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British Academy Lectures online

The following lectures are now available online:

2009

Date	Title	Speaker
22 Jan 2009	*'The Winter of Discontent' in British Politics*	Convened by: Dr Lawrence Black, University of Durham, Dr Hugh Pemberton, University of Bristol and Professor Pat Thane, FBA, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
	A British Academy Panel Discussion

2008

Date	Title	Speaker
06 Dec 2008	*John Milton - A Symposium to Commemorate the Quatercentenary of his Birth*	Convenors: Professor Paul Hammond FBA (University of Leeds) and Professor Blair Worden FBA (Royal Holloway, London)
	Poetry Reading by Geoffrey Hill

25 Nov 2008	*Auden Unparadised*	A British Academy Chatterton Lecture given by Dr Seamus Perry, Tutor in English & Lecturer in the English Faculty, University of Oxford
	Chatterton Lecture on Poetry

10 Nov 2008	*Trust in Public Life*	Convened and Chaired by Peter Hennessy, FBA, Queen Mary, University of London, with Onora O''Neilll, President of the British Academy, Mark Thompson, Director-General of the BBC and Lord Wilson of Dinton, University of Cambridge.
	A British Academy Evening Discussion

06 Nov 2008	*How Green Politics went Mainstream*	This lecture will chart the transition of green politics from a fringe movement to a viable and vote-winning agenda.


13 May 2008	*What is the State?*	Professor Quentin Skinner, FBA Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge
	Twelfth Annual British Academy Lecture

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
	Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture

02 Apr 2008	*Reason and Identity*	Professor Lord Parekh, FBA Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Westminster
	Isaiah Berlin Lecture

2007

Date	Title	Speaker
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.
	A British Academy Maccabaean Lecture in Jurisprudence

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.
	A British Academy Aspects of Art Lecture

11 Oct 2007	*What Makes Humans so Different?*	Professor Robin Dunbar, FBA Director, Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology University of Oxford
	Joint British Academy/British Psychological Society Annual Lecture

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.


14 Mar 2007	*Anthropology is not Ethnography*	Professor Timothy Ingold, FBA, University of Aberdeen
	Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthropology

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
	A British Academy Discussion Evening

2006

Date	Title	Speaker
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
	A British Academy Conversation Evening

06 Dec 2006	*'Now Shall I make My Soul': Appproaching Death in Yeats's Life and Work*	Professor Roy Foster, FBA, Hertford College, Oxford
	Warton Lecture on English Poetry

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
	British Academy Law Lecture

11 Oct 2006	*The Search for Perfection: Atlantic Dimensions*	Professor Bernard Bailyn, FBA, Adams University Professor emeritus, Harvard University
	Isaiah Berlin Lecture

19 Sep 2006	*A.E. Housman's Rejected Addresses*	Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Magdalen College, Oxford
	Chatterton Lecture on Poetry

27 Jun 2006	*Who's Creating Knowledge? The challenge of non-university researchers*	Professor Ruth Finnegan, FBA, The Open University


24 May 2006	*Coercion and Consent in Nazi Germany*	Professor R J Evans, FBA, University of Cambridge
	Raleigh Lecture on History

2005

Date	Title	Speaker
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


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 Vi�as, currently Counsellor, Spanish permanent representation, European Union, Brussels.


26 Oct 2005	*Becoming Human: The Archaeological Challenge*	Professor Lord Renfrew, FBA, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
	Ninth British Academy Lecture

19 Oct 2005	*The Influence of History in Public Life*	Chaired by Baroness O�Neill
	Oxford Dictionary of National Biography / British Academy Seminar

12 Apr 2005	*Identity Politics*	Chaired by Professor Adam Kuper, FBA, Brunel University
	Lecture

07 Mar 2005	*A Question of Culture*	Hosted by Queen's University, Belfast
	A British Academy Debate

2004

Date	Title	Speaker
01 Dec 2004	*What Fates Impose: Facing Up to Uncertainty*	Professor Mervyn King, FBA, President of the Bank of England
	Eighth British Academy Annual Lecture

16 Nov 2004	Everybody Counts But Not Everybody Understands Numbers: the Unrecognised Handicap of Dyscalculia	By Professor Brian Butterworth, FBA
	British Academy/British Psychological Society Annual Lecture

13 Nov 2004	*Marxist Historiography*	Professor Eric Hobsbawm, FBA
	Afterword from a British Academy conference

11 Nov 2004	*Robert Graves and The White Goddess*	By Dr Fran Brearton, Queen's University, Belfast
	Chatterton Lecture on English Poetry

09 Nov 2004	*Imagining Pan-Islam: Religious Activism and Political Utopias*	Dr James Piscatori, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
	Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture

03 Nov 2004	*Margaret Atwood in conversation with Dame Gillian Beer, FBA*	Margaret Atwood, Dame Gillian Beer, FBA
	Lecture

02 Nov 2004	*The Future of Our Universities*	Lord Moser, FBA
	Thank-Offering to Britain Fund Lecture

26 Oct 2004	*The Prehistory of Chinese Music Theory*	Professor Robert Bagley, Princeton University
	Elsley Zeitlyn Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Culture

19 Oct 2004	*Nomad's Progress*	Lord Sutherland of Houndwood, FBA, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
	Isaiah Berlin Lecture

13 Oct 2004	*The New Political Economy*	Professor Timothy Besley, FBA, London School of Economics and Political Science
	Keynes Lecture in Economics

24 Sep 2004	*Montaigne*	Professor Terence Cave, FBA, St John's College, Oxford
	Master-Mind Lecture

09 Sep 2004	*Authority and Intertextuality in the Works of Ælfric*	Professor Joyce Hill University of Leeds
	Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture

2003

Date	Title	Speaker
03 Dec 2003	*Working Memory and Learning during School Years*	Professor Sue Gathercole, University of Durham
	Joint British Academy/British Psychological Society Lecture

26 Nov 2003	*The Nation Within: India at War 1939-45*	Professor Christopher Bayly, FBA, University of Cambridge
	Raleigh Lecture on History

11 Nov 2003	*The Geography of Descent*	Professor Gillian Feeley-Harnik, University of Michigan
	Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthropology

05 Nov 2003	*Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator*	Professor Eric Foner, FBA, Columbia University
	Sarah Tryphena Phillips Lecture in American History

30 Oct 2003	*The Redescription of the Enlightenment*	Professor John Pocock, FBA, The Johns Hopkins University
	Isaiah Berlin Lecture

09 Oct 2003	*Thinking in threes: the Old Irish triads*	Professor Fergus Kelly, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
	Sir John Rhys Memorial Lecture

07 May 2003	*Michael Drayton and the Burden of History*	Professor Andrew Hadfield, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
	Chatterton Lecture on English Poetry

19 Feb 2003	*Charity and Usury: Jewish and Christian Lending in Renaissance ad Early Modern Italy*	Professor Brian Pullan FBA, University of Manchester
	Italian Lecture

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