Past events 2008

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Click on blue titles for information on the original event and any outputs

February

Wednesday 6 February 2008
Seventeenth Century Draining of the Fens and the impact on navigation
Lecture, by Professor Michael Chisholm FBA

19 February 2008
Britain in the 50s: Consensus or Conflict?
Panel discussion

28-29 February 2008
Dispossession and Displacement: Forced Migration in the Middle East and Africa
Conference

March

4 March 2008
The Inhabited Arctic: Humanities and Social Science Research in the Circumpolar North
Workshop and evening panel discussion

8 March 2008
Philosophy and Public Policy Workshop
Workshop

10-12 March 2008
Rabbinic Texts and the History of Late-Roman Palestine
Conference
including:

10 March 2008
The Editing of Rabbinic Texts
Public debate, 6.00pm

11 March 2008
Archaeology and the Rabbinic Texts
Public debate, 6.00pm

12 March 2008
Local devolution of public services: a break with the past or return to the past?
Public Debate (venue: Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham)

28-29 March 2008
Compass of Story: The Oriental Tale and the Western Imagination
Readings (28 March) and Workshop (29 March)

April

2 April 2008
Reason and Identity
Professor Lord Parekh, FBA, Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Westminster
Isaiah Berlin Lecture

8 April 2008
Ending the Russian Revolution: Reflections on Soviet History and its Interpreters
Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick, Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor, The University of Chicago
Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture

10-11 April 2008
Defective Paradigms: Missing forms and what they tell us
Conference

16 April 2008
Deities, Devils, and Dams: Elizabeth I, Dover Harbour, and the Family of Love
Professor David Wootton, Anniversary Professor of History, University of York
Raleigh Lecture on History

21 April 2008
Protecting Cultural Heritage
Discussion evening

22 April 2008
14th Annual British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Symposium
A one-day symposium

23 April 2008
Was Shakespeare an Essex Man?
Professor Jonathan Bate, FBA, Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Warwick
Shakespeare Lecture

26 April 2008
African Childhood in Transition
Workshop

30 April 2008
Joint Guidelines on Copyright and Academic Research - Guidelines for researchers and publishers in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Launch of British Academy report

May

6 May 2008
Civil Nuclear Energy since 1945: The Lessons
Professor Sir Roger Williams
First in 'Politics and Energy' series of  lectures, in partnership with the Science Museum and the Mile End Group of Queen Mary, University of London. Held at the Science Museum

13 May 2008
What is the State?
Professor Quentin Skinner, FBA, Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge
Twelfth Annual British Academy Lecture

20 May 2008
Wordsworth and the Druids
Dr Matthew Campbell, University of Sheffield
Warton Lecture on English Poetry

June

4 June 2008
Gallus gallus with Still Life and Presidents
Evening discussion

16 June 2008
The Significance of the Draft Constitutional Renewal Bill
Workshop

21-23 June 2008
The Schools and Institutes Overseas
Conference organisers: Dr David Shankland (Bristol) and Professor Giovanni Salmeri (Pisa)
Venue: Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol

24 June 2008
Reconstituting a Traumatized Community: The German-Speaking Refugees of the 1930s and their Legacy to Britain
Afternoon workshop and Evening discussion

September

8 September 2008
Peoples of the Circumpolar North: Contributions from Social Science and the Humanities
Organised as part of the British Association for the Advancement of Science's 2008 Festival of Science, hosted by the University of Liverpool

10 September 2008
Archaeology and wildlife: past, present and future
Organised as part of the British Association for the Advancement of Science's 2008 Festival of Science, hosted by the University of Liverpool

17 September 2008
Punching our weight: the humanities and social sciences in public policy making
Launch of British Academy report

25-26 September 2008
Social Brain, Distributed Mind
British Academy Centenary Research Project Symposium

29-30 September 2008
Talent and Autism
Joint British Academy and Royal Society conference

October

2 October 2008
The Alfredian Project and its Aftermath: Rethinking the Literary History of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
Professor Malcolm Godden, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of Oxford
Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture

This year's Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture due to take place on 2 October 2008 has been unavoidably postponed as Professor Malcolm Gooden is indisposed. It has been rescheduled to January 2009.

9 October 2008
Instruments of Development
Professor Angus Deaton FBA, Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Princeton University
Keynes Lecture in Economics

17 October 2008
Effective Psychological Treatments for Anxiety Disorders: Science, Policy and Economics
Professor David Clark FBA, Professor of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London
Joint British Academy/British Psychological Society Lecture
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, London School of Economics, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2

23 October 2008
Continuity and Change in a Wessex Landscape: 1500BC–AD500
Sir Barry Cunliffe CBE, FBA, Professor of European Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, Oxford University
Albert Reckitt Archaeological Lecture

28 October 2008
Buddhist Archaeology in Republican China (1912–1949)
Professor Sarah E. Fraser, Associate Professor and Chair of Art History, Northwestern University
Elsley Zeitlyn Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Culture

November

4 November 2008
Archaeology and the Bible: A Broken Link?
Professor Graham Davies FBA, Professor of Old Testament Studies, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge
Schweich Lecture on Biblical Archaeology

5 November 2008
The Good Friday Belfast Agreement - Ten Years On
An evening discussion convened by the British Academy and the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool

6 November 2008
How Green Politics Went Mainstream
Sir Crispin Tickell
Second in 'Politics and Energy' series of  lectures, in partnership with the Science Museum and the Mile End Group of Queen Mary, University of London

10 November 2008
Trust in Public Life
A British Academy discussion evening convened and chaired by Peter Hennessy, FBA, Queen Mary, University of London

11 November 2008
Evolving Societies 2008
Presentations and panel discussions (evening event)

18 November 2008
Transnational Cinemas in Latin America: the cases of Mexico, Argentina and Brazil
Professor Paul Julian Smith, FBA

25 November 2008
Auden Unparadised
Dr Seamus Perry, Tutor in English & Lecturer in the English Faculty, University of Oxford
Chatterton Lecture on Poetry

December

2 December 2008
Many Legal Orders, One Law
Sir Francis Jacobs KCMG, QC, Professor of Law, School of Law, King’s College London
British Academy Law Lecture

4-5 December 2008
In Defence of Learning: The Past and the Present
Two-day conference (organised by the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics)

6 December 2008
John Milton: A Symposium to Commemorate the Quatercentenary of his Birth
One-day symposium

8 December 2008
Kristallnacht and its International Aftermath
Daytime Workshop fully booked