What can G8 governments do to foster wider cooperation as growing numbers of the world’s population aspire to enjoy the living standards of a wealthy minority? Can they enlist the aid of other sectors of society, including business?

Humanity’s problems are global, but there is no global polity, and governance remains local and national. Is the G8 an anachronism? Is the G20 a sufficiently inclusive alternative? Who or what determines whether a nation has a voice?

Money moves around the world far more freely than humans, with far less regulation and restriction. What are the repercussions of a disproportionate accumulation of wealth in the West, and the fact that the West is where most money is exchanged

Who owns the world’s natural resources? How can the riches of Africa’s minerals or Brazil’s rainforest be safely and fairly harnessed? Who can effectively change the pernicious and pervasive culture of acquisition at the expense of the environment?

A distinguished panel of guests discuss how the idea and the reality of globalisation are being expressed around the world. Have the languages of art and politics caught up with this phenomenon, or do we as need to find new ways to describe and own it?

Do the appropriation and ownership of art reflect a marketisation that mirrors the world of commerce? Does the fetishisation of artefacts perpetuate archaic definitions and perceptions of other cultures?

Are universities victims of globalisation, threatened by the flow of people, capital and digital information, or do they actively shape the forms that globalisation takes?

Radical changes in patterns of human movement and displacement force us to rethink notions of migration, foreignness and identity. Do they need to be redefined to reflect these changes? If so, how and from whose perspective?

Jonas will give an insight into how she creates the different stages and formats that form a body of work, focusing on her most recent project Reanimation, for which jazz pianist, Jason Moran composed the music

Gary Hume is associated with the so-called Young British Artists generation. Hear him talk about his practice as a painter with psychoanalyst and author Darian Leader