Theme: Liberty & Law

 Saturday

12.15pm to 1.15pm Student Union Bar-room Rants
Why do people hate America?

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

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

 Sunday

2.00pm to 3.30pm Lecture Theatre 1 Battle for Science
My brain made me do it

4.00pm to 5.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
The new heresies

5.45pm to 6.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Rethinking...
Terrorism

 Festival Buzz

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'Turn That Racket Off' [Opens in new window]

"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