Programme: Festival weekend overview

 Saturday 1 November 2008

10.30am to 12.00pm Henry Moore Gallery
The Battle for the Reader
10.30am to 12.00pm Student Union
Caught in the Web
10.30am to 12.00pm Lecture Theatre 1
China and India: catching up with the West?
10.30am to 12.00pm Seminar Space
Professionalising parenting
10.30am to 12.00pm Café
The EU: humdrum technocracy or European dream?
10.30am to 12.00pm Lecture Theatre 2
Irish History: don't mention the war?
10.30am to 12.00pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
The Battle for Truth
12.15pm to 1.15pm Lecture Theatre 2
Text and the City: what is a city of literature?
12.15pm to 1.15pm Henry Moore Gallery Lunchtime Debates
Bring in the consultants?
12.15pm to 1.15pm Seminar Space Lunchtime Debates
Social workers – PC do-gooders or progressive radicals?
12.15pm to 1.15pm Student Union Lunchtime Debates
Cricket: more than a game?
12.15pm to 1.15pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Lunchtime Debates
The credit crunch demystified
12.15pm to 1.15pm Lecture Theatre 1 Lunchtime Debates
Abortion: the hard arguments
1.30pm to 3.00pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
Your culture or mine? The arts and identity
1.30pm to 3.00pm Henry Moore Gallery
From the classroom to the voting booth
1.30pm to 3.00pm Seminar Space
The problem with families
1.30pm to 3.00pm Student Union
Candid camera
1.30pm to 3.00pm Café
The Battle for Intelligence
1.30pm to 3.00pm Lecture Theatre 2
Are we what we eat?
1.30pm to 3.00pm Lecture Theatre 1
Growing pains: the pros and cons of economic dynamism
3.30pm to 5.00pm Upper Gulbenkian Keynote Controversies
Capitalism – what is it good for?
3.30pm to 5.00pm Café
Can philosophy save your life?
3.30pm to 5.00pm Henry Moore Gallery
CSI mania
3.30pm to 5.00pm Student Union
Stealing Picasso?
3.30pm to 5.00pm Lecture Theatre 2
Can GM crops feed the world?
3.30pm to 5.00pm Lecture Theatre 1
Emerging Economies – Question Time
3.30pm to 5.00pm Seminar Space
Is 'poor parenting' a class issue?
5.15pm to 6.15pm Lecture Theatre 1
The Future of Community: Reports of a Death Greatly Exaggerated
5.15pm to 6.15pm Henry Moore Gallery
What is it to be educated?
5.15pm to 6.15pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Immigration: the more the scarier?
5.15pm to 6.15pm Café
Debating Matters Competition showcase debate on space travel
5.15pm to 6.15pm Seminar Space
Health promotion: improving children's lives or demonising parents?
 Sunday 2 November 2008

10.00am to 10.45am Lecture Theatre 2 Breakfast Banter
'Sci Fi transport': a thing of the past?
10.00am to 10.45am Seminar Space Breakfast Banter
No laughing matter! Has political comedy lost its edge?
10.00am to 10.45am Henry Moore Gallery Breakfast Banter
Learning Jargonese
10.00am to 10.45am Lecture Theatre 1 Breakfast Banter
The Battle over Homework
10.00am to 10.45am Café Breakfast Banter
You’re not singing anymore!
11.00am to 12.30pm Henry Moore Gallery
Adopting orthodoxies
11.00am to 12.30pm Lecture Theatre 2
A Brave New World
11.00am to 12.30pm Lecture Theatre 1
Whose data is it anyway?
11.00am to 12.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
The Battle for Progress
11.00am to 12.30pm Café
Israel at 60
11.00am to 12.30pm Student Union
Staging ourselves
11.00am to 12.30pm Seminar Space
Election USA
12.45pm to 1.45pm Lecture Theatre 2 Lunchtime Debates
RCA Exhibition Q&A
12.45pm to 1.45pm Student Union Lunchtime Debates
Are drugs ruining sport?
12.45pm to 1.45pm Lecture Theatre 1
Flush it!
12.45pm to 1.45pm Henry Moore Gallery Lunchtime Debates
Picking on The Apprentice
12.45pm to 1.45pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Lunchtime Debates
Malthus’ return
12.45pm to 1.45pm Seminar Space Lunchtime Debates
Is our behaviour determined by our evolution?
2.00pm to 3.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
Radicalism then and now: the legacy of 1968
2.00pm to 3.30pm Lecture Theatre 2
Trust me - I'm a professional
2.00pm to 3.30pm Lecture Theatre 1
Boozy Britain
2.00pm to 3.30pm Henry Moore Gallery
Eco-imperialism?
2.00pm to 3.30pm Seminar Space
Is America still the world’s policeman?
2.00pm to 3.30pm Student Union
Poetry and Place
2.00pm to 3.30pm Café
Building the future
4.00pm to 5.30pm Student Union
We are the world: what is world music?
4.00pm to 5.30pm Café
Scared of the Kids
4.00pm to 5.30pm Henry Moore Gallery
What is China thinking?
4.00pm to 5.30pm Lecture Theatre 2
Evidence based education
4.00pm to 5.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
The Battle for Leadership
4.00pm to 5.30pm Seminar Space
What does it mean to be American?
4.00pm to 5.30pm Lecture Theatre 1
Hypochondriac Nation
5.45pm to 6.45pm Henry Moore Gallery
Too many laws?
5.45pm to 6.45pm Seminar Space
Free speech on campus
5.45pm to 6.45pm Café
Consuming children
5.45pm to 6.45pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
From Fatwa to Jihad
5.45pm to 6.45pm Lecture Theatre 1
Nuclear fusion and the future of energy

 Festival Buzz

"A rare opportunity to debate first hand with those involved in the great issues of our time."
Chris Rapley, director, Science Museum