2009 Programme: Festival Sunday overview

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

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Sunday 1 November: 9.45am to 10.30am
Breakfast Banter Lecture Theatre 1
Risky Business: does financial engineering add up?
Breakfast Banter Courtyard Gallery
The Battle over Video Games
Breakfast Banter Lecture Theatre 2
The Empty Staffroom: has teaching lost its magic?
Breakfast Banter Café
The Ugly Game? The Old Firm, football rivalry and the politics of behaviour
Breakfast Banter Henry Moore Gallery
The Jury's Out: juries and the future of justice

Sunday 1 November: 10.45am to 12.15pm
Keynote Controversies Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Nudge Nudge, Nag Nag: the new politics of behaviour
Lecture Theatre 1
Abundant, Cheap, Clean... Contentious? Why is energy a battlefield today?
Courtyard Gallery
The changing meaning of work – from work-life balance to unemployment
Lecture Theatre 2
Philosophy 4 Children: can kids do Kant?
Café
We don't need no Sex Education
Henry Moore Gallery
Lording It Over Us: the political rise of the judiciary
Student Union
Can the arts save the economy?

Sunday 1 November: 12.30pm to 1.30pm
Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Should physician-assisted dying be legalised?
Lunchtime Debates Lecture Theatre 1
A Green New Deal: can environmentalism save the economy?
Lunchtime Debates Courtyard Gallery
India's Future: Slumdogs or Millionaires?
Lunchtime Debates Lecture Theatre 2
Setting an Example: should teachers be role models?
Lunchtime Debates Henry Moore Gallery
The Human Rights Act: litigation or emancipation?
Lunchtime Debates Student Union
From Macpherson to the rise of the BNP: Race Today?

Sunday 1 November: 1.45pm to 3.15pm
Keynote Controversies Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
The Art of Criticism: judgement in crisis?
Lecture Theatre 1
A New Nuclear Age?
Courtyard Gallery
Working for the State: public service or gravy train?
Lecture Theatre 2
A Space Age Future? Sci-fi film clips and discussion
Café
Policing the Playground: do anti-bullying campaigns do more harm than good?
Henry Moore Gallery
Mr Obama goes to Washington
Student Union
Shaping Social Policy: Designers and Crime

Sunday 1 November: 3.45pm to 5.15pm
Keynote Controversies Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
The Good Society: virtues for a post-recession world
Lecture Theatre 1
Solving the Energy Crisis: all about lightbulbs and lifestyle?
Courtyard Gallery
Recession-proofing: from union militancy to reskilling
Lecture Theatre 2
Songs of Innocence and Experience: what should today's kids be reading?
Café
Standing up to Supernanny: why we need a Parents' Liberation Movement
Henry Moore Gallery
South Africa: 15 Years After Apartheid
Student Union
Shaping Social Policy: Designers and Health

Sunday 1 November: 5.30pm to 6.30pm
Keynote Controversies Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
America, Obama and the Recession
Lecture Theatre 1
Shopping: are we all ethical now?
Courtyard Gallery
Is the NHS institutionally ageist?
Café
Sporty kids and pushy parents
Henry Moore Gallery
Head to head debate: Is it the duty of schools to promote community cohesion?
Student Union
Novel Pursuits: creative writing and the democratisation of literature?

Sunday 1 November: 6.40pm to 7.30pm
What next for...? Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Question Time: What Next?

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"Just when Kant's formulation that 'the public exercise of reason should be free' had begun to seem so remote and exhausted, the Battle should reinforce one's faith in the enduring worth of dissent and of the free traffic in ideas"
Swapan Chakravorty, professor of english, Jadavpur University