The Festival Of Dangerous Ideas Is Back With More Risky Thinking For 2016

For 7 years now, The Festival Of Dangerous Ideas has descended on the Sydney Opera house for a series of thought-provoking discussions and 2016 will be no different. Today, the team behind the event have announced the official line-up of particularly dangerous thinkers involved in this year’s event.

The main topics for this year will be Disappearing Countries, Dealing in DeathDisruptive Behaviour, and Dirty Politics. These will cover everything from inequality between generations, religious and political extremism and addressing Indigenous people dying in an international suicide epidemic.

Taking to the podium to express their views will be Black Lives Matter activist Alicia Garza who will be joined by Stan Grant, UK science correspondent Alok Jha, plus the likes of Germaine Greer, Annabel Crabb, David Marr and Andrew Bolt. Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins will also be presenting a talk on “the bloodbath that is US politics.”

Speaking to Time Out, FODI co-curator and head of talks and ideas at Sydney Opera House, Ann Mossop explained of the event’s ethos: “We look at the more dangerous end of the equation, but also the less dramatic but equally interesting topics like the ‘Bamboo Curtain’, which is about discrimination against people from Asia.”

You can peruse through the full catalog here.

The Festival Of Dangerous Ideas

Tickets available Monday, 11th July 

Line Up:

John Bell

Jesse Bering

Andrew Bolt

Raewyn Connell

Molly Crabapple

Annabel Crabb

Stephen Dank

Satyajit Das

Pat Dudgeon

Tobias Feakin

Cordelia Fine

Tim Flannery

Alicia Garza

Bates Gill

Priyamvada Gopal

Kevan Gosper

Stan Grant

AC Grayling

Lev Grossman

Germaine Greer

Tracey Holmes

Sarah Houbolt

Shanto Iyengar

Simon Jackman

Alok Jha

Miranda Johnson

Michael Kirby

Brian Lipson

Sheryn Lee

Phillipe LeGrain

Ming Long

Hamish McDonald

Dee Madigan

David Marr

Jason Mazanov

Jane McAdam

Lloyd Newsom

Norman Ornstain

George Packer

Jennifer Rayner

John Elder Robison

Henry Rollins

Alexei Sayle

Laura Secor

Lionel Shriver

Tim Soutphommasane

Neil Strauss

Lee Vinsel

Sheila Watt-Cloutier

Daniel Webb

Jennifer Whelan

Saturday, 3rd September – Sunday, 4th September

Sydney Opera House, Sydney

Tickets: Festival Of Dangerous Ideas

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