2013 Programme: Festival Sunday overview

Sunday sessions are listed below ordered by time slot and room. To see Saturday 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.

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Sunday 20 October: 9.30am-10.15am
Wrestling with the World Pit Theatre
In conversation: India
Generation Wars Cinema 2
Youth today: generation me, me, me?
Battle over Scientific Information Frobisher Auditorium 2
Computer modelling: all about the image?
Contemporary Controversies Frobisher 1-3
Free riders: cycle helmets and health and safety
Economic solutions? Conservatory
Lobbying: a dirty business?
Artistic Battles Garden Room
Taking the rap: hip hop, R&B and social responsibility
Sunday 20 October: 10.30am-12.00pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Building trust or cleaning up the public realm?
Wrestling with the World Pit Theatre
What is the secret of Scandinavian success?
Generation Wars Cinema 2
Honey, did we bankrupt the kids?
Battle over Scientific Information Frobisher Auditorium 2
Number crunching and ethics in the era of Big Data
Contemporary Controversies Frobisher 1-3
Pathologising Israel
Economic solutions? Conservatory
Globalnomics: over the tipping point?
Artistic Battles Garden Room
Digital creativity: can we all be composers now?
Hot off the Press 2013 Hammerson Room
Burqa bans – is what we wear a public or private matter?
Sunday 20 October: 12.15pm-1.15pm
Lunchtime Debates Cinema 1
Leveson one year on: what future for press freedom?
Wrestling with the World Pit Theatre
In conversation: Russia
Generation Wars Cinema 2
Role models: on your best behaviour?
Contemporary Controversies Frobisher 1-3
Is cheating ruining sport?
Artistic Battles Garden Room
Is public art an insult to the public?
Hot off the Press 2013 Hammerson Room
Economic Migrants: what price for a better life?
Sunday 20 October: 1.30pm-3.00pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Soul on the slab: is there no limit to what neuroscience can do?
Wrestling with the World Pit Theatre
From Sandy Hook to Boston: guns, bombs, and a changing America?
Generation Wars Cinema 2
Is 10 too young to be a criminal?
Battle over Scientific Information Frobisher Auditorium 2
Science journalism: the tyranny of evidence?
Contemporary Controversies Frobisher 1-3
Last orders: calling time on the pub
Economic solutions? Conservatory
Cuts, cuts, cuts: what, where and why?
Artistic Battles Garden Room
Pop Art: all mouth, no trousers?
Urban Life Cinema 3
Designing citizens: architects as nudgers?
Hot off the Press 2013 Hammerson Room
Twerk Hard, Play Hard: the pornification of the public realm
Sunday 20 October: 3.30pm-4.45pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Putting the past on trial: burning dead witches?
Wrestling with the World Pit Theatre
In conversation: Eastern Europe
Generation Wars Cinema 2
Facebook generation: growing up in public
Battle over Scientific Information Frobisher Auditorium 2
What is 'new environmentalism'?
Contemporary Controversies Frobisher 1-3
Can you be a perfect parent?
Economic solutions? Conservatory
Development aid: hindrance or help?
Artistic Battles Garden Room
What is it to be cultured?
Urban Life Cinema 3
Grow your own? The urban agriculture revolution
Sunday 20 October: 5.15pm-6.15pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Authority in crisis
Wrestling with the World Pit Theatre
In conversation: China
Battle over Scientific Information Frobisher Auditorium 2
Chewing the facts: what's the truth of the obesity crisis?
Contemporary Controversies Frobisher 1-3
First World War: the hundred years view
Economic solutions? Conservatory
Get rich or get equal?
Artistic Battles Garden Room
From Medici to Saatchi: should art collections be public?
Hot off the Press 2013 Hammerson Room
Special UK audio book launch and discussion 'The Gala Concert, Verdi/Wagner 200 years'
Sunday 20 October: 6.30pm-7.30pm
Plenary Barbican Theatre
Great Books

What is evil? The politics of morality

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Albena Azmanova, social philosopher, political commentator and activist

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