Dolan Cummings

Dolan Cummings is an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Ideas, having been its research and editorial director from 2001 to 2010. He continues to edit the IoI’s online review Culture Wars (www.culturewars.org.uk), where he writes about books, films and theatre. He is also one of the co-founders of the Manifesto Club, a campaign group for freedom in everyday life. He recently wrote a report, 28 ¾: How Constant Age Checks Are Infantilising Adults (September 2010). He has edited two collections of essays, The Changing Role of the Public Intellectual (Routledge, 2005) - the introduction is available here -  and Debating Humanism (Imprint Academic, 2006).

Dolan has produced several strands and individual debates at the Battle of Ideas over the years, on themes as various as religion and secularism, liberty, culture, community, music, law and America, and he both speaks and chairs at similar events across the UK and beyond. He appears regularly on radio and television as a commentator on the above issues.

A complete archive of Dolan’s Culture Wars essays and reviews can be found here.

Related Sessions
Saturday 20 March 2010, 9.00am The Great Hall
Saturday 20 March 2010, 10.45am The Great Hall
Saturday 20 March 2010, 3.30pm The Great Hall
Thursday 7 October 2010, 5.30pm Foyles Charing Cross, 113-119 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0EB
Saturday 16 October 2010, 1.00pm Folkoperan, Hornsgatan 72, 118 21 Stockholm, Sweden
Saturday 30 October 2010, 12.30pm Henry Moore Gallery
Saturday 30 October 2010, 2.30pm Henry Moore Gallery
Sunday 31 October 2010, 8.45am Henry Moore Gallery
Sunday 31 October 2010, 9.45am Courtyard Gallery
Sunday 31 October 2010, 11.30am Lecture Theatre 2
Sunday 31 October 2010, 4.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Tuesday 23 November 2010, 7.00pm Landmark, Apex Plaza, Nungambakkam High Road, Chennai, India
Wednesday 24 November 2010, 7.00pm Landmark, Lower Level, Palladium High Street, Phoenix Mills, Lower Parel, Mumbai, India

Publications

Debating Humanism (ed.) (Imprint Academic, 2006)
Who’s Antisocial?: New Labour and the Politics of Antisocial Behaviour (ed.) (Academy of Ideas, 2005)
The Changing Role of the Public Intellectual (ed.) (Routledge, 2004)
In Search of Sesame Street: Policing Civility for the 21st Century (Perpetuity, 1999)


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