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: 10.30am to 12.00pm
Battle for Reproductive Choice Lecture Theatre 1
Frankenstein's Daughters: from science fiction to science fact?

Saturday 31 October: 12.15pm to 1.15pm
Lunchtime Debates Lecture Theatre 1
Genetics and genomics: medicine made to measure?

Saturday 31 October: 1.30pm to 3.00pm
Battle for Reproductive Choice Lecture Theatre 1
Whose Right to Choose? Choice, ethics and regulation in 21st-century reproduction

Saturday 31 October: 3.30pm to 5.00pm
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
Terrorism

View: Terrorism

"Just when Kant's formulation that 'the public exercise of reason should be free' had begun to seem so remote and exhausted, the Battle should reinforce one's faith in the enduring worth of dissent and of the free traffic in ideas"
Swapan Chakravorty, professor of english, Jadavpur University