STREAM
FODI Festival
DATE & TIME
05-06 SEPTEMBER 2015
LOCATION
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
What do you wish we spoke more about?
Cybershaming and cybersexism, climate change and poverty, drug addiction, loneliness, and love. It’s the seventh year of the Festival of Dangerous Ideas.
A group of activists, authors, intellectuals and outspoken thinkers from all over the world came together to talk ideas at FODI 2015. The star-studded line-up includes freed journalist Peter Greste, Dietland author Sarai Walker on fat-shaming, and author Eric Schlosser on America’s nuclear arsenal secrets. We’re talking North Korea, the rise of the robots, sugar, hacktivism and Homeland.
Catch up:
For the full 2015 lineup visit the complete FODI playlist here or catch Jon Ronson’s talk below.
Speakers
Paul Krugman
is an award winning award-winning economist and New York Times columnist.
Naomi Klein
is a climate change warrior and author of This Changes Everything.
Tariq Ali
is a leading political commentator on the twilight of democracy and the rise of the extreme.
Marc Lewis
is a developmental neuroscientist and former addict.
Eric Schlosser
is an American investigative journalist and published author.
Jon Ronson
is a Welsh journalist, documentary film maker and published author of the best seller “You’ve been publicly shamed”.
AC Grayling
is an eminent British Philosopher and author of over 35 books including ‘The God Argument’.
Helen Joyce
is the International Editor of The Economist.
Laurie Penny
is a Feminist journalist, activist and author of six books.
Murong Xuecun
is a Chinese popular author on the role of censorship in China.
Peter Greste
is an Australian journalist and international news correspondent who was imprisoned in Egypt.
Sarah Wilson
is an Australian journalist and the founder of ‘I quit sugar’.
Damon Gameau
is an Australian actor and documentary film maker known for ‘That Sugar Film’
Jane Martin
is executive manager of the Obesity Policy Coalition, a policy think tank of the Cancer Council Victoria.
Helen Razer
is an Australian radio presenter and writer.
Michael Kirby
is an Australian jurist and academic, who is a former Justice of the High Court of Australia.
Anna Broinowski
is the Walkley Award-winning documentary filmmaker of Aim High in Creation! About North Koreas propaganda film makers.
The Moth
Moth is New York’s cult-favourite storytelling group (and podcast).
Who is it for?
- THE ACTIVIST
- THE FUTURIST
- THE PROVOCATEUR
What you'll take away
- 01CONTROVERSIAL CONCLUSIONS
- 02CONVINCING ARGUMENTS
- 03NEW WAYS OF UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD WE LIVE IN
