British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
British Academy Lectures: Autumn 2007 Programme
The lectures listed in this programme begin at 5.30pm and take place at the Academy’s premises: 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1. Lectures are followed by a reception at 6.30pm to which members of the audience are invited. The Lecture Room will be open from 5.00pm. British Academy lectures are open to the general public, and everyone is welcome. There is no admission charge for attendance at the British Academy’s lectures. No tickets will be issued for these lectures. The first 100 audience members arriving at the Academy will be offered a seat in the Lecture Room where the lecture will take place. The next 50 people to arrive will be offered a seat in an Overflow Room, which has a video and audio link to the Lecture Room.
Enquiries should be directed to lectures@britac.ac.uk or 020 7969 5246
Thursday 4 October 2007
Reconstructing the National Body: Masculinity, Disability and Race in the American Civil War
Professor Susan-Mary Grant, Professor of American History, School of Historical Studies, Newcastle University
Sarah Tryphena Phillips Lecture in American Literature and History
Chair: Professor Richard Gray, FBA, Department of Literature, University of Essex
Thursday 11 October 2007
What makes humans so different?
Professor Robin Dunbar FBA
Director, Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford
Joint British Academy/British Psychological Society Annual Lecture
Chair: Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve, President, British Academy
Wednesday 17 October 2007
From shells and gold to plastic and silicon: a theory of the evolution of money, in the spirit of Keynes
Professor John Moore FBA, Professor of Political Economy, University of Edinburgh and Professor of Economic Theory, London School of Economics
Keynes Lecture in Economics
Chair: Professor Chris Pissarides, London School of Economics
Thursday 25 October 2007
‘We keep the bread and wine for show’ - consistent irony and reluctant faith in the poetry of Dannie Abse
Professor Tony Curtis, Professor of Poetry, School of Humanities Law and Social Sciences, University of Glamorgan
Warton Lecture on English Poetry
Chair: Professor Wynn Thomas, FBA, Professor of English, University of Wales, Swansea, and Director of the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales
Wednesday 31 October 2007
‘But I, that knew what harboured in that hed’: Thomas Wyatt and his posthumous ‘interpreters’
Dr Cathy Shrank, Reader in Tudor Literature, University of Sheffield
Chatterton Lecture on Poetry
Chair: Professor Ann Moss, FBA, Professor of French Emerita, University of Durham
Tuesday 6 November 2007
Classical music and the subject of modernity
Professor John Butt, FBA, Gardiner Professor of Music, University of Glasgow
Professor Nicholas Cook, FBA, Professorial Research Fellow in Music, Royal Holloway, University of London
Tuesday 13 November 2007
A Minority Opinion?
The Rt Hon. The Baroness Hale of Richmond, DBE, PC, FBA, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary; Chancellor, University of Bristol
Maccabaean Lecture in Jurisprudence
Chair: Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve, President, British Academy
Friday 30 November and Saturday 1 December 2007
Ugaritic and the Beginnings of the West-Semitic Literary Tradition
Professor Dennis Pardee, Professor of Northwest Semitics, The Oriental Institute, The University of Chicago
Schweich Lectures in Biblical Archaeology
Lecture 1: Alphabetic Origins
Chair: Professor Hugh Williamson, FBA, Regius Professor of Hebrew, University of Oxford and Student, Christ Church
Lecture 2: Ugaritic Literary Composition
Chair: Professor Alan Millard, Emeritus Rankin Professor of Hebrew and Ancient Semitic Languages, The University of Liverpool
Lecture 3: Literary Composition in the Hebrew Bible: the View from Ugarit
Chair: Professor Graham Davies, FBA, Professor of Old Testament Studies, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College