Battle of Ideas 2015
Festival overview: Sunday
Sunday sesions are listed below ordered by time slot and room. See Saturday sessions or see the whole Festival weekend of more than 70 debates.

Full details of each session, including speakers and readings, will be added soon.

Sunday 18 October: 10.00-11.30
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Why are young people joining ISIS?
Battle for the Classroom Pit Theatre
Goodbye Mr Chips: can research tell teachers how to teach?
Battle for our Cities Frobisher Auditorium 2
From devolution to Northern Powerhouse: is this the Age of Regions?
Feminism and Its Discontents Frobisher Auditorium 1
Rape culture: menace or myth?
Academy in One Day Hammerson Room
Plato, The Republic
War and peace Conservatory
New wars, new technology
International Battles Garden Room
Modi's India: good days for all?
Battle over Technology Cinema 2
Can technology solve the ageing timebomb?
Contemporary Controversies Cinema 3
From Magna Carta to human rights: can the law set us free?
Economic solutions? Frobisher 5-6
Is it time to build on the green belt?
Sunday 18 October: 12.00-13.15
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
From literature to Twitter: the death of the reader?
Feminism and Its Discontents Frobisher Auditorium 1
The Personal is Political: is identity politics eating itself?
Battle over Technology Cinema 2
Man vs machine: who controls the robots?
Sunday 18 October: 12.00-13.00
Battle for our Cities Frobisher Auditorium 2
From tsunamis to terror attacks: do we need resilient cities?
Academy in One Day Hammerson Room
Machiavelli, The Prince
War and peace Conservatory
The 1916 Easter Rising: Ireland's history wars
Battle for the Classroom Pit Theatre
Do anti-bullying policies build character?
International Battles Garden Room
France: liberté, égalité, fraternité today
Contemporary Controversies Cinema 3
The culture war on tradition
Economic solutions? Frobisher 5-6
What's wrong with cheap food?
Contemporary Controversies Free Stage
Is money ruining sport?
Sunday 18 October: 13.10-13.50
Festival Attractions Garden Room
How to listen to a symphony
Hot Off the Press Free Stage
Gender Equality in the workplace: is it just a numbers game?
Hot Off the Press Hammerson Room
Hot off the Press: outdoor smoking bans
Sunday 18 October: 14.00-15.30
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Is technology limiting our humanity?
Battle for the Classroom Pit Theatre
Can children do philosophy?
Battle for our Cities Frobisher Auditorium 2
Gentrify this: the pros and cons of urban development
Feminism and Its Discontents Frobisher Auditorium 1
The battle over breasts
Academy in One Day Hammerson Room
Georg Lukács, History and Class Consciousness
Battle over Technology Cinema 2
Moneyball or Mourinho: Is sport seeing a big data revolution?
Contemporary Controversies Cinema 3
Libertarians of the world unite?
War and peace Conservatory
The blog of war: conflict reporting in a digital age
Economic solutions? Frobisher 5-6
Can the UK economy survive Brexit?
Contemporary Controversies Free Stage
Bookshop Barnie with Jeanne-Marie Gescher on All Under Heaven: China's Dreams of Order
International Battles Garden Room
China and India: putting the space race before the human race?
Sunday 18 October: 16.00-17.15
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Religious tolerance: can we keep the faith?
Battle for the Classroom Pit Theatre
Can we teach creativity?
Feminism and Its Discontents Frobisher Auditorium 1
Does pink really stink? The gender-neutral parenting debate
Academy in One Day Hammerson Room
JS Mill, On Liberty
International Battles Garden Room
What next for Greece?
Battle for our Cities Frobisher Auditorium 2
Do high streets still need shops?
War and peace Conservatory
Asymmetric warfare and the new terrorism
Economic solutions? Frobisher 5-6
Should we wage war on poverty pay?
Battle over Technology Cinema 2
Is gaming corrupting youth?
Hot Off the Press Cinema 3
The Great Migration Crisis: a pan-European debate
Sunday 18 October: 17.30-18.45
Keynote Controversies Frobisher 1-3
The Corbyn Effect: are the old parties dead?
Battle for our Cities Frobisher Auditorium 2
From plazamania to Garden Bridge: why the fuss about public space?
Feminism and Its Discontents Frobisher Auditorium 1
Campus Wars: safe or sanitised?
Academy in One Day Hammerson Room
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition
International Battles Garden Room
Shifting sands: understanding the Middle East today
Battle for the Classroom Pit Theatre
Should schools teach 'British values'?
Economic solutions? Frobisher 5-6
The divestment controversy: should fossil fuels go the way of the dinosaurs?
Contemporary Controversies Free Stage
Up all night: can we handle a 24-hour city?
Sunday 18 October: 18.45-20.30
Festival Attractions Conservatory
Battle of Ideas 2015 end of festival party: free speech, free drinks

Should we fear democracy?

"Some of the freest speech I have enjoyed in years."
Baroness Ruth Deech QC, crossbench peer; chairman, Bar Standards Board

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