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Current Lecture Programme
Open to the general public
Events diary
Historical listing of events organised by the British Academy
Established lecture series
Information about long-standing Academy lecture series
Location map
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British Academy Lectures online
The following lectures are now available online:
2008
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02 Apr 2008 |
Reason and Identity |
Professor Lord Parekh, FBA
Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Westminster |
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Isaiah Berlin Lecture |
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08 Apr 2008 |
Ending the Russian Revolution: Reflections on Soviet History and its Interpreters |
Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick
Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor, The University of Chicago |
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Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture |
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13 May 2008 |
What is the State? |
Professor Quentin Skinner, FBA
Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge |
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Twelfth Annual British Academy Lecture |
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2007
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09 Mar 2007 |
Moral Panics: Then and Now |
A British Academy discussion evening, chaired by Adam Kuper, FBA, Brunel University, with Stanley Cohen, FBA, London School of Economics, Stuart Hall, FBA, Open University and David Garland, New York University |
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A British Academy Discussion Evening |
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14 Mar 2007 |
Anthropology is not Ethnography |
Professor Timothy Ingold, FBA, University of Aberdeen |
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Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthropology |
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08 Oct 2007 |
Toleration Past and Present |
A British Academy evening discussion convened and chaired by Professor Susan Mendus, FBA, University of York, with Professor John Dunn, FBA, University of Cambridge, Dr Jon Parking, University of York and Dr Tim Stanton, University of York. |
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11 Oct 2007 |
What Makes Humans so Different? |
Professor Robin Dunbar, FBA
Director, Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology
University of Oxford |
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Joint British Academy/British Psychological Society Annual Lecture |
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06 Nov 2007 |
Classical Music and the Subject of Modernity |
A British Academy Aspects of Art Lecture given by Professor John Butt, FBA, Gardiner Professor of Music, University of Glasgow and chaired by Professor Nicholas Cook, FBA, Professorial Research Fellow in Music, Royal Holloway, University of London. |
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A British Academy Aspects of Art Lecture |
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13 Nov 2007 |
A Minority Opinion? |
A British Academy Maccabaean Lecture in Jurisprudence given by The Rt Hon The Baroness Hale of Richmond, DBE, PC, FBA, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary; Chancellor, University of Bristol. |
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A British Academy Maccabaean Lecture in Jurisprudence |
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2006
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24 May 2006 |
Coercion and Consent in Nazi Germany |
Professor R J Evans, FBA, University of Cambridge |
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Raleigh Lecture on History |
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27 Jun 2006 |
Who's Creating Knowledge? The challenge of non-university researchers |
Professor Ruth Finnegan, FBA, The Open University |
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19 Sep 2006 |
A.E. Housman's Rejected Addresses |
Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Magdalen College, Oxford |
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Chatterton Lecture on Poetry |
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11 Oct 2006 |
The Search for Perfection: Atlantic Dimensions |
Professor Bernard Bailyn, FBA, Adams University Professor emeritus, Harvard University |
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Isaiah Berlin Lecture |
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24 Oct 2006 |
Judicial Independence: Who Cares? |
Professor Sir Neil MacCormick, QC, FBA, FRSE, LLD, Regius Professor of Public and the Law of nature and Nations in the University of Edinburgh, and Leverhulme Personal Research Professor in Philosophy of Law |
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British Academy Law Lecture |
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06 Dec 2006 |
'Now Shall I make My Soul': Appproaching Death in Yeats's Life and Work |
Professor Roy Foster, FBA, Hertford College, Oxford |
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Warton Lecture on English Poetry |
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08 Dec 2006 |
Repatriation, Restitution and Reparations |
Christopher Price, writer and broadcaster, and John Torpey, City University of New York Graduate Centre
Chair: Tiffany Jenkins, University of Kent at Canterbury |
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A British Academy Conversation Evening |
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2005
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Speaker |
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07 Mar 2005 |
A Question of Culture |
Hosted by Queen's University, Belfast |
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A British Academy Debate |
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12 Apr 2005 |
Identity Politics |
Chaired by Professor Adam Kuper, FBA, Brunel University |
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19 Oct 2005 |
The Influence of History in Public Life |
Chaired by Baroness O’Neill |
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography / British Academy Seminar |
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26 Oct 2005 |
Becoming Human: The Archaeological Challenge |
Professor Lord Renfrew, FBA, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research |
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Ninth British Academy Lecture |
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15 Nov 2005 |
General Franco: Saviour of Spain or War Criminal? |
Professor Paul Preston, FBA, London School of Economics and Political Science in conversation with Professor Angel Viñas, currently Counsellor, Spanish permanent representation, European Union, Brussels.
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28 Nov 2005 |
Demystifying the Middle East, West and East |
Professor Fred Halliday, FBA, London School of Economics and Political Science in conversation with Professor Roger Owen, Acting Director, Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University |
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2004
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09 Sep 2004 |
Authority and Intertextuality in the Works of Ælfric |
Professor Joyce Hill University of Leeds |
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Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture |
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24 Sep 2004 |
Montaigne |
Professor Terence Cave, FBA, St John's College, Oxford |
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Master-Mind Lecture |
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13 Oct 2004 |
The New Political Economy |
Professor Timothy Besley, FBA, London School of Economics and Political Science |
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Keynes Lecture in Economics |
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19 Oct 2004 |
Nomad's Progress |
Lord Sutherland of Houndwood, FBA, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |
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Isaiah Berlin Lecture |
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26 Oct 2004 |
The Prehistory of Chinese Music Theory |
Professor Robert Bagley, Princeton University |
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Elsley Zeitlyn Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Culture |
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02 Nov 2004 |
The Future of Our Universities |
Lord Moser, FBA |
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Thank-Offering to Britain Fund Lecture |
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03 Nov 2004 |
Margaret Atwood in conversation with Dame Gillian Beer, FBA |
Margaret Atwood, Dame Gillian Beer, FBA |
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09 Nov 2004 |
Imagining Pan-Islam: Religious Activism and Political Utopias |
Dr James Piscatori, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies |
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Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture |
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11 Nov 2004 |
Robert Graves and The White Goddess |
By Dr Fran Brearton, Queen's University, Belfast |
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Chatterton Lecture on English Poetry |
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13 Nov 2004 |
Marxist Historiography |
Professor Eric Hobsbawm, FBA |
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Afterword from a British Academy conference |
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16 Nov 2004 |
Everybody Counts But Not Everybody Understands Numbers:
the Unrecognised Handicap of Dyscalculia |
By Professor Brian Butterworth, FBA |
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British Academy/British Psychological Society Annual Lecture |
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01 Dec 2004 |
What Fates Impose: Facing Up to Uncertainty |
Professor Mervyn King, FBA, President of the Bank of England |
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Eighth British Academy Annual Lecture |
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2003
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19 Feb 2003 |
Charity and Usury: Jewish and Christian Lending in Renaissance ad Early Modern Italy |
Professor Brian Pullan FBA, University of Manchester |
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Italian Lecture |
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07 May 2003 |
Michael Drayton and the Burden of History |
Professor Andrew Hadfield, University of Wales, Aberystwyth |
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Chatterton Lecture on English Poetry |
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09 Oct 2003 |
Thinking in threes: the Old Irish triads |
Professor Fergus Kelly, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies |
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Sir John Rhys Memorial Lecture |
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30 Oct 2003 |
The Redescription of the Enlightenment |
Professor John Pocock, FBA, The Johns Hopkins University |
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Isaiah Berlin Lecture |
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05 Nov 2003 |
Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator |
Professor Eric Foner, FBA, Columbia University |
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Sarah Tryphena Phillips Lecture in American History |
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11 Nov 2003 |
The Geography of Descent |
Professor Gillian Feeley-Harnik, University of Michigan |
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Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthropology |
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26 Nov 2003 |
The Nation Within: India at War 1939-45 |
Professor Christopher Bayly, FBA, University of Cambridge |
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Raleigh Lecture on History |
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03 Dec 2003 |
Working Memory and Learning during School Years |
Professor Sue Gathercole, University of Durham |
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Joint British Academy/British Psychological Society Lecture |
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