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 Death, Disruptive 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
