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 Courtyard Gallery
Data Sharing or Database State?

Saturday 31 October: 1.30pm to 3.00pm
Keynote Controversies Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Rethinking Privacy in an age of Disclosure and Sharing
Lecture Theatre 1
Whose Right to Choose? Choice, ethics and regulation in 21st-century reproduction

Saturday 31 October: 3.30pm to 5.00pm
Keynote Controversies Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Rethinking Freedom in an Illiberal Age: securing rights or celebrating liberty?

Saturday 31 October: 5.15pm to 6.30pm
Café
Debating Matters Competition showcase debate: "Copyright Benefits the Arts"

Sunday 1 November: 9.45am to 10.30am
Breakfast Banter Henry Moore Gallery
The Jury's Out: juries and the future of justice

Sunday 1 November: 10.45am to 12.15pm
Henry Moore Gallery
Lording It Over Us: the political rise of the judiciary

Sunday 1 November: 12.30pm to 1.30pm
Lunchtime Debates Henry Moore Gallery
The Human Rights Act: litigation or emancipation?

Sunday 1 November: 1.45pm to 3.15pm
Student Union
Shaping Social Policy: Designers and Crime

Sunday 1 November: 3.45pm to 5.15pm
Café
Standing up to Supernanny: why we need a Parents' Liberation Movement

Festival Buzz

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"What makes these sessions much more stimulating than most seminars is the sharp, often challenging contributions from the audience so that you have a real debate, not just a platform presentation."
Richard Donkin, independent journalist and author