Programme: Festival weekend overview

 Sunday 2 November 2008

10.00am to 10.45am Lecture Theatre 1 Breakfast Banter
The Battle over Homework
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!
10.00am to 10.45am Henry Moore Gallery Breakfast Banter
Learning Jargonese
10.00am to 10.45am Lecture Theatre 2 Breakfast Banter
'Sci Fi transport': a thing of the past?
11.00am to 12.30pm Seminar Space Battle for America
Election USA
11.00am to 12.30pm Lecture Theatre 2 In Conversation Salons
A Brave New World
11.00am to 12.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
The Battle for Progress
11.00am to 12.30pm Henry Moore Gallery Frame Debates
Adopting orthodoxies
11.00am to 12.30pm Lecture Theatre 1 Battle for Biomedicine
Whose data is it anyway?
11.00am to 12.30pm Café Café Controversies
Israel at 60
11.00am to 12.30pm Student Union A&B Arts Space
Staging ourselves
12.45pm to 1.45pm Seminar Space Lunchtime Debates
Is our behaviour determined by our evolution?
12.45pm to 1.45pm Student Union Lunchtime Debates
Are drugs ruining sport?
12.45pm to 1.45pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Lunchtime Debates
Malthus’ return
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
12.45pm to 1.45pm Lecture Theatre 2 Lunchtime Debates
RCA Exhibition Q&A
2.00pm to 3.30pm Lecture Theatre 1 Battle for Biomedicine
Boozy Britain
2.00pm to 3.30pm Seminar Space Battle for America
Is America still the world’s policeman?
2.00pm to 3.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
Radicalism then and now: the legacy of 1968
2.00pm to 3.30pm Café Café Controversies
Building the future
2.00pm to 3.30pm Lecture Theatre 2 In Conversation Salons
Trust me - I'm a professional
2.00pm to 3.30pm Henry Moore Gallery Frame Debates
Eco-imperialism?
2.00pm to 3.30pm Student Union A&B Arts Space
Poetry and Place
4.00pm to 5.30pm Lecture Theatre 2 In Conversation Salons
Evidence based education
4.00pm to 5.30pm Lecture Theatre 1 Battle for Biomedicine
Hypochondriac Nation
4.00pm to 5.30pm Café Café Controversies
Scared of the Kids
4.00pm to 5.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Keynote Controversies
The Battle for Leadership
4.00pm to 5.30pm Seminar Space Battle for America
What does it mean to be American?
4.00pm to 5.30pm Henry Moore Gallery Frame Debates
What is China thinking?
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
5.45pm to 6.45pm Henry Moore Gallery In Conversation Salons
Too many laws?
5.45pm to 6.45pm Seminar Space Thought for the day
Free speech on campus
5.45pm to 6.45pm Lecture Theatre 1 Thought for the day
Nuclear fusion and the future of energy
5.45pm to 6.45pm Café Thought for the day
Consuming children

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Litigation and Litigation Avoidance

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Ruth Gledhill, religion correspondent, The Times