Programme: Festival weekend overview

 Saturday 1 November 2008

10.30am to 12.00pm Seminar Space Battle for the Family
Professionalising parenting
12.15pm to 1.15pm Seminar Space Lunchtime Debates
Social workers – PC do-gooders or progressive radicals?
12.15pm to 1.15pm Student Union Lunchtime Debates
Cricket: more than a game?
12.15pm to 1.15pm Lecture Theatre 1 Lunchtime Debates
Abortion: the hard arguments
1.30pm to 3.00pm Lecture Theatre 2 In Conversation Salons
Are we what we eat?
1.30pm to 3.00pm Seminar Space Battle for the Family
The problem with families
1.30pm to 3.00pm Student Union A&B Arts Space
Candid camera
3.30pm to 5.00pm Café Café Controversies
Can philosophy save your life?
3.30pm to 5.00pm Seminar Space Battle for the Family
Is 'poor parenting' a class issue?
5.15pm to 6.15pm Lecture Theatre 1 Book Launch
The Future of Community: Reports of a Death Greatly Exaggerated
 Sunday 2 November 2008

10.00am to 10.45am Seminar Space Breakfast Banter
No laughing matter! Has political comedy lost its edge?
10.00am to 10.45am Café Breakfast Banter
You’re not singing anymore!
11.00am to 12.30pm Henry Moore Gallery Frame Debates
Adopting orthodoxies
12.45pm to 1.45pm Student Union Lunchtime Debates
Are drugs ruining sport?
12.45pm to 1.45pm Lecture Theatre 1 Films Q&A
Flush it!
12.45pm to 1.45pm Henry Moore Gallery Lunchtime Debates
Picking on The Apprentice
2.00pm to 3.30pm Lecture Theatre 1 Battle for Biomedicine
Boozy Britain
2.00pm to 3.30pm Lecture Theatre 2 In Conversation Salons
Trust me - I'm a professional
4.00pm to 5.30pm Café Café Controversies
Scared of the Kids
4.00pm to 5.30pm Seminar Space Battle for America
What does it mean to be American?
5.45pm to 6.45pm Café Thought for the day
Consuming children

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'The Panic About Obesity'

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"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