Edinburgh International Book Festival Themes: The World Dissected: Political Discussions
This series examines the legacies, travesties, successes and failures of various political factions from across the globe, and the stories of those who have risked everything to resist.
About Edinburgh International Book Festival Themes: The World Dissected: Political Discussions
Noam Chomsky once wrote, ‘We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders.’ But when we trace the trajectories of modern politics, the casualties of policy, law and rule are far from few. This series examines the legacies, travesties, successes and failures of various political factions from across the globe, and the stories of those who have risked everything to resist. Can we learn from past mistakes? And will we ever find a political solution which truly safeguards the rights of the most vulnerable in society?
Reading the World:
Saturday 13th to 29th August 15:00 - 15:30
Can writers give us a fresh perspective on global and local issues? Each afternoon a leading writer discusses books, research and ideas confronting this time of uncertainty and change.
Adam Tooze with Allan Little: When the Markets Caught Covid
Saturday 13 August 20:15 - 21:15
Yascha Mounk: Is Liberal Democracy in Crisis?
Monday 15 August 12:15 - 13:15
Frank Dikötter: Rise of a Superpower
Monday 15 August 14:30 - 15:30
John Kay: The Cost of Change
Wednesday 17 August 19:30 - 20:30
Devi Sridhar: How to Prevent (Another) Pandemic
Thursday 18 August 11:30 - 12:30
Simon Woolley: Shaking Up the Establishment
Thursday 18 August 14:30 - 15:30
Preti Taneja: Shattered Trust
Friday 19 August 13:30 - 14:30
Amitava Kumar: Meaning in a Post-Truth World
Friday 19 August 20:15 - 21:15
Armando Iannucci: An Epic Poem for Our Times
Friday 19 August 20:30 - 21:30
Michael Ignatieff: Consolation for Our Times
Saturday 20 August 19:00 - 20:00
Gulbahar Haitiwaji: To Make Us Slowly Disappear
Sunday 21 August 13:30 - 14:30
Kerry Brown, Sam Fowles & David Loyn: Does Power Inevitably Corrupt?
Monday 22 August 14:30 - 15:30
Omar Robert Hamilton, Sanaa Seif & Ahdaf Soueif: A Decade of Resistance
Monday 22 August 16:00 - 17:00
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Xiaolu Guo & Eric Ngalle Charles: In a Time of Mass Migration
Tuesday 23 August 12:15 - 13:15
Kehinde Andrews, Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff & Marcus Ryder: A Celebration of Black Lives
Tuesday 23 August 20:00 - 21:00
Tobias Kelly & Charlotte McDonald-Gibson: Radical Outsiders
Wednesday 24 August 14:00 - 15:00
Jeffrey Boakye, Stewart Lansley & Jack Monroe: Where Do We Go From Here?
Wednesday 24 August 14:30 - 15:30
Matthieu Aikins, Sally Hayden & Polly Pallister-Wilkins: Bordering on Inhumane
Wednesday 24 August 16:00 - 17:00
Oliver Bullough with Ian Rankin: How Britain Got Addicted to Dirty Money
Thursday 25 August 17:30 - 18:30
Noam Chomsky: Dissent Across the Decades
Friday 26 August 17:30 - 18:30
Val McDermid & Jo Sharp: Imagine Another Country
Saturday 27 August 13:00 - 14:00
Maria Ressa: Democracy – Death by a Thousand Cuts?
Monday 29 August 16:00 - 17:00
Mariana Mazzucato: Can Nations Be Entrepreneurs?
Monday 29 August 19:30 - 20:30
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