2010 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.

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Saturday 30 October: 12.15pm-1.15pm
Lunchtime Debates Henry Moore Gallery
Your conscience, my health: the right to refuse?
Saturday 30 October: 1.30pm-3.00pm
Provocation Zone Student Union
Should apes have rights?
Sunday 31 October: 10.45am-12.15pm
Provocation Zone Student Union
Rape and the law: he said, she said?
Sunday 31 October: 12.30pm-1.30pm
Lunchtime Debates Henry Moore Gallery
Crimes against humanity and international law: justice without borders?
Sunday 31 October: 1.45pm-3.15pm
Provocation Zone Student Union
Trafficking: new slave trade or moral panic?
Sunday 31 October: 3.45pm-5.15pm
Keynote Controversies Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
What does it mean to be a liberal today?
Sunday 31 October: 5.30pm-6.30pm
Thought for the day Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
From banning burqas to B&B bigots: can Europe tolerate religious tolerance?

Festival Buzz

China and India: Catching up with the West?

"The arts and humanities need to be defended and we must fight for the freedom to extend barriers, not merely to work within them. What better arena than The Battle of Ideas?"
Professor Colin Lawson, Director, Royal College of Music