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 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?
1.30pm to 3.00pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
Your culture or mine? The arts and identity
1.30pm to 3.00pm Student Union
Candid camera
3.30pm to 5.00pm Henry Moore Gallery
CSI mania
3.30pm to 5.00pm Student Union
Stealing Picasso?
 Sunday 2 November 2008

10.00am to 10.45am Seminar Space Breakfast Banter
No laughing matter! Has political comedy lost its edge?
11.00am to 12.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
The Battle for Progress
11.00am to 12.30pm Student Union
Staging ourselves
12.45pm to 1.45pm Lecture Theatre 2 Lunchtime Debates
RCA Exhibition Q&A
2.00pm to 3.30pm Student Union
Poetry and Place
4.00pm to 5.30pm Student Union
We are the world: what is world music?
5.45pm to 6.45pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
From Fatwa to Jihad

 Festival Buzz

"I was astonished by the interest and by the fact that so many thoughtful and intelligent people were willing to give up a huge part of their weekends to listen to and discuss ideas."
Ruth Gledhill, religion correspondent, The Times