2010 Programme: Keynote Controversies

Big sessions discussing big ideas

Saturday 30 October 2010
10.30am to 12.00pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Trust in an age of cynicism
Saturday 30 October 2010
1.30pm to 3.00pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
The empty square: the public engaged or imagined?
Saturday 30 October 2010
3.30pm to 5.00pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Is the West still the best?
Sunday 31 October 2010
10.45am to 12.15pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Whose social justice is it anyway?
Sunday 31 October 2010
1.45pm to 3.15pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Engineering the future: cautionary tale or utopia?
Sunday 31 October 2010
3.45pm to 5.15pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
What does it mean to be a liberal today?

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