Press releases: latest
- 16 October 2006
- Leading academic warns against turning universities into another ‘battlefield in the war against terrorism’
- Professor Frank Furedi, the leading social and cultural commentator, has warned that UK education has become ‘subservient to a paternalistic political agenda’ and that this has resulted in an intellectual climate of ‘officially sanctioned philistinism’.
- 19 September 2006
- UK festival set for big name bust-ups
- With nearly 200 heavyweight speakers from the world of politics, business, media and academia, the Battle of Ideas festival promises more trenchant debate than Westminster has seen in years.
- 28 February 2006
- Battle of Ideas committee members support Pro-Test demo
- Several members of the Battle of Ideas organising committee joined the Pro-Test demonstration in Oxford on Saturday 25 February 2006 in support of the planned biomedical facilities and animal testing.
- 31 October 2005
- Nation in grip of 'lifestyle' authoritarianism argues leading academic
- We are in the grip of a new authoritarianism, according to the sociologist Frank Furedi.
- 16 October 2005
- Why Red-Green Germany has lost its dynamic
- It seems a rather important project has failed: the Red-Green alliance was not able to deliver more than PR talk.
- 15 October 2005
- The Holocaust: the last moral absolute?
- 'In order to preserve a real memory of the Holocaust we have to challenge its frequent misuse in contemporary debates': a discussion at the Battle of Ideas festival on the uses and misuses of the Shoah.
- 15 October 2005
- The NY Salon presents: Divided America?
- Political debate between Republicans and Democrats has intensified. Some have argued that we are witnessing a resurrection of American politics with measurable increases at the polls. However, while the voices are getting louder the political differences between the parties are getting smaller.
- 14 October 2005
- 'Sustainability kills'
- says Battle of Ideas speaker, Austin Williams, the director of the Future Cities Project, an independent think-tank that examines the direction of urban policy and architecture in the UK
- 14 September 2005
- Leading UK organisations call for a battle of ideas
- The Academy of Ideas, together with the Medical Research Council (MRC), the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA), the pharmaceutical company Pfizer and the Royal College of Art, will launch the inaugural Battle of Ideas festival at the Royal College of Art on 29 and 30 October 2005.
- 13 September 2005
- Community professionals ‘now more than ever need to debate community’
- Leading commentators, policy-makers and professionals will challenge current thinking about community at the inaugural Academy of Ideas Battle of Ideas festival.