2013 Programme: Festival Saturday overview
Saturday sessions are listed below ordered by time slot and room. To see Sunday sessions only, select the day you want from the menu on the left or select sessions by Theme or see the whole Festival weekend of more than 70 debates.
Or view and print out the Timetable as a two-page PDF.
Saturday 19 October: 10.30am-12.00pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Battle for our minds Pit Theatre
Institutions in crisis? Cinema 2
Battle for technological progress Frobisher Auditorium 1
School Fights Frobisher 1-3
Private or public morality? Frobisher Auditorium 2
Literature Wars Hammerson Room
Pop Ups Free Stage
Saturday 19 October: 12.15pm-1.15pm
Lunchtime Debates Cinema 1
Institutions in crisis? Cinema 2
Battle for technological progress Frobisher Auditorium 1
School Fights Frobisher 1-3
Private or public morality? Frobisher Auditorium 2
Hot off the Press 2013 Free Stage
Saturday 19 October: 1.30pm-3.00pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Battle for our minds Pit Theatre
Institutions in crisis? Cinema 2
Battle for technological progress Frobisher Auditorium 1
School Fights Frobisher 1-3
Private or public morality? Frobisher Auditorium 2
Literature Wars Hammerson Room
Urban Life Cinema 3
Pop Ups Library
Saturday 19 October: 3.30pm-5.00pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Battle for our minds Pit Theatre
Institutions in crisis? Cinema 2
Battle for technological progress Frobisher Auditorium 1
School Fights Frobisher 1-3
Private or public morality? Frobisher Auditorium 2
Literature Wars Hammerson Room
Urban Life Cinema 3
Saturday 19 October: 5.30pm-6.45pm
Thought for the day Cinema 1
Battle for our minds Pit Theatre
Institutions in crisis? Cinema 2
School Fights Frobisher Auditorium 1
Battle for technological progress Frobisher 1-3
Private or public morality? Frobisher Auditorium 2
Literature Wars Hammerson Room
Balloon Debate Camera Café
Instrumental music: should music be a tool of social policy?
"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