PAST EVENT: Index on Censorship at the Battle of Ideas

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Index on Censorship is an official partner in this year’s Battle of Ideas, the festival of high-level, thought-provoking debate organised by the Institute of Ideas and hosted by the Royal College of Art, with Index team members taking part in several fascinating debates.

On 13 October, Index news editor Padraig Reidy will be discussing “Divining art? Culture and the sacred in the 21st century” at Notre Dame University, London, as part of a panel including Ruth Gledhill of the Times and George Pitcher of the Daily Telegraph.
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Index chief executive John Kampfner will debate the art of cartoons and offence on 22 October, along with Index on Censorship magazine contributor Martin Rowson, at the event “Drawing the line: political cartooning in an inoffensive age” at the Kowalsky Gallery, London EC1. Book your place here.

Jo Glanville, editor of Index on Censorship magazine, will join Anthony Barnett of the Convention on Modern Liberty and others to debate the issue that define freedom in our time at “Rethinking Freedom in an Illiberal Age: securing rights or celebrating liberty?”, one of the Battle Of Ideas’ “Keynote Controversies” at the Battle of Ideas festival weekend at the Royal College of Art, Kensington, London, on October 31. Book your place here

The new free expression debates

On the morning of Monday 12 October, Index on Censorship will be teaming up with Policy Exchange and Google to discuss free expression and the Internet. Later that day, Liberty and Index on Censorship will stage Protest! an exciting event encouraging students to exercise their right to free speech, with special guest Sir Hugh Orde, head of the Association of Chief Police Officers

Why, people might sensibly ask, is Index on Censorship engaging with one of the world’s leading technology corporations and one of Britain’s top police chiefs? The answer is because we no longer see free expression only through the traditional prism of outright state censorship of or violence against writers and journalists.
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