2009 Programme: Festival Sunday overview

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

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Sunday 1 November: 9.45am to 10.30am
Breakfast Banter Lecture Theatre 1
Risky Business: does financial engineering add up?
Breakfast Banter Courtyard Gallery
The Battle over Video Games
Breakfast Banter Lecture Theatre 2
The Empty Staffroom: has teaching lost its magic?
Breakfast Banter Café
The Ugly Game? The Old Firm, football rivalry and the politics of behaviour
Breakfast Banter Henry Moore Gallery
The Jury's Out: juries and the future of justice

Sunday 1 November: 10.45am to 12.15pm
Keynote Controversies Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Nudge Nudge, Nag Nag: the new politics of behaviour
Battle for Energy Lecture Theatre 1
Abundant, Cheap, Clean... Contentious? Why is energy a battlefield today?
Battle for Work Courtyard Gallery
The changing meaning of work – from work-life balance to unemployment
In Conversation Salons Lecture Theatre 2
Philosophy 4 Children: can kids do Kant?
Café Controversies Café
We don't need no Sex Education
Frame Debates Henry Moore Gallery
Lording It Over Us: the political rise of the judiciary
Creativity Zone Student Union
Can the arts save the economy?

Sunday 1 November: 12.30pm to 1.30pm
Head to Head Debates Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Should physician-assisted dying be legalised?
Lunchtime Debates Lecture Theatre 1
A Green New Deal: can environmentalism save the economy?
Lunchtime Debates Courtyard Gallery
India's Future: Slumdogs or Millionaires?
Lunchtime Debates Lecture Theatre 2
Setting an Example: should teachers be role models?
Lunchtime Debates Henry Moore Gallery
The Human Rights Act: litigation or emancipation?
Lunchtime Debates Student Union
From Macpherson to the rise of the BNP: Race Today?

Sunday 1 November: 1.45pm to 3.15pm
Keynote Controversies Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
The Art of Criticism: judgement in crisis?
Battle for Energy Lecture Theatre 1
A New Nuclear Age?
Battle for Work Courtyard Gallery
Working for the State: public service or gravy train?
In Conversation Salons Lecture Theatre 2
A Space Age Future? Sci-fi film clips and discussion
Café Controversies Café
Policing the Playground: do anti-bullying campaigns do more harm than good?
Frame Debates Henry Moore Gallery
Mr Obama goes to Washington
Creativity Zone Student Union
Shaping Social Policy: Designers and Crime

Sunday 1 November: 3.45pm to 5.15pm
Keynote Controversies Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
The Good Society: virtues for a post-recession world
Battle for Energy Lecture Theatre 1
Solving the Energy Crisis: all about lightbulbs and lifestyle?
Battle for Work Courtyard Gallery
Recession-proofing: from union militancy to reskilling
In Conversation Salons Lecture Theatre 2
Songs of Innocence and Experience: what should today's kids be reading?
Café Controversies Café
Standing up to Supernanny: why we need a Parents' Liberation Movement
Frame Debates Henry Moore Gallery
South Africa: 15 Years After Apartheid
Creativity Zone Student Union
Shaping Social Policy: Designers and Health

Sunday 1 November: 5.30pm to 6.30pm
Keynote Controversies Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
America, Obama and the Recession
Thought for the day Lecture Theatre 1
Shopping: are we all ethical now?
Thought for the day Courtyard Gallery
Is the NHS institutionally ageist?
Thought for the day Café
Sporty kids and pushy parents
Thought for the day Henry Moore Gallery
Head to head debate: Is it the duty of schools to promote community cohesion?
Thought for the day Student Union
Novel Pursuits: creative writing and the democratisation of literature?

Sunday 1 November: 6.40pm to 7.30pm
What next for...? Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Question Time: What Next?

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"No word was untested, no argument taken for granted, no opinion dismissed without argument nor accepted without argument."
David Jones, professor of bioethics, St Mary's University College