Adelaide Festival of Ideas
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The Adelaide Festival of Ideas has been held every two years since 1999 over a period of three or four days in October (as of 2011, previously July) at venues throughout Adelaide
in the alternate year to the long-established Adelaide Festival of Arts
.
The Festival features a range of talks and panel discussions with national and international speakers, loosely organised around a common theme -- big ideas and contemporary debates are given greater space for exploration. It is a space where an intelligent public
can engage with some of the best thinkers across a wide range of intellectual endeavour. The 'AFoI' has become hugely popular harnessing ideas, experience and intellect and attracting attendance from all states of Australia, and from overseas.
The 2005 Festival took the theme "What is to be done". Speakers included Peter C. Doherty, Germaine Greer
and Stephen Schneider
.
Presentations from the Festival have been periodically broadcast on Radio Adelaide
on Sunday mornings and were available on the Festival's website.
Adelaide
Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...
in the alternate year to the long-established Adelaide Festival of Arts
Adelaide Festival of Arts
The Adelaide Festival of Arts is an arts festival held biennially in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. Although locally considered to be one of the world's greatest celebrations of the arts, that is internationally renowned and the pre-eminent cultural event in Australia, it is actually...
.
The Festival features a range of talks and panel discussions with national and international speakers, loosely organised around a common theme -- big ideas and contemporary debates are given greater space for exploration. It is a space where an intelligent public
Public
In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individuals, and the public is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the Öffentlichkeit or public sphere. The concept of a public has also been defined in political science,...
can engage with some of the best thinkers across a wide range of intellectual endeavour. The 'AFoI' has become hugely popular harnessing ideas, experience and intellect and attracting attendance from all states of Australia, and from overseas.
The 2005 Festival took the theme "What is to be done". Speakers included Peter C. Doherty, Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer is an Australian writer, academic, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th century....
and Stephen Schneider
Stephen Schneider
Stephen Henry Schneider was Professor of Environmental Biology and Global Change at Stanford University, a Co-Director at the Center for Environment Science and Policy of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a Senior Fellow in the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment...
.
Presentations from the Festival have been periodically broadcast on Radio Adelaide
Radio Adelaide
Radio Adelaide is Australia's first community radio station; established by Adelaide University in 1972. It broadcasts from street front studios on North Terrace, Adelaide...
on Sunday mornings and were available on the Festival's website.