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From
the Director |
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Welcome to the new-look Institute of Ideas newsletter providing
a monthly update of our activities. You may notice our stylish
new format, but please don’t be distracted by appearances
– we are as serious as ever about challenging today’s
new orthodoxies. In that vein, the IoI website has two new ‘comment’
sections – one continuing the work on science education
initiated by the book, What is science education for?,
and another discussing developments in education more broadly.
We also are continuing to expand our audio-visual output so
that you can catch up on any forums or events you may have missed.
Make sure to watch last month’s engaging debate on artistic
freedom at the SpitLit festival, now available from ForaTv
on our home page. |
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NEWS
AND EVENTS |
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'There is nothing radical or progressive in denying every young person
no matter what their creed, class or colour the accumulated wisdom of
humanity.'
Kevin Rooney
'The
new experiments in school science education deserve greater critical scrutiny
than they have attracted to date.'
Tony Gilland
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IoI
FORUMS |
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POSTGRADUATE
FORUM
On Wednesday 18 April, Maxine Newlands will present ‘Activist
or Terrorist? Environmental Direct Action (EDA) and Media Representation’.
Please contact postgrad@instituteofideas.com |
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EDUCATION
FORUM
There will not be a meeting in April. The next meeting is on
Monday 14 May when Kevin Rooney will introduce ‘School
Leadership’. Contact education@instituteofideas.com |
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SCIENCE
AND HEALTH FORUM
On Wednesday 18 April, Fiona McEwen, PhD student at the Institute
of Psychiatry, King’s College London, and veterinary locum
will introduce ‘How essential is vivisection to scientific
progress?’ Contact Brid Hehir at shf@instituteofideas.com |
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CULTURE
WARS FORUM
April’s forum will be on literature in translation. Date
TBC. Contact Patrick Hayes at patrickhayes@instituteofideas.com |
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PARENTS
FORUM
The next forum will be on 1 May in central London, discussing
teenage mothers. Contact Jane Sandeman at parents@instituteofideas.com |
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BOOK
CLUB |
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MEDIA |
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VIDEO
/ AUDIO |
The IoI
Media Archive is continuing to grow with original content.
Several audio recordings of forums are now available to download
or stream from the forum pages and from the archive.
The IoI’s yearly debate at the SpitLit festival took
place on Saturday 10 March. Video of the debate, ‘Brickbats,
bovver-boots and bans: How free should artistic expression
be?’ can be streamed from ForaTV.
A downloadable audio recording of the debate is available
from the Media
Archive.
Recordings of the Debating Matters Regional Finals are available
from the Participants
section of the Debating Matters site, as well as from the
IoI Media
Archive.
Claire Fox will be on BBC
Radio 4’s Moral Maze at 8pm on 4 and 11 April.
‘Claire Fox News’ will next be on internet TV
channel 18
Doughty Street on 2 April live at 8pm, featuring a discussion
on e-democracy and whether the internet is changing politics.
The following programme will be on 16 April at 8pm, covering
the public discussion of science. Previous editions on 19
March and 5 March were on Privacy
and Youth,
respectively.
NY
Salon debate Living
in a State of Fear took place on 20 March with speakers
Frank Furedi, Megan McArdle (The Economist) and Christopher
Hayes (The Nation) (requires Real Player - available
free here).
Dolan Cummings and Culture Wars theatre editor Andrew Haydon
were on Culture
Clash discussing the films Amazing Grace
and 300 on internet TV channel 18 Doughty Street. |
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IN
THE PRESS |
Learning
the real lessons of the slave trade, Claire Fox, So
London, 28 March
Why
green is not the new black, Claire Fox, So London,
21 March
Fat
chance for healthy living, Claire Fox, Municipal Journal,
15 March
Dependable
old souls, Claire Fox, Municipal Journal, 1 March
Abandoning
rational discussion on climate change is worse than anything
nature can do, Claire Fox, Sunday Herald, 25
March
Why
censorship in place of free thinking at our universities?,
Tiffany Jenkins, Scotsman, 7 March
Don’t
keep tough books from teens, Shirley Dent, Guardian
Arts Blog, 28 March
Poetry
is not pamphleteering, Shirley Dent, Guardian
Arts Blog, 21 March
Freedom
of expression must be defended, Shirley Dent, Guardian
Arts Blog, 9 March
Novo magazine in Germany has reprinted a ‘Battle
in Print’ from the Battle of Ideas 2006:
Ich
schau Dir in die Augen, Kleines (Surveillance society
– protection from ourselves?), By Karl Sharro |
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This
month’s highlights:
The
Trap: What happened to our dream of freedom?, by
Dolan Cummings
Theatre
reviews: The Caretaker, Attempts On Her Life
and A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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'We
have to ask ourselves, what’s happened to allow a far right reactionary
party to claim the ground of free speech and free expression for themselves.'
Shirley Dent at SpitLit (watch the debate on Fora TV)
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DEBATING
MATTERS |
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Debating
Matters topics are about the world as it is here and now; indeed, the
debates are so up-to-the-minute that whilst I was up there on the debate
panel I really felt as though what I was saying was going to have a real
impact. Whether an illusion or not, the experience is an unforgettable
one.'
Günes Taylor, winner of Best Individual prize, West
and South Wales Regional Final.
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