Theme: Arts & Culture

 Saturday

9.30am to 11.00pm Lecture Theatre 2 Can Films Change the World?
Change the world - make a documentary?

2.30pm to 4.00pm Seminar Space Battle for Music
Each to his iPod, or great music for all?

4.15pm to 5.15pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery Lunchtime Debates
Should art change the world?

4.15pm to 5.15pm Lecture Theatre 2 Lunchtime Debates
Animating real life

5.30pm to 7.00pm Seminar Space Battle for Music
Turn that racket off!

5.30pm to 7.00pm Lecture Theatre 2 Can Films Change the World?
Film stars

7.30pm to 9.00pm Lecture Theatre 2 Can Films Change the World?
Imagining the city

7.30pm to 9.00pm Seminar Space Battle for Music
Teach the world to sing

 Sunday

9.00am to 10.30am Student Union Arts & Society
Political theatre: political animal?

9.00am to 9.45am Henry Moore Gallery Breakfast Banter
Is ballet too elitist?

4.45pm to 5.45pm Lecture Theatre 2 Lunchtime Debates
Debating Matters showcase debate on libraries

4.45pm to 5.45pm Henry Moore Gallery Lunchtime Debates
Cultural diversity

1.00pm to 2.30pm Student Union Arts & Society
Should poetry please?

3.00pm to 4.30pm Student Union Arts & Society
What does music mean?

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"The 2006 Battle of Ideas did what it said on the tin: prejudices were punctured, common wisdom was questioned and original thinking honoured. The saying was coined in Texas, but I suggest that the Battle of Ideas adopts it as the conference motto: ‘sacred cows make the best burgers."
George Brock, Saturday Editor, The Times