2011 Programme: Keynote Controversies

Big sessions discussing big ideas

Saturday 29 October 2011
10.30am to 12.00pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
The Battle against the Fates
Saturday 29 October 2011
1.30pm to 3.00pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Creativity and curiosity: do we make stuff up or find it out?
Saturday 29 October 2011
1.30pm to 3.00pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Profiting responsibly? Business in the big society
Sunday 30 October 2011
10.45am to 12.15pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Has tolerance gone too far?
Sunday 30 October 2011
1.45pm to 3.15pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Loyalty in an age of whistle-blowing and Wikileaks
Sunday 30 October 2011
3.45pm to 5.15pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Is individualism bad for society?

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Tim Parks, novelist, essayist and translator

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