Programme: Festival weekend overview

 Saturday 1 November 2008

11.15am to 12.15pm Lecture Theatre 1 Lunchtime Debates
Abortion: the hard arguments
12.30pm to 2.00pm Lecture Theatre 2 In Conversation Salons
Are we what we eat?
12.30pm to 2.00pm Café Café Controversies
The Battle for Intelligence
4.15pm to 5.15pm Seminar Space In Conversation Salons
Health promotion: improving children's lives or demonising parents?
 Sunday 2 November 2008

11.00am to 12.30pm Lecture Theatre 1 Battle for Biomedicine
Whose data is it anyway?
12.45pm to 1.45pm Student Union Lunchtime Debates
Are drugs ruining sport?
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
4.00pm to 5.30pm Lecture Theatre 1 Battle for Biomedicine
Hypochondriac Nation

 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