Dolan Cummings

Dolan Cummings is an Associate Fellow of the Academy of Ideas, part of the committee that programmes the annual Battle of Ideas, and a regular participant at the festival and other IoI events. He has a particular interest in religion and politics, especially in the USA and India. He is also one of the co-founders of the Manifesto Club, a campaign group for freedom in everyday life, and has written widely on related subjects.

His novel, That Existential Leap: a crime story, will be published by Zero Books later this year. It is part bildungsroman and part psychological thriller; a second novel is also in progress. Aside from writing fiction, Dolan works as a freelance copywriter and editor and a speechwriter for social, political and business clients.

Related Sessions
Saturday 29 October 2011, 10.30am Henry Moore Gallery
Saturday 29 October 2011, 1.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Saturday 29 October 2011, 5.15pm Courtyard Gallery
Sunday 30 October 2011, 9.45am Courtyard Gallery
Sunday 30 October 2011, 12.30pm Henry Moore Gallery
Sunday 30 October 2011, 5.30pm Lecture Theatre 2
Thursday 17 November 2011, 6.00pm British Council, 17 Kasturba Ghandi Marg, New Delhi, 110 001, 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)

Africa and oil

"I loved the Battle of Ideas, which was mad, wild, and sparky. 2011 looks set to be even better."
Anthony Seldon, master, Wellington College; historian; political commentator

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