2013 Programme: Keynote Controversies

Big sessions discussing big ideas

Saturday 19 October 2013
10.30am to 12.00pm Cinema 1
Is nothing private anymore?
1.30pm to 3.00pm Cinema 1
State vs. market: is there a way forward?
3.30pm to 5.00pm Cinema 1
Do as I say not as I do: what's wrong with hypocrisy?
Sunday 20 October 2013
10.30am to 12.00pm Cinema 1
Building trust or cleaning up the public realm?
1.30pm to 3.00pm Cinema 1
Soul on the slab: is there no limit to what neuroscience can do?
3.30pm to 4.45pm Cinema 1
Putting the past on trial: burning dead witches?
5.15pm to 6.15pm Cinema 1
Authority in crisis

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