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.

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Saturday 29 October: 12.15pm-1.15pm
Lunchtime Debates Students' Union
Tomorrow never knows? Sci-fi and the future
Saturday 29 October: 3.30pm-5.00pm
Lecture Theatre 2
What's innovation good for?
Saturday 29 October: 5.15pm-6.30pm
Lecture Theatre 2
Online communities: cyber-village or antisocial network?
Sunday 30 October: 12.30pm-1.30pm
Lecture Theatre 1
Designer people: is technology making us less human?
Sunday 30 October: 3.45pm-5.15pm
Café
Olympic expectations: can't see the games for the legacy?
Students' Union
Dead cities: 'ruin porn' and the urban imagination
Sunday 30 October: 5.30pm-6.30pm
Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
The rise of the clicktivists: will the revolution be digitised?

Consuming children - Sarah Ebner

"In few places does the free exchange of views take place on so wide a range of issues as at the Battle of Ideas. Whatever the headlines of 2011 prove to be, the Battle of Ideas is where they will be most robustly debated."
Andrew Copson, chief executive, British Humanist Association

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