Battle of Ideas 2015
Festival weekend: Science & Environment

Fuller details of sessions are available where the title is in bold.

Saturday 17 October: 10.00-11.30
Battle over Life and Death Frobisher Auditorium 1
What is a good life: can science and medicine tell us?
Saturday 17 October: 12.00-13.00
Battle over Life and Death Frobisher Auditorium 1
Can Big Data save the world?
Contemporary Controversies Conservatory
Anthropocene: are humans wrecking the planet?
Saturday 17 October: 14.00-15.30
Battle over Life and Death Frobisher Auditorium 1
Eugenics: myth and reality
Eye on the World Pit Theatre
Plantation politics: is industrial farming bad for the developing world?
Saturday 17 October: 16.00-17.15
Contemporary Controversies Conservatory
Plumbing the depths: the battle for the oceans
Saturday 17 October: 17.30-18.45
Battle over Life and Death Frobisher Auditorium 1
What is a good death: can science and medicine tell us?
Sunday 18 October: 12.00-13.00
Economic solutions? Frobisher 5-6
What's wrong with cheap food?
Sunday 18 October: 14.00-15.30
Battle over Technology Cinema 2
Moneyball or Mourinho: Is sport seeing a big data revolution?
International Battles Garden Room
China and India: putting the space race before the human race?
Sunday 18 October: 17.30-18.45
Economic solutions? Frobisher 5-6
The divestment controversy: should fossil fuels go the way of the dinosaurs?

From bullet trains to driverless cars: where is transport going?

"Although 'battle' suggests destruction, these were some of the most constructive debates I've taken part in. This was civilised conflict in the best sense of both words."
Julian Baggini, author, Welcome to Everytown: A Journey into the English Mind, and The Ego Trick

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