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
Conservatory
Saturday 20 October: 12.15pm-1.15pm
Pit Theatre
Frobisher Auditorium 2
Frobisher 4-6
Saturday 20 October: 1.30pm-3.00pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Frobisher Auditorium 2
Conservatory
Saturday 20 October: 3.30pm-5.00pm
Pit Theatre
Frobisher 4-6
Conservatory
Saturday 20 October: 5.15pm-6.30pm
Pit Theatre
Frobisher Auditorium 2
Sunday 21 October: 9.30am-10.15am
Conservatory
Sunday 21 October: 10.30am-12.00pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Garden Room
Sunday 21 October: 12.15pm-1.15pm
Conservatory
Sunday 21 October: 1.30pm-2.45pm
Keynote Controversies Barbican Theatre
Sunday 21 October: 3.15pm-4.45pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Conservatory
Sunday 21 October: 5.00pm-6.15pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Conservatory
Garden Room
Sunday 21 October: 6.30pm-7.30pm
Cinema 1
Conservatory
Saturday 20 October: 1.30pm-2.45pm
Hammerson Room
Saturday 20 October: 5.15pm-6.30pm
The rise of the clicktivists: will the revolution be digitised?
"I thought the Battle of Ideas was wonderful. Especially the extent and quality of audience participation. I can't imagine how I missed this exciting forum for exchange of ideas in the past. I will certainly not miss another one and look forward already to 2012 Battle of Ideas."
Professor Marilyn Monk, emeritus professor of molecular embryology, University College London