The Institute for Cultural Research is a learned society and educational institution founded in 1965 to study, educate and publish in the field of human thought. It concerns itself with the rise and development of ideas and their action and interaction in the community and between communities.
This study is both interdisciplinary -- combining the efforts of workers in history, science, philosophy, psychology and so on -- and cross-cultural. It links the materials which transcend disciplines and cultures: a focus which in recent years has been increasingly demanded by scholars and the lay public alike as having become rarer in conventional university and other studies.
Among those who have contributed to the Institute's work by giving lectures or writing monographs are specialists in linguistics, anthropology, education, sociology, science, literature, economics, philosophy, ethology, psychology, medicine, archaeology, history, oriental studies and religion.
The yearly programme currently includes:
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