EC2024

FRIDAY EVENING PROGRAMME & DINNER Drinks Reception for adults Court Suite Drinks Reception for contestants and under 18 guests Ballroom Foyer 6pm 8pm Scott McDonald Executive Director, British Council Ballroom 6.45pm 8.45m Carriages 8:30pm or 11:30pm

SATURDAY REGISTRATION Contestants with gold wristbands only

Contestants with gold wristbands only: Essay finalists who have been given a gold wristband on Friday should wear their wristband again on Saturday. These candidates should enter via the “Great Room Entrance” on Park Lane, opposite Hyde Park, between 9am and 9.30am. The first session is due to start promptly at 9.45am in the Great Room.

Contestants with no wristbands

Essay finalists who didn’t register on Friday, and who therefore were not yet issued with a wristband, should enter via the “Ballroom Entrance” on Park Lane, opposite Hyde Park, between 8.30am and 9.15am in order to register in time to attend the first session in the Great Room.

Hotel staff and John Locke representatives will be on hand to direct you to the registration table.

Parents & Guardians

Parents and guardians: To avoid congestion in the busy registration process, we would be grateful if you would say goodbye to your son or daughter as soon as they have entered the hotel, rather than accompanying them to the event space.

Dress Code

We suggest that you wear ‘business casual’ on Saturday day-time. If you are joining us for the Gala Dinner & Awards Ceremony in the evening, the dress code for that is ‘black tie’.

Jiankai Zhao, Raffles Institution, Singapore “Should Taxpayers Fund the Media?”

SATURDAY ACADEMIC PROGRAMME REGISTRATION

Dr Jamie Whyte Chairman of Examiners, John Locke Institute

“Welcome Address” 9:45 - 10:15

Lord Hannan of Kingsclere “Free Trade is Better than You Think” Member of the House of Lords 10:20 - 10:55

George Morrison, Eton College “Should a Company be Permitted to Refuse to Do Business with You Because of Your Social Media Posts??”

11:00 - 11:10 FREE TIME TO VISIT EXHIBITORS & JLI GIFT SHOP

Sreyaa Sunjay, King Edwards VI Camp Hill School for Girls “Can We Fix the Epidemic of Depression?”

11:45 - 11:55

Dr Ash Ranpura

“Why Meditation Makes You Brainier” Neuroscient 12:00 - 12:30

LUNCH AND TIME TO VISIT EXHIBITORS & JLI GIFT SHOP

Audley (Ballroom) [250]

Grosvenor (Ballroom) [250]

Court Suite [180]

Albemarle [110]

John Locke Q&A Dr Jamie Whyte Chairman of Examiners

HISTORY Dr Stephen Davies History Fellow John Locke Institute

PHILOSOPHY Prof Alexander Bird Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy University of Cambridge

POLITICS Brooks Newmark Politician, Investor, Philanthropist

13:45 - 14:15

13:45 - 14:15

Johnny Yi, BASIS International Max Collison, Winchester College School “What’s the Difference between a “Why was economic growth once Psychiatric Illness and a so rare and now so common?”

Character Flaw?”

14:20 - 14:30 14:20 - 14:30

HISTORY Dr Stephen Davies History Fellow John Locke Institute 14:45 - 15:15

Maximus Sherwood, BHASVIC “Is Our Civilisation in Danger of Collapse?”

15:20 - 15:30

13:45 - 14:15

Olivia Kang, Davidson Academy “Should We Trust Our Moral Intuition?”

Audrey Kuk, St Hilda’s School “What is the Optimal Global Population?”

14:20 - 14:30

14:20 - 14:30

16:00 - 16:30

LAW Prof Pavlos Eleftheriadis Barrister & Professor of Public Law University of Oxford “Legal Judgment as Self Mastery” 13:45 - 14:30

Mihyeon Lee, North Raleigh Christian Academy “Should We Trust Our Moral Intuition?”

15:20 - 15:30

EVENT FOR JUNIORS ONLY Dr Jamie Whyte & Ihsan Iftikar, The Greenwich Country Day School “How to Win Next Year!”

16:00 - 16:30

Philip Taxiarchis, Westminster School “Does the Government Have a ‘Mandate’?”

15:20 - 15:30

Fitzroy [70]

Jiankai Zhao, Raffles Institution, Singapore “Should Taxpayers Fund the Media?”

14:20 - 14:30 THEOLOGY Dr Jamie Whyte Academic Director, John Locke Institute “The Problem of Minor Irritations”

PHILOSOPHY Prof Alexander Bird POLITICS Bertrand Russell Professor of PhiBrooks Newmark losophy Politician, Investor, Philanthropist University of Cambridge 14:45 - 15:15 14:45 - 15:15

Doria Chen, Tanglin Trust School, Singapore “Will the Bots Steal Your Job?” 15:45 - 15:55

ECONOMICS Kenneth Cukier Deputy Executive Editor, The Economist “Economics & Generative AI: How to Stop the Bots from Stealing Your Job”

13:45 - 14:15

Burlington [80]

14:45 - 15:15 Jiankai Zhao, Raffles Institution, Singapore “Should Taxpayers Fund the Media?”

Ruoxiao Wang, Minhang Crosspoint Middle School “What Does It Mean to Be ‘Spiritual’?”

15:20 - 15:30

AWARDS CEREMONY & GALA DINNER

REGISTRATION

For those with a ticket for the Awards Dinner, registrations for the evening event begin at 5.30pm in the Ballroom Foyer. You should enter via the “Ballroom Entrance” on Park Lane, opposite Hyde Park. Please make sure you have your mobile phone with you so we can scan the unique QR code you have been issued. This will serve as your entry ticket for admission to the Gala Dinner. Essay Finalists who have been given a gold wristband on Friday or Saturday morning should wear their wristband again and are invited to go directly to the Great Room, using the “Great Room Entrance” on Park Lane, opposite Hyde Park.

GALA DINNER

Doors to the Great Room will open at 6.30pm and dinner will be served at 7.15pm.

DRESS CODE

The dress code for this evening is ‘black tie’.

AFTER PARTY

When the Awards Ceremony concludes around 10.15pm, you are invited to join us in the Ballroom for some live music.

WIFI

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