on 16 february 2010, philo hosted a public screening of the 1971 internationally televised debate between philosophers noam chomsky and michel foucault. philo's was the first public screening of the debate in the world since the original 1971 broadcast. debate topics included human nature, justice, creativity and war. since then, philo has been the venue of many debates about matters central to modern society, such as a discussion of whether a tomato is a grape or a metaphor for homeric authorship.