The UNSW Centre for Ideas has partnered with The Ethics Centre to present this year's Festival of Dangerous Ideas.
Taking place over two days in November, the event will explore themes of trust and truth, pushing our public and personal boundaries, encouraging intellectual debate and taking ideas to the limit.
The festival brings together thinkers, writers and culture creators to tackle the deep and challenging questions of our time. It allows us to push ideas to the extreme, disagree in public and shine a light on what is too hard to talk about.
Dangerous ideas challenge mainstream thought and opinion, upset the status quo, surprise us and make us think.
Now in its ninth year, the Festival of Dangerous Ideas is choosing a commanding new location to call home: Cockatoo Island, a place that was ‘off-limits’ to the public for over 100 years.
Director of the UNSW Centre for Ideas, Ann Mossop, says of the new partnership: “This is a new arena for UNSW, but both organisations have a strong commitment to freedom of inquiry, freedom of speech and knowledge exchange for the public good. By presenting the festival together, we can bring these values to life.”
Past speakers include philosophers, writers, scientists, historians and activists including Christopher Hitchens, Julian Assange, Mona Eltahawy, Alicia Garza, Sir Salman Rushdie, Germaine Greer, Pussy Riot, Tariq Ali, Paul Krugman, Sam Harris, Vandana Shiva, Naomi Klein and Stan Grant.
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