Programme: Festival weekend overview

 Saturday 1 November 2008

9.30am to 11.00am Henry Moore Gallery Frame Debates
The Battle for the Reader
9.30am to 11.00am Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
The Battle for Truth
11.15am to 12.15pm Lecture Theatre 2 Films Q&A
Text and the City: what is a city of literature?
12.30pm to 2.00pm Student Union A&B Arts Space
Candid camera
12.30pm to 2.00pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
Your culture or mine? The arts and identity
2.30pm to 4.00pm Henry Moore Gallery Frame Debates
CSI mania
2.30pm to 4.00pm Student Union A&B Arts Space
Stealing Picasso?
 Sunday 2 November 2008

10.00am to 10.45am Seminar Space Breakfast Banter
No laughing matter! Has political comedy lost its edge?
11.00am to 12.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
The Battle for Progress
11.00am to 12.30pm Student Union A&B Arts Space
Staging ourselves
12.45pm to 1.45pm Lecture Theatre 2 Lunchtime Debates
RCA Exhibition Q&A
2.00pm to 3.30pm Student Union A&B Arts Space
Poetry and Place
4.00pm to 5.30pm Student Union A&B Arts Space
We are the world: what is world music?
5.45pm to 6.45pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Thought for the day
From Fatwa to Jihad

 Festival Buzz

"For one weekend in the year, in the centre of London, it's as if ideas matter, it's as if the world really can be made a better place through the free and energetic exercise of reason."
Austen Ivereigh, Catholic commentator