The British Academy lectures

From 2013, the subject range of the British Academy’s lecture programme was extended to include subjects not covered by the existing named series.

Lectures by year

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)

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