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Sunday timetable

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SUNDAY

GULBENKIAN GALLERY
[capacity 200]

LECTURE THEATRE 1
[120]

SEMINAR SPACE
[120]

LECTURE THEATRE 2
[40]

CAFÉ
[40]

10.00-10.45

 

 

BREAKFAST BANTER:
What is poetry for?

BREAKFAST BANTER:
Why has Red-Green Germany lost its dynamic

 

10.45-11.00

 

 

 

 

 

11.00-12.30

KEYNOTE:
Reassessing the Enlightenment

HEALTH:
Ethics on Trial

CULTURE:
For Art’s sake…?

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (IR):
Europe – where’s the big idea?

11-12.15:
Sustainability: The architecture of low horizons?

12.30-14.00

 

12.45-13.45

LUNCHTIME FILM and debate: Africa: challenging the missionary position

12.45-13.45

LUNCHTIME DEBATE: The Holocaust – the last moral absolute?

12.45-13.45

LUNCHTIME DEBATE:
Divided America?

LUNCH

14.00-15.30

SPECIAL
Intelligence Squared
DEBATE:
Which ideas have mattered most in history?

HEALTH:
Living longer – boon or burden?

CULTURE:
Bread and Circuses

IR:
Empire building or nation building – a decade after Dayton

14.10-15.25:
Drugs and morality

15.30-16.00

 

 

 

 

 

16.00-17.30

KEYNOTE:
What is it to be human?

HEALTH:
Catching them young

CULTURE:
A 21st century Renaissance?

IR:
China – threat or opportunity?

16.15-17.30
Phonics - the Holy Grail of reading? 

17.30-17.45

 

 

 

 

 

17.45-18.30

PROVOCATION LECTURES: J'accuse anti-authoritarianism

WHAT NEXT...
for free speech?

INSPIRATION LECTURES: Who inspired me?

 

 

18.30-21.30

End of festival drink - the Polish Hearth Club, 55 Exhibition Road, SW7

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