Battle of Ideas 2015
Festival weekend: Liberty & Law

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

Saturday 17 October: 9.30-9.50
Festival Attractions Free Stage
Battle of Ideas 2015 Welcome Address: Je suis...what? Free speech after Charlie Hebdo
Saturday 17 October: 10.00-11.30
Everyday Liberties Frobisher Auditorium 2
Blurred lines: what is consent?
Saturday 17 October: 12.00-13.00
Everyday Liberties Frobisher Auditorium 2
Planet of the Vapes: why is there a war on e-cigarettes?
Saturday 17 October: 13.10-13.50
Artistic Freedom Cinema 2
Having a Laugh: comedy and offence today
Saturday 17 October: 14.00-15.30
Everyday Liberties Frobisher Auditorium 2
Statute overload: are there too many laws?
Saturday 17 October: 16.00-17.15
Everyday Liberties Frobisher Auditorium 2
We the People, you the Mob?
Saturday 17 October: 17.30-18.45
Everyday Liberties Frobisher Auditorium 2
The end of Boozy Britain?
Contemporary Controversies Free Stage
Bookshop Barnie: Nick Ross on Crime: How to solve it
Sunday 18 October: 10.00-11.30
Contemporary Controversies Cinema 3
From Magna Carta to human rights: can the law set us free?
Sunday 18 October: 16.00-17.15
Academy in One Day Hammerson Room
JS Mill, On Liberty

Big Data, big danger?

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