Battle of Ideas 2011 | programme 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 1

Unrealpolitik: a new new world order?

Saturday 29 October: 12.15pm-1.15pm

Lecture Theatre 1

Eurozonia: too big to fail, too small to succeed?

Saturday 29 October: 1.30pm-3.00pm

Lecture Theatre 1

Middle East 'revolutions': hopes and fears?

Saturday 29 October: 5.15pm-6.30pm

Lecture Theatre 1

Is this Africa's decade?

Sunday 30 October: 1.45pm-3.15pm

Students' Union

Roads or ruins? The politics of cultural preservation

Energy: A new nuclear age?

"Depressed by 'debates' where the panel ignore each other? The Battle of Ideas is the real deal - two days of verbal fistfights. Accept no alternative."
Vivienne Raper, writer and editor

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