Meet-Up: Young Free Thinkers mixer

Partners:

There are many instances today where the tried and tested solutions to the issues facing society have been found wanting. But there is also hope. Whether it is securing free speech for all in an increasingly censorious society, addressing how we energise and revitalise public and civic life, creating a renaissance in the arts and humanities, or rethinking predicaments from housing to economic productivity and innovation, new initiatives and organisations are springing to life and making their mark.

Many are grassroots initiatives run by and self-consciously appealing to the so called ‘next generation’. Whether resisting clampdowns on open debate, developing new arguments that address divisive issues of identity by making the case for a common humanity and universal ideas, or working out a 21st-century case for liberty and individual autonomy, there seems to be a welcome resurgence of start-up spaces in which to develop and contest ideas.

Come along to this special lunchtime mixer to hear about and meet new organisations, initiatives and next-generation free-thinkers that are doing it for themselves and imaginatively responding to the key challenges of our time.

Durham Union Society (Jordan Kiss)
Equiano Project (Ada Akpala)
Living Freedom (Felice Basbøll)
Pharos Foundation (Lydia Farnham)
Student Academics For Academic Freedom (Maeve Halligan)
Students for Liberty (Josh Cheshire)
#Together (Montgomery Toms)