2013 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 19 October: 10.30am-12.00pm
Battle for our minds Pit Theatre
Saturday 19 October: 1.30pm-3.00pm
Battle for our minds Pit Theatre
Saturday 19 October: 3.30pm-5.30pm
Battle for our minds Pit Theatre
Sunday 20 October: 9.30am-10.15am
Battle over Scientific Information Frobisher Auditorium 2
Sunday 20 October: 10.30am-12.00pm
Battle over Scientific Information Frobisher Auditorium 2
Sunday 20 October: 1.30pm-3.00pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Battle over Scientific Information Frobisher Auditorium 2
Sunday 20 October: 3.30pm-4.45pm
Battle over Scientific Information Frobisher Auditorium 2
Sunday 20 October: 5.15pm-6.15pm
Battle over Scientific Information Frobisher Auditorium 2
From the Colosseum to Wembley: crowd watching through the ages
"To contribute to Battle of Ideas is to add a few words to a giant, communal speech-bubble out of the gap-toothed mouth of British opinion. It is a strong reminder that the joys of free, uncalculated speech and the right to attack orthodoxies can in no way be assumed in 2012 – that we use them or lose them."
Piers Hellawell, composer; professor of composition, Queen’s University Belfast