Programme: Festival weekend overview

 Saturday 1 November 2008

10.30am to 12.00pm Seminar Space
Professionalising parenting
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 Lecture Theatre 1 Lunchtime Debates
Abortion: the hard arguments
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 Lecture Theatre 2
Are we what we eat?
3.30pm to 5.00pm Café
Can philosophy save your life?
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
 Sunday 2 November 2008

10.00am to 10.45am Seminar Space Breakfast Banter
No laughing matter! Has political comedy lost its edge?
10.00am to 10.45am Café Breakfast Banter
You’re not singing anymore!
11.00am to 12.30pm Henry Moore Gallery
Adopting orthodoxies
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
2.00pm to 3.30pm Lecture Theatre 2
Trust me - I'm a professional
2.00pm to 3.30pm Lecture Theatre 1
Boozy Britain
4.00pm to 5.30pm Café
Scared of the Kids
4.00pm to 5.30pm Seminar Space
What does it mean to be American?
5.45pm to 6.45pm Café
Consuming children

 Festival Buzz

"...invigorating, absorbing, and highly educative - delicious and nourishing food for thought..."
Prof AC Grayling, philosopher