British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
14th Annual British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Symposium
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
Tuesday 22 April 2008
List of Presentations
- Dr Ross Alloway: Robert Cadell and the Financial Crash of 1825 - 1826
- Dr Carolina Armenteros: Was Rousseau Truly a Classical Republican? The Problem of Sophie's Vanity in Emile (1762)
- Dr David Beresford-Jones: Putting the Tree Back Into the Landscape: An Archaeological Case-Study of Ecological and Cultural Collapse on the South Coast of Peru
- Dr Sophie Blanch: ‘Something mechanical encrusted on the living’: Laughter, Conservatism and the ‘Anti-Modernist’ Novel
- Dr Katerina Carvounis: Writing Epic after Homer: Later Greek Poetry and Quintus' Posthomerica
- Dr Rachel Condry: Parenting and Youth Justice
- Dr Francesca Cornaglia: Public Policy and Passive Smoking
- Dr Magnus Course: Why Mapuche Sing
- Dr Lindy Crewe: Tradition, Innovation and Changing Identity in the Cypriot Bronze Age
- Dr Peter Dent: 'The Crucifix replied to him in a loud voice’: Sculptural Interactions in Late Medieval Italy
- Dr Peter Forshaw: 'Sigillum Dei' – Talismans and Seals in Medieval and Renaissance Ritual Magic
- Dr Sarah Haywood: A ROWS is a ROSE, but is a ROAD a LOAD? Word Recognition in Second-Language Processing
- Dr Felicity James: Writing in Dissent: Stories of Unitarianism, 1774-1865
- Dr Will Jennings: Vox Pop? The Regulation of Government by Public Opinion
- Dr Mark Jones: The Role of Syllables and Segments in the Soundscape of Languages
- Dr Hemdat Lerman: The Relational View of Perceptual Experience and the Way Things Look
- Dr Iain McDaniel: The Origins and Future of Caesarism in Europe: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Perspectives
- Dr Sergi Mainer: Literary Translation in the Reign of James VI of Scotland: An Overview
- Dr Kate Meagher: Unravelling the Social Fabric: Social Networks and Economic Ungovernance in Nigeria
- Dr Mary Plummer: Are Schools a Good Setting for Adolescent Sexual Health Promotion in Rural Africa? A Qualitative Assessment from Tanzania
- Dr Paula Rubio Fernandez: How Egocentric Are We? Or Rather, How Good Are We at Taking Somebody Else’s Perspective?
- Dr Martina Tyrrell: 'Belugas are our neighbours': Conservation and Crisis in an Inuit Hunting Community
- Dr Chad Van Dixhoorn: Editing Texts in an Electronic Age
- Dr Pauline Von Hellermann: The Chief, the Youth and the Plantation: Resource Politics in Rural Nigeria