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Full Circle is a unique new club in Brussels for all creative and forward-thinking professionals interested in new ideas and committed to making a difference. Full Circle brings inspiring thinkers and doers into contact with equally impressive players in Brussels.
Enjoy our line up of guests on our podcast channel, or come and try us out in real life, at one of our talks.
www.fullcircle.eu
Enjoy our line up of guests on our podcast channel, or come and try us out in real life, at one of our talks.
www.fullcircle.eu
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Immigration is the issue of our time: riddled with moral, environmental, philosophical and political questions with few clear-cut solutions. Political philosopher Avner de-Shalit guides us through some of these complexities, with a particular focus on cities. How do cities cope with large flows of migrants and refugees? Should they have a right to stop people from settling in the city? Which model of integration works best and where can it be found? Avner de-Shalit is here with much needed insights on how to integrate immigrants in cities.
For a civilisation so fixated on achieving happiness, we seem remarkably incompetent at the task. The advantages of modern life seem incapable of lifting our collective mood. Wealth doesn’t necessarily lead to happiness. Romance, family life, and work often bring as much stress as joy. We can’t even agree on what ‘happiness’ means. Are we engaged in a futile pursuit? Or are we just going about it the wrong way? Oliver has some of the most truthful and useful words about happiness in recent years.
The Olympics. X-Factor. The Nobel Prize. Everywhere you look: competition – for fame, money, attention, status. Being top seems to be everything – but what is it costing all of us? We depend on competition and expect it to identify the best, make complicated decisions easy and to motivate the lazy and inspire the dreamers. But Margaret Heffernan shows that competition regularly produces just what we don’t want: rising levels of fraud, cheating, stress, inequality and political stalemate.
Elizabeth is a fearlessly outspoken epidemiologist, well known for her international work on HIV/AIDS. More recently she has turned her attention to Indonesia, writing an unforgettable book exploring why Indonesia, vast, populous and getting richer, is practically invisible to the naked geopolitical eye. She also has some startling thoughts on corruption and why attempts to stop it so often end in failure. Find out what she’s thinking in this talk.
To Focus or not to Focus? It takes just 7 seconds for our brain to decide whether to pay attention, to listen, to take action…or not. This decision is often made unconsciously; either our brain connects with the topic or not. But when the connection happens, then we are in the ‘bubble’, in the ‘zone’ – we are FOCUSED. Antonio’s experience straddles business and academia and he knows a thing or two about being focused.
Making a difference: How to effect lasting social behaviour change.
An evening with Giles Gibbons, serial Social Entrepreneur and big-business advisor.
Susan George has a worldwide reputation as a trenchant critic of capitalist globalisation and as an activist for social justice. Come and hear her speak her mind about what’s gone wrong and how we can fix it.
Described as ‘a searing analysis of a system in crisis’ by John Palmer, the Lugano Report II is Susan George’s follow up to her report of the same name published 16 years earlier that foresaw in some detail ‘the near collapse of the world banking system in 2007 and a looming global warming catastrophe as well as warning of the emergence of a super rich ruling class throughout much of the capitalist world’.
Martin Jacques, well known British author, broadcaster and academic talks about
“How China will change nearly everything”.
Martin Jacques presented his ideas to a select audience of policy makers, policy shapers and entrepreneurs, all with an interest in debating the extent to which China will change us and what the implications of this may be.
Can Big Data help us make better decisions? Each year computers are getting faster, but at the same time we as humans are getting better at using them. The top chess players in the world are not computers OR humans, but combinations of computers AND humans. Sean Gourley examines the world of augmented intelligence and argues that teaming up with machines is key to understanding the world around us better.
Basic income – individual, universal and unconditional.
A controversial topic, discussed, implemented or advocated for across several countries. Philippe Van Parijs, a proponent and one of the world’s most outspoken advocates of the concept, explains how basic income is inseparably related to the improvement of the human condition.
Is it a good idea? Will this help escape our times of crisis?
Jimmy Nelson has embarked on a trek across the globe and has vividly documented some of the world’s indigenous people, before they pass away. Jimmy’s work is an ode to exceptional communities, thriving through time, resilient through hardship, and ever changing in their ‘authenticity’.
Tristram Stuart is renown internationally to have unveiled the extensive scale of food waste worldwide, but also how to address it. Check out his Full Circle talk and find out more about the food revolution!
As part of our Talking Heads series, Professor Linda Colley, eminent historian of Britain, Empire and nationalism, joined us post Scottish referendum to share her thoughts on what it means today to be British and the extent to which the debate in the UK has parallels with debates on national identity in other EU countries.
Classical pianist Daria van den Bercken is famously known for playing the piano en plein air, sharing Händel’s inspiring notes while being towed through the cobbled streets of Amsterdam or while floating in the sky. Her latest ambitious project entails decoding the keys to one of the most celebrated music geniuses: Mozart.
Teddy Goff, digital strategist for the Obama election campaigns (2008 & 2012) joined Full Circle for our first lunch talk
Dirty money, tax havens and the offshore system describe the ugliest and most secretive chapter in the history of global economic affairs…
Hear about it straight from the source: a man who is ready to take on the global financial industry – single-handed.
Can economics be passionate?… Can it center on people and what really matters to them day-in and day-out.… And help us understand their hidden motives for why they do what they do in everyday life? Uri Gneezy is a revolutionary. His ideas and methods for revealing what really works in addressing big social, business, and economic problems gives us new understanding of the motives underlying human behavior. We can then structure incentives that can get people to move mountains, change their behavior—or at least get a better deal.
Before the first air flight, no one could believe it was even possible. In the next decades, technology will transform our lives and our society far more than we realise. Will it be for the better? Science journalist & author Mats Lewan has a knack for making complicated stuff easy to grasp and for showing opportunities where fears and doubts seem to reign. The changes ahead remain underestimated and hardly discussed by policy makers and industry leaders today. It’s the biggest shift ever and it’s time to talk about it.
World class economist & social entrepreneur Laurence Brahm talks solutions rather than problems with Fusion Economics – an innovative, far-sighted economic and ecological thinking able to offer concrete answers to the dilemma of our global economic & environmental crisis.
If it takes two to tango, it also takes both women & men to make an equal society. The discussion around gender and gender roles in society is one of the most important currently occurring. Mariella Frostrup, passionate and vocal campaigner for gender’s rights, talks about women and men and why gender stereotypes are so persistent. Can we do any better?
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