellectual challenges on the Rattle; a free Barbican Music Library meaning and ideals of freedom in the exhibition of photos and memorabilia twenty-first century. BATTLE OF covering the musical life to date of Sir The next Living Freedom school takes Simon Rattle, the new musical director place at CIEE London Global Institute IDEAS 2018 of the London Symphony Orchestra. on 5 – 7 April 2018 Next year’s festival will be at the The Conservatory; explore the hidden Barbican on 13 and 14 October 2018. tropical oasis in the heart of the city Early bird tickets available from 28 October 2017. www.battleofideas.org.uk

THE JOIN THE ACADEMY INSTITUTE OF The Academy brings together a wide range of people of all ages and educational backgrounds to cultivate IDEAS ourselves with good books, good guides The Battle of Ideas takes place and in good company. annually at the Barbican. The IoI also The Academy 2018 will examine the runs the national Debating Matters history and significance of popular Competition, The Academy summer BATTLE OF IDEAS 2017 sovereignty from ancient Athens to the university and Living Freedom, a short residential school for 18-25-yr-olds. END OF FESTIVAL PARTY present day. What different forms has society and public life taken from the We have a range of forums which meet FREE SPEECH, FREE DRINKS early appearance of democracy? What regularly, covering education, the have been the trends and challenges? SUNDAY 18:45–20:30 economy, social policy, arts and society What does contemporary populism and CONSERVATORY and a book club. IoI associates get the reaction against it - against national Following the final festival panel significant reduction on ticket prices sovereignty and borders - mean for the debates, come have a drink on us, offer a for the Battle of Ideas festival as well early 21st-century? toast to liberty and carry on the debates as other benefits. Most importantly, informally in a special drinks reception. The Academy; 21–22 July 2018 associates help us continue our work in shaping the future through debate.

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CINEMA 2 and CINEMA 3 There are also debates in Cinema 2 and Cinema 3. These venues are on Beech Street. Turn left out of Barbican Silk Street entrance, and walk to the end of Silk Street to reach these venues.

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KEYNOTE CONTROVERSIESTHE POLITICS OF THEFILM PERSONAL INTELLECTUAL LIFE UNDERSTANDING AMERICATHE NEW POLITICAL LANDSCAPEBATTLE FOR THE ECONOMYCULTURE WARS CITY LIFE CONTEMPORARY CONTROVERSIES BOOK CLUB SALONS SATURDAYLEVEL –2 CINEMA 1 LEVEL –2 PIT THEATREBEECH ST CINEMA 2 BEECH ST CINEMA 3 LEVEL 4 FROBISHER AUDITORIUMLEVEL 4 FROBISHER 1 AUDITORIUMLEVEL 4 FROBISHER 2 1–3LEVEL 4 FROBISHER 4–6CONSERVATORY GARDEN ROOM LEVEL G FREE STAGE OLD SHOP

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10:00– Is there Women versus Groupthink Is there such Party politics: Rebooting Playing politics: Housing: From FGM to Culture and Anarchy, 11:30 a culture Feminism: do universities? a thing as realignment or Britain: industrial should theatre reform or Charlie Gard: what 150 years on: Teaching war against we all need p8 Trumpism? disintegration? strategy for the be a safe space? revolution? are the limits to the best that is known populism? liberating from p10 p12 21st century p16 p18 parental freedom? and thought? p4 the gender wars? p14 p20 p23 p6 12:00– Diversity: Banter and The academic America’s New The nation state Can biotech lead A revolution From Basquiat Should fashion Hot off 13:00 does it matter? besties: is roots of South: from slavery in the modern an economic in art: a visual to Banksy: statements the Press 12:00–13:15 friendship post-truth to economic world revolution? appreciation of the street art and be political p25 p4 in peril? society powerhouse p12 p14 Russian Revolution urbanism statements? p6 p8 p10 p16 p18 p20

LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH You can’t LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH 13:00– Constructivism: Saturday LUNCH say that! 14:00 art, architecture lunchtime jazz 13:10–13:50 and social change 13:10–13:50 FILM p24 13:10–13:50 p24 PREMIERE p24 13:30–15:30 1917: Why 14:00– Safety first: do we Fay Weldon: in the Russian The legacy of The Rust Footloose Is globalisation Igniting the spark Is local Can satire Read the world: 15:30 live in a cotton- conversation Revolution Martin Luther King: Belt and The cosmopolitans over? The future of creativity in democracy survive in the literary wool society? with Brendan matters from civil rights to Deplorables or citizens of of world trade Brexit Britain broken? era of translation today p5 O’Neill p22 identity politics p11 nowhere? p15 p17 p19 fake news? (Barbican Library) p7 p9 p13 p21 p23

16:00– Cultural All by myself: Silencing Are science From Pepe Brexit - The gig What is to be Toxic smog: Fake news: Hot Off 17:15 appropriation: is loneliness a hate speech: and medicine the Frog to where are we at? economy: the done? Literature hazard or hype? a media panic? the Press compliment social problem? censorship or threatened by Charlottesville: the p13 changing face and the Russian p19 p21 p25 or theft? p7 civility? borders? rise of the alt-right of work Revolution p5 p22 p9 p11 p15 p17

17:30– Bed blockers Debating Matters Bookshop Universal Watching the New life for the Balloon debate: A Portrait of the Artist..., 18:45 and bigots: have International Barnie: Douglas basic income: detectives: undead: why are what is the 100 years on: James wrinklies cheated 2017: Carswell on workfare or Crime fiction we fascinated best city? Joyce and the emergence millennials? online privacy Rebel freedom? and the zeitgeist by zombies? p19 of modernism

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KEYNOTE CONTROVERSIESEYE ON THE WORLD DEBATING THE PAST LAW AND ORDER TECH FUTURES THE CRISIS OF POLITICALBATTLE LANGUAGE FOR EDUCATIONCONTEMPORARY CONTROVERSIESSTATE OF THE NATIONSCIENCE AND ETHICS BOOK CLUB SALONS LEVEL –2 CINEMASUNDAY 1 LEVEL –2 PIT THEATRE BEECH ST CINEMA 2 BEECH ST CINEMA 3 LEVEL 4 FROBISHER AUDITORIUMLEVEL 4 FROBISHER 1 AUDITORIUMLEVEL 4 FROBISHER 2 1–3LEVEL 4 FROBISHER 4–6CONSERVATORY GARDEN ROOM LEVEL G FREE STAGE OLD SHOP 10:00– Truth, the whole Putin’s Russia: Statues must Enemies of the Was it big data wot The corruption Student We need to talk: Where will we get Does epigentics 11:30 truth and nothing a new fall! Erasing people! Who rules won it? Political of political Voice: should the vices and the workers? The justify ‘early but the truth Cold War? history or in a democracy? campaigning today language we listen? virtues of battle over skills intervention’? p32 p34 righting wrongs? p38 p40 p42 p44 social media and immigration p50 p36 p46 p48

12:00– Why Luther still Trudeau’s On the Road: the You may be a Wearables: What is... Have we made Political From the Repeal The final Hot Off 13:00 matters - religious Canada: a liberal spirit of travel sex offender if… personalisation Identity? maths too hard? activism and Bill to Grenfell: frontier: who the Press conscience and nirvana? from the Beats p38 or surveillance? p42 p44 protest today is Britain owns space? p25 individual liberty p34 to the Millennials p40 p46 over-regulated? p50 12:00–13:15 p36 p48 p32

13:00– LUNCH LUNCH Film Premiere: LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH Schools through LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH Hot Off LUNCH 14:00 Brexit Bast**ds the ages: an the Press 13:10–13:50 illustrated history p25 p24 13:10–13:50 p24

14:00– Censorship and Macron’s France: Film and debate: After the riots: From AI to What is... Too dumb, too Do you trust Can The Harry Potter at 15:30 Identity: free ‘En Marche’ to Generation is prison reform Big Data: can Democracy? young: who’s the media? sustainability and international 20: the wonder speech for me business as usual? Right - Legacy of still possible? technology p43 qualified p47 environmentalism abortion wars of children’s but not for you? p35 Margret Thatcher p39 save the NHS? to vote? survive Brexit p51 literature p33 p37 p41 p45 Britain? p49 p23 Live Music 15:35–15:55 16:00– Battle 2017 Xi’s China: Best we forget? Making a Silicon Valley: What is... Should schools Who is football Millennials: From gender to 17:15 Lecture: how do we a new global Commemorations miscarriage from heroes to Liberalism? make pupils for: fans or youthquake or empathy: What create an economic power? and memorials of justice zeroes? p43 ‘work ready’? big business? snowflakes? can evolutionary Hot Off renaissance? p35 today p39 p41 p45 p47 p49 psychology tell us? the Press p33 p37 p51 p25

17:30– Islamist terror: Rage against What is... Can cognitive Rearing Medical Burgess at 100: 18:45 the new the machines: Fascism? science save generation dilemmas: A Clockwork normal? is automation a p43 education? safe space who decides? Orange p35 threat to jobs? p45 p47 p51 reconsidered p41 p23

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TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH WHY LUTHER STILL MATTERS: KEYNOTE AND NOTHING BUT THE RELIGIOUS CONSCIENCE CONTROVERSIES TRUTH AND INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY 10:00—11:30 12:00—13:15

These sessions take on some of In the famous words of the US Declaration According to tradition, on 31 October 1517, the big ideas and themes of our of Independence, the founding fathers Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the time, setting the tone for the considered that certain truths were door of the castle church in Wittenberg, ‘self-evident’. In the era of ‘fake news’, starting a process that would change the festival as a whole. however, there appear to be many world. It is an oft-noted irony that the different truths and few consider that Reformation initiated by this devout monk they are self-evident. Many worry that paved the way for secular modernity. Is demagoguery and populist myth-making the Reformation better understood as a have propelled us into a ‘post-truth’ era, precursor to the Enlightenment than as a in which objective facts are less influential movement for reform within the Catholic than emotion and personal belief. But do church? Is Luther’s legendary refusal to current appeals to the authority of ‘The compromise his conscience something to Facts’ or ‘The Science’ run counter to the be emulated today? What of our society’s liberal tradition, in which moral judgement increasing intolerance of those who goes beyond statistics and fact-checking? espouse religious beliefs and refuse to Will we ever again be able to agree on self- embrace secular orthodoxies? evident truths? PROFESSOR AAQIL AHMED SOHRAB AHMARI media consultant; former head of religion senior writer, Commentary Magazine; and ethics, BBC and Channel 4; columnist, author, The New Philistines: how identity The Arab Weekly politics disfigure the arts DOLAN CUMMINGS ANDREW BERNSTEIN author, That Existential Leap: a crime story; author, The Capitalist Manifesto: the associate fellow, Institute of Ideas; co- historic, economic, and philosophic case for founder, Manifesto Club laissez-faire; affiliate, Ayn Rand Institute KATE MALTBY DR TIM BLACK critic and columnist; associate fellow, editor, spiked review; columnist, spiked Bright Blue; trustee, Index on Censorship PROFESSOR STEVE FULLER JON O’BRIEN Auguste Comte chair in social president, Catholics for Choice epistemology, University of Warwick CHAIR: ANGUS KENNEDY PROFESSOR BARBARA J SAHAKIAN convenor, The Academy; author, Being University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Cultured: in defence of discrimination Medicine; co-author, Sex, Lies, and Brain Scans; fellow, British Academy Produced by Dolan Cummings and Claire Fox CHAIR: ALASTAIR DONALD associate director, Institute of Ideas Produced by Claire Fox

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CENSORSHIP AND IDENTITY: BATTLE 2017 LECTURE: FREE SPEECH FOR ME BUT HOW DO WE CREATE AN NOT FOR YOU? ECONOMIC RENAISSANCE? 14:00—15:30 16:00—17:15

Free speech is no longer presumed to be In his new book, Creative Destruction: an unquestionable virtue. Until recently, how to start an economic renaissance, it was unthinkable to openly oppose free Phil Mullan argues that the way to expression, even if it was often espoused ensure a better economic future is to with endless caveats. But in 2017, free create one. He believes that we need to speech is now often explicitly queried. In promote the political and cultural change particular, identity politics has justified necessary to achieve comprehensive clampdowns on everything from alt-right economic restructuring, instead of state demonstrations to university talks by intervention that fosters corporate leading feminists. For those who believe dependency and prolongs economic in free expression, it no longer seems stagnation. But does the process of sufficient to cite the First Amendment, creative destruction he recommends quote JS Mill, or cry academic freedom in risk generating even more hardship for defence of free speech. How should free uncertain rewards? Could a state that speech be defended today - or is it time is currently responsible for sustaining a to accept that the protection of minorities ‘zombie economy’ now lay the foundations trumps the right to be offensive? for the next industrial revolution? PROFESSOR FRANK FUREDI PHIL MULLAN sociologist and social commentator; economist and business manager; author, author, What’s Happened to the University? Creative Destruction: how to start an and On Tolerance economic renaissance NICK GILLESPIE CHAIR: ANGUS KENNEDY US journalist and commentator; editor in convenor, The Academy; author, Being chief, Reason.com and Reason TV, the online Cultured: in defence of discrimination and video platforms of Reason Magazine Produced by Angus Kennedy JODIE GINSBERG chief executive, Index on Censorship TREVOR PHILLIPS writer and television producer; founding chair, Equality and Human Rights Commission TOBY YOUNG director, New Schools Network; associate editor, Spectator; editor, Spectator Life CHAIR: CLAIRE FOX director, Institute of Ideas; panelist, BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze; author, I Find That Offensive Produced by Claire Fox

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PUTIN’S RUSSIA: A NEW TRUDEAU’S CANADA: A EYE ON THE WORLD COLD WAR? LIBERAL NIRVANA? 10:00—11:30 12:00—13:00 IN ASSOCIATION WITH

Russia is now widely regarded as a threat Under the charismatic and youthful to the West. It stands condemned for Justin Trudeau, Canada has emerged as a its international interventions, notably liberal alternative to Trump’s America. The Whatever one’s views on Brexit, in Ukraine and Syria. It is also blamed chattering classes of the West swooned having a wider view of the world for its alleged interference in elections over his election in 2015, applauding as within and beyond Europe is in the USA and in Europe. Yet the Canada legalised cannabis, championed essential to understand broader Russian economy is still weak and highly equality and diversity and upheld a model dependent on natural resources. Without of multiculturalism. But is Trudeau’s political trends. This year’s greater economic development, Russia’s PC agenda more authoritarian than it festival puts the spotlight on a capacity to project military power is first appears? In any case, Trudeau has selection of key international limited to interventions in much weaker departed from the liberal script in allowing hotspots. Much has been made states. Is President Vladmir Putin simply the exploitation of Alberta’s tar sands as of Russia’s changing global playing a weak hand well? Does Russia well as endorsing ethically dubious arms loom large, not because Putin is a strong sales. Is he any more than a cosmetic role, but is it really returning to leader, but because Western governments prime minister in both appearance and superpower status or is there lack direction? policy? Or does Canada offer a new model a danger of hyped up rhetoric for the left across the West? creating a new Cold War? There MARY DEJEVSKY is no doubt that China is both former foreign correspondent in DR ASHLEY FRAWLEY Moscow, Paris and Washington; senior lecturer, sociology and social policy; powerful and rising, but will it special correspondent in China; writer programme director, BSc social sciences, choose to take on a more global and broadcaster Swansea University role? Following North Korea’s erratic missile launches, will DR TARA MCCORMACK PROFESSOR ALAN HALLSWORTH lecturer, international politics, University president, British Association for China be able to broker peace of Leicester Canadian Studies where the US stirs tensions? France seemingly bucked this DR ŁUKASZ PAWŁOWSKI RACHAEL REVESZ year’s populist trend with the managing editor and columnist, freelance writer and journalist Kultura Liberalna election of Macron, but is he CHAIR: DR KEVIN YUILL really popular within France, SIR ADAM THOMSON KCMG senior lecturer in American history, or more a liberal poster-boy director, European Leadership Network University of Sunderland; author, The beyond? Is Canada a new model Second Amendment and Gun Control: CHAIR: BRUNO WATERFIELD freedom, fear, and the American Constitution of enlightened liberalism, or is Brussels correspondent, The Times; co- Justin Trudeau just a political author, No Means No Produced by Charlie Parker, news reporter popstar? Finally, while the and free speech campaigner geopolitical causes behind Produced by Dr Tara McCormack Islamist terror are fiercely debated, it is no respecter of borders. Must we learn to live with it?

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MACRON’S FRANCE: ‘EN XI’S CHINA: NEW GLOBAL ISLAMIST TERROR: THE NEW MARCHE!’ TO BUSINESS AS POWER? NORMAL? USUAL? 16:00—17:15 17:30—18:45 14:00—15:30

‘Victory for Macron, for France, the Only 35 years ago a predominantly According to London Mayor Sadiq Khan EU and the world’ tweeted Hillary peasant economy, China has become the threat of terrorism is simply ‘part and Clinton when her favourite won the the largest trading nation in the world. parcel’ of life in a big city today. Living French election in May. Welcomed as It is also remarkable that China has in open societies that allow people to a riposte to Brexit and Trump, the vote relinquished its status as environmental travel and mingle freely means that it is for Macron was celebrated by the liberal pariah to become a critic of the US almost impossible to stop terrorists from media around the world. The French, president’s rejection of the Paris climate attacking people if they are committed however, do not seem to be convinced. accords. Only recently a communist to doing so. But is there a danger that Since the record low turnout at the polls, outsider, China is now a capitalist power- we shrug our shoulders and become Macron’s approval rating has plummeted. broker, most notably in dealing with the complacent about the terrorist threat? Ominously, he plans to award more power challenge of North Korea. Can there be a In response to candles and calls for unity, to the executive and the security state. peaceful adjustment of the West’s global don’t we need to ask unify around what? Does Macron represent a genuine political domination to accommodate the rise Should we accept more authoritarian realignment or is he simply another of the new Eastern superpower? Is the measures to prevent terrorist attacks, mainstream politician but with better PR? demise of the West exaggerated? Is there even if this means giving up some of our Is he the alternative to populism, or just a serious risk of military conflict? liberties? How, if at all, can we tackle the another brand? root causes of Islamist terror? JONATHAN FENBY DR JOSEPH DOWNING author, Will China Dominate the 21st DR EMMA EL-BADAWY Marie Curie Fellow, Centre Nationnal Century? managing partner, TS Lombard head of research, Tony Blair Institute for de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Global Change; specialist, Middle East, and School of Oriental and African JUDE HOWELL Islamist extremism, and Islamist and Studies (SOAS) professor of international development, jihadi networks LSE; co-author, Social Change in GERRY FEEHILY Contemporary China PROFESSOR FRANK FUREDI Europe editor, Courrier International sociologist and social commentator; ALAN HUDSON author, What’s Happened to the University? NAOMI FIRSHT visiting professor, Shanghai Jiaotong Invitation To Terror and On Tolerance journalist; staff writer,spiked ; co-editor, University; director, programmes in The Parisians’ Guide to Cafés, Bars leadership and public policy, University HANIF QADIR and Restaurants of Oxford founder and CEO, The Active Change Foundation; author, Preventing and JOSH LOWE DR CHUN-YI LEE Countering Extremism and Terrorist staff writer,Newsweek assistant professor, The School of Politics Recruitment: a best practice guide and International Relations; director, ROBERT TOMBS Taiwan Studies Programme CHAIR: CLAIRE FOX emeritus professor of French history, director, Institute of Ideas; panelist, Cambridge University; author, The English DR LINDA YUEH BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze; author, I Find and their History economist, broadcaster and author; That Offensive adjunct professor of economics, London CHAIR: NATHALIE ROTHSCHILD Business School Produced by Claire Fox freelance journalist; producer and reporter for Sweden’s public service radio CHAIR: AUSTIN WILLIAMS author, China’s Urban Revolution; honorary Produced by Charlie Parker research fellow, XJTLU, Suzhou, China; Produced by Austin Williams

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STATUES MUST FALL! ON THE ROAD: THE SPIRIT DEBATING THE PAST ERASING HISTORY OR OF TRAVEL FROM THE BEATS RIGHTING WRONGS? TO THE MILLENNIALS ‘Who controls the past controls 10:00—11:30 12:00—13:00 the future’, wrote George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four. In Charlottesville, a young woman This year marks the sixtieth anniversary Certainly, debates about the was killed while protesting against a of Jack Kerouac’s iconic novel, On the past, how it is remembered, demonstration of right-wing groups Road, the book that launched the Beat celebrated and taught, are often angered by the proposal to remove a Generation. The sense of cutting loose and fiercely contested. This summer’s statue commemorating a Confederate taking off that permeated Kerouac’s account events in Charlottesville in the soldier. Students at Oxford have influenced a newly mobile generation of demanded the removal of a statue of young people who looked to the counter US showed that arguments the imperialist politician Cecil Rhodes. culture for inspiration on their own about the past often reveal Bristol’s Colston Hall is to be renamed expeditions and explorations. Six decades on, deep political differences in the because its philanthropic founder made the spirit of travel seems to have changed present. Is the whole business his fortune from slavery. Some now want markedly. Youth travel for millennials is of commemorating the past, Nelson to be removed from his Trafalgar heavily marketed as ethical gap years, whether it’s the First World War, Square column on the grounds that he adventure travel and volunteer tourism. Has was a ‘white supremacist’. This raises a sense of experimentation, adventure and the Russian Revolution or even questions about how we view history. Is self-reliance been lost in favour of heavily more recent events, inevitably this modern bout of iconoclasm a genuine planned, socially minded ‘experiences’? fraught? And how have things attempt to set the historical record changed todays’ young - straight? Or is it merely another way of DR JIM BUTCHER fighting contemporary battles? reader in geography of tourism, Canterbury assessing the legacy of Jack Christ Church University; co-author, Kerouac’s On the Road allows us DR NICHOLAS DRAPER Volunteer Tourism: the lifestyle politics of to look at the changing attitudes director, Centre for the Study of the international development to travel and adventure, while Legacies of British Slave-ownership HELEN JENNINGS a special film screening will be TARJINDER GILL PhD candidate, University of the Arctic, followed by a discussion about teacher, adviser and consultant Norway; campaigner, Tourism Concern whether Thatcherism still has a grip on youthful politicos today DR CHERYL HUDSON MEG KNEAFSEY lecturer in American history, University campaigner; volunteer, Raleigh or is consigned to that very of Liverpool International ICS different era of ‘the past’. PATRICK VERNON OBE STEVE TURNER social commentator; founder, 100 poet; journalist; author, Jack Kerouac: Great Black Britons; editor in chief, Black Angelheaded Hipster and Beatles ‘66: the History Magazine revolutionary year CHAIR: CLAIRE FOX CHAIR: JOEL COHEN director, Institute of Ideas; panelist, communications manager, BeyondMe, BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze; author, I Find associate fellow, Institute of Ideas That Offensive Produced by Dr Jim Butcher Produced by Claire Fox

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FILM AND DEBATE: BEST WE FORGET? GENERATION RIGHT – COMMEMORATIONS AND THE LEGACY OF MARGARET MEMORIALS TODAY THATCHER 16:00—17:15 14:00—15:30

The election of the Conservative The centenary of the 1917 Russian government led by Margaret Thatcher Revolution is a headache for today’s in May 1979 marked a new era in British patriotic but emphatically non-communist politics. The postwar consensus was Kremlin. Last year’s commemorations shattered, as Thatcher promised to defeat of the centenary of the Easter Rising trade union power and unleash free in Ireland were almost as awkward for enterprise, to revive family values and the current Irish establishment. And stimulate self-reliance. An award-winning the British government has had its own film,Generation Right, appraises the legacy problems marking the centenary of the of Margaret Thatcher. After a screening of First World War, being anxious to avoid the film, a panel will introduce a discussion striking the wrong, militarist or chauvinist, of her impact on British politics and tone. Why should the past loom so large in society. Are the millennials still Thatcher’s the contemporary political imagination? children, or will they throw off her legacy What role do political and cultural in favour of something as radically new as institutions play in channelling the energy she once was? of conflicted and contested narratives into a force for building a shared future? STEPHEN FARRALL professor of criminology, Centre for MARY DEJEVSKY Criminological Research, School of Law, former foreign correspondent in Moscow, University of Sheffield Paris and Washington; special correspondent in China; writer and broadcaster FRASER MYERS producer, WORLDbytes DR TIFFANY JENKINS writer and broadcaster; author, Keeping CHARLIE PETERS Their Marbles: how treasures of the past secretary, Edinburgh University ended up in museums and why they should Conservative and Unionist Association stay there (EUCUA); writer and broadcaster CLIODHNA NI GHADHRA CHAIR: IZZY LYONS paralegal, Arthur Cox journalist, Telegraph PETER UNGAR Produced by Izzy Lyons Hungarian Green Party councillor, second and Stephen Farrall district, Budapest CHAIR: PAULINE HADAWAY writer and researcher; author, Re-imagining Titanic, re-imaging Belfast and Policing the Public Gaze Produced by Cliodhna Ni Ghadhra

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‘ENEMIES OF THE YOU MAY BE A SEX LAW AND ORDER PEOPLE!’ WHO RULES IN A OFFENDER IF… DEMOCRACY? 12:00—13:00 The law is supposed to protect us, 10:00—11:30 but there are always controversies about its legitimate remit and The UK Supreme Court ruled this year On both sides of the Atlantic, sex scope. In both America and that, despite the referendum result, the offenders are now feared to be lurking Britain, tensions between government could not use ‘royal prerogative’ everywhere, leading to intensifying state politicians and the judiciary powers to exit the EU without the approval regulation. In the US, it is now easy to sharply focus our minds on who of parliament. Meanwhile, in the US, locate convicted sex offenders on a map should have the power to make President Trump’s attempts to use executive of your area. In the UK, the Violent and orders to ban immigrants from several Sex Offender Register includes not only and interpret law. Should the law Muslim countries and to reorganise the those convicted of offences but those empower or constrain elected federal administration have been criticised thought to be at risk of offending. New leaders, for example? And what as undemocratic, authoritarian and illegal. sex crimes have been codified and children happens when the legal process What do these cases tell us about the as young as five have been subjected to goes wrong and convicts the balance between democratic majoritarian criminal charges. In this interactive lecture innocent or when the scope of rule and constitutional checks? Is it better and Q&A, Lenore Skenazy will show how to have a muddled, constrained, democratic easily you (or your child) could end up the law ends up criminalising system rather than the unrestrained rule of on an offenders’ register and discuss the ever greater numbers? Are we the majority? Or should we embrace fully implications of these trends. too keen to lock people up for fledged democracy, for better or worse? a greater array of behaviours LENORE SKENAZY VERNON BOGDANOR ‘America’s Worst Mom’; president, Let dubbed criminal? If prisons professor of government, King’s Grow; founder, Free-Range Kids book, blog continue to be over-crowded, do College, London and movement they work or are we even sure what their aim should be? JOANNE CASH CHAIR: LUKE GITTOS former barrister and parliamentary criminal lawyer; director of City of London candidate; policy adviser; board chair, Mind Appeals Clinic (COLAC); legal editor, Gym and Parent Gym spiked; author, Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous Myth IAN DUNT editor, Politics.co.uk; author, Brexit: what the Produced by Luke Gittos hell happens now?; host, Remainiacs podcast JON HOLBROOK barrister; writer on legal issues DR ANNE RICHARDSON OAKES associate professor and director, Centre for American Legal Studies, Birmingham City University CHAIR: TESSA MAYES documentary film director/producer Produced by Tessa Mayes

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AFTER THE RIOTS: IS PRISON MAKING A MISCARRIAGE OF REFORM STILL POSSIBLE? JUSTICE? 14:00—15:30 16:00—17:15

Prison riots have become a familiar feature Television documentaries such as Making of Britain’s custodial system. Over the a Murderer and podcasts like Serial have past 20 years, the prison population got people talking about miscarriages has doubled even though crime rates of justice on both sides of the Atlantic. have fallen steadily. Some authorities Where should the balance lie? Is it still claim that these riots are the result of better, in the words of Benjamin Franklin, overcrowding. Others blame underfunding that a hundred guilty persons should and privatisation, the increasing use of walk free than that one innocent person synthetic drugs and the effects of the suffer? Are miscarriages of justice an smoking ban. But are these explanations inevitable part of any justice system? simplistic? What about problems of Many hope that better procedures and mental illness and political extremism? rights for defendants could make wrongful Fundamental questions persist: what is convictions less common. But could the prison for - rehabilitation or punishment? rise of victim-centred justice and the Does the public even care about proliferation of new offences actually conditions inside as long as criminals are make matters worse? removed from the streets? DR RUTH DUDLEY EDWARDS PAMELA DOW journalist and writer; award-winning chief reform officer, Catch22; former civil author, 12 crime novels including Murdering servant, Department for Education Americans and Killing the Emperors HARDEEP MATHARU PENELOPE GIBBS prisons and criminal justice reporter, Byline director, Transform Justice RACHEL O’BRIEN LUKE GITTOS consultant, editor and writer; author, criminal lawyer; director, City of London Building a Rehabilitation Culture and The Appeals Clinic (COLAC); legal editor, Learning Prison spiked; author, Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous Myth PAUL Stop the Knife lead, London Village Network; NAINA GUPTA former prisoner second-year law student, LSE; pro bono officer of the Law Society; student JERRY PETHERICK committee member, COLAC, LSE managing director for custody and detention services, G4S CHAIR: ANDREW WHEELHOUSE trainee solicitor, Bates Wells Braithwaite LLP CHAIR: ADAM RAWCLIFFE director of external affairs, Institute Produced by Andrew Wheelhouse of Ideas and Luke Gittos Produced by Michael Baker, Head of UK Media, G4S and Adam Rawcliffe

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WAS IT BIG DATA WOT WEARABLES: TECH FUTURES WON IT? POLITICAL PERSONALISATION OR CAMPAIGNING TODAY SURVEILLANCE? 10:00—11:30 12:00—13:00

How could so many people be convinced to With a smart watch or a fitness tracker, we vote for Donald Trump? Why did so many can now access online services or monitor Developments in technology Brits vote to leave the EU, despite almost our health. Potential uses include checking always have important unanimous advice from experts, political patients’ vital signs during hospital stays consequences for society, both leaders and celebrities that we should and warning them when they are at risk remain? Some attribute these results of having a seizure. Wearables could also intended and unintended. to the power of Big Data, specifically to have a role in the workplace, to improve Should we look to technology the high-tech psychological marketing productivity and monitor employees’ to solve social and political techniques of a company called Cambridge behaviour and well-being. But the advent problems, or should it have a Analytica. Can the manipulation of data of wearables also raises questions about more modest role? In recent really swing important votes? What are the privacy and security. Could affordable years, developments in ‘Big implications of this approach for privacy insurance be tied to wearing such devices and democracy? What does the assumption and agreeing to external monitoring? Are Data’ have been credited with that a few targeted messages can influence wearables an invaluable aid to health or will winning elections. Is this a tool voters’ decisions tell us about elite attitudes they create a new breed of ‘worried well’? to be embraced or a threat to towards the electorate? Could they be a tool to allow employers to democracy? Might Big Data drive workers harder? JAMIE BARTLETT engineering solutions and director, Centre for the Analysis of Social MARIJA BUTKOVIC other technological advances Media, Demos; author, The Dark Net and founder and CEO, Women of Wearables; even be the key to saving the Radicals; presenter, BBC’s The Secrets of digital marketing and PR strategist NHS? As more and more of Silicon Valley DR PHOEBE MOORE us wear tech on our bodies in CAROLE CADWALLADR senior lecturer, Middlesex University; the form of fitness gadgets and feature writer, Observer author, The Quantified Self in Precarity: smart watches, should be worry work, technology and what counts about the potential for abuse SIMON COOKE member, Institute of Direct and Digital MARTYN PERKS of our data? Technology has Marketing; leader of the Conservative digital business consultant and writer; co- always been seen as a threat to group, Bradford City Council author, Big Potatoes: the London manifesto jobs – will the new wave render for innovation millions of people surplus to TIMANDRA HARKNESS requirements? And should we journalist, writer and broadcaster; ALEX POWLESLAND presenter, FutureProofing; author, Big Data: head of proteomatics, Immunocore view the eggheads of Silicon does size matter? Valley as heroes or predators? CHAIR: JAMES LEE CHAIR: SANDY STARR senior policy adviser, Department for communications officer, Progress Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Educational Trust; webmaster, BioNews Produced by James Lee Produced by Sandy Starr

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FROM AI TO BIG DATA: SILICON VALLEY: FROM RAGE AGAINST THE CAN TECHNOLOGY SAVE HEROES TO ZEROES? MACHINES: IS AUTOMATION THE NHS? 16:00—17:15 A THREAT TO JOBS? 14:00—15:30 17:30—18:45

Can engineering innovations help to Silicon Valley used to be regarded as the Are robots going to put us all out of work? resolve the NHS funding crisis? Patients global hub of entrepreneurship, creativity Drivers are at risk of being replaced by could be given more independence by and innovation. It was the home of the autonomous vehicles and administrative being helped to diagnose and manage world’s best technologies, new products staff face competition from intelligent their own conditions. Tele-health and and services. Yet today, Silicon Valley’s assistants like Amazon’s Alexa. Whereas smartphone apps seem set to transform tech companies seem to have become in the past automation largely affected the monitoring and control of illnesses the twenty-first-century equivalent low-skilled jobs, smarter machines and the such as diabetes and heart disease. But of mediaeval robber barons. They are deployment of artificial intelligence could are there downsides to such technical condemned for fleecing customers, evading threaten many high-skilled workers in fixes? Could we become over-dependent taxes, and pocketing monopoly profits. future. The threat of automation has been on networked health tools in an era Once associated with freedom, Silicon anticipated for many years – has it finally of cyber-attacks? Is there a danger of Valley is now condemned as the agency of arrived? Why are so many commentators putting our faith in algorithms rather than global surveillance. Has it gone from over- and politicians fearful of smart machines? expert judgement? Is an emphasis on hype to over-reach? Or given emerging Is growing inequality an inevitable new technology simply a way of avoiding new technologies – such as express transit consequence of new technology? Are difficult choices about how much we systems, autonomous vehicles and biotech we merely blaming robots for the deeper should expect from healthcare? – is the criticism mostly unfair? problems of the economy? TERRY BARNES JAMIE BARTLETT TIMANDRA HARKNESS fellow, IEA; principal, Cormorant Policy director, Centre for the Analysis of Social journalist, writer and broadcaster; Advice; former special adviser to Australian Media, Demos; author, Radicals; presenter, presenter, FutureProofing; author, Big Data: health ministers BBC’s The Secrets of Silicon Valley does size matter? TRISHA GREENHALGH DANIEL BEN-AMI MATHEW LAWRENCE professor of primary care health sciences, journalist; author, Ferraris for All: in defence senior research fellow, IPPR University of Oxford of economic progress KEVIN MCCULLAGH TIMANDRA HARKNESS ANDREW BERNSTEIN founder, Plan; writer and commentator journalist, writer and broadcaster; author, author, The Capitalist Manifesto: the on design Big Data: does size matter? historic, economic, and philosophic case for laissez-faire; affiliate, Ayn Rand Institute JOEL TITO PROFESSOR MARK TOOLEY programme manager, AI and the future of medical technology consultant; LAUREN RAZAVI government, Centre for Public Impact president, Institute of Physics and managing director, Flibl; award-winning Engineering in Medicine writer and consultant CHAIR: ROB LYONS science and technology director, Institute DR IR ISABEL VAN DE KEERE CHAIR: DR PAUL REEVES of Ideas, convenor, IoI Economy Forum CEO and founder, Immersive Rehab engineering software designer, SolidWorks R&D; co-convenor, Big Potatoes: the Produced by Rob Lyons CHAIR: MARTYN PERKS London manifesto for innovation co-author, Big Potatoes: the London manifesto for innovation Produced by Dr Paul Reeves Produced by Rob Lyons

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THE CORRUPTION OF WHAT IS… IDENTITY? CRISIS OF POLITICAL POLITICAL LANGUAGE 12:00—13:00 LANGUAGE 10:00—11:30

IN ASSOCIATION WITH George Orwell claimed that ‘political The question of identity seems ever- language... is designed to make lies sound present and increasingly vexed in 21st truthful and murder respectable’. Today, century life. One cannot get a passport, many claim that the increasing corruption job or social media account without of language has become detrimental to our answering a list of questions clarifying Is political language becoming democracy. Political labels, such as fascism one’s gender, ethnicity or race. Theorists bastardised and irrelevant in a and populism, right-wing and left-wing, are of intersectionality debate the relative used promiscuously, often as insults against oppression of different and overlapping changing political landscape? opponents. The rise of identity politics has identities, leading to what critics have Traditional terminology can seem given us new words, such as ‘ze’ and ‘cis’. called ‘the oppression Olympics’, and out of sync with new realities. Do such novel terms encourage discussion tensions abound between black women Left and right seem strangely or help to shut it down? Should we go back and white feminists, middle-class lesbians redundant; terms like populism to basics, and pin down what we mean by and working-class men. Is there any place used as an insult rather than such contested terms as liberalism and for a universal humanism in all this? Is nationalism, even democracy? there any escape from the identities we’re description, and what does it branded with, whether in the form of mean to be liberal, when liberals SPEAKER: racial prejudice or imputed privilege? embrace illiberalism? And when BRENDAN O’NEILL is it really appropriate to wheel editor, spiked DR CHRISTINE LOUIS-DIT-SULLY writer; former research biologist with a life- out a word like fascist? New RESPONDENTS: long interest in social and political issues developments give us new words RACHEL HALLIBURTON altogether, like the capitalised journalist and novelist ELLA WHELAN Leaver and Remainer. Having assistant editor, spiked; author, NICK HILTON What Women Want: fun, freedom and an survived more than a year after broadcast editor, Spectator end to feminism the Brexit referendum, are these terms here to stay? Identity DR PAUL A TAYLOR DR GRAEME ARCHER senior lecturer in communications and writer and professional statistician; winner, politics has created a whole new cultural theory, University of Leeds vocabulary, from cis-gender to 2011 Orwell Prize for blogging intersectionality that can baffle CHAIR: JACOB FUREDI CHAIR: NIALL CROWLEY those not trained in the linguistics journalist, Daily Mail designer, writer, former East End pub landlord of gender or race theory. And Produced by Jacob Furedi can we agree on a shared political Produced by Niall Crowley language that allows us to express and debate even fiercely conflicting ideas? Or is language itself always political?

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WHAT IS… DEMOCRACY? WHAT IS… LIBERALISM? WHAT IS… FASCISM? 14:00—15:30 16:00—17:15 17:30—18:45

Though few question universal suffrage What does it mean to be a liberal today? The term ‘fascism’ originated in and parliamentary sovereignty in principle, In the nineteenth century a liberal insisted Mussolini’s Partito Nazionale Fascista many are increasingly inclined to question on the rights of the individual before the in Italy, though it is more notoriously the processes and consequences of power of the state. In the post-war era, associated with Hitler’s National Socialist popular democracy in practice. Some liberalism became defined by differing Party in Germany. It has, however, come viewed the majority vote in favour of stances on the role of the state. Social to be widely used as an abusive epithet, to Brexit as a positive expression of the will of liberals favoured state intervention refer to any political formation regarded the British people. Others questioned the in industry and welfare. Conservative with distaste. In recent months, the fascist wisdom of allowing a decision with such liberals, later labelled ‘neo liberals’, label has been promiscuously applied to far-reaching consequences to be made favoured privatisation and rolling back Donald Trump, to so-called ‘alt-right’ by plebiscite. The Brexit debate is just welfare provision. Both strands made a movements and to anti-immigrant parties one example of public discussions which virtue of tolerance in matters of belief in Eastern Europe. Some commentators have revealed the absence of a shared and conscience. More recently, some seriously claim that fascism is making a agreement on the meaning of democracy. considering themselves liberals have comeback. Is this a real possibility – or While some offer a merely instrumental endorsed restrictions on free speech, once should we be more circumspect in using defence of democracy, others question a liberal shibboleth. Does the concept of this label? whether ordinary citizens are capable of liberalism now mean anything at all? participating in government. What, then, JANE CAPLAN do we mean by democracy today? ROWENNA DAVIS professor emeritus of modern European teacher and writer; author, Tangled Up history, University of Oxford DR RACHEL HAMMERSLEY In Blue: Blue Labour and the struggle for senior lecturer, intellectual history, labour’s soul ROGER GRIFFIN Newcastle University; author, The English professor in modern history, Oxford Republican Tradition and Eighteenth- NICK GILLESPIE Brookes University; author, Fascism: an Century France; editor, Revolutionary US journalist and commentator; introduction to fascist studies Moments: reading revolutionary texts editor in chief, Reason.com and Reason TV, the online and video platforms of KEVIN PASSMORE MICK HUME Reason Magazine professor of history, Cardiff University; editor at large, spiked; author, Revolting! author, Fascism: a very short introduction and Trigger Warning DR JAMES PANTON head of upper sixth and head of politics, BRUNO WATERFIELD ALI MIRAJ Magdalen College School; associate Brussels correspondent, The Times; co- social entrepreneur; DJ; political activist; professor of philosophy, Open University author, No Means No financier; founder, the Contrarian Prize DR ŁUKASZ PAWŁOWSKI CHAIR: JACOB FUREDI CARNE ROSS managing editor and columnist, journalist, Daily Mail author, The Leaderless Revolution; executive Kultura Liberalna director, Independent Diplomat Produced by Jacob Furedi CHAIR: DAVID BOWDEN CHAIR: JACOB REYNOLDS associate fellow, Institute of Ideas consultant, SHM; co-convenor, the Institute of Ideas’ Living Freedom Produced by David Bowden Produced by Jacob Reynolds

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STUDENT VOICE: SHOULD HAVE WE MADE MATHS BATTLE FOR EDUCATION WE LISTEN? TOO HARD? 10:00—11:30 12:00—13:00 IN ASSOCIATION WITH

‘Student voice’, first popularised in the In 2013, Michael Gove decided that 1990s, is now everywhere. More than GCSE maths was no longer fit for 90 per cent of schools have their own purpose. Cue the new maths GCSE, school council. Now that Ofsted requires with its 9-1 grading system, expanded schools to promote active democracy, content and greater focus on conceptual student voice initiatives are likely to understanding. Now that the first set of increase. Advocates of procedures to exams is over, have we got the balance Education is always the subject allow students to express their views right? Given the greater difficulty of of heated debates at the Battle argue that these can empower pupils to the exam, there are worries that capable of Ideas, touching as it does not challenge bullying, improve wellbeing, students will be deterred from studying only on questions about what is behaviour and attainment as well as maths to a higher level. In the drive for promoting citizenship. But critics argue greater mathematical rigour, have we taught and how, but also on the such policies have created a generation over estimated the capacity of schools very nature of knowledge and of entitled ‘student emperors’, who are to deliver? Should we celebrate greater the relationship between the used to having their views heard but not ambition and keep pushing teachers and past and the future. Everyone challenged. Has student voice gone too students harder? far, or not far enough? agrees high standards are a good KRISTOPHER BOULTON thing, but is the new maths TITUS ALEXANDER director of education, Up Learn curriculum too hard? Should we founder, Democracy Matters; author, ask the pupils for their opinion? Learning Practical Politics: lessons in power DAVID PERKS and democracy founder and principal, East London Or are we better looking to Science School cognitive science to guide how MARY BOUSTED we teach and learn? Should joint general secretary, National CHARLIE STRIPP schools get kids ready for work? Education Union director, National Centre for Excellence in Or make them better citizens? the Teaching of Mathematics; chief executive, JON BRUNSKILL Mathematics in Education and Industry This strand also includes an head of year 2, Reach Academy Feltham illustrated history of a thousand HELEN WARD years of schooling in England. RALPH LEIGHTON journalist, TES senior lecturer in education; course leader for PGCE Citizenship Education, CHAIR: TONY GILLAND Canterbury Christ Church University maths curriculum leader, MidKent College JOANNA WILLIAMS Produced by Tony Gilland author, Consuming Higher Education and Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity; education editor, spiked CHAIR: CARA BLEIMAN Mandarin primary specialist teacher, Harris Federation Produced by Cara Bleiman

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TOO DUMB, TOO YOUNG: SHOULD SCHOOLS MAKE CAN COGNITIVE SCIENCE WHO’S QUALIFIED TO VOTE? PUPILS ‘WORK-READY’? SAVE EDUCATION? 14:00—15:30 16:00—17:15 17:30—18:45

The electoral franchise has become Many young people leave school It appears that cognitive science has finally increasingly contentious. Some argue that unprepared for the world of work. discovered how to make teaching effective. lowering the voting age would allow more According to Ofsted’s 2016 survey, The findings of cognitive scientists are progressive voices to decide the future. ‘Getting Ready for Work’, the ‘nation’s considered so impressive that government Meanwhile commentators denounce ‘low- economic prosperity is at risk because ministers have already begun to apply information’ older voters, who have been the majority of England’s schools fail their insights to educational policy. But duped into supporting Trump or Brexit. to prioritise enterprise education and is this really an educational no-brainer? Political scientist David Runciman notes work-related learning’. It seems that Have we found an educational gospel that that ‘the less-educated fear they are being schools are not making the cultivation of can become the salvation of slow learners? governed by intellectual snobs who know the spirit of enterprise a key part of the How can cognitive science be incorporated nothing of their lives and experiences’, curriculum. Should we move away from into the school curriculum? How can while the ‘educated fear their fate may an academic curriculum and embrace new teacher training reflect the findings of be decided by know-nothings who are school models such as careers colleges and neuroscientific research? On the other ignorant of how the world really works’. university technical colleges, where pupils hand, should we be wary of educational When it comes to ignorance and prejudice, can go at 14 to take a vocational route? programmes that claim to be innovative on which side of the educational divide are but have little basis in scientific evidence? such traits more likely to be found? MARY CURNOCK COOK independent educationalist; former chief WENDY BERLINER NEIL DAVENPORT executive, UCAS joint chief executive, Education Media sociology and politics teacher; writer on Centre; co-author, Great Minds and How to culture; former music journalist CHRIS MULLER Grow Them head, Sir William Perkins’s School ED DORRELL DR NICK DENNIS deputy editor and head of content, TES KEVIN ROONEY deputy headteacher, Hertfordshire; politics teacher and head of social science, teacher historian; governor, Greenwich CAROLINE MACFARLAND Queen’s School, Bushey; co-author, Who’s Free School founder and director, Common Vision Afraid of the Easter Rising? (CoVi); co-author, A Generation Apart: DAVID PERKS were young people left behind by the EU JASON SMITH founder and principal, East London referendum? careers lead, East London Science School Science School MICHAEL MERRICK CHAIR: JANE SANDEMAN NICK ROSE teacher, North Cumbria; contributor, convenor, IoI Parents Forum; contributor, senior officer, knowledge development, Blue Labour Standing up to Supernanny; director of Teach First finance and central services, Cardinal CHAIR: KEVIN ROONEY Hume Centre CHAIR: MARK TAYLOR politics teacher and head of social science, vice-principal, East London Science School Queen’s School, Bushey; co-author, Who’s Produced by Jane Sandeman Afraid of the Easter Rising? Produced by Mark Taylor Produced by Kevin Rooney

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WE NEED TO TALK: THE POLITICAL ACTIVISM AND CONTEMPORARY VICES AND VIRTUES OF PROTEST TODAY CONTROVERSIES SOCIAL MEDIA 12:00—13:00 10:00—11:30 These sessions aim to dig beneath the headlines on a wide We have the greatest communication Mass street protests seem to have made range of topical issues. infrastructure humanity has ever known. a comeback. Recent demonstrations Thanks to the web and social media, include Black Lives Matter protests in publishing is now fully democratised. Access the US, Women’s Marches around the to the masses is no longer controlled by world, and even an international protest monks, aristocrats or media moguls. Yet organised by scientists. Protests are not while the capacity to communicate has never confined to ‘progressive’ causes. Indeed, been greater, the exchange of ideas seems recent ‘alt-right’ demonstrations have pitifully weak. People often seem to be stuck prompted some to ask if certain kinds of in intellectual silos clinging to entrenched protest should be banned. There are also positions. If we aren’t prepared to admit questions about the nature and depth the possibility that another point of view of contemporary protest. Is sharing might be correct, then the testing of ideas a tweet or signing an online petition becomes impossible. Is the nature of online enough to constitute ‘activism’? Even communication inherently anti-intellectual? when protesters take to the streets, are such protests more a performance than a ALEX BENSON manifestation of a social movement? co-founder, Bloc festival and Bloc organisation KIRK LEECH executive director, European Animal JAMES DELINGPOLE Research Association (EARA) columnist, Breitbart News and Spectator RYAN MCCHRYSTAL ALICE THWAITE assistant online editor, Index on Censorship founder, Echo Chamber Club CATHY YOUNG VAL VOSHCHEVSKA US journalist and commentator; weekly social media editor, Newsweek columnist, Newsday; author, Ceasefire!: why women and men must join forces to achieve ELLA WHELAN true equality assistant editor, spiked; author, What Women Want: fun, freedom and an CHAIR: JACOB REYNOLDS end to feminism consultant, SHM; co-convenor, the Institute of Ideas’ Living Freedom CHAIR: GEORGE HULL co-founder, Bloc festival and Bloc Produced by Jacob Reynolds organisation; contributor, Spectator Produced by George Hull and Alex Benson

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DO YOU TRUST THE MEDIA? WHO IS FOOTBALL FOR: REARING GENERATION 14:00—15:30 FANS OR BIG BUSINESS? SAFE SPACE 16:00—17:15 17:30—18:45

Anyone who asserts ‘It must be true – I The beautiful game has come a long way Once regarded as a time of innocence read it in the paper’, is now regarded from its working-class origins. English and delight, childhood has come to be as hopelessly naïve. Alternative news football has financially benefited from regarded as a period of particular risk and outlets have sprung up across the political globalisation and the growth in popularity danger. Children are now believed to be spectrum, and the increasing influence of the game overseas. The Premier vulnerable to a wide range of threats to of high-profile bloggers and social media League’s millionaire players hail from their physical and emotional wellbeing. ‘commentators’ reflects a wider crisis of all over the world and think nothing of Whereas once the role of parents was to trust. The mainstream media is regularly switching their allegiance to the highest guide children towards adulthood, now accused of fuelling panic about the risks bidder. But are fans being left behind by they are concerned about protecting them we face over everything from terrorism rising ticket prices despite their sport’s from harm. Is this shift towards more and to chlorinated chicken. How can we know growing international success? Is money more protection undermining the capacity whether reporting is accurate? Is it our ruining the game? Should football be seen of children to develop resilience? Could we responsibility as citizens to check the as mere entertainment for its global TV be raising a generation ill-prepared to face facts or should we demand that the media audience? Does it risk losing its soul, its adult responsibilities and negotiate life’s improve its handling of statistics and data? deeper connection to the fans who have many challenges? made it what it is? DR GRAEME ARCHER MARTIN DAUBNEY writer and professional statistician; winner, DULEEP ALLIRAJAH award-winning editor; journalist; 2011 Orwell Prize for blogging sports columnist, spiked broadcaster; co-founder, The Men and Boys Coalition VANCE CROWE MARK ADAMS OBE director of millennial engagement, political consultant; former chief executive DR ASHLEY FRAWLEY Monsanto Company of a non-league football team, Gosport senior lecturer, sociology and social policy; Borough FC programme director, BSc social sciences, ALAN MILLER Swansea University chairman, Night Time Industries LYNSEY HOOPER Association (NTIA); leading campaigner, sport broadcaster; co-founder, The Offside LENORE SKENAZY #SaveNightlife Rule (We Get It!) podcast ‘America’s Worst Mom’; president, Let Grow; founder, Free-Range Kids book, blog FAY SCHLESINGER DR STEFAN CHATRATH and movement head of News, The Times professor of sports marketing, University of Applied Sciences Europe, Campus Berlin LINDA DUBERLEY CERI THOMAS publisher, broadcaster, journalist ex-editor, BBC Radio 4’s Today and BBC 1’s CHAIR: GEOFF KIDDER Panorama; director, public affairs, Oxford director, membership and events, Institute CHAIR: DR HELENE GULDBERG University of Ideas; convenor, IoI Book Club lecturer in psychology, Open University; author, Reclaiming Childhood: freedom and CHAIR: DR TIFFANY JENKINS Produced by Geoff Kidder play in an age of fear and Just Another Ape? writer and broadcaster; author, Keeping Their Marbles: how treasures of the past Produced by Dr Helene Guldberg ended up in museums and why they should stay there Produced by Claire Fox

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WHERE WILL WE GET FROM THE REPEAL BILL TO STATE OF THE NATION THE WORKERS? THE GRENFELL: IS BRITAIN OVER- BATTLE OVER SKILLS AND REGULATED? This strand looks at some pressing IMMIGRATION 12:00—13:00 issues facing Britain today. Brexit 10:00—11:30 has created urgent questions Brexit Britain’s employers are worried Britain’s parliament is facing what many about which laws should be about where they will find their workers in regard as its greatest ever legislative repatriated from the EU. Will future, while European nationals working challenge. It must decide how to deal with health and safety and workers’ in Britain are worried about whether almost 19,000 EU laws and regulations rights be sacrificed by the ‘Great they can stay. There also appears to be a once Britain is outside the bloc. Many Repeal Bill’ or is this liberation consensus that any restriction on the free Leave voters are delighted that, at last, we movement of labour will trigger a crisis can cut through the Brussels red tape, with from hyper-regulation? Will key for the British economy. How do we link its rules about everything from e-cigarettes EU themes such as sustainability the admission of migrant workers to the to pesticides. Others, however, especially and environmentalism be genuine needs of employers for workers Remainers, fear a dangerous free-for- sidelined in the political with particular skills? Will the economy all. They point to the risk, poignantly upheaval? Will the end of free collapse if European workers face dramatized by the Grenfell Tower fire, movement create a skills gap? regulations similar to those currently faced arising from inadequate regulations. What by non-European immigrants? How else is the right balance between allowing And with many millennials could employers make up the shortage if individuals and companies to ‘get on with it’ reporting increased anxiety Europeans workers leave? and insisting upon licences, regulations and brought on by the uncertainty safety checks? of Brexit, does the so-called RACHEL CUNLIFFE comment and features editor, City A.M. RICHARD ANGELL ‘youthquake’ at this year’s general director, Progress election suggest younger voters FAWZI IBRAHIM are beginning to see a more national officer, Trade Unionists JOSIE APPLETON positive political future? Against the EU director, civil liberties group, Manifesto Club; author, Officious: rise of the busybody SEAMUS NEVIN state; blogs at notesonfreedom.com head of policy research, Institute of Directors (IoD) ABDOOL KARA executive leader, local services, National HILARY SALT Audit Office actuary; founder, First Actuarial CHRISTOPHER SNOWDON CHAIR: PARA MULLAN head of lifestyle economics, Institute of senior project and business relationship Economic Affairs; editor, Nanny State Index manager, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development CHAIR: ALAN MILLER chairman, Night Time Industries Produced by Para Mullan Association (NTIA); leading campaigner, #SaveNightlife Produced by Alan Miller

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CAN SUSTAINABILITY AND MILLENNIALS: YOUTHQUAKE ENVIRONMENTALISM OR SNOWFLAKES? SURVIVE BREXIT BRITAIN? 16:00—17:15 14:00—15:30

Is environmentalism in retreat? After Whereas earlier generations of young several decades during which issues people provoked outrage among their of sustainability enjoyed mainstream elders, millennials – those born in the popularity, the environment has late 1990s and early 2000s – seem slipped down the political agenda. to attract merely condescension and Issues such as climate change and concern. Today’s youth have been renewable energy scarcely figured in labelled ‘Generation Snowflake’ for their the 2017 general election. Some fear declarations of emotional vulnerability that Brexit will lead to the relaxation and demands for protection and support. of EU environmental regulations, on Yet, for those coming of age in an era of everything from water quality to air austerity and debt, Brexit and Trump, pollution. Several high-profile Brexiteers anxiety and apprehension may be have expressed scepticism about some appropriate responses. In their embrace of of environmentalism’s sacred cows. Can issues of social justice, and support for the UK politicians be trusted to protect the kinder, gentler, form of politics espoused environment after Brexit? Are critics of by Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders, EU regulation justified in claiming that perhaps the millennials are pointing the such rules are often excessive? way towards real change in society. DR RICHARD BENWELL BRADLEY ALLSOP head of government affairs, Wildfowl and postgraduate officer, University of Lincoln Wetlands Trust (WWT) Students’ Union; co-editor, Bright Green YVETTE DE GARIS DR JENNIE BRISTOW head of environmental regulation, senior lecturer in sociology, Canterbury Thames Water Christ Church University; author, Baby Boomers and Generational Conflict SOLITAIRE TOWNSEND co-founder, Futerra; chair, UK Green DR ELIZA FILBY Energy Scheme; author, Happy Hero historian, King’s College London; founder, GradTrain MARCO VISSCHER co-author, Ecomodernism: the new thinking MEGAN CORTON SCOTT on green and growth; freelance journalist vice chair, London Young Labour; events manager, Demos AUSTIN WILLIAMS author, China’s Urban Revolution CHAIR: CHRISTOPHER BECKETT Holy Family Catholic School, Walthamstow CHAIR: ROB LYONS science and technology director, Produced by Christopher Beckett Institute of Ideas Produced by Claire Fox and Rob Lyons

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DOES EPIGENETICS JUSTIFY THE FINAL FRONTIER: SCIENCE AND ETHICS ‘EARLY INTERVENTION’? WHO OWNS SPACE? 10:00—11:30 12:00—13:00 The more science advances, the more it throws up ethical debates, particularly when it Over the past decade, research in We are now entering a new space race, comes to medicine and questions epigenetics has challenged scientific driven not by nations, but by a global of when life begins and ends, orthodoxies and has had some public industry worth billions. From Earth and what kinds of treatment impact. Advocates claim it offers biological observation to plain surveillance, building can and should be made explanations for obesity, criminality and off-planet colonies like a Moon Village, available. The emerging field of sexual orientation. This session draws on two asteroid-mining or tourism for the new books. In one, Maurizio Meloni focuses super-rich, space is ‘open for business’. epigenetics raises the possibility on the troubled interface between biology Should we worry that the private sector of improving future health by and politics; the other, by Sue White and is making all the running? After all, intervening when children are David Wastell, examines the application of there’s no space law to keep commercial still in the womb - but should the science of epigenetics to social policy. interests in line. Should space be viewed we? Evolutionary psychology Are the claims of epigenetics enthusiasts like ‘the commons’, land owned by is another field that promises legitimate? If not, why does such a nobody but open to all, or would that deterministic outlook continue to have hold back investment in exploration and much, but has its detractors. such appeal? What is the place of scientific colonisation? Are the rich spoiling the What can and can’t it tell us? If evidence in political decision-making? potential of space exploration for all space is the final frontier, who humanity? has the right to explore and DR STUART DERBYSHIRE associate professor in psychology, National ZULFIKAR ABBANY exploit it? And on the 50th University of Singapore and the Clinical senior science editor, Deutsche Welle anniversary of the passing of the Imaging Research Centre UK’s 1967 Abortion Act, how is IAN CRAWFORD the fight for reproductive rights DR MAURIZIO MELONI professor of planetary science and senior research fellow, University of astrobiology, Birkbeck College, University faring internationally? Sheffield; author,Political Biology of London SUE WHITE MIKE LAWTON professor of social work, University of founder, CEO, Oxford Space Systems Sheffield; co-author,Blinded by Science DR JILL STUART CHAIR: DR JAN MACVARISH academic, London School of Economics; department of law, Birkbeck, University researcher, politics, ethics and law of outer of London; visiting research fellow, Centre space exploration and exploitation; editor in for Parenting Culture Studies, University chief, Space Policy journal of Kent DR SASKIA VERMEYLEN Produced by Dr Jan Macvarish senior lecturer and chancellor’s fellow, Centre for Environmental Law and Governance, University of Strathclyde CHAIR: TIMANDRA HARKNESS journalist, writer and broadcaster; presenter, FutureProofing; author, Big Data: does size matter? Produced by Zulfikar Abbany

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THE INTERNATIONAL FROM GENDER TO EMPATHY: MEDICAL DILEMMAS: ABORTION WARS WHAT CAN EVOLUTIONARY WHO DECIDES? 14:00—15:30 PSYCHOLOGY TELL US? 17:30—18:45 16:00—17:15

On the fiftieth anniversary of the 1967 Google engineer James Damore wrote a The tragic case of Charlie Gard, a baby with Abortion Act, a panel of pro-choice memo arguing that women were less likely a terminal congenital illness whose parents campaigners from around the world will to succeed in the company because of refused to accept the decision of medical discuss what is at stake in the battle for their biology. Though this resulted in him staff to withdraw life support, highlighted abortion rights. In many countries, the being sacked, it had the effect of bringing the problems that may arise when there trend towards extending abortion rights the claims of evolutionary psychology is a breakdown of trust between doctors seems to have been reversed. What does to wider public attention. Evolutionary and parents. The old adage that ‘doctor it mean to argue for a woman’s right psychologists claim that psychological knows best’ is being challenged not just to choose today? Is it right to think of traits persist in human behavior because by patients, but from within the medical abortion as ‘just like any other medical they contributed to our survival in the profession itself, as paternalism gives way to procedure’, or do wider moral issues early stages of evolutionary development. shared decision-making. But can patients arise? Is opposition to abortion rights the Such traits have been adduced to explain know enough to take responsibility for same the world over? Is such opposition everything from gender differences to our major decisions about treatment? If doctors essentially religious or based on a more propensity to eat unhealthy food. Critics relinquish authority, does this impose an universal moral intuition? argue that evolutionary psychology is undue burden on patients. What is the role reductionist and dehumanising. But should of the courts? ANN FUREDI we reject this perspective simply because chief executive, British Pregnancy Advisory it leads to uncomfortable conclusions? DR FRANKIE ANDERSON Service; author, The Moral Case for Abortion psychiatry trainee; co-founder, DR STUART DERBYSHIRE Sheffield Salon KINGA JELINSKA associate professor in psychology at the executive director, Women Help Women National University of Singapore and the SARAH BARCLAY Clinical Imaging Research Centre founder and director, The Medical JON O’BRIEN Mediation Foundation president, Catholics for Choice JOHN DUPRÉ professor of philosophy of science, RAANAN GILLON AILBHE SMYTH University of Exeter; director, Centre for emeritus professor of medical ethics, chair, Coalition to Repeal the Eighth the Study of Life Sciences (Egenis) Imperial College London; president, Amendment, Ireland Institute of Medical Ethics DR DIANA FLEISCHMAN CHAIR: DR ELLIE LEE evolutionary psychologist, associate PROFESSOR SIR SIMON WESSELY reader in social policy, University of Kent, professor, University of Portsmouth regius chair of psychiatry, Institute of Canterbury; director, Centre for Parenting Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Culture Studies TIM INGOLD King’s College London; president, Royal professor of social anthropology, University Society of Medicine Produced by Dr Ellie Lee of Aberdeen CHAIR: DR FIONA MCEWEN CHAIR: MAX SANDERSON postdoctoral researcher, Queen Mary podcast producer and writer, Guardian University of London Produced by Max Sanderson Produced by Dr Fiona McEwen

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SUNDAY 1 OCTOBER THURSDAY 9 NOVEMBER Film introduction: Rosamund Cuckston, REVOLUTION! GROUPTHINK: DO EAST MIDLANDS organiser, Birmingham Salon BIRMINGHAM | 13:45 UNIVERSITIES PUT CONFORMISM Speakers: Dr Michael Fitzpatrick, author, BEFORE CRITICISM? The Tyranny of Health Christopher Read, TUESDAY 3 OCTOBER DERBY | 19:00 author, Lenin: a revolutionary life. Chair: Dr STATE VS PARENT: WHO SHOULD Helene Guldberg, lecturer in psychology, DECIDE WHAT’S BEST FOR CHILDREN? THURSDAY 9 NOVEMBER Open University FAVERSHAM | 18:30 IS EDUCATION FAILING THE TEST? EXETER | 18:30 Produced by Rosamund Cuckston FRIDAY 6 OCTOBER and Helene Goldburg MIGRATIONS, THEN AND NOW FRIDAY 10 NOVEMBER LIVERPOOL | 19:00 WILL CAMPAIGNS AGAINST CULTURAL APPROPRIATION DESTROY THE ARTS? WEDNESDAY 11 OCTOBER LONDON | 19:00 WIMBLEDON BOOKFEST BATTLE OF IDEAS QUESTION TIME MONDAY 13 NOVEMBER LONDON | 13:30 BREXIT HATE CRIME IN SCHOOLS: STATE VS PARENT: WHO SHOCKING TRUTH OR OVER-HYPED? SHOULD DECIDE WHAT’S WEDNESDAY 11 OCTOBER LONDON | 19:00 BEST FOR CHILDREN? SHOULD WE STUDY DEAD TUESDAY 3 OCTOBER WHITE PHILOSOPHERS? SUNDAY 19 NOVEMBER FAVERSHAM | 18:30—20:00 DERBY | 19:00 RELIGION AND THE INDIVIDUAL IN ART: A GALLERY TOUR Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, THURSDAY 19 OCTOBER LONDON | 10:15 Abbey Pl, Faversham ME13 7BQ WHAT IS THE MORAL CASE FOR ABORTION? TUESDAY 28 NOVEMBER The Charlie Gard case provoked strong LEEDS | 18:45 CAN CULTURE SAVE THE CITY feelings on all sides about what should happen PAISLEY | 18:30 when the wishes of parents clash with the SATURDAY 21 OCTOBER professional opinion of doctors. Does state DAY OF DEBATES AT THE NATIONAL involvement make things better for children? LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND EDINBURGH | 11:00 - 16:30 Ann Furedi, author, The Moral Case for REVOLUTION! THINKING Abortion Dr Ellie Lee, director, Centre for SATURDAY 21 OCTOBER ABOUT THE CENTENARY OF Parenting Culture Studies Dr Janet Melville- CAN THE ARTS EVER BE FREE? THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Wiseman, co-chair, Joint Universities LEICESTER | 14:00 SUNDAY 1 OCTOBER Council Social Work Education Committee BIRMINGHAM | 13:45—17:45 (Learning and Teaching). Chair: Richard MONDAY 23 OCTOBER Dwyer, head of additional learning support, BOOK LAUNCH CHINA’S Centrala, 158 Fazeley Street, Canterbury College URBAN REVOLUTION Birmingham B5 5RT LONDON | 18:30 Produced by Tom Finn-Kelcey, Queen FILM SCREENING: EVERY COOK Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Faversham WEDNESDAY 25 OCTOBER CAN GOVERN: THE LIFE, IMPACT, BANNING SMACKING: PROTECTING AND WORKS OF CLR JAMES CHILDREN OR ASSAULTING FAMILY LIFE? SWANSEA | 18:00 DEBATE: THE CENTENARY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: WHAT IS ITS SATURDAY 4 NOVEMBER LEGACY? IDENTITY POLITICS: RETURN OF THE CULTURE WARS? Following a screening of a documentary MANCHESTER | 14:00 about CLR James, we reflect on his legacy, his interest in the Haitian Revolution, and the centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Is the idea of revolution still relevant?

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MIGRATIONS, THEN AND NOW BATTLE OF IDEAS EDINBURGH FRIDAY 6 OCTOBER SATURDAY 21 OCTOBER LIVERPOOL | 19:00—20:30 National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW Unitarian Church, 57 Ullet Road, Liverpool L17 2AA Milos Crnjanski’s 1929 novel Migrations ARE WE LIVING IN A WHOSE CULTURE IS IT is set on the Habsburg military frontier in ‘POST-TRUTH’ SOCIETY? ANYWAY? THE CULTURAL the 1740s, an area now part of the migrant 11:00–12:15 APPROPRIATION DEBATE route to northern Europe. What can it tell 14:00–15:00 us about the migrant experience today? The EU referendum and the election of Donald Trump were both marked by Should celebrities or businesses be Dr Vanessa Pupavac, associate professor, statements that were tendentious or condemned for copying elements from University of Nottingham Dr Mladen downright false. Do voters really not other cultures? Is imitation a form of Pupavac, post-doctoral research associate, care about the truth anymore? Are flattery or is it theft? Should we see University of Nottingham. Chair: Pauline claims of a ‘post-truth’ era overblown? ‘culture’ as belonging to one group of Hadaway, co-founder, The Liverpool Salon people at all?

Produced by Pauline Hadaway LECTURE: HOW CAN WE REVIVE THE SCOTTISH FROM THE SPIRIT ECONOMY? OF SHACKLETON TO 12:30–13:30 ‘COTTON-WOOL KIDS’: HAVE WE BECOME TOO WIMBLEDON BOOKFEST Like many other countries in the RISK AVERSE? BATTLE OF IDEAS Western world, Scotland’s economy has 15:15–16:30 stagnated in recent decades. How can QUESTION TIME Many commentators have noted how WEDNESDAY 11 OCTOBER it be revived? How does Brexit change little freedom and independence LONDON | 13:30—15:00 things? Should we leave it to the market to decide? children have today. Are we too risk The Big Tent, Wimbledon Common averse or is a sense of precaution rational? What are the implications Special Question Time-style panel offers for the future of society? young people a chance to hold decision makers and key thinkers to account. SPEAKERS INCLUDE Liam Booth-Smith, chief executive, Localis Dolan Cummings, author, That Existential Leap: a crime story Dr Jennifer Jesley Faye Fantolgo, producer, Wimbledon Cunningham, retired community paediatrician Theo Dounas, senior lecturer, Scott Bookfest Afua Hirsch, writer and broadcaster Sutherland School of Architecture and the Built Environment Craig Fairnington, Shiv Malik, journalist; co-author, Jilted associate fellow, Institute of Ideas Annie George, writer and theatremaker Thor Holt, Generation Tom Slater, deputy editor, spiked. host, Write With Courage! podcast; Dr Simon Knight, vice chair, Play Scotland Rob Chair: Claire Fox, director, Institute of Ideas Lyons, science and technology director, Institute of Ideas Seonag MacKinnon, director of communications and public affairs, Glasgow Caledonian University,Iain Macwhirter, Produced by Adam Rawcliffe and columnist, The Sunday Herald Joyce McMillan, columnist and theatre critic, Phil Fiona Ravzi with Sean Longhurst and Mullan, author, Creative Destruction: how to start an economic renaissance Charlie Jessica Searle Peters, secretary, Edinburgh University Conservative and Unionist Association Robert

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SHOULD WE STUDY DEAD CAN THE ARTS EVER BE FREE? BANNING SMACKING: WHITE PHILOSOPHERS? SATURDAY 21 OCTOBER, PROTECTING CHILDREN OR WEDNESDAY 11 OCTOBER LEICESTER | 14:00—15:30 ASSAULTING FAMILY LIFE? DERBY | 19:00—20:30 WEDNESDAY 25 OCTOBER LCB Depot, 31 Rutland Street, Leicester SWANSEA | 18:00—19:30 Hallmark Midland Hotel, Derby DE1 2SQ LE1 IRE Room West, Fulton House, Singleton Park Some student campaigners advocate If money is necessary for most artistic Campus, Swansea SA2 8PP ‘decolonising the curriculum’. Is their production, does this suggest only wealthy rejection of dead white philosophers a cry artists can be truly free in their practice? The Welsh government plans to launch a of liberation or a philistine rejection of What are the benefits and constraints of public consultation on effectively banning philosophy itself? different types of economic funding for smacking. To what extent should we give the arts? parents the space to raise their children as Courtney Hamilton, photographer and they see fit, including smacking? writer Angie Hobbs, professor, University James Burkmar, Leicester Creative of SheffieldDr Lee Jones, reader, Queen Businesses Pauline Hadaway, author, Re- Dr Ashley Frawley, senior lecturer, Mary University of London Dr Gurnam imagining Titanic, re-imaging Belfast G Sian, Swansea University Ronan Lyons, director, Singh, principal lecturer, Coventry Attenborough Arts Centre, University National Centre for Population Health and University. Chair: Dennis Hayes, professor, of Leicester Lizzie Soden, Culture on the Wellbeing Research Dr Ken McLaughlin, University of Derby Offensive.Chair: Dr Greg Scorzo, Culture senior lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan on the Offensive University Abbie Wightwick, education Produced by Dennis Hayes and Dr Ruth editor, WalesOnline. Chair: Kathryn Mieschbuehler, Institute of Education, Produced by Lizzie Soden Ecclestone, University of Sheffield University of Derby Produced by Ashley Frawley

WHAT IS THE MORAL CASE URBAN REVOLUTION: FOR ABORTION? UNDERSTANDING CHINESE IDENTITY POLITICS: RETURN THURSDAY 19 OCTOBER, ECO-CITIES OF THE CULTURE WARS? LEEDS | 18:45—20:30 MONDAY 23 OCTOBER SATURDAY 4 NOVEMBER LONDON | 18:30—20:00 MANCHESTER | 14:00—18:30 Room 1, Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds LS2 3AD The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, Texture, 67 Lever Street, Manchester M1 1FL London WC1E Does a woman’s right to terminate a A day of discussion on identity politics and pregnancy have moral foundations? What The new book by Austin Williams the return of the culture wars including a about the status of the fetus? And do explores the context for China’s focus on the rise of the alt-right. arguments over health and well-being help environmental rise and rise, describing or hinder the fight for abortion rights? the complexities of the race to balance Speakers include: Dr Cheryl Hudson, the environment with industrialisation. lecturer in American history, University Ann Furedi, author, The Moral Case for of Liverpool Kwame Amoah Mensah, Abortion Georgia Testa, lecturer on medical Austin Williams, honorary research fellow, student, MA multimedia journalism Angela ethics, University of Leeds Dr Michael XJTLU, Suzhou, China; author, China’s Nagle, author, Kill All Normies: from 4chan Thomson, professor of law, University Urban Revolution and Tumblr to Trump and the alt-right Ella of Leeds. Chair: Paul Thomas, organiser, Whelan, author, What Women Want Leeds Salon Produced by Austin Williams Produced by Benjamin Davies Produced by Paul Thomas and William Ballantyne, producers, INTERACT MCR

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IS EDUCATION FAILING WILL CAMPAIGNS AGAINST RELIGION AND THE THE TEST? CULTURAL APPROPRIATION INDIVIDUAL IN ART: A THURSDAY 9 NOVEMBER DESTROY THE ARTS? GALLERY TOUR EXETER | 18:30—20:00 FRIDAY 10 NOVEMBER SUNDAY 19 NOVEMBER LONDON | 19:00—21:00 LONDON | 10:15—12:00 Hele Lecture Theatre, Exeter College, Hele Road, Exeter EX4 4JS Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London E1 6LA London WC2N 5DN If we don’t have political agreement about the purpose of education, how can we have clear Do the public need to be made aware of the In the first of a series of gallery tours Dido education policy and how can we measure cultural theft that has been perpetrated against Powell will explore paintings of religious success? And without clear policy objectives, minority cultures? Should artists and writers be figures and events to show how artists from isn’t education bound to fail the test? held to account? the early Renaissance to the Baroque era grappled with concepts of human agency Pamela Dow, chief reform officer, Catch22; Ivan Hewett, chief music critic, Telegraph within Christianity. former civil servant, Department for Elizabeth Lynch, arts producer Kenan Education Terry James, educational Malik, writer and broadcaster Dr Avaes Dido Powell, painter; lecturer in art history leadership consultant, TKJ Education George Mohammad, writer and poet. Chair: Dr Siddons, student, University of Exeter. Wendy Earle, convenor, Institute of Ideas Produced by Wendy Earle Chair: Martin Owen, founder, Exeter Salon Arts and Society Forum

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CAN CULTURE SAVE THE CITY? GROUPTHINK: DO EAST BREXIT HATE CRIME IN TUESDAY 28 NOVEMBER MIDLANDS UNIVERSITIES SCHOOLS: SHOCKING TRUTH PAISLEY | 18:30—20:00 PUT CONFORMISM BEFORE OR OVER-HYPED? CRITICISM? MONDAY 13 NOVEMBER University of the West of Scotland, Paisley THURSDAY 9 NOVEMBER Campus, High Street, Paisley PA1 2BE LONDON | 19:00—20:30 DERBY | 19:00—20:30 Cultural policy now plays a major part in London Global Institute, 46-47 Russell how our cities seek to reinvent themselves, Brunswick Inn, Derby DE1 2RU Square, Bloomsbury, London and cities like Paisley are competing to be Is there a danger that academic Headlines report racist hate crimes have named UK City of Culture. But is culture homogeneity is undermining critical almost doubled in schools since Brexit and really the key to regeneration? thinking and transforming universities into the election of Donald Trump. Can this closed-minded echo chambers? Or is this be true? What are we to make of claims of Pauline Hadaway, author, Re-imagining complaint just a cloak put on by reactionary widespread hate in classrooms? Titanic, re-imaging Belfast Christine thinkers who dislike being criticised? Hamilton, consultant, cultural policy Adrian Hart, author, That’s Racist! Professor Katarzyna Kosmala, co-editor, , Institute of Dr Ruth Mieschbuehler Zubeda Limbada, founding director, Precarious Spaces: the arts, social and Education, University of Derby Dr Vanessa ConnectFutures Robert Posner, chief organizational change Gayle McPherson, , associate professor, University Pupavac executive, The Anne Frank Trust UK Dr professor of events and cultural policy, of Nottingham , Dr Nikos Sotirakopoulos Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, co-author, What University of the West of Scotland. Chair: author, The Rise of Lifestyle Activism Dr Should Schools Teach? Chair: Claire Fox, Alastair Donald, Institute of Ideas Glynne Williams, associate professor, director, Institute of Ideas University of Leicester. Chair: Dennis Produced by Carlton Brick Hayes, Academics For Academic Freedom Produced by Kevin Rooney Produced by Dennis Hayes and Dr Ruth Mieschbuehler

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THURSDAY 28 SEPTEMBER DO WE LIVE IN A ‘POST- Beppler-Spahl, chair, Freiblickinstitut DO WE LIVE IN A ‘POST-TRUTH’ SOCIETY? TRUTH’ SOCIETY? e.V; CEO, Sprachkunst36; Germany WARSAW | 18:00 THURSDAY 28 SEPTEMBER, correspondent, spiked WARSAW | 18:00—19:30 TUESDAY 31 OCTOBER Państwo-Miasto, Andersa 29, 00-001 Produced by Sabine Beppler-Spahl DOES LUTHER STILL MATTER? Warszawa RELIGIOUS CONSCIENCE AND INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY Do we really live in a ‘post-truth’ society, BERLIN | 17:45 in which ‘objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to TUESDAY 31 OCTOBER emotion and personal belief’? If so, what TRUTH, FICTION AND BELIEF IN does that mean for politics and democracy? SECULAR TIMES BERLIN | 19:30 Joanna Berendt, reporter, New York Times TRUTH, FICTION AND BELIEF Brendan O’Neill, editor, spiked Dr Łukasz IN SECULAR TIMES THURSDAY 2 NOVEMBER Pawłowski, managing editor and columnist, TUESDAY 31 OCTOBER, WHO AND WHAT ARE THE ARTS FOR? Kultura Liberalna Ryszard Schnepf, BERLIN | 19.30—21.00 PORTO | 21:30 historian; Polish diplomat. Chair: Rob Theaterforum Kreuzberg, Eisenbahnstrasse SATURDAY 4 NOVEMBER Lyons, science and technology director, 21, 10997 Berlin STATE OF THE ARTS: GLOBAL Institute of Ideas What is the truth? The question of what VERSUS LOCAL Produced by Rob Lyons LISBON | 16:00 we should believe has become complicated in recent years as the debates about ‘fake SATURDAY 4 NOVEMBER news’ and the ‘lying press’ (‘Lügenpresse’) PRESERVATION OR MODERNISATION? show. Can ‘fact-checking’ help us or is the LISBON | 18:00 obsession with evidence misplaced? Would abandoning the attempt to find commonly WEDNESDAY 8 NOVEMBER DOES LUTHER STILL MATTER? agreed truths leave society rudderless? SAFE OR SANITISED: FREE SPEECH RELIGIOUS CONSCIENCE AND THE RIGHT TO BE OFFENSIVE AND INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY David Bowden, associate fellow, Institute of DUBLIN | 19:00 TUESDAY 31 OCTOBER, Ideas Tillmann Prüfer, editor, ZEITmagazin BERLIN | 17:45—19:15 Nadja Vancauwenberghe, editor in chief MONDAY 13 NOVEMBER and publisher, EXBERLINER magazine DO WE LIVE IN A ‘POST-TRUTH’ SOCIETY? Theaterforum Kreuzberg, Eisenbahnstrasse Dr Theresa Züger, associated researcher, ATHENS | 19:30 21, 10997 Berlin Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. Chair: Pauline Hadaway, writer and WEDNESDAY 15 NOVEMBER First of two debates in this Reformation researcher; author, Policing the Public Gaze GOOD POPULISM, BAD POPULISM? Day event looks at the legacy of Martin ATHENS | 19:30 Luther and the Reformation, and asks what Produced by Sabine Beppler-Spahl TUESDAY 10 OCTOBER is the enduring significance of individual GOOD POPULISM, BAD POPULISM? conscience what does free will mean today? BRUSSELS | 19:30 — 21:00 Professor Joe Friggieri, professor of SATURDAY 18 NOVEMBER philosophy, University of Malta; poet, BATTLE OF IDEAS STOCKHOLM playwright and theatre director Pauline STOCKHOLM | 11:00 — 18:30 Hadaway, writer and researcher; author, Policing the Public Gaze Alan Posener, SATURDAY 25 NOVEMBER former opinion editor, Die Welt; author 25 YEARS OF NOVO: THE Benedict’s Crusade: the attack of the Vatican FREIRAUM CONGRESS on modern society Dr Andreas Rauhut, BERLIN | 14:00 — 17:30 pastor in training, protestant church Berlin-Brandenburg; research associate University of Johannesburg. Chair: Sabine

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WHO AND WHAT ARE THE PRESERVATION OR edition Ella Whelan, assistant editor, spiked; ARTS FOR? MODERNISATION? author, What Women Want: fun, freedom THURSDAY 2 NOVEMBER, SATURDAY 4 NOVEMBER, and an end to feminism. Chair: Justin PORTO | 21:30—23:00 LISBON | 18:00—19:30 Smyth, librarian; co-founder, Dublin Salon Maus Hábitos, Rua Passos Manuel 178, 4º Zé Dos Bois Gallery, Rua da Barroca, 59 Produced by Justin Smyth Piso, 4000-382 Porto 1200-047 Bairro Alto, Lisbon

Should those who love the arts make a case Should we seek to preserve the cultural for the economic and social benefits of heritage of our cities, or embrace investment in culture, or is it better make a modernisation and change? case for art as a good thing in and of itself? Alastair Donald, Institute of Ideas; co- DO WE LIVE IN A ‘POST- Manick Govinda, head of Artists’ Advisery director, Future Cities Project António TRUTH’ SOCIETY? Services Vera Mota, artist Vania Rodrigues, Brito Guterres, policy programme officer MONDAY 13 NOVEMBER, cultural manager, Mala Voadora theatre and researcher, Dinâmia-Cet Iscte-IUL ATHENS | 19:30—21:00 company. Chair: Alastair Donald, Institute Rita João, designer and founder, Pedrita of Ideas Studio Professor Ana Tostões, architect Hellenic American Union, Massalias 22, and architecture historian; president, 10680, Athens Produced by Alastair Donald and DOCOMOMO International Joana Inês Soares, artist Varajão, RA\\ Architecture and Design Do we really live in a ‘post-truth’ society, Studio. Chair: Manick Govinda, head of in which ‘objective facts are less influential Artists’ Advisery Services in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief’? If so, what Produced by Alastair Donald and does that mean for politics and democracy? Joana Varajão Thodoris Georgakopoulos writer and STATE OF THE ARTS: GLOBAL journalist; editorial director, diaNEOsis VERSUS LOCAL Luke Gittos, criminal lawyer; director, City SATURDAY 4 NOVEMBER, of London Appeals Clinic (COLAC); legal LISBON | 16:00—17:15 editor, spiked; author, Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous Myth Dr Anna Nikolaou, adjunct Zé Dos Bois Gallery, Rua da Barroca, 59 professor, Hellenic American University 1200-047 Bairro Alto, Lisbon Menelaos Tzafalias, freelance journalist SAFE OR SANITISED: FREE First of two debates in this event and producer. Chair: Dr Ashley Frawley, SPEECH AND THE RIGHT TO senior lecturer, sociology and social policy; focussing on cultural controversies: is the BE OFFENSIVE globalisation of art a good thing or a retreat programme director, BSc social sciences, WEDNESDAY 8 NOVEMBER, from authenticity? Swansea University DUBLIN | 19:00—21:00 , artistic director, Teatro Produced by Geoff Kidder and Lila Patrick Dickie College Of Computing Technology, 30-34 Nacional São Carlos, , head Manioti, director of cultural affairs, Manick Govinda Westmoreland Street, Dublin 2 of Artists’ Advisery Services Sandra Vieira Hellenic American Union Jürgens, Instituto de História da Arte, To what extent should we be free to Universidade Nova de Lisboa Francisco discuss, promote and hear controversial Vidal, visual artist; representative, Angolan or unsavoury ideas argued over in the Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015. Chair: mainstream media and social media alike. Alastair Donald, Institute of Ideas Do speaker bans and attempts to enforce cultural sensitivity enhance or degrade our Produced by Manick Govinda and intellectual lives? Joana Varajão Speakers include: Ian O’Doherty, columnist, Irish Independent and Irish Daily Star Catherine Sanz, reporter, The Times, Ireland

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GOOD POPULISM, BAD POPULISM? BATTLE OF IDEAS HATE SPEECH AND TUESDAY 14 NOVEMBER, STOCKHOLM DEMOCRACY: SHOULD ATHENS | 19:30—21:00 SATURDAY 18 NOVEMBER WE TOLERATE THE INTOLERANT? Free Thinking Zone, Skoufa 64 Str and Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Stockholm 16:00–17:15 Grivaion, 10680 Athens In Sweden and in many other Some see in recent events across Europe, countries, bans on hate speech and a new anti-elite political realignment, both marches by extremist groups have on the left and the right. Do both or either expanded considerably in recent represent the concerns of ordinary people? FAKE NEWS AND RIGGED years. Is this valuable protection for Are there ‘good’ and ‘bad’ populism? ELECTIONS: MORAL minorities or an attack on fundamental PANIC OR THREAT political freedoms? Speakers include: Dr Ashley Frawley, TO DEMOCRACY? 11:00–12:15 senior lecturer, sociology and social policy; AMERICA: WHERE NOW? programme director, BSc social sciences, From Donald Trump to Brexit, there 17:30–18:30 Swansea University. Chair: Geoff Kidder, has been controversy about ‘fake news’. director, membership and events, Institute Who decides what news is fake? What Until recently the world’s undisputed of Ideas; convenor, IoI Book Club should we do about it? Is there still room superpower, America now seems for satire? Is ‘fake news’ a fake debate? economically stagnant, politically Produced by Geoff Kidder and Areti and culturally divided, and weakened Georgili, founder, Free Thinking Zone internationally. Can Donald Trump THE URBAN-RURAL really ‘make America great again’ or is DIVIDE: DISSECTING THE his election a symptom of decline? CULTURE WARS 12:30–13:45 SPEAKERS INCLUDE GOOD POPULISM, BAD While cosmopolitan Stockholm is Alastair Donald, co-director, Future POPULISM? booming, Sweden’s rural communities Cities Project Michael Goldfarb, WEDNESDAY 15 NOVEMBER, are becoming worse off and leaning journalist and historian, FRDH BRUSSELS | 19:30—21:00 towards populist and anti-immigrant Podcast Pauline Hadaway, researcher; politics. Is this divide about economics, author, Policing the Public Gaze Karin Flemish-Dutch House Deburen, a battle over culture and values, or a sign Henriksson, journalist, Svenska Leopoldstraat 6, 1000 Brussels of democratic revival? Dagbladet, author Trump: miljarderna, medierna och makten Martin Kragh, Some see in recent events across Europe, DRIVERLESS CARS: OUT OF head of Russia and Eurasia Programme, a new anti-elite political realignment, both CONTROL OR LIBERATING Urikespolitiska institutet Rob Lyons, on the left and the right. Do both or either US FROM GRIDLOCK? science and technology director, Institute represent the concerns of ordinary people? of Ideas Roland Poirier Martinsson, Is there ‘good’ and ‘bad’ populism? 14:30–15:45 author, Är Texas det nya Kalifornien? Nathalie Rothschild, journalist Lars Jan Cornillie, political director, SP.A With the likes of Google, Tesla and Trägårdh, professor of history, Ersta Professor Frank Furedi, sociologist and Volvo all developing driverless cars, can Sköndal Högskola Austin Williams, social commentator; author, Populism and they make driving safer, faster and more author, China’s Urban Revolution the European Culture Wars Heather Grabbe, enjoyable, as claimed? Or are they a technological, economic and cultural Produced by Johan Wirfält, director, Open Society European Policy Oskar Ekström and Alex Dominici Institute Hans Wansink, op-ed editor and dead end? commentator, De Volkskrant. Chair: Alastair Donald, associate director, Institute of Ideas Produced by Xander Stroo, programme officer, Vlaams-Nederlands Huis deBuren

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BATTLE OF IDEAS BERLIN DISRUPTION OR DANGER: SATURDAY 25 NOVEMBER WHY DOES SOCIETY FEAR University of Applied Sciences Europe, NEW TECHNOLOGY? Dessauer Str. 3-5, 10963, Berlin 16:30–18:15

While in Germany the precautionary CITIZEN OR CONSUMER: principle and ethical concerns inhibit WHAT ABOUT OUR innovation, elsewhere in the world FREEDOM OF CHOICE? new technologies are already on the 15:00—16:15 starting blocks. What are the reasons for the German fear of technology? Recent years have seen a dramatic What potential does technological increase in the use of consumer policy to progress hold? control eating habits, alcohol intake and other consumption choices. How should enthusiasts for freedom opposition MULTICULTURALISM AND 25 YEARS OF NOVO: THE challenge these measures? ITS DISCONTENTS FREIRAUM CONGRESS 18:30—19:30 SATURDAY 25 NOVEMBER, BERLIN | 14:00—19:30 FROM HATE SPEECH TO The question of immigration and FAKE NEWS: IS THERE integration, and that of wider social University of Applied Sciences Europe, TOO MUCH FREEDOM OF disaffection, are often linked to suggest Dessauer Str. 3-5, 10963 Berlin SPEECH? that too much immigration helps create 15:00—16:15 disaffection. What are the problems A wide-ranging day of debates. facing both minority and majority From ‘fake news’ to technophobia, Many people are concerned about communities and how should we respond and from Brexit to the role of the the style of online debates and media, the question of migration 21st century. state in protecting consumers from with offensive comments and fictitious themselves, come and grapple with the stories, masquerading as news. Who issues of the day. should decide what we can say and read SPEAKERS INCLUDE online? What does freedom of speech Speakers include: Sabine Beppler-Spahl, This special anniversary event is produced mean in these turbulent times? chair, Freiblickinstitut e.V Dr Hans- by Johannes Richardt and team Ulrich Grimm, editor, Dr. Watson Der EUROPE AFTER BREXIT: IS Food Detektiv; author, Gummizoo macht THERE A FUTURE FOR THE Kinder froh - krank und dick dann sowieso EU? Alexander Horn, business consultant 16:30–18:15 Christoph Lövenich, editor, Novo Kenan Malik, writer and broadcaster; author, Brexit has alarmed many EU supporters From Fatwa to Jihad Johannes Richardt, and everyone seems to agree that editor in chief, Novo Fred Cyrus Roeder, the EU needs to change to survive. managing director, Consumer Choice But should an institution that fears a Center Speake Dr Götz Ruprecht, public vote on its future be reformed or Institute for Solid-State Nuclear Physics abolished? What exactly do we want to protect and save? Berlin gGmbH Professor Dr Michael Wohlgemuth, director, Open Europe Berlin Kolja Zydatiss, Novo

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