The British Academy lectures

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

2019  Islamophobia and normative sociology by Tariq Modood (text)

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

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

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

2017 The UK’s changing party system, by 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 Dawn Chatty (text)

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

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

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

2015 Theology and the tragic: A debate revisited, by Rowan Williams (video)

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

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

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

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

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

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