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: 10.30am-12.00pm
Café
Is big business ruining food?
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
Keynote Controversies Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Profiting responsibly? Business in the big society
Saturday 29 October: 3.30pm-5.00pm
Lecture Theatre 1
The trillion dollar question: is the US economy resurgent or dependent?
Lecture Theatre 2
What's innovation good for?
Saturday 29 October: 5.15pm-6.30pm
Lecture Theatre 1
Is this Africa's decade?
Sunday 30 October: 9.45am-10.30am
Breakfast Banter Students' Union
Are the Germans still European?
Sunday 30 October: 1.45pm-3.15pm
Henry Moore Gallery
Skilling up the jilted generation: the employability debate

Electoral Reform: purple revolution or middle-class obsession?

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Fredrick C. Harris, professor of political science, Columbia University

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