2010 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 31 October: 8.45am-9.30am
Breakfast Banter Lecture Theatre 1
Are we still a classless society, Mr Cameron?
Breakfast Banter Courtyard Gallery
Electoral Reform: purple revolution or middle-class obsession?
Breakfast Banter Lecture Theatre 2
Fans or financiers: who should own football?
Breakfast Banter Café
Can you parlez-vous? Why learning languages matters
Breakfast Banter Henry Moore Gallery
Slippery when wet: is health and safety a left-right issue?
Breakfast Banter Student Union
Blue-skies thinking is dead: long live blue-skies thinking?
Sunday 31 October: 9.45am-11.15am
Keynote Controversies Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Whose social justice is it anyway?
Battle over Scientific Evidence Lecture Theatre 1
What science can and cannot tell us
Battle for the Past Courtyard Gallery
Don't look back: why does history matter?
In Conversation Salons Lecture Theatre 2
Are we all cooperative now? The battle over employee ownership
Café Controversies Café
What makes a good teacher?
Frame Debates Henry Moore Gallery
Stop the press: journalism in jeopardy?
Provocation Zone Student Union
Rape and the law: he said, she said?
Sunday 31 October: 11.30am-12.30pm
Head to Head Debates Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Prosperity without growth: a contradiction in terms?
Battle over Scientific Evidence Lecture Theatre 1
Can we trust the evidence? The IPCC - a case study
Battle for the Past Courtyard Gallery
Losing our marbles? Who owns culture?
Lunchtime Debates Lecture Theatre 2
Vampire literature: the crisis of being human
Lunchtime Debates Henry Moore Gallery
Crimes against humanity and international law: justice without borders?
Lunchtime Debates Student Union
Generation Wars: Baby Boomers versus Generation Y
Sunday 31 October: 12.45pm-2.15pm
Keynote Controversies Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Engineering the future: cautionary tale or utopia?
Battle over Scientific Evidence Lecture Theatre 1
Policy-based evidence?
Battle for the Past Courtyard Gallery
What have the ancient Greeks done for us lately?
In Conversation Salons Lecture Theatre 2
An inspector calls: why are crime novels so popular?
Café Controversies Café
Teachers and parents: enemies or allies?
Frame Debates Henry Moore Gallery
The Catholic Church: more sinned against than sinner?
Provocation Zone Student Union
Trafficking: new slave trade or moral panic?
Sunday 31 October: 2.45pm-4.15pm
Keynote Controversies Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
What does it mean to be a liberal today?
Battle over Scientific Evidence Lecture Theatre 1
End of the peer revue: has the peer review process lost credibility?
Battle for the Past Courtyard Gallery
Memorialising the Holocaust: the challenge of history?
In Conversation Salons Lecture Theatre 2
A helping hand? Sportsmanship and cheating
Café Controversies Café
Faith Schools: inspiration or indoctrination?
Frame Debates Henry Moore Gallery
Innovative engineering: within limits?
Provocation Zone Student Union
Bikinis, burqas and flat brown shoes: female role models in the 21st Century
Sunday 31 October: 4.30pm-5.30pm
Thought for the day Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
From banning burqas to B&B bigots: can Europe tolerate religious tolerance?
Thought for the day Lecture Theatre 1
The energy challenge: can we keep the lights on?
Battle for the Past Courtyard Gallery
Archaeology: a load of old rubbish?
Thought for the day Lecture Theatre 2
Poetry and the tyranny of relevance
Thought for the day Café
From religious bliss to well-being: what does happiness mean today?
Thought for the day Henry Moore Gallery
Austerity blues or going for growth?
Thought for the day Student Union
Couture Wars: the politics of fashion
Sunday 31 October: 5.30pm-6.30pm
What next for...? Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
What next? The battle between optimism and pessimism

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