UK satellites

Our satellite debates bring the spirit of the Battle of Ideas to events held around the UK outside of the main festival weekend. Check back for further events and details, which will be added as they become available.

London
Tuesday 8 October 19:30 — 22:30Comedy Unleashed

Faversham
Thursday 10 October 17:00 — 18:15Will China dominate the 21st Century?

London
Thursday 10 October 18:45 — 20:30Central banking: behind the mystique

Birmingham
Saturday 12 October 11:15 — 12:45Migration and depopulation in twenty-first-century Europe

Birmingham
Saturday 12 October 13:30 — 15:00Rootedness: more than belonging?

Birmingham
Saturday 12 October 15:15 — 16:45Whose home is it anyway?

London
Sunday 13 October 11:00 — 12:30From symbol to individual: a gallery tour

Leeds
Thursday 17 October 18:45 — 20:30China: new global power?

London
Thursday 17 October 19:00 — 20:30A British Bill of Rights: guarantee or threat to freedom?

Derby
Thursday 17 October 19:00 — 20:30The dangerous rise of academic mobbing

Canterbury
Thursday 17 October 19:00 — 21:00Who is stealing young people’s future?

Sedbergh
Friday 18 October 19:30 — 21:00How can we bridge the north-south divide?

London
Tuesday 12 November 19:30 — 22:30Comedy Unleashed

Derby
Thursday 14 November 19:00 — 20:30Is ‘toxic masculinity’ dangerous in the academy?

LONDON
Monday 18 November 19:00 — 20:30The Education Culture Wars: what should be the role of a school today?

Swansea
Thursday 21 November 18:30 — 20:00Children’s well-being: the state versus parents?

Oxford
Thursday 28 November 18:00 — 19:30The rise of toxic politics: can we be civil?

Derby
Thursday 28 November 19:00 — 20:30By erasing the past, are universities racialising the campus?

Liverpool
Thursday 28 November 19:30 — 21:00Northern Heartlands: myth or reality?

London
Monday 2 December 19:00 — 21:00A manifesto for optimism?

London
Monday 2 December 19:00 — 21:00William Blake: poet of liberty and the human potential