174th SESSION (2022-2023)

Behold! The debates of the 174th Session of the Literary and Scientific Society! Minutes were written by Ms Josie Tuttiett and Mr James Orchin HLM. All minutes are PDF files hosted on Google Drive.

FIRST SEMESTER

THIS HOUSE WOULD BAN QUB LOVE

  • 1st Ordinary Meeting
  • Date: 22/09/2022
  • Minutes

THIS HOUSE BELIEVES MARRIAGE IS AN OUTDATED CONCEPT

THIS HOUSE SUPPORTS A GENERAL STRIKE

THIS HOUSE WOULD BAN STREET PREACHERS FROM PRIDE

THIS HOUSE REGRETS DEPOSING BORIS JOHNSON AS PRIME MINISTER

THIS HOUSE BELIEVES THE PROTOCOL HAS NEGATIVELY IMPACTED NORTHERN IRELAND

THIS HOUSE WOULD ABOLISH MANDATORY COALITION

THIS HOUSE BELIEVES BIDEN’S PRESIDENCY IS A FAILURE

THIS HOUSE WOULD RATHER LIVE IN ‘1984’ THAN ‘BRAVE NEW WORLD’

THIS HOUSE WOULD LEAVE THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

THIS HOUSE WOULD UNITE IRELAND

  • 2nd Great Debate (in collaboration with TCD’s ‘The Phil’)
  • Date: 17/11/2022
  • Minutes
  • Recording
  • Video

GODKIN DEBATE – THIS HOUSE REGRETS THE ENLIGHTENMENT

THIS HOUSE WOULD MAKE LANGUAGE LEARNING COMPULSORY

THIS HOUSE BELIEVES LIBERAL FEMINISM NEVER DITCHED ITS RACIST ROOTS

SECOND SEMESTER

THIS HOUSE BELIEVES THE OSCARS ARE RIGGED

THIS HOUSE WOULD DECRIMINALISE ALL DRUGS

THIS HOUSE BELIEVES TECHNOLOGY WILL DESTROY THE WORLD

THIS HOUSE WOULD ABOLISH THE MONARCHY

THIS HOUSE REGRETS THE RISE OF DATING APPS

  • 17th Ordinary Meeting
  • Date: 16/02/2023
  • Minutes

THIS HOUSE BELIEVES THATCHER SAVED THE ECONOMY

THIS HOUSE WOULD EMBRACE NUCLEAR ENERGY AS A RENEWABLE

DUFFERIN COMPETITION FOR BEST SPEAKER

THIS HOUSE REGRETS THE REFORMATION

THIS HOUSE BELIEVES WALTER WHITE ACTED MORALLY

  • 22nd Ordinary Meeting
  • Date: 23/03/2023
  • Minutes

THIS HOUSE BELIEVES THE GFA HAS FAILED OUR GENERATION

  • 3rd Great Debate (in collaboration with the Imagine! Festival of Ideas and Politics)
  • Date: 26/03/2023
  • Minutes
  • Recording
  • Video

THIS HOUSE BELIEVES HOME RULE WAS ROME RULE

  • 23rd Ordinary Meeting
  • Date: 30/03/2023
  • Minutes

THIS HOUSE WOULD NOT FIGHT FOR KING AND COUNTRY

Advertisement