The British Academy lectures

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

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

2022 Education: undervalued and over measured by Professor Anna Vignoles FBA (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)