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NEWS
AND EVENTS |
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MEDIA |
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APPEARANCES |
Claire
Fox will speak at the 'Understanding
and engaging with diasporas' conference at Wilton Park
on 'Collective engagement and the role of policy makers: the
way forward' on 5 December
Claire Fox will speak at an NUS debate on 'Student
rights: consumer rights?' on 11 December at University
of London Union
Claire Fox will speak on 'Can charities be leading organisations?'
on 14 January at the PrimeTimers
Colloquia
Tiffany Jenkins will speak at the Theoretical Anthropology
Group annual conference on 'Contesting
dead bodies in museums' |
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VIDEO
/ AUDIO |
The last Claire
Fox News was on music and politics, with guests:
Sarah Boyes (commissioning editor, books, Culture Wars), Cecilia
Wee (producer/presenter, Resonance FM), Cara Bleiman (music
student, Oxford University) and Dolan Cummings (IoI)
Members of the IoI Parents Forum appeared on BBC Radio 4's
Analysis
discussing the 'Blessing of Marriage' on 22 November
FORA.tv 'Think Tank':
Tony Gilland on nuclear power
[opens in new window]
Dolan Cummings on religion and US foreign policy
[opens in new window]
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IN
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Claire
Fox and the IoI Parents Forum were cited in BBC
News over parent training
My
cultural life, Claire Fox interviewed, New Culture Forum,
20 November
I
am facing up to the fact that I may be a Marxist, James
Delingpole, Spectator, 03 November 2007
Shirley Dent on William Blake's 250th anniversary:
- William
Blake: 'rational and inspired', spiked, 29 November
- Thinkers:
William Blake, New Humanist, 122 (6), November/December
2007
- Quoted in An
everyman's mystic, BBC News Magazine, 27 November
Terrible
poet, laughable terrorist, Shirley Dent, Guardian books
blog, 12 November
Shirley's Guardian blogs are archived here
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BATTLE OF IDEAS
Full
Battle of Ideas press coverage on Battle
website
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The
dialectics of revolution... uh, recycling, Alexander Cockburn,
The Nation, 17 December
Frank
Furedi on Invitation to Terror, ABC Radio National
(Aus.) - Counterpoint, 12 November
Paul
Collier on The Bottom Billion, ABC Radio National
(Aus.) - Counterpoint, 5 November |
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Highlights
on Culture Wars this month:
Reviews
of two books on the emptying-out of politics in Britain
and America, and articles
about the place of poetry in society, following on from the
Battle of Ideas discussion on the issue.
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DEBATING
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Well done to all the students who participated in the 23
qualifying rounds of the Institute of Ideas and Pfizer Debating
Matters Competition 2007/08 that have taken place so far.
The standard has been very high and we’d like to thank
all the judges for challenging the students so effectively
and all the teachers who coached and encouraged their students
to take part.
We would particularly like to thank Aston University for
hosting the Birmingham qualifying round this year and all
the schools that have been generous hosts of the other rounds.
Good luck to students and schools participating in the final
nine qualifying rounds taking place in December. If you are
interested in attending as an audience member, please email
Justine
Brian or call 020 7269 9233.
Northern Ireland Showcase Debates
We are delighted to be working with Prof Valerie McKelvey-Martin,
Director of the University of Ulster’s Science in Society
programme, to host two days of debate in which Northern Ireland
schools can try their hand at the unique Debating Matters
format. The debates will take place on Monday 4 February 2008
at the University of Ulster’s Jordanstown campus a few
miles north of Belfast, and on Tuesday 5 February 2008 at
the University of Ulster’s Coleraine campus. If you
would like to enter a team or would be interested to assist
with the judging of the debates, please email Tony
Gilland or call 020 7269 9231. The deadline for school
entries is Friday 14th December.
These debates have been made possible via a partnership with
the University of Ulster’s Science in Society initiative
with financial support from the Bank of Ireland and the Honourable
the Irish Society.
Friendly fixtures
There has been a wonderful response to our new ‘Friendly
fixtures’ initiative for the spring term. We've had
lots of interest both from schools already involved in Debating
Matters and from others who would like to try the format out
– including from as far afield as the Isle of Islay.
If you know a school who might like to try Debating Matters
or if you’d like to try your hand at being a Debating
Matters judge, please email Tony
Gilland or call 020 7269
9231.
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