2009 Programme: Festival weekend overview

The Festival weekend includes more than 70 debates which are listed below ordered by time slot and room. To see Saturday or Sunday sessions only, select the day you want from the menu on the left or select sessions by Theme.

Or view and print out the Timetable as a two-page PDF.


Saturday 31 October: 10.30am to 12.00pm
Lecture Theatre 1
Frankenstein's Daughters: from science fiction to science fact?

Saturday 31 October: 12.15pm to 1.15pm
Lunchtime Debates Lecture Theatre 1
Genetics and genomics: medicine made to measure?

Saturday 31 October: 1.30pm to 3.00pm
Lecture Theatre 1
Whose Right to Choose? Choice, ethics and regulation in 21st-century reproduction

Saturday 31 October: 3.30pm to 5.00pm
Lecture Theatre 1
Three’s a crowd? The battle over population and reproduction

Sunday 1 November: 3.45pm to 5.15pm
Student Union
Shaping Social Policy: Designers and Health

Sunday 1 November: 5.30pm to 6.30pm
Courtyard Gallery
Is the NHS institutionally ageist?

Festival Buzz
Particle Physics is Sexy

View: Particle Physics is Sexy

"The Battle of Ideas is a unique opportunity to learn from vigorous exchanges among some of the world's best-informed and most provocative people."
Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator, Financial Times