Battle of Ideas 2009 31 October & 1 November, London

The Battle of Ideas 2009 will be a two-day festival of high-level, thought-provoking debate organised by the Institute of Ideas and hosted by the Royal College of Art.

2009 Ticket Information

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Battle News

Session timetable now online

Pre-Conference Economy Press Coverage

Sci-Fi London Festival:
Dystopia - Are we Doomed?

The Battle for the Economy

IoI

Speakers include: Frank Furedi, Paul Mason, Erik Reinert and many more - 16 May 2009 London

Event info & tickets

Reading for Battle

Giving the green light to suicide, Kevin Yuill

Neither euthanasia nor suicide, but end-of-life choice, Sarah Wootton

America will still rule the post-crisis world, Anatole Kaletsky


Battles in Print

Pitch Report: Cricket and Identity in India , Debanjan Chakrabarti

The Truth? - you must be making it up!, Sarah Boyes

Radicalism then and now: what’s changed since 1968?, Maria Grasso


Festival Buzz

Watch Battle of Ideas 2008 video...

"It alerts me to new areas of debate, and gives thought-provoking new angles on topics I thought I already knew well. Altogether it's a wonderful intellectual tonic, which cheers up the dog days of November."
Ivan Hewett, music critic, Daily Telegraph

Partners
The Battle of Ideas is produced by
Institute of Ideas