2010 Programme: Keynote Controversies

Big sessions discussing big ideas

Saturday 30 October 2010
10.30am to 12.00pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Trust in an age of cynicism
1.30pm to 3.00pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
The empty square: the public engaged or imagined?
3.30pm to 5.00pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Is the West still the best?
Sunday 31 October 2010
10.45am to 12.15pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Whose social justice is it anyway?
1.45pm to 3.15pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Engineering the future: cautionary tale or utopia?
3.45pm to 5.15pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
What does it mean to be a liberal today?
Festival Buzz

Candid Camera - Pauline Hadaway - Moral questions of Abu Ghraib photos

"Of all the political and cultural festivals, none beats the Battle of Ideas for its eclecticism and willingness to invite controversial and absorbing debate."
John Kampfner, Chief executive, Index on Censorship; former editor, New Statesman