PROGRAMME
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| 08.30 | Doors open – refreshments available | ||||||||||
| 09.45 | Opening key note address: Shami Chakrabarti | ||||||||||
| 10.00 |
First Plenary: Citizens and the state: the crisis of libertyChair: Georgina Henry Speakers: Dominic Grieve QC MP, Helena Kennedy QC, Sir David Varney, Ken Macdonald QC |
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| 11.15 | Coffee | ||||||||||
| 11.45 Morning Sessions: |
1. Judges and politiciansMishcon de Reya John Jackson, Sir Geoffrey Bindman, Lord Bingham, Keith Ewing, Juliet Gardiner, Lord Goldsmith |
2. Human rights and global responsesHuman Rights Watch, Index on Censorship Tom Porteous, Timothy Garton Ash, Jo Glanville, Mary Kaldor, Paul Rogers |
3. Business gets personalOpen Rights Group Jim Killock, Peter Bazalgette, Caspar Bowden, Wendy Grossman, Iain Henderson, David Smith |
4. Faiths and freedomsEkklesia Simon Barrow, Savitri Hensman, Vaughan Jones, Keith Kahn-Harris |
5. The Conservatives and civil libertiesIain Dale, Philip Blond, Edward Garnier QC MP, Dominic Raab, Laura Sandys, Tim Montgomerie |
6. Press freedomThe Observer Joanne Cash, Fatima Bhutto, Nick Cohen, Alan Rusbridger, Andrew Gilligan |
7. The PoliceRed Pepper Hilary Wainwright, Malcolm Carroll, Cilius Victor, Steve Powell, Harriet Sergeant |
8. Liberty and the national questionippr, CEP Guy Lodge, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Gerry Hassan, Paul Kingsnorth, Gareth Young |
9. XenophobiaMuslim Safety Forum Mujib Miah, Edie Friedman, Tufyal Choudhury, Stuart Wilks-Heeg, Robin Knowles QC, Ifath Nawaz |
10. Democracy and libertyImprint Academic Pam Giddy, Oliver Dowlen, Jean Lambert MEP, Ivo Mosley, Gerard Batten MEP, Neil Jameson |
11. Freedom and working peopleTUC, AccountAbility Christina Zaba, Sarah Veale, Simon Zadek, Jerry Hicks, Pete Murray |
| 13.00 | Lunch |
Bloggers’ summit hosted by Liberal Conspiracy and Comment is FreeStudent session |
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| 14.00 Afternoon Sessions: |
1. The database stateNO2ID, Centre for Policy Studies Guy Herbert, Tony Bunyan, Simon Davies, Sam Talbot Rice, Christina Zaba |
2. Parliament’s roleDemocratic Audit Andrew Blick, Murray Hunt, Trevor Smith, Meg Russell, Stuart Weir, Jonny Butterworth |
3. Protecting rightsUnlock Democracy Peter Facey, Douglas Carswell MP, A C Grayling, Francesca Klug, Michael Wills MP |
4. The Left and libertyCompass, Fabian Society, Soundings Sunder Katwala, Neal Lawson, Mary Riddell, Mike Rustin |
5. Liberty, sovereignty and republicanismHistory Today, OurKingdom Paul Lay, David Marquand, Geoffrey Robertson QC, Quentin Skinner, Melissa Lane |
6. TortureCage Prisoners Saghir Hussain, Moazzam Begg, Victoria Brittain, Edward Fitzgerald QC, David Rose |
7. Are rights universal?BIHR, JUSTICE Ehsan Masood, Jean Candler, Andrew Dismore MP, David Goodhart, Roger Smith, Geraldine Van Bueren |
8. Love and libertyResurgence, openDemocracy Tony Curzon Price, Michael Edwards, Satish Kumar, Sheila Rowbotham, Marina Warner |
9. Who rules: is there a media-political class?Private Eye David Elstein, Liz Forgan, Simon Jenkins, Peter Oborne, Claire Fox |
10. Child’s play? Equality and young peopleLiberty Sabina Frediani, Sam Dimmock, Terri Dowty, Alex Gask, Jenni Russell, Lisa Blakemore Brown |
11. Can liberty survive the slump?The Work Foundation David Edgar, Vince Cable, Will Hutton, Suzanne Moore, Kate Hoey MP |
| 15.15 | Coffee | ||||||||||
| 15.45 | Second key note address: Philip Pullman | ||||||||||
| 16.00 |
Second Plenary: How do we secure modern liberty?Chair: Anthony Barnett Speakers: Brian Eno, Afua Hirsch, Chris Huhne MP, Will Hutton, Chuka Umunna |
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| 17.00 | Third key note address: David Davis MP | ||||||||||
| 17.15 | Drinks | ||||||||||
| 17.45 |
Evening Plenary, English PENAn informal drinks session hosted by Henry Porter with Paul Gilroy, Lisa Appignanesi, Billy Bragg, Cory Doctorow, Feargal Sharkey and others |
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| 19.00 | Finish | ||||||||||
