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
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Is nothing private anymore?
Private or public morality? Frobisher Auditorium 2
Sacrifice and philanthropy: what's in it for me?
Saturday 19 October: 1.30pm-3.00pm
Battle for our minds Pit Theatre
Legal highs and club drugs culture
Private or public morality? Frobisher Auditorium 2
The law and our private lives: an abusive relationship?
Saturday 19 October: 3.30pm-5.00pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Do as I say not as I do: what's wrong with hypocrisy?
Private or public morality? Frobisher Auditorium 2
Suicide: the ultimate selfish act?
Urban Life Cinema 3
Policing public space: banned in London
Saturday 19 October: 5.30pm-6.45pm
Institutions in crisis? Cinema 2
Cops in crisis: what seems to be the matter, officer?
Sunday 20 October: 1.30pm-3.00pm
Generation Wars Cinema 2
Is 10 too young to be a criminal?

Africa and oil

"The rules of the game at The Battle of Ideas makes beating about the bush impossible. When you are given 5 minutes to make your point, you either say something essential, or you reveal that you have nothing really to say. This eliminates 'the unbearable lightness' of speculation that haunts public debate."
Albena Azmanova, social philosopher, political commentator and activist

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