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
Generation Wars Cinema 2
Battle over Scientific Information Frobisher Auditorium 2
Contemporary Controversies Frobisher 1-3
Economic solutions? Conservatory
Sunday 20 October: 10.30am-12.00pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Wrestling with the World Pit Theatre
Generation Wars Cinema 2
Battle over Scientific Information Frobisher Auditorium 2
Contemporary Controversies Frobisher 1-3
Economic solutions? Conservatory
Sunday 20 October: 12.15pm-1.15pm
Wrestling with the World Pit Theatre
Generation Wars Cinema 2
Contemporary Controversies Frobisher 1-3
Artistic Battles Garden Room
Hot off the Press 2013 Hammerson Room
Sunday 20 October: 1.30pm-3.00pm
Generation Wars Cinema 2
Battle over Scientific Information Frobisher Auditorium 2
Contemporary Controversies Frobisher 1-3
Economic solutions? Conservatory
Artistic Battles Garden Room
Hot off the Press 2013 Hammerson Room
Sunday 20 October: 3.30pm-4.45pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Wrestling with the World Pit Theatre
Battle over Scientific Information Frobisher Auditorium 2
Contemporary Controversies Frobisher 1-3
Economic solutions? Conservatory
Artistic Battles Garden Room
Sunday 20 October: 5.15pm-6.15pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Wrestling with the World Pit Theatre
Battle over Scientific Information Frobisher Auditorium 2
Contemporary Controversies Frobisher 1-3
Economic solutions? Conservatory
Sunday 20 October: 6.30pm-7.30pm
Plenary Barbican Theatre

Designer people: is technology making us less human?

"I was impressed by the intensity of the debate and the high level of intellectual engagement, not least by the audience. It was an invigorating, even exhilarating experience to be part of a festival based on the conviction that disagreement is good. The Battle of Ideas is a fantastic concept, may it spread epidemically to the rest of the world. I am already looking forward to next year's event."
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, professor of social anthropology, University of Oslo; novelist

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