Programme: Festival weekend overview

 Saturday 1 November 2008

9.30am to 11.00am Lecture Theatre 2 In Conversation Salons
Irish History: don't mention the war?
9.30am to 11.00am Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
The Battle for Truth
9.30am to 11.00am Café Café Controversies
The EU: humdrum technocracy or European dream?
12.30pm to 2.00pm Seminar Space Battle for the Family
The problem with families
12.30pm to 2.00pm Henry Moore Gallery Frame Debates
From the classroom to the voting booth
2.30pm to 4.00pm Upper Gulbenkian Keynote Controversies
Capitalism – what is it good for?
2.30pm to 4.00pm Seminar Space Battle for the Family
Is 'poor parenting' a class issue?
4.15pm to 5.15pm Lecture Theatre 1 Book Launch
The Future of Community: Reports of a Death Greatly Exaggerated
 Sunday 2 November 2008

10.00am to 10.45am Henry Moore Gallery Breakfast Banter
Learning Jargonese
11.00am to 12.30pm Seminar Space Battle for America
Election USA
11.00am to 12.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
The Battle for Progress
12.45pm to 1.45pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Lunchtime Debates
Malthus’ return
2.00pm to 3.30pm Seminar Space Battle for America
Is America still the world’s policeman?
2.00pm to 3.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
Radicalism then and now: the legacy of 1968
2.00pm to 3.30pm Lecture Theatre 1 Battle for Biomedicine
Boozy Britain
4.00pm to 5.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
The Battle for Leadership
4.00pm to 5.30pm Seminar Space Battle for America
What does it mean to be American?
5.45pm to 6.45pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Thought for the day
From Fatwa to Jihad
5.45pm to 6.45pm Seminar Space Thought for the day
Free speech on campus

 Festival Buzz

"The Battle of Ideas provides a valuable and positive resource at a time when intelligent debate, public speaking and challenge seem to be diminishing in public life."
Barb Jungr, chansonniere