The British Academy lectures

2024 Versəs: An Experiment in Evaluative Criticism, by Dr Erica McAlpine (video | event information)

2024 Affirming the History of African and Caribbean People in Britain, by Professor Hakim Adi (video | event information)

2024 The Sign Language Myth, by Professor Annelies Kusters (video | event information)

2024 Loss and Recovery of Diversity in the Anthropocene: A Perspective from Biosemiotics, by Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen (event information)

2024 The Place of Theory in Babylonian Astral Science, by Professor John Steele ( video |event information)

2024 What Social Media Can Tell Us About Dialect Variation and Change, by Professor David Willis (event information)

2024 Planting Resistance: Botanical Legacies of the African Diaspora, by Professor Judith Carney (event information)

2024 Reflections on UK science-policy relationships after COVID-19, by Professor Susan Michie FBA (event information)

2024 Anti-Imperial Epistemic Justice and Rights Politics in Most of the World, by Professor Sumi Madhok (video| event information)

2024 I Know What I Know: The Story of Graceland, by Professor Jason Arday (event information)

2023 New Music and the Heterogenous Sound Ideal, by Professor George Lewis FBA (event information)

2023 The Future of Music Studies, by Professor Tamara Levitz (event information)

2023 Early Irish Learning and Society, by Professor Sir Charles Thomas Edwards FBA (event information)

2023 The Elephant in the Room: Understanding Corruption in Roman Egypt, by Professor Colin Adams (event information)

2023 'The Enlightenment Prophet': Muhammad in Early Modern Europe, By Professor John Tolan (text | video | event information)

2023, Why have the British never understood Ireland or Northern Ireland?, by Lord Professor Paul Bew (text | event information)

2023, "One is not born, but becomes, a genius": another Simone de Beauvoir, by Dr Kate Kirkpatrick (text | event information)

2023, The Art of African Diaspora is for Everyone, by Bernadine Evaristo (text | event information)

2023, The Meaning of Brexit and the Future of the Union, by Professor David Reynolds (video | event information)

2023, Writing the History of Early Modern European Homosexuality, by Sir Noel Malcolm FBA (video / event information)

2022 From "commodity currencies" to COVID loans: Africa and global inequality, past and present, by Professor Toby Green (text | event information)

2022 For a reparatory social science, by Professor Gurminder K Bhambra FBA (text | event information | video)

2022 The UK after Brexit, by Professor Anand Menon (event information)

2022 Fair work for our future?, by Professor Patricia Findlay (event information)

2022 Generation X from birth to 50: inequalities in education, society and health, by Professor Alice Sullivan (event information | video)

2022 We are family: what really matters for children in new family forms by Professor Susan Golombok FBA (event information | video)

2022 Thinking through terror, by Professor Preti Taneja (text | event information)

2022 Education: undervalued and over measured by Professor Anna Vignoles FBA (text | event information)

2021 Seeing the city digitally: from picturing urban spaces to animating urban life, by Professor Gillian Rose FBA (video)

2019  Transnational Italian culture and the ghosts of empire, by Professor Charles Burdett (text | audio | presentation)

2019  Islamophobia and normative sociology by Professor Tariq Modood FBA (text)

2019 Achilles’ psyche, by Professor Ineke Sluiter FBA (event information | audio)

2018 Higher education in turbulent times: A geographical perspective, Professor Meric Gertler FBA(text | audio)

2018 Struggle, imagination and the quest for justice, by Professor Mona Siddiqui (audio)

2017 The UK’s changing party system, by Professor David Sanders (text | audio, plus slides)

2017  ‘Soliloquies of suffering and consolation’: Fiction as elegy and refusal, by John Burnside (text | audio)

2017 The duty to be generous (karam): Alternatives to rights-based asylum in the Middle East, by Professor Dawn Chatty FBA (text)

2016 Modernist perambulations through time and space: From Enlightened walking to crawling, stalking, modelling and street-walking, by Professor Anne Fuchs FBA (text)

2016 Social class mobility in modern Britain: Changing structure, constant process, by Dr John Goldthorpe FBA (text | audio with slides)

2016 Religion and the senses in Ancient Greek culture, by Professor Tanja Scheer (audio)

2015 Theology and the tragic: A debate revisited, by The Rt Revd & Rt Hon The Lord Rowan Williams of Oystermouth FBA (video)

2015 Who reads Geography or History anymore? The challenge of audience in a digital age, Professor William Cronon (audio)

2014 What are Prime Ministers for? by Lord Peter Hennessy of Nympsfield FBA (text | video | Q&A)

2014 The novel as therapy: Ministrations of voice in an age of risk, by Professor Patricia Waugh FBA (text | video)

2014 China’s Long March to Research and Innovation: Recent Progress and Some Contemporary Challenges, by Professor Christopher Howe FBA (video)

2013 Imitations of Christ in 17th-century France: Some attendant difficulties, Professor Richard Parish (text | video)

2013 Leaping out of the Page: The Use of Diagram in Greek Mathematics, by Professor Reviel Netz (video)