The forum is designed to bring NEDs together to discuss and debate themes that are important in the charity, housing and education sectors.
Traditionally, in many universities, student groups that promote critical and informative discussion are organized, aiming to debate themes from scientific articles and recent advances.
Mr. Obama returned to the campaign trail in North Carolina, where he stuck to the campaign's post-debate theme.
Relations between the country's Hindu majority and religious minorities, especially India's 150 million Muslims, has been a key and bitterly debated theme in the media.
We have some debate-themed talking points this week, and some from the rest of the political world.
His show is a hymn to costume parties: it recounts his favourites, debates the theme-versus-no-theme issue, and itemises fancy-dress-party dos and don'ts (about which Parry has firm convictions).
In contrast, this campaign did not debate big themes.
But the subtle shaping of the debate, the themes, the buzzwords, are not unique to him.
"I am using art to be a catalyst for debate around themes that are pertinent to our communities and to our nation," he said.
Students are encouraged to encounter, and debate critically, themes such as the relationship between global and local processes, unity and diversity in human life, the social treatment of the body, gender, personhood, ethnic identities and stereotyping of the "other".
