Programme: Festival weekend overview

 Saturday 27 October 2007

10.30am to 12.00pm Café Café Conversations
Diet Nation: the obesity debate
10.30am to 12.00pm Seminar Space Battle for Music
Each to his iPod, or great music for all?
10.30am to 12.00pm Lecture Theatre 2 Can Films Change the World?
Change the world - make a documentary?
10.30am to 12.00pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
What is education for?
10.30am to 12.00pm Lecture Theatre 1 Battle for New Technologies
MySpace generation
10.30am to 12.00pm Student Union Bar-room Rants
Iraq: what now for the war on terror?
10.30am to 12.00pm Henry Moore Gallery Battle Talk
Is identity politics undermining democracy?
12.15pm to 1.15pm Lecture Theatre 2 Lunchtime Debates
Animating real life
12.15pm to 1.15pm Lecture Theatre 2 Lunchtime Debates
Demonising parents
12.15pm to 1.15pm Student Union Bar-room Rants
Why do people hate America?
12.15pm to 1.15pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Lunchtime Debates
Should art change the world?
12.15pm to 1.15pm Lecture Theatre 1 Lunchtime Debates
CAM - junk science or genuine alternative?
12.15pm to 1.15pm Seminar Space Lunchtime Debates
'Ethical foreign policy' after Blair
1.30pm to 3.00pm Lecture Theatre 2 Can Films Change the World?
Film stars
1.30pm to 3.00pm Student Union Bar-room Rants
Eat, drink and be merry - banned
1.30pm to 3.00pm Cafe Café Conversations
Academic freedom under threat
1.30pm to 3.00pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
Age of the metropolis
1.30pm to 3.00pm Henry Moore Gallery Battle Talk
Toxic Childhood
1.30pm to 3.00pm Lecture Theatre 1 Battle for New Technologies
Digital commons
1.30pm to 3.00pm Seminar Space Battle for Music
Turn that racket off!
3.30pm to 5.00pm Henry Moore Gallery Battle Talk
China’s future
3.30pm to 5.00pm Seminar Space Battle for Music
Teach the world to sing
3.30pm to 5.00pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
The resurrection of religion
3.30pm to 5.00pm Lecture Theatre 2 Can Films Change the World?
Imagining the city
3.30pm to 5.00pm Cafe Café Conversations
Child protection
3.30pm to 5.00pm Lecture Theatre 1 Battle for New Technologies
Privacy is dead. Long live privacy?
3.30pm to 5.00pm Student Union Bar-room Rants
Revolting students
5.15pm to 6.00pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Rethinking...
Immigration
5.15pm to 6.00pm Cafe Contemporary Questions
All tested out
5.15pm to 6.00pm Lecture Theatre 1 Provocation Lecture
Recycling is a waste of time
5.15pm to 6.00pm Seminar Space What next for...?
What next for... democracy in Europe?
 Sunday 28 October 2007

8.00am to 8.45am Lecture Theatre 1 Breakfast Banter
Debating Darwin
10.00am to 10.45am Henry Moore Gallery Breakfast Banter
Is ballet too elitist?
10.00am to 10.45am Seminar Space Breakfast Banter
Are we a nation of sporting losers?
10.00am to 10.45am Cafe Breakfast Banter
Friendship or networking?
10.00am to 10.45am Lecture Theatre 2 Breakfast Banter
Rebels without a cause
11.00am to 12.30pm Lecture Theatre 2 Salon Debates
School sport
11.00am to 12.30pm Cafe Café Conversations
Whatever happened to serious TV?
11.00am to 12.30pm Student Union
Political theatre: political animal?
11.00am to 12.30pm Seminar Space Battle for Africa
Saving Africa
11.00am to 12.30pm Henry Moore Gallery Battle Talk
London 2012
11.00am to 12.30pm Lecture Theatre 1 Battle for Science
The science and politics of climate change
11.00am to 12.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
Democracy and its discontents
12.45pm to 1.45pm Lecture Theatre 2 Lunchtime Debates
Debating Matters showcase debate on libraries
12.45pm to 1.45pm Henry Moore Gallery Lunchtime Debates
Cultural diversity
12.45pm to 1.45pm Lecture Theatre 1 Lunchtime Debates
Corruptababble
12.45pm to 1.45pm Seminar Space Lunchtime Debates
Politics of wellbeing
12.45pm to 1.45pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Lunchtime Debates
Designing behaviour
2.00pm to 3.30pm Seminar Space Battle for Africa
Trade, aid or development?
2.00pm to 3.30pm Lecture Theatre 1 Battle for Science
My brain made me do it
2.00pm to 3.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
Post Ideology
2.00pm to 3.30pm Henry Moore Gallery Battle Talk
The future of journalism
2.00pm to 3.30pm Cafe Café Conversations
Moralising the curriculum
2.00pm to 3.30pm Lecture Theatre 2 Salon Debates
More than bricks and mortar?
2.00pm to 3.30pm Student Union
Should poetry please?
4.00pm to 5.30pm Seminar Space Battle for Africa
The new Silk Road or scramble for Africa
4.00pm to 5.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
The new heresies
4.00pm to 5.30pm Student Union
What does music mean?
4.00pm to 5.30pm Lecture Theatre 2 Salon Debates
Moving into the future?
4.00pm to 5.30pm Cafe Café Conversations
Will ethical shopping save the world?
4.00pm to 5.30pm Lecture Theatre 1 Battle for Science
What are the barriers to science in the 21st century?
4.00pm to 5.30pm Henry Moore Gallery Battle Talk
Frederick Engels
5.45pm to 6.30pm Seminar Space What next for...?
What next for... bon-vivants?
5.45pm to 6.30pm Lecture Theatre 1 Provocation Lecture
Particle physics is sexy
5.45pm to 6.30pm Cafe Contemporary Questions
India at 60
5.45pm to 6.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Rethinking...
Terrorism
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"The 2006 Battle of Ideas did what it said on the tin: prejudices were punctured, common wisdom was questioned and original thinking honoured. The saying was coined in Texas, but I suggest that the Battle of Ideas adopts it as the conference motto: ‘sacred cows make the best burgers."
George Brock, Saturday Editor, The Times