Events

Our events showcase the latest research and thinking in a variety of subjects – from psychology to history, literature to politics, linguistics to law. Events organised by the British International Research Institutes are also listed.

The British Academy 10-Minute Talks

The world’s leading professors explain the latest thinking in the humanities and social sciences in just 10 minutes.

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22 Sep 2020

How to Make the World Add Up

In his book 'How to Make the World Add Up', Tim Harford navigates a world of disinformation, bad research and misplaced motivation. Join him in-conversation with Hetan Shah as he outlines his rules for thinking differently about numbers.

23 Sep 2020

The British Academy 10-Minute Talks: COVID-19 and inequalities

In this talk, Fiona Williams discusses the ways in which COVID-19 has amplified existing inequalities and created new insecurities.

24 Sep 2020

Global Perspectives: How can archaeology help us to navigate a divided world?

As the only active Somali archaeologist working in Somalia and Somaliland, Sada Mire speaks in conversation with Simon Goldhill on her discoveries in the Horn of Africa and what this means for African history.

1 Oct 2020

Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding shortlist event

Meet the authors shortlisted for the 2020 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding at this special British Academy and LRB event, with Ritula Shah.

6 - 7 Oct 2020

Menstruation: representing experiences from the Global South and North

The conference brings together a range of experts from the Global South and North, focusing on the representation of menstruation and menstrual stigma across a range of disciplines, geographic areas, and menstruators’ experiences.

6 Oct 2020

Racial inequality and American politics – part two

In this three-part series, leading African-American scholars explore the long history of racial inequality in the US. Join Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Professor Desmond King FBA for part two.

12 Oct 2020

Leaders in SHAPE: Claudia Hammond

Meet the most influential figures within and beyond academia shaping the fields of social sciences, humanities and the arts. For the second event in this series, Claudia Hammond joins Professor Dorothy Bishop FBA to discuss her life and career.

15 Oct 2020

Why history? The hidden histories of black Victorians

What do we know about Britain's multicultural past before the arrival of the Windrush generation? In this event Caroline Bressey explores the hidden histories of the ordinary black men and women living in Victorian Britain.

11 - 14 Nov 2020

Murder in a cathedral: the life, death, and legacy of Thomas Becket

On 29 December 1170, four knights murdered Archbishop Thomas Becket inside Canterbury Cathedral. News of this sacrilegious violence spread quickly and Becket became one of the most famous martyrs in medieval Europe.

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