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Ideas Matter Podcast is home to talks from leading contemporary thinkers on the most important political and cultural issues and intellectual trends of our times. Many were recorded at or reflect the topics discussed at Ideas Matter events, including Living Freedom summer school, The Academy residential weekend and Debating Matters schools debating competition.
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Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
On 20 June 2020, Battle of Ideas Charity hosts The Academy Online, a series of talks and book discussions exploring the theme Psychology and Democracy.
An important text on the reading list is Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. In this podcast we feature a short talk that reflects on how Huxley’s renowned work encapsulated emerging ideas in the inter war period and proved prescient to future trends.
The talk opened a discussion that was organised by the Living Freedom book club in June 2020. The lecturer is Luke Gittos, a criminal lawyer, legal editor at the magazine spiked and author of the recent book Human Rights - Illusory freedom.
THE ACADEMY 2020: PSYCHOLOGY AND DEMOCRACY
Due to the coronavirus pandemic measures, this year The Academy will take place as half day online event via zoom. The programme for The Academy Online: Psychology and Democracy - a mixture of lectures and seminars –offers an opportunity to all those who attend to place contemporary events in a historical and philosophical context.
To register and view the full programme and some suggested background reading, please visit theboi.co.uk/the-academy-online…logy-and-democracy
THE ACADEMY
In the context of today’s instrumental approaches to knowledge, The Academy summer school is a modest attempt to demonstrate the value of scholarship, and of the worth of the university as a place of free enquiry dedicated to the pursuit of truth.
DONATING TO THE BOI CHARITY
The BOI charity is committed to continuing to host discussion and debates throughout this period when society is restricted by measures to tackle coronavirus. In order to realise events such as the Academy Online, none of our staff are furloughed and instead remain working. If you can, then please consider a donation, small or large.
Visit: theboi.co.uk/donate
IDEAS MATTER PODCAST
Ideas Matter is a podcast that takes the most important issues of our times and explores the ideas and intellectual trends that have shaped where we are today.
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