Festival of Dangerous Ideas

THEATRE // In its Australian premiere, a Royal Court Theatre production written by an anonymous woman, read out loud by an unprepared man.

sunday

MANWATCHING (Sun)

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz , Zeynep Tufekci

THEATRE // In its Australian premiere, a Royal Court Theatre production written by an anonymous woman, read out loud by an unprepared man.

saturday

Our Attention Has Been Stolen

Zeynep Tufekci

KEYNOTE // Have our minds been enslaved by addictive technology? Can we get them back?

sunday

Post Populism

Niall Ferguson

KEYNOTE // Populist tribes around the world have increasing political sway. Can this movement sustain itself? What comes next?

saturday

Privacy is Over

PANEL // Data sharing is caring. Protecting your data could be holding back progress for the greater social good.

sunday

Rehearsal for Fascism

Pankaj Mishra , Angela Nagle , Tim Soutphommasane

PANEL // If we are in the midst of the rise of nationalism, racism and authoritarian regimes, where do we go next?

sunday

Sex Clown Saves the World

Betty Grumble

CABARET // A delirious encounter with obscene, ecosexual beauty queen Betty Grumble.

sunday

Sex Robots Have No Taboos

Rob Brooks , Dr Nikki Goldstein , Xanthe Mallett

PANEL // Does the arrival of sex robots mean moral panic, the end of intimacy or the next sex revolution?

saturday

Submission (Sat)

ART // A living symbiotic sculpture of erotic entanglement, in which art and the body, bondage and consent intertwine.

sunday

Submission (Sun)

ART // A living symbiotic sculpture of erotic entanglement, in which art and the body, bondage and consent intertwine.

sunday

The Danger of Scepticism

Matt Beard

// ALLOCATION EXHAUSTED //

sunday

THE END OF THE WORLD (AS WE KNOW IT)

Toby Walsh

KEYNOTE // AI could make redundant most of our certainties. How brave is our new world going to be?

saturday

The Ethics of Climate Change

// ALLOCATION EXHAUSTED //

saturday

The Ethics of Inequality

// ALLOCATION EXHAUSTED //

saturday

The Ethics of Vulnerability

Susan Dodds

// ALLOCATION EXHAUSTED //

saturday

The Hand That Wields It (Sat)

ART // Gamers feel the visceral effects of their virtual warfare in a performance sculpture redux.

sunday

The Hand That Wields It (Sun)

Germaine Greer , Megan Phelps-Roper , Ayelet Waldman

ART // Gamers feel the visceral effects of their virtual warfare in a performance sculpture redux.

saturday

The Hitch

Stephen Fry

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saturday

Too Dangerous

PANEL // The blacklist of modern heretics, sentenced to burn in the overheated fires of our indignation, is growing.

saturday

What if We're Wrong?

Chuck Klosterman

KEYNOTE // US pop culture theorist Chuck Klosterman asks how tomorrow will make sense of today.

saturday

Rukmini Callimachi on ISIS

Rukmini Callimachi

sunday

Age of Anger

Pankaj Mishra

saturday

Cancer on Democracy

Darren Goodsir , Rebecca Huntley

saturday

Choose China

Linda Jakobson , Simon Longstaff

sunday

Everybody Lies (except the Internet)

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

saturday

Everyday Ethics

Simon Longstaff

sunday

Fight the Fear

Khandis Blake , Rob Brooks

saturday

Hard Truths

Mick Dodson

saturday

In Praise of Economic Inequality

Nick Cater , Rosalind Dixon , Richard Holden , Judith Sloan

saturday

Kill All Normies

Angela Nagle

sunday

Love Your Enemy

Megan Phelps-Roper

sunday

LSD: Forbidden Medicine

Ayelet Waldman

saturday

MANWATCHING (Sat)

sunday

MANWATCHING (Sun)

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz , Zeynep Tufekci

saturday

Our Attention Has Been Stolen

Zeynep Tufekci

sunday

Post Populism

Niall Ferguson

saturday

Privacy is Over

sunday

Rehearsal for Fascism

Pankaj Mishra , Angela Nagle , Tim Soutphommasane

sunday

Sex Clown Saves the World

Betty Grumble

sunday

Sex Robots Have No Taboos

Rob Brooks , Dr Nikki Goldstein , Xanthe Mallett

saturday

Submission (Sat)

sunday

Submission (Sun)

sunday

The Danger of Scepticism

Matt Beard

sunday

THE END OF THE WORLD (AS WE KNOW IT)

Toby Walsh

saturday

The Ethics of Climate Change

saturday

The Ethics of Inequality

saturday

The Ethics of Vulnerability

Susan Dodds

saturday

The Hand That Wields It (Sat)

sunday

The Hand That Wields It (Sun)