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Ending impunity and prioritising survivors

Christine Chinkin reflects on international attempts to counter the perpetration of sexual violence in armed conflict

Robots, AI and work: comparing the UK and Norway

Caroline Lloyd and Jonathan Payne explore challenges presented by robotics and AI in Norway and the UK

James Raven: interview

James Raven on the book world of 18th-century London … and Bishop Pontoppidan’s sea monsters.

Sarah Worthington: interview

Sarah Worthington on making sense of law in business.

Exploring medieval liturgy in medieval churches

John Harper tells a story of evidence, imagination and realisation

Picturing others

Annabel Tremlett illustrates how everyday images can challenge stereotypes of Roma, Gypsy and Traveller people

Rosemary Cramp: interview

Rosemary Cramp on celebrating the stone sculpture of the Anglo-Saxons

Language learning: turning a crisis into an opportunity

Neil Kenny and Harriet Barnes spell out the British Academy’s call for action

Theology and Religious Studies: new inspirations?

Silvianne Aspray, Benjamin Kirby, Judith Lieu and Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad discuss past and future directions

Ian Christie: interview

Ian Christie on understanding film – from the father of British cinema, to a new language for new media.

The British Academy 2009-2013: reflections

In these extracts from his address to the Annual General Meeting on 18 July 2013, the outgoing President of the British Academy, Professor Sir Adam Roberts, reflects on how the Academy has made progress on the objectives that he set for it four years ago.

An outstanding investment in what really matters

In his address to the Annual General Meeting on 17 July 2014, Lord Stern of Brentford reflected on some of the achievements of the British Academy in the first year of his Presidency. This article is an edited version of that Presidential Address.

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