Internet Freedom

Ages 14+ Pre book tel: 01223 766766 or visit: www.cam.ac.uk/festivalofideas

Jim Killock - Executive director, Open rights group; Herbert Snorsson - Openleaks.org; Dr Stephen Murdoch - Security Research, University of Cambridge; David Clemente – Researcher, International Security Programme, Chatham house;.

Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Mill Lane.

Thursday 27 October 2011, 18:00-19:15

A history of the popes

Ages 12+ Pre book tel: 01223 766766 or visit: www.cam.ac.uk/festivalofideas

John Julius Norwich.

Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Mill Lane.

Thursday 27 October 2011, 17:30-18:30

Arab Spring

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Bridget Kendall, Sami Ben Gharbia, Professor Jane Harrigan, Dr Glen Rangwala, Dr Abdelwahab El-Effendi.

Cambridge Union Chamber, 9a Bridge Street, Cambridge, CB2 1UB.

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 19:00-20:30

Violent nature

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Professor James Jackson, University of Cambridge; David Wightwick, Save the Children UK; Professor John Preston, Global Uncertainties researcher, University of East London; Dr Andrew Collins, Global Uncertainties researcher, Northumbria University.

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Benet St., Corpus Christi College.

Tuesday 25 October 2011, 20:00-21:30

Fonics, phun and the reading wars at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas

Dominic Wyse, Senior Lecturer in Primary and Early Years Education and a member of the Centre for Commonwealth Education at the University of Cambridge.

Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Mill Lane.

Tuesday 25 October 2011, 18:00-19:15

Is the future of food GM?

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Professor Sir David Baulcombe, Regius Professor of Botany; David Nally, Department of Geography; Jack Stilgoe, University of Exeter.

Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site.

Saturday 22 October 2011, 15:30-16:30

Bilingualism in school

Workshop, Adults, Pre Book tel 01223 766766 or visit www.cam.ac.uk/festivalofideas

The Bilingualism Information Network in Cambridge (BIN-C).

Faculty of English, Sidgwick Site.

Saturday 22 October 2011, 14:00-17:30

The politics of speech-making

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Michael White, the Guardian's political editor; Philip Collins, Tony Blair's speech-writer; Dr David Runciman, Department of Politics and International Studies; Piers Brendon, former Keeper of the Churchill Archives Centre and the Chair, Allen Packwood.

Wolfson Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 18:00-19:15

Debating reproduction: IVF

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Chair Dr Nick Hopwood (History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge), Professor Peter Braude (Women’s Health, King’s College and Guy’s Hospital, London) Professor Sarah Franklin (Sociology, London School of Economics) Professor Martin H. Johnson (Re.

Cambridge Univeristy Library, West Road.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 17:00-18:30