Past events 2010

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

January

Thursday 7 January 2010
Academics, Academies and Public Policy
British Academy Fellows Seminar talk by Professor Theodore Marmor FBA, 5.15pm (venue: Royal Society)
Outputs: BAR article (March 2010)

Tuesday 12 January 2010
The Fate of Freedom
Panel discussion, 6.30pm
Outputs: audio recordings

Thursday 14 January - Saturday 16 January 2010
Religious-Secular Distinctions
Conference
Outputs: audio recordings

Thursday 21 January 2010
Addiction Research: The Next Steps
Panel discussion, 5.30pm
Outputs: audio recordings; presentation slides

Wednesdays 27 January, 3 & 10 February 2010
Religion and Community in the Roman Near East: Constantine to Mahomet
Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology, by Professor Fergus Millar FBA, 5.30pm

February

Tuesday 2 February 2010
The economics of undergraduate tuition fees and maintenance support
British Academy Forum, 12 noon

Tuesday 23 February 2010
Social Science and Family Policies
Launch of a British Academy Policy Centre report, 8.30am
Ouputs: report; BAR article (March 2010)

Thursday 25 February 2010
The Mixed Constitution: Monarchical and Aristocratic Aspects of Modern Democracy
British Academy Lecture, by Dr Mogens Hansen FBA, 5.30pm
Outputs: audio recording; paper in History of Political Thought (autumn 2010)

March

Tuesday 2 March 2010
Robbing our own future: Intergenerational justice under the microscope
Panel discussion, 7pm
Outputs: audio recordings

Thursday 4 March 2010
The Fiscal Challenge
British Academy Forum, 8am

Thursday 4 March 2010
Writing National History
Panel discussion, 6.30pm
Outputs: audio recordings

Monday 8 March 2010
Proposals for a British Bill of Rights
British Academy Forum, 1.30pm
Outputs: transcript

Wednesday 10 March 2010
Choosing an Electoral System
Launch of a British Academy Policy Centre report, 8.30am
Outputs: report; BAR article (March 2010)

Friday 12 March - Saturday 13 March 2010
Taiwan and the Asian Region
Conference

Tuesday 16 March 2010
Towards a Better Tomorrow? The Crucial Role of Social Science
Panel discussion, 6.30pm (venue: Royal Society)
Outputs: audio recordings

Wednesday 17 March - Friday 19 March 2010
Re-thinking the Middle East
Conference

Thursday 18 March 2010
Frameworks for Africa-UK Research Collaboration in the Humanities and Social Sciences: The Nairobi Report
Launch of a British Academy report, 9.15am (venue: British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi)
Outputs: report; text of plenary lecture

Tuesday 23 March - Wednesday 24 March 2010
Islamic Studies in Europe
Conference
Outputs: note; BAR article (October 2010)

including
Wednesday 24 March 2010
Who Speaks for Islam?
Lecture, by Dr Dalia Mogahed, 6.00pm (venue: Royal Society)
Outputs: audio recording

Thursday 25 March 2010
Unequal Britain: 60 years of equalities policy
Panel discussion, 7.00pm
Outputs: audio recordings

Tuesday 30 March 2010
Political/ministerial decision-making during a crisis
British Academy Forum, 5.30pm
Outputs: BAR article (October 2010)

April

Friday 16 April 2010
Mending a broken financial system: What are the real lessons from the 1930s?
British Academy Forum, 12.30pm

Friday 16 April – Saturday 17 April 2010
Lessons from the Great Depression of the 1930s for the Making of Economic Policy
Conference

Wednesday 21 April 2010
Improving Language Learning through the Strategic Classroom
Conference

Thursday 22 April 2010
‘Enter Cælia, the Fairy Queen in her Night Attire’: Shakespeare and the Fairies
Shakespeare Lecture, by Professor Michael Hattaway, 6.00pm (venue: Royal Society)
Outputs: audio recording; presentation slides

Tuesday 27 April 2010
UK-Colombia Collaboration: Past, Present and Future
Conference
Outputs: audio recordings; booklet of texts

Wednesday 28 April 2010
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Symposium
Presentations, showcasing work of BA Postdoctoral Fellows

May

Tuesday 4 May 2010
‘The Reason of this Preference’: Sleeping, Flowing and Freezing in Pope’s Dunciad
Warton Lecture on English Poetry, by Dr Valerie Rumbold, 5.30pm
Outputs: audio recording; PBA paper (2011)

Tuesday 11 May - Wednesday 12 May 2010
E-research on Texts and Images
Joint British Academy/JISC workshop

Thursday 13 May 2010
The Jewish History Wars
Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture, by Professor Simon Schama, 6.00pm (venue: Royal Society)
Outputs: audio recording

Thursday 20 May 2010
Forum for the Humanities and Social Science Learned Societies and Subject Associations
Twice-yearly forum

Monday 24 May 2010
Julia Kristeva in conversation
6.30pm
Outputs: audio recordings

June

Friday 11 June 2010
The Holocaust and Modern Genocide
Conference

Tuesday 15 June 2010
Multicultural London: History and Policy
British Academy Forum, 5.30pm
Outputs: BAR article (October 2010)

Wednesday 16 June - Thursday 17 June 2010
De Gaulle, London and the Resistance, 1940-2010
Conference (venue: Institut Francais)
Outputs: video recordings

Thursday 17 June 2010
Past, Present and Future: The Public Value of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Launch of British Academy booklet (venue: House of Commons)
Outputs: booklet

Thursday 24 June - Friday 25 June 2010
Liberalism and World Order
Conference

Monday 28 June – Wednesday 30 June 2010
Culture Evolves
Conference (venue: Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre)
Outputs: audio recordings; Phil Trans Royal Society issue (April 2011)

Wednesday 30 June 2010
How to make Deliberative Democracy practical: Consulting the public thoughtfully
Lecture, by Professor James S Fishkin, 6.00pm
Outputs: transcript

July

Thursday 1 July – Friday 2 July 2010
Classics and Class
Conference
including:

Thursday 1 July 2010
Literature, Classics and Class
Performance Event, 5.00pm (venue: Royal Society)
Outputs: audio recordings

Saturday 3 July 2010
The Freedom of the Will
Conference
Outputs: British Academy Original Paperback

Thursday 8 July 2010
Drawing electoral boundaries
British Academy Forum, 1.30pm (venue: Royal Academy of Engineering)

Friday 30 July 2010
The 2010 Spending Review: Implications for the State and its reach
British Academy Forum, 12 noon (venue: Royal College of Pathologists)
Outputs: presentation slides; BAR article (October 2010)

September

Monday 20 September 2010
Arts, humanities and social sciences: Why should we care?
Panel Discussion (venue: Royal Society)
Outputs: audio recordings; BAR article (October 2010)

Thursday 23 September 2010
Psychology and Climate Change: Collective Solutions to a Global Problem
Joint British Academy / British Psychological Society Lecture, by Professor David Uzzell, 6.00pm (venue: Royal Society)

Thursday 30 September 2010
The future of banking: stability, competition and regulation
British Academy Forum, 12.30pm (venue: Royal College of Pathologists)

Thursday 30 September 2010
Annual British Academy Medals and Prizes Ceremony
Awards ceremony

October

Tuesday 12 October 2010
Are Job-Training Programmes Effective?
Lecture, 5.30pm (venue: Royal Society)

Thursday 14 October 2010
Global Justice: Sharing the Wealth and Saving the Planet
In-conversation event, 12.30pm (venue: Royal College of Pathologists)

Tuesday 19 October 2010
Cultural heritage: How should the British Academy contribute?
British Academy Forum, 12.30pm (venue: Royal College of Pathologists)

Wednesday 20 October 2010
How the market gives us what we want - even if we are irrational
Keynes Lecture in Economics, by Professor Robert Sugden FBA, 5.30pm (venue: Royal Society of Arts)

Thursday 21 October 2010
Personifications of Old Age in Medieval Poetry
Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture, by Professor Ad Putter, 4.15pm (venue: University of Bristol)

Wednesday 27 October 2010
Forum for the Humanities and Social Science Learned Societies and Subject Associations
Twice-yearly forum

Wednesday 27 October 2010
Copyrights and Wrongs: The Impact of Copyright on the Arts and Authorship in the Digital Area
Panel discussion, 6.30pm (venue: Royal Society)

Friday 29 October 2010
Stress at Work
Launch of a British Academy Policy Centre report, 9.00am

November

Monday 8 November – Tuesday 9 November 2010
Medical Law and Ethics in the Media Spotlight
Conference
including:

Tuesday 9 November 2010
Working with the Media: A view from the frontline
Isaiah Berlin Lecture, by Professor Sir Ian Kennedy FBA, 2.30pm

Wednesday 10 November 2010
International Engagement Day 2010: The Role of Area Studies in Higher Education
Conference (venue: Law Society)

Monday 15 November - Thursday 18 November 2010
Medieval Week
A series of joint events sponsored by the British Academy and Royal Society of Edinburgh (venue: Royal Society of  Edinburgh)
including:

Monday 15 November 2010
Portable Christianity: Relics in the medieval West (c. 700-1200)
Raleigh Lecture on History, by Professor Julia Smith

Tuesday 16 November 2010
More than ‘skimble-skamble stuff’: The medieval Welsh poetry associated with Owain Glyndwr
Sir John Rhys Memorial Lecture, by Professor Gruffydd Aled Williams

Wednesday 17 November 2010
Personifications of Old Age in medieval poetry
Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture, by Professor Ad Putter

Thursday 18 November 2010
The past as propaganda: The Mongol ‘World History’
Aspects of Art Lecture, by Professor Robert Hillenbrand FBA

Wednesday 17 November 2010
The Mexican Revolution 1910-2010: Historical and Cultural Perspectives
Conference, organised in association with the Mexican Embassy (venue: The King's Fund, Cavendish Square)

Thursday 18 November - Friday 19 November 2010
China-India: Paths of Economic and Social Development
Conference (venue: The King's Fund, London)

Thursday 25 November 2010
British Academy Medals and Prizes Ceremony 2010
Annual awards ceremony

December

Wednesday 1 December 2010
Speed Data-ing: The Effects of the Rapid Rise of the Data Society
Panel Discussion, 6.30pm (venue: Royal Society)

Wednesday 1 December - Thursday 2 December 2010
Social Sciences and Humanities in Framework Programmes 7 and 8
Workshop (venue: British School at Rome)

Tuesday 7 December 2010
Implications of the present Coalition for British politics
British Academy Forum, 12 noon

Wednesday 8 December 2010
Writing National Literatures
Panel Discussion, 6.30pm (venue: Royal Society)

Thursday 9 December 2010
‘Where the Night Still Hangs Like a Half-Folded Bat’:
The Poetry of D.H. Lawrence
Chatterton Lecture on Poetry, by Dr Santanu Das, 5.30pm (venue: Royal Society)

Tuesday 14 December 2010
How might social mobility be increased?
British Academy Forum, 12 noon

Thursday 16 December 2010
Not for Profit: Why Democracy needs the Humanities
Lecture, 5.30pm (venue: Royal Society)