Programme: Festival weekend overview

 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!
 Sunday 2 November 2008

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
 Sunday 2 November 2008

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?
 Sunday 2 November 2008

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
 Sunday 2 November 2008

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
 Sunday 2 November 2008

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

"I was amazed by the high quality of the Battle of Ideas 2007 and the intellectual excitement that it provoked."
Prof Malcolm Grant CBE, president and provost, University College London