14th Annual British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Symposium

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

Tuesday 22 April 2008

Programme

ABOUT THIS EVENT | LIST OF PRESENTATIONS

Time

Lecture Hall

Council Room

Reading Room

9.30am

Registration and Coffee in the Mall Room

10.10am

'The Crucifix replied to him in a loud voice’: Sculptural Interactions in Late Medieval Italy
Dr Peter Dent

'Belugas are our neighbours': Conservation and Crisis in an Inuit Hunting Community
Dr Martina Tyrrell

Writing Epic after Homer: Later Greek Poetry and Quintus' Posthomerica
Dr Katerina Carvounis

10.50am

'Sigillum Dei' – Talismans and Seals in Medieval and Renaissance Ritual Magic
Dr Peter Forshaw

Why Mapuche Sing
Dr Magnus Course

‘Something mechanical encrusted on the living’: Laughter, Conservatism and the ‘Anti-Modernist’ Novel
Dr Sophie Blanch

11.30am

Coffee

11.40am

Putting the Tree Back Into the Landscape: An Archaeological Case-Study of Ecological and Cultural Collapse on the South Coast of Peru
Dr David Beresford-Jones

The Relational View of Perceptual Experience and the Way Things Look
Dr Hemdat Lerman

Writing in Dissent: Stories of Unitarianism, 1774-1865
Dr Felicity James

12.20pm

Tradition, Innovation and Changing Identity in the Cypriot Bronze Age
Dr Lindy Crewe

How Egocentric Are We? Or Rather, How Good Are We at Taking Somebody Else’s Perspective?
Dr Paula Rubio Fernandez

Robert Cadell and the Financial Crash of 1825 - 1826
Dr Ross Alloway

1pm

Lunch in the Mall Room

1.50pm

Evaluation of the Impact of British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships: A Presentation by SQW (In the Lecture Hall)

2.30pm

Break

2.40pm

Parenting and Youth Justice
Dr Rachel Condry

The Role of Syllables and Segments in the Soundscape of Languages
Dr Mark Jones

Literary Translation in the Reign of James VI of Scotland: An Overview
Dr Sergi Mainer

3.20pm

Are Schools a Good Setting for Adolescent Sexual Health Promotion in Rural Africa? A Qualitative Assessment from Tanzania
Dr Mary Plummer

A ROWS is a ROSE, but is a ROAD a LOAD? Word Recognition in Second-Language Processing
Dr Sarah Haywood

Editing Texts in an Electronic Age
Dr Chad Van Dixhoorn

4pm

Tea in the Mall Room

4.10pm

Unravelling the Social Fabric: Social Networks and Economic Ungovernance in Nigeria
Dr Kate Meagher

Public Policy and Passive Smoking
Dr Francesca Cornaglia

Was Rousseau Truly a Classical Republican? The Problem of Sophie's Vanity in Emile (1762)
Dr Carolina Armenteros

4.50pm

The Chief, the Youth and the Plantation: Resource Politics in Rural Nigeria
Dr Pauline Von Hellermann

Vox Pop? The Regulation of Government by Public Opinion
Dr Will Jennings

The Origins and Future of Caesarism in Europe: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Perspectives
Dr Iain McDaniel