Programme: Festival weekend overview

 Saturday 1 November 2008

10.30am to 12.00pm Lecture Theatre 1 Battle for Prosperity
China and India: catching up with the West?
10.30am to 12.00pm Henry Moore Gallery Frame Debates
The Battle for the Reader
10.30am to 12.00pm Lecture Theatre 2 In Conversation Salons
Irish History: don't mention the war?
10.30am to 12.00pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
The Battle for Truth
10.30am to 12.00pm Seminar Space Battle for the Family
Professionalising parenting
10.30am to 12.00pm Café Café Controversies
The EU: humdrum technocracy or European dream?
10.30am to 12.00pm Student Union A&B Arts Space
Caught in the Web
12.15pm to 1.15pm Seminar Space Lunchtime Debates
Social workers – PC do-gooders or progressive radicals?
12.15pm to 1.15pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Lunchtime Debates
The credit crunch demystified
12.15pm to 1.15pm Henry Moore Gallery Lunchtime Debates
Bring in the consultants?
12.15pm to 1.15pm Student Union Lunchtime Debates
Cricket: more than a game?
12.15pm to 1.15pm Lecture Theatre 2 Films Q&A
Text and the City: what is a city of literature?
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
1.30pm to 3.00pm Café Café Controversies
The Battle for Intelligence
1.30pm to 3.00pm Lecture Theatre 1 Battle for Prosperity
Growing pains: the pros and cons of economic dynamism
1.30pm to 3.00pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
Your culture or mine? The arts and identity
1.30pm to 3.00pm Henry Moore Gallery Frame Debates
From the classroom to the voting booth
3.30pm to 5.00pm Café Café Controversies
Can philosophy save your life?
3.30pm to 5.00pm Upper Gulbenkian Keynote Controversies
Capitalism – what is it good for?
3.30pm to 5.00pm Lecture Theatre 2 In Conversation Salons
Can GM crops feed the world?
3.30pm to 5.00pm Henry Moore Gallery Frame Debates
CSI mania
3.30pm to 5.00pm Seminar Space Battle for the Family
Is 'poor parenting' a class issue?
3.30pm to 5.00pm Lecture Theatre 1 Battle for Prosperity
Emerging Economies – Question Time
3.30pm to 5.00pm Student Union A&B Arts Space
Stealing Picasso?
5.15pm to 6.15pm Seminar Space In Conversation Salons
Health promotion: improving children's lives or demonising parents?
5.15pm to 6.15pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Head to Head Debates
Immigration: the more the scarier?
5.15pm to 6.15pm Henry Moore Gallery Balloon Debate
What is it to be educated?
5.15pm to 6.15pm Lecture Theatre 1 Book Launch
The Future of Community: Reports of a Death Greatly Exaggerated
5.15pm to 6.15pm Café DMC Model Debate
Debating Matters Competition showcase debate on space travel

 Festival Buzz

"Participating in the Battle was a little like entering a Bombay train at rush hour - it's a plunge into a swirl of wildly differing notions of how people should arrange themselves in a really tight situation. When you eventually emerge, you find that you're in a different place from where you started - and that you've been thoroughly energised from the journey. I can't wait to take the trip again next year."
Naresh Fernandes, editor-in-chief, Time Out India