STREAM
FODI Festival

DATE & TIME
30 AUGUST 2014

LOCATION
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE

Are some ideas too dangerous to talk about?  

With back-to-back talks on punk feminism, national silence and Russia, FODI 2014 refused to shy away from the difficult conversations.

Brain-chewy questions abound at FODI in 2014. Is Russia a penal colony? Are there some authorities we shouldn’t question? How many dangerous ideas can one person have? Are borders relevant in a global context?  

Controversial thinkers including Pussy Riot, John Pilger, Sir Salman Rushdie, and Emily Nussbaum challenged ideas and revealed biases. The FODI 2014 program explored what our future holds in this world of shifting borders and alliances.

Catch up

If you missed a talk or want to re-live it, check out the 2014 YouTube playlist. Hit the top left of the media player below to expand into a complete list of available talks on play-back.

Speakers

Pussy Riot

is a Russian feminist punk rock group who were imprisoned for protesting.

John Pilger

is an Australian journalist and BAFTA award-winning documentary filmmaker.  

Sir Salman Rushdie

is a Booker Prize winning novelist and essayist. 

Emily Nussbaum

is a Pulitzer Prize winning American critic for The New Yorker. 

Masha Gessen

is a Russian-American journalist, author and outspoken activist.

Steven Pinker

is a Canadian-American experimental psychologist.

Malcolm Fraser

was the 22nd Prime Minister of Australia.

Lydia Cacho

is a Mexican investigative journalist, womens rights, and human rights activist.

Bradley Garrett

is a social and cultural geographer at the University of Sydney.

Alissa Nutting

is an outspoken author of Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls andTampa

John Hewson

is a former Australian political leader of the Liberal Party.

Bettina Arndt

is one of Australia’s first sex therapists.

Elizabeth Pisani

is journalist and scientist, specialising in infectious disease epidemiology.

Jane Caro

is an Australian author, journalist, broadcaster and documentary filmmaker.

Glenn Robbins

is an Australian comedian and writer.

Elizabeth Kolbert

is an American journalist and environmental commentator.

Noelle Janaczewska

is a performer and art activist.

Anne Manne

is a writer and social philosopher.

Jaan Tallinn

is a Turkish publisher and Human Rights activist.

Kajsa Ekis Ekiman

 is a Swedish journalist, writer, and activist on Women’s rights and Capitalism.

Dan Ilic

is an Australian presenter, comedian and filmmaker.

Tim Flannery

 is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, scientist and environmentalist.

Kay Hymowitz

is an American author who writes on family issues and cultural change.

Francesca Minerva

is an outspoken former Oxford University ethicist.

Mark Latham

is an Australian political commentator and politician.

David Baker

is an American biochemist and computational biologist.

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

is an American philosopher, novelist and public intellectual.

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Who is it for?

  • THE ACTIVIST
  • THE FUTURIST
  • THE PROVOCATEUR
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What you'll take away

  • 01A COMMITMENT TO BEING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY
  • 02BELIEFS CHALLENGES AND BIASES REVEALED
  • 03NEW IDEAS ON CURRENT ISSUES
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