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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.

A compassionate transition to sustainability

Tim O’Riordan and his colleagues in the Learned Society of Wales present the case for a much more compassionate approach in the transitions to a sustainable society co-operating with a resilient Planet Earth

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.

Universities and research under the axe

In these extracts from his Presidential Address to the British Academy’s Annual General Meeting on 22 July 2010, Professor Sir Adam Roberts discusses the challenges confronting universities and other scholarly institutions as they face the imminent prospect of cuts in their funding.

Rising to the Challenge

In these extracts from his address to the Annual General Meeting on 16 July 2009, the incoming President of the British Academy, Professor Sir Adam Roberts, reveals the Academy’s plans to play a stronger role in future public debates and policy-making.

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