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Welcome to the Institute for Cultural Research:
Ideas, information and understanding between cultures.

The Institute for Cultural Research is a UK-registered educational charity which aims to stimulate study, debate, education and research into all aspects of human thought, behaviour and culture.

It holds regular lectures and seminars, publishes books and papers and supports projects in parts of the world where education and the free flow of ideas are under threat. All its activities are available to the public.

Latest News

2010 monographs
Consciousness, will and responsibility by Professor Chris Frith and Scheherazade and the global mutation of teaching stories by Robert Irwin are now on sale, price £5 plus £1 p&p.

Spring Lectures 2010
The current ICR lecture series is being held in London from April to June 2010, with talks on 19th century utopians, how babies view the world, classical Persian, biospherics and the secret sounds of nature.

Learn more about our 2010 lecture programme.

Winter 2010 Seminar
We will soon be announcing details of our annual two day seminar, which will take place in central London. Why not become a Friend of ICR and receive advance warning of this and other events.

Talks from our last seminar, The Power of Stories, can now be viewed online. Speakers included Professor Marina Warner, novelist Iain Sinclair, anthropologists Dr Vieda Skultans and Dr Cecil Helman, travel writer Tahir Shah, Orientalist Robert Irwin and storytellers Chris Smith and Ramsay Wood.

Counter-Intuition - Dr. Kevin Byron
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Scheherazade and the global mutation of teaching stories - Robert Irwin
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Why do we leave it so late? - David Canter
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Spring 2010 Lecture Series
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