Keynote Controversies

Big sessions discussing big ideas

Saturday 31 October 2009

9.30am to 11.00am Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Rethinking education – the new crisis of adult authority in the classroom

12.30pm to 2.00pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Rethinking Privacy in an age of Disclosure and Sharing

2.30pm to 4.00pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Rethinking Freedom in an Illiberal Age: securing rights or celebrating liberty?

4.15pm to 5.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Rethinking Therapy Culture: changing the subject?

Sunday 1 November 2009

10.45am to 12.15pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Nudge Nudge, Nag Nag: the new politics of behaviour

1.45pm to 3.15pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
The Art of Criticism: judgement in crisis?

3.45pm to 5.15pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
The Good Society: virtues for a post-recession world

5.30pm to 6.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
America, Obama and the Recession

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Julian Gough, novelist