With over 100 debates and over 3,000 attendees, the Battle of Ideas Festival is the highlight of the year for anyone who believes in free speech and open debate - an unmissable weekend of debate and discussion on the most important political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues of our time. The motto of the Festival is ‘Free Speech Allowed’ and as Claire Fox, the Director of the Academy of Ideas, said recently: It was once an unexceptional slogan but is now almost revolutionary.

Student Academics For Academic Freedom (SAFAF) and Academics For Academic Freedom (AFAF), our affiliate organisations, will have a stall at the event. The stall enables us to meet academics, students, and members of the public, and get them involved in defending free speech on university campuses.

Members of ARU SAFAF are invited to attend the event and are encouraged to volunteer during breaks!

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