Past events 2009

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

January

15 January 2009
The Alfredian project and its aftermath: rethinking the literary history of the 9th and 10th centuries
Professor Malcolm Godden
Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture

22 January 2009
The 'Winter of Discontent’ in British Politics
Panel Discussion

30 January 2009
The New Hypereides
A one day workshop

February

4 February 2009
Energy and the Middle East
Sir Mark Allen
Third in 'Politics and Energy' series of lectures, in partnership with the Mile End Group of Queen Mary, University of London. Held at the Royal United Services Institute

16-17 February 2009
Africa's Neglected Epidemic: Multidisciplinary Research, Intervention and Policy for Chronic Disease
A two-day conference held at the British Council in Accra, Ghana, jointly organised with the Royal Society and the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences

24 February 2009
Civil Society in the age of Obama (Jon Van Til, Rutgers University) and A decade of Civil Society under New Labour (Colin Rochester, Roehampton University)
Two talks organised by ARVAC in association with the British Academy

26 February 2009
The history of romantic love in sub-Saharan Africa: between interest and emotion
Professor Megan Vaughan, FBA
Raleigh Lecture on History

March

INVITATION ONLY
2 March 2009
‘The Strange Career of British Democracy’
British Academy Forum

4 March 2009
Gaelic in medieval Scotland: advent and expansion
Professor Thomas Clancy
Sir John Rhys Memorial Lecture

12 March 2009
Talent and Autism
Panel discussion (to be held at the Royal Society)

16-17 March 2009
Imagining Jerusalem in the Medieval West
A two-day conference at University College, Oxford, supported by the British Academy

20 March 2009
The Voluntary Sector in British Society
Workshop

21-22 March 2009
From Plunder to Preservation - Britain and the ‘Heritage’ of Empire, c. 1820-1940
A two-day conference organised by the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group, University of Cambridge, supported by the British Academy

26 March 2009
Leon Battista Alberti and the redirection of Renaissance humanism
Professor Martin McLaughlin
Italian Lecture

27 March 2009
The Nairobi Report: Frameworks for Africa-UK Research Collaboration in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Launch of British Academy report

31 March 2009
Rescuing the Housing Market
Evening Panel Discussion

April

2 April 2009
Civil War and Foreign Intervention in Spain
Evening Panel Discussion

22 April 2009
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Symposium
Presentations, showcasing work of BA Postdoctoral Fellows

23 April 2009
Shakespeare, oaths and vows
Professor John Kerrigan
Shakespeare Lecture

24-25 April 2009
The Role of Labour Standards in Sustainable Development: Theory in Practice
Two-day conference

May

1 May 2009
Latin America Research Seminar: Colombia - Recent Research in History, Literature and Film

21-22 May 2009
Writing the history of the global
Conference

27 May 2009
Surrealism and its legacies in Latin America
Professor Dawn Adès
Annual British Academy Lecture

June

INVITATION ONLY
1 June 2009
Academic Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Workshop

3 June 2009
Language matters
Launch of British Academy report

6 June 2009
Isaiah Berlin Centenary
A Celebration (venue: Wolfson College, Oxford)

including:
6 June 2009
A Humanist's Conversation with the Twentieth Century
Isaiah Berlin Lecture, by Dr James H Billington, 4.00pm

8 June 2009
Are Today's Researchers equipped for the Digital Future?
Panel Discussion (in partnership with the British Library)

11-13 June 2009
Brokers of Change: Atlantic Commerce and Cultures in Precolonial 'Guinea of Cape Verde'
Venue: Danford Museum, Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham

INVITATION ONLY
17 June 2009
The Global Financial Crisis – Why Didn’t Anybody Notice?
British Academy Forum

24 June 2009
New Greek Texts from Oxyrhynchus
Workshop and panel discussion

INVITATION ONLY
29-30 June 2009
Darwin Conference
Joint British Academy, Royal Society, and American Philosophical Society conference, in Cambridge

July

INVITATION ONLY
10 July 2009
Two Decades of Military Interventions: Questions of Law, Morality and Effectiveness
British Academy Forum

September

23 September 2009
Reassessing the 1970s
Panel Discussion, 7.00pm

24-26 September 2009
Ethics and Politics Beyond Borders: The Work of Onora O'Neill
Conference

29 September 2009
Positive Psychology and Positive Education
Lecture, 5.30pm
Professor Martin Seligman
Joint British Academy and British Psychological Society Lecture

30 September 2009
British Academy Medals and Prizes Ceremony 2009
Annual awards ceremmony

October

15 October 2009
The Collapse of Communism in Europe: A Re-examination 20 Years After
Panel discussion

19-22 October 2009
British Academy Literature Week

19 October 2009
17th Century Poetry and Drama

20 October 2009
T S Eliot

21 October 2009
American Writers on the English Stage

22 October 2009
Contemporary Poetry in the Theatre

INVITATION ONLY
26 October 2009
'The New British Constitution': Democracy and Participation
British Academy Forum

27 October 2009
Did Civil Resistance End the Soviet Empire?
Panel discussion, 6.30pm

29 October 2009
The British Industrial Revolution in a Global Perspective
Lecture, 5.30pm
Professor Robert C Allen, FBA
Keynes Lecture in Economics

November

2-3 November 2009
Affirmative Action in the Labour Market: International Perspectives
Conference

9-10 November 2009
Water and Society: Past, Present and Future
Conference

10 November 2009
Shitao and the Traditional Chinese Conception of Ruins
Lecture, 5.30pm
Professor Hung Wu
Aspects of Arts lecture

INVITATION ONLY
16 November 2009
The Global Economic Challenges – Where do we go from here?
British Academy Forum

17 November 2009
Anthropology in the Territory of Rights - Human or Otherwise
Lecture, 5.30pm
Professor Lila Abu-Lughod
Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthropology

19 November 2009
SAGE Policy forum
Four sessions around the theme of evidence based policy and the use of science and research by government.
Includes podcasts of lectures with accompanying powerpoint slides.

21 November 2009
Moctezuma's Feast
Study day held at the British Museum in partnership with the Mexican Embassy

24 November 2009
Our Unwritten Constitution
Lecture, 5.30pm
Professor Sir John Baker FBA
Maccabaean Lecture in Jurisprudence

26 November 2009
Distinguishing 'Religious' from 'Economic'
Workshop

27 November 2009
Alexander von Humboldt and America
Conference followed by a panel discussion

27 November 2009
Did South-East Asia Learn the Right Lessons from the 1997-98 Financial Crisis?
Dr Jomo Kwame Sundaram
ASEASUK lecture held at SOAS in partnership with the British Academy

27-28 November 2009
Obesity: The Welfare Regime Hypothesis
Conference
Venue: Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St Anne’s College, Oxford

December

3 December 2009
Timely Flowers: Seasonal Imagery and its Meaning in Chinese Paintings and Porcelain
Elsley Zeitlyn Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Culture, by Jan Stuart, 5.30pm

15 December 2009
Financial and economic horizon-scanning: developing an early warning capacity
British Academy Forum