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.

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Saturday 19 October: 10.30am-12.00pm
Battle for our minds Pit Theatre
What is addiction?
Saturday 19 October: 1.30pm-3.00pm
Battle for our minds Pit Theatre
Legal highs and club drugs culture
Saturday 19 October: 3.30pm-5.30pm
Battle for our minds Pit Theatre
Babies, brains and bull***t?
Sunday 20 October: 9.30am-10.15am
Battle over Scientific Information Frobisher Auditorium 2
Computer modelling: all about the image?
Sunday 20 October: 10.30am-12.00pm
Battle over Scientific Information Frobisher Auditorium 2
Number crunching and ethics in the era of Big Data
Sunday 20 October: 1.30pm-3.00pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Soul on the slab: is there no limit to what neuroscience can do?
Battle over Scientific Information Frobisher Auditorium 2
Science journalism: the tyranny of evidence?
Sunday 20 October: 3.30pm-4.45pm
Battle over Scientific Information Frobisher Auditorium 2
What is 'new environmentalism'?
Sunday 20 October: 5.15pm-6.15pm
Battle over Scientific Information Frobisher Auditorium 2
Chewing the facts: what's the truth of the obesity crisis?

Intellectual legacy: the battle for which ideas?

"I have never enjoyed being disagreed with so much."
Stephanie Calman, writer and broadcaster; founder, The Bad Mothers’ Club

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