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Rock Carvings of North and West Europe
Professor John Coles FBA has been working on Scandinavian rock art since the early 1990s. In April 2004 he convened a conference, jointly sponsored by the British Academy and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, to look at various aspects of the carvings found in north and …
Welcome to the Software-Sorted Society
Professor Stephen Graham, of Durham University, analyses the extent to which society has become subject to visible and invisible surveillance, tracking, and sorting technologies. He draws attention to the radical and divisive social consequences of ‘software-sorting’ and calls for public regulation of the systems that are coming to pervade so …
Moral Panics: Then and Now
In 1972, Professor Stanley Cohen FBA published his seminal work ‘Folk Devils and Moral Panics’. On 9 March 2007, Professor Cohen was joined at the British Academy by Professor David Garland, and Professor Stuart Hall FBA, in an evening meeting to reflect on what has happened to the notion of …
Languages Matter
Professor Marian Hobson FBA reports on the various activities the Academy is undertaking to draw attention to the crisis in language learning.
In brief (BAR 11)
Short notices on: Britain in the 1950s: consensus or conflict?; Reason and identity; The origins of the Arts and Humanities Research Council; Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture from the West Riding of Yorkshire.
In brief (BAR 12)
Short notices on: Evolving Societies 2008; Giuseppe Mazzini and the Globalisation of Democratic Nationalism.
Georgia, the 'Man in the Leopard's Skin': The Past, Present and Future of Georgia's Middle Eastern Communities
In May 2008, Professor Harry Norris visited Georgia to study the current situation of non-European communities in the country. Here he provides some historical and cultural background to this politically and ethnically complex part of the world.
Other People (BAR)
On 7 November 2000 Professor Amartya Sen FBA delivered the fourth Annual British Academy Lecture. In this extract, Professor Sen considers various aspects of identity.
Empire beyond the Imperial Domain: British Colonial Encounters in Cuba
Dr Jorge L. Giovannetti held a British Academy Visiting Fellowship at the Caribbean Studies Centre, London Metropolitan University in 2006, and has subsequently completed a history of British Caribbean migrants in Cuba. Here he discusses an archive of correspondence that reveals British Imperial attitudes to race.
Latin America, the Caribbean, and the British Academy
Professor Linda Newson FBA, Chairman of the British Academy’s Area Panel for Latin America and the Caribbean, describes how the Academy supports research on – and with – this dynamic part of the world.
In brief (BAR 13)
Short notices about 2009 British Academy events on: Language matters; Rescuing the housing market; Civil war and foreign intervention in Spain.
Democracy in Palestine and the Middle East Peace Process
As part of a wider British Academy-funded project on democracy in the Arab-Mediterranean world, Dr Michelle Pace conducted a number of interviews in Palestine, including with representatives of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas). Here Dr Pace provides an account of those interviews, and goes on to discuss ways in …
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