British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
About the Academy's Lectures
The British Academy
works to promote excellence in the humanities and social sciences. The Academy
has a full and wide-ranging programme of lectures, which it offers annually as
part of a broader programme of events, including conferences, symposia,
specialist workshops and public discussions. Most of the lectures are offered
at the Academy at 10 Carlton House Terrace, but some are offered or repeated in
other locations. The British Academy has 23 named lectures in its series, some
delivered annually, some on a two or three-year rotation. Some have been
offered for many years, some are more recently established. Many have been
endowed by the generosity of donors, often in memory of a relative or other
person. The Academy has also organised
lectures in collaboration with other learned bodies.
British Academy lectures regularly feature scholars and scientists from the UK and overseas, whose work is at the cutting-edge of research. They give their audiences the opportunity to learn about significant new work or perspectives, from an authoritative source. The lectures to be delivered in autumn 2007 offer a rich and stimulating mix - from the distinctiveness of being human to the nature of law, from contemporary poetry to the evolution of money, from masculinity in the American civil war to the understanding of classical music.
I am confident that you will find these lectures stimulating and rewarding.
Robin Jackson
Chief Executive and
Secretary