2011 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 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.

Sunday 30 October: 8.45am-9.30am
Battle for our Brains Lecture Theatre 1
Life off Earth: are the aliens out there?
Reassessing... Politics Courtyard Gallery
Civil disobedience or violent criminality?
Breakfast Banter Lecture Theatre 2
Haters gonna hate: should we hate hate?
Sporting Contests Café
Fan till I die? The meaning of being a football supporter
Head to Head Debates Henry Moore Gallery
The Simpsons versus Shakespeare
Breakfast Banter Students' Union
Are the Germans still European?
Sunday 30 October: 9.45am-11.15am
Keynote Controversies Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Has tolerance gone too far?
Battle for our Brains Lecture Theatre 1
Sex in the brain: do men and women think differently?
Reassessing... Politics Courtyard Gallery
Can conservatism survive the 21st century?
Films Q&A Lecture Theatre 2
Sylvia Pankhurst: everything is possible
Sporting Contests Café
The Greatest Show on Earth: from Olympia to London
Frame Debates Henry Moore Gallery
What is history education for?
Head to Head Debates Students' Union
Abortion: how late is 'too late'?
Sunday 30 October: 11.30am-12.30pm
Lunchtime Debates Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Fracking and Fukushima: our energy security fears
Battle for our Brains Lecture Theatre 1
Designer people: is technology making us less human?
Reassessing... Politics Courtyard Gallery
Can social democracy survive the 21st century?
Lunchtime Debates Lecture Theatre 2
Silencing sectarianism: football's free speech wars
Lunchtime Debates Henry Moore Gallery
Rebirth of the author?
Lunchtime Debates Students' Union
Burlesque: female empowerment or posh stripping?
Sunday 30 October: 12.45pm-2.15pm
Keynote Controversies Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Loyalty in an age of whistle-blowing and Wikileaks
Battle for our Brains Lecture Theatre 1
Is there a ghost in the machine?
Reassessing... Politics Courtyard Gallery
Queer times: has the gay rights movement triumphed?
In Conversation Salons Lecture Theatre 2
Tiger mothers: the great parenting row
Sporting Contests Café
Drugs and bionics: enhancing sport?
Frame Debates Henry Moore Gallery
Skilling up the jilted generation: the employability debate
Provocation Zone Students' Union
Roads or ruins? The politics of cultural preservation
Sunday 30 October: 2.45pm-4.15pm
Keynote Controversies Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Is individualism bad for society?
Battle for our Brains Lecture Theatre 1
Smart drugs: magic bullet or cheating ourselves?
Reassessing... Politics Courtyard Gallery
What is feminism for?
In Conversation Salons Lecture Theatre 2
Islamophobia: the new racism or liberal angst?
Sporting Contests Café
Olympic expectations: can't see the games for the legacy?
Frame Debates Henry Moore Gallery
Ain’t misbehaving - do British children need the army to sort them out?
Provocation Zone Students' Union
Dead cities: 'ruin porn' and the urban imagination
Sunday 30 October: 4.30pm-5.30pm
Thought for the day Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
The rise of the clicktivists: will the revolution be digitised?
Battle for our Brains Lecture Theatre 1
Can you tell when someone is lying to you? - Film Q&A
Reassessing... Politics Courtyard Gallery
Rise of European populism: the revenge of politics?
Thought for the day Lecture Theatre 2
Through a glass darkly: why do atheists love the King James Bible?
Sporting Contests Café
Who is the greatest ever Olympian? Balloon debate
Thought for the day Henry Moore Gallery
Pax Romana: civilising the barbarians or evil empire?
Thought for the day Students' Union
Interns or slave labour?
Sunday 30 October: 5.30pm-6.30pm
What next for...? Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Alone together? Cultivating social solidarity in the year ahead

Scared of the Kids - Stuart Waiton - Lowered bar for security

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