Past Events: 2004
See also: 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003
19 February 2004
Whither Modern Jewish Studies: With or Without Hebrew?
The British Academy
3 March 2004
A Question of Culture? Europe and Islam
The British Academy
22-23 March 2004
The Refugee Problem and the Problems of Refugees
The British Academy (conference organised jointly with the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and the Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, and supported by Birkbeck College, London, and the Wiener Library, London)
5 April 2004
Picasso: Genius or Showman?
The British Academy
15-16 April 2004
Rock Carvings of North and West Europe: Documentation, Investigation and Presentation
The British Academy (conference organised jointly with the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters History and Antiquities)
21 April 2004
British Academy Postdoctoral Symposium
The British Academy
23 April 2004
Barnardine's Straw: The devil in Shakespeare's detail
Mr Michael Pennington
Shakespeare Lecture
The British Academy
27 April 2004
Archaeology in Mesopotamia: Digging Deeper at Tell Brak
Dr Joan Oates, The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Albert Reckitt Archaeological Lecture
The British Academy
30 April-1 May 2004
Imaginative Minds: An Interdisciplinary Symposium
The British Academy
11 May 2004
Dulness and Pope
Professor David Womersley, St Catherine's College, Oxford
Warton Lecture on English Poetry
The British Academy
13-14 May 2004
The History of British Sociology in the Twentieth Century
The British Academy (conference organised jointly with the British Sociological Association)
26 May 2004
Rationalism, Platonism and God: A Symposium on Early Modern Philosophy
Dawes Hicks Symposium
The British Academy
23-25 June 2004
After Alexander: Central Asia before Islam
The British Academy (organised jointly with the British Museum and the Iran Heritage Foundation)
16-17 July 2004
Cultures of Commemoration: War Memorials Ancient and Modern
Conference
The British Academy
19 July 2004
Hutton: The Wider Issues
British Academy Debate
Venue: The Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House)
OUTPUT(S) AVAILABLE IN THE MEDIA LIBRARY
9 September 2004
Authority and Intertextuality in the Works of Ælfric
Professor Joyce Hill, University of Leeds
Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture
Venue: The British Academy
OUTPUT(S) AVAILABLE IN THE MEDIA LIBRARY
Monday 13 - Tuesday 14 September 2004
Steady States: Institutional Stability in the Face of Political Change. The evidence from pre-modern Western Asia
A two-day conference organised jointly with the British School of Archaeology in Iraq
Venue: The British Academy
Friday 24 September 2004
Montaigne
Professor Terence Cave, FBA, St John’s College, Oxford
Master-Mind Lecture
Venue: The British Academy
OUTPUT(S) AVAILABLE IN THE MEDIA LIBRARY
Wednesday 6 October 2004
Early Globalisation: Transnational anarchism as practice and mediated imaginary in the late nineteenth century
Professor Benedict Anderson, Cornell University
Special Joint British Academy/Committee for South East Asian Studies Lecture/School of Oriental and African Studies
Venue: The Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS (Please note that this lecture will start at 6.00pm)
Wednesday 13 October 2004
The New Political Economy
Professor Tim Besley, FBA, London School of Economics and Political Science
Keynes Lecture in Economics
Venue: The British Academy
OUTPUT(S) AVAILABLE IN THE MEDIA LIBRARY
Tuesday 19 October 2004
Nomad’s Progress
Lord Sutherland of Houndwood, FBA, President, The Royal Society of Edinburgh
Isaiah Berlin Lecture
Venue: The British Academy
OUTPUT(S) AVAILABLE IN THE MEDIA LIBRARY
Tuesday 19 October 2004
Patents and Public Health: Principle, Politics and Paradox
Judge Edwin Cameron, Supreme Court of Appeal, South Africa
Inaugural British Academy Law Lecture
Venue: The Playfair Library Hall, University of Edinburgh
Wednesday 20 - Friday 22 October 2004
Ashkelon, Seaport of the Canaanites and the Philistines
Professor Lawrence Stager, Harvard University
Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology (a course of lectures delivered over three days)
Venue: The British Academy
Tuesday 26 October 2004
The Prehistory of Chinese Music Theory
Professor Robert Bagley, Princeton University
Elsley Zeitlyn Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Culture
Venue: The British Academy
OUTPUT(S) AVAILABLE IN THE MEDIA LIBRARY
Friday 29 October 2004
Imperialism Ancient and Modern
A one-day conference
Venue: The British Academy
Tuesday 2 November 2004
The Future of Our Universities
Lord Moser, FBA
Thank-Offering to Britain Fund Lecture
Venue: The British Academy
OUTPUT(S) AVAILABLE IN THE MEDIA LIBRARY
Wednesday 3 November 2004
Margaret Atwood: In conversation with Dame Gillian Beer, FBA
Venue: The British Academy
OUTPUT(S) AVAILABLE IN THE MEDIA LIBRARY
Tuesday 9 November 2004
Imagining Pan-Islam: Religious Activism and Political Utopias
Dr James Piscatori, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture
Venue: The British Academy
Time: 5.30-6.30pm
OUTPUT(S) AVAILABLE IN THE MEDIA LIBRARY
Thursday 11 November 2004
Robert Graves and The White Goddess
Dr Fran Brearton, Queen’s University, Belfast
Chatterton Lecture on English Poetry
Venue: The British Academy
OUTPUT(S) AVAILABLE IN THE MEDIA LIBRARY
Saturday 13 November 2004
Marxist Historiography: Alive, Dead or Moribund?
A one-day conference organised jointly with Past and Present
Venue: The British Academy
OUPUT(S) AVAILABLE IN THE MEDIA LIBRARY
Tuesday 16 November 2004
Everybody Counts But Not Everybody Understands Numbers: the Unrecognised Handicap of Dyscalculia
Professor Brian Butterworth, FBA
Joint British Academy/British Psychological Society Lecture
Venue: The British Academy
OUTPUT(S) AVAILABLE IN THE MEDIA LIBRARY
Friday 26 - Saturday 27 November 2004
Petrarch (1304-1374): Translations, Interpretations and Appropriations through the Ages
A two-day conference in association with the Society for Italian Studies, the Modern Humanities Research Association, and the Society for Renaissance Studies
Venue: The British Academy
Wednesday 1 December 2004
What Fates Impose: Facing Up To Uncertainty
Professor Mervyn King, FBA, Governor of the Bank of England
Eighth British Academy Lecture
Venue: The British Academy
OUTPUT(S) AVAILABLE IN THE MEDIA LIBRARY
Thursday 9 December 2004
The Inquisition and The Renaissance
Mr Alexander Murray, FBA, University College, Oxford
Raleigh Lecture on History
Venue: The British Academy
Time: 5.30-6.30pm
Tuesday 14 December 2004
Keynes and the Treasury: Economic policy making since the 1920s
Panel discussion. Speakers: Professor George Peden, Lord Skidelsky FBA, Sir Samuel Brittan (Financial Times), Gus O'Donnell (HM Treasury)
Venue: The British Academy (invitation only)