2009 Programme: Festival weekend overview

The Festival weekend includes more than 70 debates which are listed below ordered by time slot and room. To see Saturday or Sunday sessions only, select the day you want from the menu on the left or select sessions by Theme.

Or view and print out the Timetable as a two-page PDF.


Saturday 31 October: 9.30am to 11.00am
Battle for Reproductive Choice Lecture Theatre 1
Frankenstein's Daughters: from science fiction to science fact?

Saturday 31 October: 11.15am to 12.15pm
Lunchtime Debates Lecture Theatre 1
Genetics and genomics: medicine made to measure?

Saturday 31 October: 12.30pm to 2.00pm
Battle for Reproductive Choice Lecture Theatre 1
Whose Right to Choose? Choice, ethics and regulation in 21st-century reproduction

Saturday 31 October: 2.30pm to 4.00pm
Battle for Reproductive Choice Lecture Theatre 1
Three’s a crowd? The battle over population and reproduction

Sunday 1 November: 3.45pm to 5.15pm
Creativity Zone Student Union
Shaping Social Policy: Designers and Health

Sunday 1 November: 5.30pm to 6.30pm
Thought for the day Courtyard Gallery
Is the NHS institutionally ageist?

Festival Buzz

View: 'Turn That Racket Off'

"It was like having sex with Richard Dawkins and the Pope at the same time. Incredibly stimulating arguments. "
Julian Gough, novelist