Festival of Dangerous Ideas

Sydney Town & Hall Cockatoo Island 03/04 Nov 2018

Delve into danger

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

Love Your Enemy

Megan Phelps-Roper

KEYNOTE // A call to end closed-mindedness from a former Westboro Baptist Church member.

sunday

Everybody Lies (except the Internet)

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

KEYNOTE // Big data reveals the sad truth that we all lie, almost all of the time.

saturday

Kill All Normies

Angela Nagle

KEYNOTE // In the internet culture wars, the ascendant alt-right confronts a complacent left obsessed with identity politics. Has the worst of the internet become reality?

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

Rukmini Callimachi on ISIS

Rukmini Callimachi

KEYNOTE // Rukmini Callimachi’s reporting on the hit podcast Caliphate sheds new light on the Islamic State. Who are we really fighting in the war on terror?

sunday

Age of Anger

Pankaj Mishra

KEYNOTE // Anarchy, resentment and an urge to smash the system are spreading. What caused this age of anger?

sunday

Post Populism

Niall Ferguson

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

sunday

LSD: Forbidden Medicine

Ayelet Waldman

KEYNOTE // A former law professor saved her marriage and her life by taking LSD. Now she's fighting for microdosing’s wider use.

saturday

Our Attention Has Been Stolen

Zeynep Tufekci

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

saturday

Privacy is Over

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz , Zeynep Tufekci

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

sunday

Sex Clown Saves the World

Betty Grumble

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

saturday

What if We're Wrong?

Chuck Klosterman

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

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

MANWATCHING (Sat)

The Royal Court Theatre Production

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)

The Royal Court Theatre Production , Osher Günsberg

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

saturday

Cancer on Democracy

Darren Goodsir , John Hewson , Rebecca Huntley , Dee Madigan

PANEL // Australia’s fourth estate is looking more like a concentrated set of clickbait-led empires. Is our democracy suffering?

saturday

Hard Truths

Mick Dodson

KEYNOTE // The Uluru Statement is ignored. So is history. When will white Australia start listening to First Nations People?

saturday

Too Dangerous

Germaine Greer , Megan Phelps-Roper , Ayelet Waldman

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

saturday

Submission (Sat)

Garth Knight

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

sunday

Submission (Sun)

Garth Knight

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

saturday

The Hand That Wields It (Sat)

Riley Harmon

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

sunday

The Hand That Wields It (Sun)

Riley Harmon

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

saturday

Choose China

Zhao Hai , Linda Jakobson , Adam Ni

// ALLOCATION EXHAUSTED //

saturday

Everyday Ethics

Simon Longstaff

// ALLOCATION EXHAUSTED //

sunday

Fight the Fear

Haris Aziz , Khandis Blake , Rob Brooks , Lee Rollins , MARTINA STENZEL

// ALLOCATION EXHAUSTED //

saturday

The Ethics of Climate Change

Jeremy Moss

// ALLOCATION EXHAUSTED //

saturday

The Ethics of Inequality

Jeremy Moss

// ALLOCATION EXHAUSTED //

saturday

In Praise of Economic Inequality

Nick Cater , Rosalind Dixon , Richard Holden , Judith Sloan

// ALLOCATION EXHAUSTED //

saturday

The Ethics of Vulnerability

Susan Dodds

// ALLOCATION EXHAUSTED //

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The Danger of Scepticism

Matt Beard

// ALLOCATION EXHAUSTED //

saturday

The Hitch

Stephen Fry

// ALLOCATION EXHAUSTED // WAITLIST AVAILABLE //

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