Past events 1998

30 November, 2 and 3 December 1998
Symbol Systems of Ancient Palestine, in the light of Scarabs and Similar Seal-amulets
Professor Dr Othmar Keel, Université de Fribourg Suisse
SCHWEICH LECTURES ON BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY

26 November 1998
Time as a Clue to Cause?
Professor Lewis R. Binford, FBA, Southern Methodist University
ALBERT RECKITT ARCHAEOLOGICAL LECTURE
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 101.

25 November 1998
'Courtesie is fatal': The Civil and Visionary Poetics of Andrew Marvell
Dr Nigel Smith, Keble College, Oxford
CHATTERTON LECTURE ON POETRY
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 101.

10 November 1998
Max Weber
Mr Geoffrey Hawthorn, University of Cambridge
MASTER-MIND LECTURE
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 101.

5 November 1998
Our Place in the Cosmos
Professor John Leslie, Royal Society of Canada / British Academy Exchange Visitor
Special Lecture

3 November 1998
Reflections on Paganism and Christianity in Mediaeval Europe
Professor R.J. Bartlett, FBA, University of St Andrews
RALEIGH LECTURE ON HISTORY
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 101.

29 October 1998
Central Banks and Uncertainty
Professor C.A.E. Goodhart, FBA, London School of Economics
KEYNES LECTURE IN ECONOMICS
with discussants Professor C. Bean and Dr C. Freedman
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 101.   TEXT

29 October 1998, at Keble College, Oxford
Isaac Rosenberg, 1890?1918
Professor Geoffrey Hill, Boston University
WARTON LECTURE ON ENGLISH POETRY
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 101.

27 October 1998
Is There Always an Underclass?
Lord Runciman, FBA, Trinity College, Cambridge
BRITISH ACADEMY LECTURE
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 101.

22 October 1998
Poverty, Social Exclusion and the British Empirical Tradition
Mr A.B. Atkinson, FBA, Nuffield College, Oxford
THANK-OFFERING TO BRITAIN FUND LECTURE

18 September 1998
Welsh Devolution: The Past and the Future
Professor K O Morgan, FBA
Keynote lecture at CREST Conference on 'Wales and Scotland: Nations Again?', held in Cardiff

19 May 1998
Translators and Interpreters - from Babel to Dragomans
Professor Bernard Lewis, FBA, Princeton University
ELIE KEDOURIE MEMORIAL LECTURE
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 101.

23 April 1998
Servant Obedience and Master Sins: Shakespeare and the Bonds of Service
Professor Michael Neill
SHAKESPEARE LECTURE
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 101.

16 April 1998
Music and the Early Veneto Humanists
Dr M H Bent, FBA, All Souls College, Oxford
ITALIAN LECTURE
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 101.   SUMMARY

26 March 1998
Chaucer and Englishness
Professor D A Pearsall, Harvard University
SIR ISRAEL GOLLANCZ MEMORIAL LECTURE
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 101.

19 February 1998
The Winthrop Variation: A Model of American Identity
Professor Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard University
SARAH TRYPHENA LECTURE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 97.

17 February 1998
Being responsible and being a victim of circumstance
Professor A M Honoré, FBA
MACCABAEAN LECTURE IN JURISPRUDENCE
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 97.

10 February 1998
Plagiarism
Professor Christopher Ricks, FBA, Boston University
BRITISH ACADEMY LECTURE
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 97.