British Academy PDF Symposium 2006

British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH

26 April 2006

Programme

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Time

Lecture Hall

Council Room

Reading Room

9.30am

Registration and Coffee in the Mall Room

10.15am

Dr Céline Marquaille
Elite power in Hellenistic Cyprus (323-58 BC)

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Dr Matthew Kelly
Irish nationalists and the ‘Indian National Revolution’ of 1857

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10.55am

Dr Paul Newson
Imperialism, Cultural Ideals and Customs: The Rural Landscape of the Roman Near East

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Dr Alastair McMillan
How India Votes

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Dr Duncan Probert
Mapping early medieval language change in south-west England

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11.35am

Coffee

11.50am

Dr Sandra Paoli
Information packaging and the left periphery of the clause: evidence from Romance

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Dr Gil Daryn
Migration, invisibility and displacement in the context of the Maoist insurgency in Nepal

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Dr Nicholas Karn
Law and justices in Anglo-Norman England

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12.30pm

Dr Helena Sanson
Women and grammar in the Italian linguistic tradition (16th-19th century)

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Dr Rebecca Empson
Separating and Containing People and Things in Mongolia

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Dr Christopher Briggs
English Peasants and the Provision of Civil Justice, c.1275-c.1400

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1.10pm

Lunch in the Mall Room

2.15pm

Dr Nicholas Shea
Representation in psychology and biology

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Dr Elisabeth Schroder-Butterfill
Social network responses to old-age crises in rural Java

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Dr Graham Long
Terrorism, Relativism, and the Just War Tradition

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2.55pm

Dr Rhodri Lewis
Memory, mnemonics and knowledge in the Early Royal Society

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Dr Gillian Evans
Educational Failure and Working Class White Children in Britain

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Dr Adrian Bingham
Popular newspapers and their critics: challenging the ‘freedom of the press’ in twentieth century Britain

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3.35pm

Tea in the Mall Room

3.55pm

Dr Sharon Howard
Gentlemen behaving badly in seventeenth-century Britain

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Dr Christopher Bowdler
Monetary Policy in the Open Economy: An Empirical Resolution of the Exchange Rate Puzzle

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Dr Khaled El-Rouayheb
Arabic Logic in the Postclassical Age & the Idea of Cultural Decline

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4.35pm

Dr Tara Hamling
Decorating the 'Godly' Household: Religious Imagery in the Protestant Domestic Interior, c.1560-c.1660

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Dr Ralph Kingston
Signed, Sealed and Delivered: Floating Laboratories, Paperwork and Pacific Voyages, 1792-1817

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Dr David Palfrey
How Philosophers Die: from Pythagoras's bean fields to Foucault's bath houses

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5.15pm

Drinks in the Cornwall Room