I have spoken at numerous events and venues including the Battle of Ideas, the British Library, the Edinburgh Book Festival, the Great Debate (Newcastle), the Institute of Contemporary Art, the London School of Economics, the New York Salon, Oxford University, the RSA, the School of Oriental and African Studies and the University of Westminster.  If you want me to speak at one of your events email ferraris AT danielbenami.com.

Future events

Public lecture at Plymouth University. 5pm on 29 February. Details and tickets are available here.

Past events

Should austerity be embraced or rejected? Debate organised by Peninsula Arts, Plymouth University. 8.30pm on Friday 4 November at the Duke of Cornwall hotel.

#Occupy – What do they want? First Wednesday debate at the Frontline Club in London. Wednesday 2 November. You can watch a video recording of the event here.

Is Greece ready for happiness? Battle of Ideas satellite event in Athens. Tuesday 25 October.

The great population debate. Battle of Ideas satellite event in Berlin. Wednesday 12 October.

Manchester debate on “Prosperity without growth: myth or must?”. Organised by the Challenging Orthodoxies society of the University of Manchester Students’ Union. Tuesday 15 February.

Birmingham Salon event on 11 January 2011. Debate with Professor Somanth Sen. My opening speeches is available to listen to here.

East Midlands Salon event in Nottingham on 23 November.

Manchester Salon debate on 24 November.

Leeds Salon debate on 15 November.

Debate on recession with Oliver James and Chris Talbot. Queen’s College, Oxford University. Organised by Oxford University Current Affairs Society. 3 November.

Debate with Tim Jackson, the author of Prosperity without Growth, at the Battle of Ideas festival in London. 31 October. Available to listen to here. Available to watch on video here.

Capitalism after the crash. Discussion at the ICA in London. 28 October.

Debate with Jonathon Porritt, one of Britain’s leading environmentalists, on economic growth on 19 October at Northumbria University. The event was organised by the Great Debate. Watch the video here.

Debate on the future of London’s financial centre on 4 October at the British Library in London. Luke Johnson (entrepreneur),  Billy Bragg (musician and activist). John Micklethwait (the editor-in-chief of the Economist) and Richard Layard (emeritus professor at the London School of Economics) were also on the panel. Paul Mason of the BBC Newsnight programme chaired. An audio recording is available here . A video of the summing up of the debate (with me last) is available to watch here.

I spoke about Ferraris for All at a dinner and drinks event organised by the New York Salon on the evening of 15 September

Debate on the “limits to growth” Sunday 22 August in Newcastle. It was part of a three day conference organised by the Great Debate. To watch the session click here. A video of me talking after the event is available here.

Discussion of Ferraris for All at the Institute of Ideas’ Emerging Economies Forum on 25 July. For details see here.

A Brighton Salon event on Ferraris for All was held on 20 July. A transcript is available here,

The London book launch was on 14 July (which also happened to be Bastille Day).

Rethinking global inequality. Introduction to a public seminar at the University of Westminster on 15 April 2010. Click here to listen.

All Consuming. Debate on the consumer society at the RSA (London). 16 July 2009. Available to listen to on audio here. Also available to download as a free podcast on iTunes.

Rein in the greedy bankers? Session at the Battle for the Economy. 16 May 2009.

Growing pains: the pros and cons of economic dynamism. Session at the Battle of Ideas (London) including Martin Wolf, Paul Mason and Ha-Joon Chang. 1 November 2008.

Choking on growth – from Yellow Peril to Green Menace! Session at the Battle for China. 12 July 2008.

Is China the new ‘green peril’? Seminar at LSESU China Development Society. 5 March 2008.

Happiness. Lunchtime discussion at the RSA including Paul Ormerod and David Willets MP. 6 December 2007.

Is there a new working class? Discussion at the Institute of Contemporary Art. 20 November 2007.

Trade, aid or development? Discussion at the Battle of Ideas. 28 October 2007.