Dominic Sandbrook, Bristol Festival of Ideas.

The 60s & Legacy of Idealism

Bristol Festival of Ideas

Bristol Festival of Ideas returns in May 2008 with a full programme of debates, lectures and discussions. Events at Arnolfini include Baroness Susan Greenfield, Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, discussing identity; a panel discussion on the 60s and the legacy of idealism; and Naomi Klein whose new book The Shock Doctrine (Allen Lane) critically examines the success of America’s ‘free market’ policies.

For details of events at Arnolfini please go to our website. For information about the full programme see www.ideasfestival.co.uk or pick up a copy of the festival brochure at Arnolfini.

Events

Mon 12 May, 7.30pm

£6.00/ £4.00 Concs

Forty years on the sixties look like the last great outpouring of optimism and idealism, as signalled in that incredible year of 1968. How do we look back at the sixties now? What do those who were activists then think of society and politics now? Does idealism exist anymore in the face of criticism of multiculturalism and looming environmental disaster? Is liberalism now doing more damage than good?

The panel includes Sheila Rowbotham, socialist feminist theorist and author of the Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties. Peter Tatchell is a human rights campaigner and a member of the queer rights group OutRage! and the left wing of the Green party. Journalist Andrew Anthony writes for both the Observer and Guardian. He is the author of The Fallout: How a Guilty Liberal Lost His Innocence. Dominic Sandbrook is the author of two groundbreaking histories of the 1960s, Never Had It So Good and White Heat. The panel will be chaired by Professor Helen Taylor, University of Exeter, who was active in the United States as a graduate student in the late 1960s.

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