Programme: Festival weekend overview

 Saturday 1 November 2008

9.30am to 11.00am Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
The Battle for Truth
2.30pm to 4.00pm Lecture Theatre 2 In Conversation Salons
Can GM crops feed the world?
2.30pm to 4.00pm Henry Moore Gallery Frame Debates
CSI mania
4.15pm to 5.15pm Café DMC Model Debate
Debating Matters Competition showcase debate on space travel
 Sunday 2 November 2008

11.00am to 12.30pm Lecture Theatre 1 Battle for Biomedicine
Whose data is it anyway?
11.00am to 12.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
The Battle for Progress
12.45pm to 1.45pm Seminar Space Lunchtime Debates
Is our behaviour determined by our evolution?
12.45pm to 1.45pm Lecture Theatre 1 Films Q&A
Flush it!
2.00pm to 3.30pm Henry Moore Gallery Frame Debates
Eco-imperialism?
4.00pm to 5.30pm Lecture Theatre 1 Battle for Biomedicine
Hypochondriac Nation
5.45pm to 6.45pm Lecture Theatre 1 Thought for the day
Nuclear fusion and the future of energy

 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