WE WILL STOP SELLING TICKETS ONLINE AFTER 4PM ON FRIDAY 26TH OCTOBER

There are still places available at the festival.  If you would still like to attend, you can buy tickets on the door at the RCA from:

9.15am on Saturday 27th October

and from 9.30am on Sunday 28th October.

CIRCLE LINE: On Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 October, is suspended throughout the entire line due to planned engineering works. Find out more information here.
 
DISTRICT LINE: On Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 October, is suspended between Earls Court and Whitechapel due to planned engineering works. A limited late night replacement bus service operates between South Kensington and Aldgate East.
Find out more information here.

The ESRC with the Institute of Ideas this year ran a competition for all postgraduate students who are funded by the ESRC to write a Battle in Print for the two ERSC keynote debates:‘Democracy and Its Discontents’ and ‘The Resurrection of Religion: Moving Beyond Secularism or Losing Faith in Politics?’ The winning essays have now been chosen:

‘Democracy and Its Discontents’
Nicki Senior, The Public Service Customer: Misdirection, Manipulation or Myth?

‘The Resurrection of Religion: Moving Beyond Secularism or Losing Faith in Politics?’
Stratos Ramoglou, The quest for certainty and the question of autonomy

Battle of Ideas media partner Times Online is hosting several blogs to accompany provocative Battle of Ideas debates. The blogs feature Battle speakers and Times writers (including David Aaronovitch, Anjana Ahuja and Gerald Baker) squaring off over science, privacy & technology, the environment, religion ...and of course, why people hate America.

Battles in Print as background reading for many of the Arts & Culture sessions have been published today. Read them here.

Raymond Tallis has composed a list of his top ten works of Western culture for us. Vote for your favourite in our poll.

Three new Battles in Print have been published today for tomorrow’s satellite event: What good is e-learning?

After the Bubble has burst, Toby Marshall
Is ICT transforming learning?, Keri Facer
Beyond technology: rethinking learning in the age of digital culture, David Buckingham

Four new Battles in Print have been published in Lifestyle & Society and Health & Wellbeing:

Click here to read the Battles in Print

Spiked Online Editor Brendan O’Neill presents the first show in a mini-series in the run-up to the Battle of Ideas and interviews Ceri Dingle of education charity WORLDwrite, which campaigns for global equality. View the show on 18 Doughty Street.

WORLDwrite is an education charity which describes its mission as challenging prejudices and stereotypes by giving young people a unique opportunity to see the world from a fresh perspective through a first-hand, investigative filmmaking experience.

The final programme has been published in pdf format:
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