Battle of Ideas 2009 welcome address

Saturday 31 October, 10.00am until 10.20am, Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Festival Attractions 2009

The fifth annual Battle of Ideas festival will open with a Welcome Address hosted by Claire Fox, Director of the Institute of Ideas.

Read Institute of Ideas Director Claire Fox’s introductory essay to the Battle of Ideas 2009.

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Speakers
Professor David Delpy
chief executive, EPSRC

Anoushka Healy
assistant editor, Strategy & Development, The Times

Professor Colin Lawson
director, Royal College of Music; period clarinettist; author, Cambridge Handbooks to Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto and Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet

Jeremy Myerson
director, Helen Hamlyn Centre, Royal College of Art; holder, Helen Hamlyn Chair of Design; author Space to Work: new office design

Chair:
Claire Fox
director, Institute of Ideas; panellist, BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze


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