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Public Events Programme 2012
January 2012
Thursday 12 January 2012
Open Access: The New Future of Academic Publishing?
Panel Discussion, 6.30pm
Tuesday 24 January 2012
The Creative Process - A Multidisciplinary Examination (Sciences)
Panel Discussion, 6.00pm
Tuesday 31 January 2012
Democracy, the Market and Human Behaviour
Anglo-German Foundation Lecture, by Professor Carl Christian von Weizsäcker, 6.00pm
February 2012
Wednesday 8 February 2012
Why Dickens?
Professor John Carey FBA in conversation with Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, 6.00pm
FULLY BOOKED
Wednesday 15 February 2012
From Protestors to Government Partners: Chambers of Commerce 1767-2012
Panel Discussion, 6.00pm
Wednesday 22 February 2012
The Creative Process - A Multidisciplinary Examination (Social Sciences)
Panel Discussion, 6.00pm
Tuesday 28 February 2012
Scotland and the United Kingdom
Conference, 10.30am-4.15pm
March 2012
Thursday 8 March 2012
International Women's Day: Celebrating Women in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Panel Discussion, 6.00pm
Thursday 8 March 2012
What it Means to be Human: New Perspectives on the Boundaries of Human Nature
Seminar, 2.00pm
Panel Discussion, 6.30pm (Venue: Royal Society)
Wednesday 14 March 2012
Deadly Embrace: War, Distance and Intimacy
The British Academy Lecture, by Professor Derek Gregory FBA, 6.00pm
Thursday 22 March 2012
The Creative Process - A Multidisciplinary Examination (Arts and Humanities)
Panel Discussion, 6.00pm
Wednesday 28 March 2012
An uncommon legacy? The 350th Anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer
Symposium, 10.45am-5.30pm
April
Monday 2 April 2012
Autism, Ethics and the Good Life
Conference, 9.30am-6.00pm
Thursday & Friday, 19 & 20 April 2012
Memory and Attention: Mechanisms of Maintenance and Selection
Conference, 9.00am-6.00pm
FULLY BOOKED
Friday 27 April 2012
Climate Change Litigation, Policy and Mobilization
Panel Discussions, 2.00pm-5.30pm
Monday 30 April 2012
Ben Jonson: A Re-assessment
Panel Discussion, 6.00pm
May
Tuesday 1 May 2012
Shakespeare and the Reformation
British Academy Shakespeare Lecture, by Professor Brian Cummings, 6.00pm
Friday 11 May 2012
Language, Community, Identity
Panel Discussion, 4.15pm-6.00pm
Thursday & Friday 17 & 18 May 2012
Modelling for Policy
Conference, 9.00am-5.00pm
June
Wednesday 6 June 2012
Mario Vargas Llosa
In-conversation event, 6.00pm
(Venue: Royal Society)
Wednesday 20 June 2012
Training, Cheating, Winning, Praising: Athletes and Shows in Papyri from Roman Egypt
Lectures, 6.00pm-7.15pm
Thursday-Saturday 21-23 June 2012
Insular Books: Vernacular Miscellanies in Late Medieval Britain
Conference, 12.00pm-4.00pm
July
Thursday & Friday, 5 & 6 July 2012
Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Conflict in World Fiction since 1989
Conference, 9.30am-6.00pm
Thursday 5 July 2012
Ancient Myth and the Modern Novel
Performance Event, 5.00pm
January - July 2012 Events Booklet
Download a copy of the British Academy January-July 2012 Events Booklet.
UK events organised by BASIS
The international Schools and Institutes supported by the British Academy also organise a variety of public events, mostly at Carlton House Terrace. Find out more about UK events organised by BASIS organisations.
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