2012 Programme: Festival weekend overview
The Festival weekend includes more than 70 debates which are listed below ordered by time slot and room. To see Saturday or Sunday sessions only, select the day you want from the menu on the left or select sessions by Theme.
Or view and print out the Timetable as a two-page PDF.
Saturday 20 October: 10.30am-12.00pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Pit Theatre
Frobisher Auditorium 2
Fountain Room
Conservatory
Garden Room
Saturday 20 October: 12.15pm-1.15pm
Lunchtime Debates Cinema 1
Pit Theatre
Frobisher Auditorium 2
Frobisher 4-6
Fountain Room
Conservatory
Garden Room
Saturday 20 October: 1.30pm-3.00pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Pit Theatre
Frobisher Auditorium 2
Frobisher 4-6
Fountain Room
Conservatory
Garden Room
Saturday 20 October: 3.30pm-5.00pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Pit Theatre
Frobisher Auditorium 2
Frobisher 4-6
Fountain Room
Conservatory
Garden Room
Hammerson Room
Saturday 20 October: 5.15pm-6.30pm
Cinema 1
Pit Theatre
Frobisher Auditorium 2
Fountain Room
Frobisher Auditorium 1
Garden Room
Sunday 21 October: 8.00am-9.00am
Barbican, Silk Street entrance
Sunday 21 October: 9.30am-10.15am
Pit Theatre
Frobisher Auditorium 2
Frobisher 4-6
Fountain Room
Conservatory
Garden Room
Sunday 21 October: 10.30am-12.00pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Pit Theatre
Frobisher Auditorium 2
Frobisher 4-6
Fountain Room
Conservatory
Garden Room
Sunday 21 October: 12.15pm-1.15pm
Lunchtime Debates Cinema 1
Pit Theatre
Frobisher Auditorium 2
Frobisher 4-6
Conservatory
Garden Room
Sunday 21 October: 1.30pm-2.45pm
Keynote Controversies Barbican Theatre
Sunday 21 October: 3.15pm-4.45pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Pit Theatre
Frobisher Auditorium 2
Frobisher 4-6
Fountain Room
Conservatory
Garden Room
Hammerson Room
Sunday 21 October: 5.00pm-6.15pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Pit Theatre
Frobisher Auditorium 2
Frobisher 4-6
Fountain Room
Conservatory
Garden Room
Sunday 21 October: 6.30pm-7.30pm
Cinema 1
Pit Theatre
Frobisher Auditorium 2
Frobisher 4-6
Fountain Room
Conservatory
Garden Room
Engineering the future: cautionary tale or utopia?
"There's a real sense of intellectual delight that so much can be discussed in just sixty minutes - and so thoughtfully - both by the speakers and especially by the audience. A rich feast of ideas."
Christopher Kelly, reader in Ancient History and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Corpus Christi College