Alastair Donald
co-convenor, Battle of Ideas festival; convenor, Living Freedom; author, Letter on Liberty: The Scottish Question
Alastair Donald is associate director of the Academy of Ideas and co-convenor of the Battle of Ideas festival. He is also secretary of Ideas Matter and convenor of Living Freedom, the initiative that exists to renew freedom through education and debate.
Alastair has worked in the UK and internationally to develop festivals, exhibitions and curated programmes. He is author of The Scottish Question, published as part of the series Letters on Liberty and co-editor of two books, The Lure of the City: from slums to suburbs (2011) and The Future of Community: reports of a death greatly exaggerated (2008). He is co-director of Future Cities Project and a founding member of mantownhuman which published Manifesto: towards a new humanism in architecture (2008). The Manifesto featured in Penguin Classics 100 Artists’ Manifestos.
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Saturday 28 October, 10:15 Hoare Memorial Hall, Church House
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Saturday 28 October, 14:45 Hoare Memorial Hall, Church House
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Saturday 28 October, 14:45 Robert Runcie Room, Church House
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Sunday 29 October, 12:45 Harvey Goodwin Suite, Church House
Is there a ‘war on the motorist’?
Sunday 29 October, 13:45 Council Room, Church House
Bodies that matter: transgenderism and transhumanism
Sunday 29 October, 13:45 Assembly Hall, Church House
Who’s afraid of populism?
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Housing Britain: YIMBYs vs NIMBYs
Sunday 29 October, 15:45 Harvey Goodwin Suite, Church House
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Politicisation of therapy
Friday 10 November, 19:00 Zentrum Karl der Grosse, 14 Kirchgasse 8001, Zürich
Woke capitalism and its discontents
Thursday 23 November, 20:30 Theaterforum Kreuzberg, Eisenbahnstraße 21, 10997 Berlin
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Saturday 25 November, 16:30 Devonshire Dome - DO/G16-18
Politics of hate: is everyone a bigot but me?