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?



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"The Battle of Ideas is adrenaline for the mind. A chance for intellectual fisticuffs with some of the best-known and most stimulating thinkers in the world."
Colin Blakemore, professor of neuroscience, Oxford University