Battle news
3 November 2009
Battle of Ideas 2009 Audio available now

Battle of Ideas 2009 welcome address

Rethinking education – the new crisis of adult authority in the classroom

Post-recession Ideologies: it’s the politics, stupid!

Rethinking Privacy in an age of Disclosure and Sharing

Rethinking Freedom in an Illiberal Age: securing rights or celebrating liberty?

Rethinking Therapy Culture: changing the subject?

Nudge Nudge, Nag Nag: the new politics of behaviour

Should physician-assisted dying be legalised?

The Art of Criticism: judgement in crisis?



Festival Buzz

View: 'Turn That Racket Off'

"Just when Kant's formulation that 'the public exercise of reason should be free' had begun to seem so remote and exhausted, the Battle should reinforce one's faith in the enduring worth of dissent and of the free traffic in ideas"
Swapan Chakravorty, professor of english, Jadavpur University