IAI Live Events:
IAI Live takes place on the first Monday of the month. Each programme includes interviews, talks and a headline debate with the world's leading thinkers, getting at the big radical ideas shaping our world and future.
There is also a chance to meet and question our speakers directly in live audience Q&As.
Upcoming Events:
Attention in the Age of Distraction - May 11th
speakers
Programme
Debates & Talks
Headline Debate
Consciousness, attention, and the age of distraction
Is our attention being hijacked? As concerns about an “attention crisis” grow, should it be regulated or is this just another moral panic? Frances Haugen, Anna Lembke and Frank Furedi debate.
Solo Talk
The crisis of attention is a crisis of meaning
We call distraction a failure of focus, but is it a crisis of meaning? Gloria Mark explores how always-on environments reshape attention, erode boredom, and fragment reality, and asks how we can restore focus and meaning.
Live Q&A
Meet the speakers
After the headline debate on the attention crisis, the discussion continues in a live audience Q&A. Join Frances Haugen, Anna Lembke, and Frank Furedi as they take audience questions and explore what’s at stake.
Past Speakers
Historian & Activist
Influential theorist
Leading public intellectual
Famed futurist
Leading economic critic
Groundbreaking psychologist
Pioneering gender theorist
Political Language Expert
