2011 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 29 October: 10.30am-12.00pm
Lecture Theatre 2
Censoring science: have scientists become the new inquisitors?
Saturday 29 October: 12.15pm-1.15pm
Lunchtime Debates Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
What is nature for?
Lunchtime Debates Lecture Theatre 2
Seduced by stats?
Saturday 29 October: 1.30pm-3.00pm
Keynote Controversies Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Creativity and curiosity: do we make stuff up or find it out?
Saturday 29 October: 5.15pm-6.30pm
Café
Debating Matters International Final: GM Crops - UK versus India
Sunday 30 October: 9.45am-10.30am
Lecture Theatre 1
Life off Earth: are the aliens out there?
Sunday 30 October: 10.45am-12.15pm
Lecture Theatre 1
Sex in the brain: do men and women think differently?
Sunday 30 October: 12.30pm-1.30pm
Lunchtime Debates Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Fracking and Fukushima: our energy security fears
Lecture Theatre 1
Designer people: is technology making us less human?
Sunday 30 October: 1.45pm-3.15pm
Lecture Theatre 1
Is there a ghost in the machine?
Café
Drugs and bionics: enhancing sport?
Sunday 30 October: 3.45pm-5.15pm
Lecture Theatre 1
Smart drugs: magic bullet or cheating ourselves?
Sunday 30 October: 5.30pm-6.30pm
Lecture Theatre 1
Can you tell when someone is lying to you? - Film Q&A

'Privacy is Dead. Long Live Privacy?'

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