Past events 1999

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Information on events in 1999 is contained in the July 1998 – July 1999 and July–December 1999 issues of the British Academy Review

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16–18 December 1999
Indo-Iranian Languages and Peoples
Conference
ARTICLE

14 December 1999
Judgments
The Rt Hon Lord Mustill, FBA
MACCABAEAN LECTURE IN JURISPRUDENCE

9 December 1999
Scottish Gaelic Traditional Songs from the 16th to the 18th Century
Professor D S Thomson, FBA
SIR JOHN RHYS MEMORIAL LECTURE
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 105.

25 November 1999
Conceptual Tools for a Natural Science of Society
Professor Dan Sperber, Polytechnique de France
RADCLIFFE-BROWN LECTURE IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 111.   SUMMARY

24 November 1999
Britain’s Changing Ethnic Profile
Bhiku Parekh, University of Hull
Keynote lecture at CREST Conference on ‘Social Change and Minority Ethnic Groups in Britain’, held at the Academy

18 November 1999
On the ‘Origins’ of Science
Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, FBA, Darwin College, Cambridge
BRITISH ACADEMY LECTURE
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 105.   EXTRACTS  /  SUMMARY

17 November 1999
‘Trafficking with merchants for his soul’: Dante Gabriel Rossetti among the Aesthetes
Dr Josephine Guy, University of Nottingham
CHATTERTON LECTURE ON POETRY
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 105.   SUMMARY

9 November 1999
From Laurel to Fig: Petrarch and the Structures of the Self
Professor C N J Mann, FBA, Warburg Institute
ITALIAN LECTURE
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 105.   EXTRACTS

3 November 1999
Artist and Subject in Ming Dynasty China
Professor C Clunas, University of Sussex
ASPECTS OF ART LECTURE
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 105.

28 October 1999
After the Second World War: Keynes, Keynesianism and the International Economy
Professor A S Milward, FBA, European University Institute, Florence
KEYNES LECTURE IN ECONOMICS
with discussants Dr John Killick (University of Leeds) and Professor James Tomlinson (Brunel University)
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 105.   SUMMARY

27 October 1999
Thomas Carlyle and Oliver Cromwell
Professor Blair Worden, FBA, University of Sussex
RALEIGH LECTURE ON HISTORY
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 105.   EXTRACTS

26 October 1999
The pendulum and the pit: changing perceptions of the American Presidency
Mr Godfrey Hodgson, Green College, Oxford
SARAH TRYPHENA PHILLIPS LECTURE IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 105.   EXTRACT

22–23 September 1999
Computers, Language and Speech
JOINT ROYAL SOCIETY / BRITISH ACADEMY SYMPOSIUM
Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Volume 358, No. 1769, April 2000.   CONTENTS  /  ARTICLE

2–4 July 1999
Economic Challenges of the 21st Century in Historical Perspective
Conference

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In Summer 1999, the first two ‘Westminster Seminars’ were held on
Democratic Reform in International Perspective
Jointly sponsored by the British Academy and the University of Westminster Centre for the Study of Democracy
ARTICLE

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27 May 1999
Nationalism and the History of Ideas
Professor John Breuilly, University of Birmingham
ELIE KEDOURIE MEMORIAL LECTURE
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 105.   SUMMARY

7 May 1999
Metaphor in Art and Literature
Conference

21 April 1999
‘Macbeth’ and the Third Person
Dr Adrian Poole, Trinity College, Cambridge
SHAKESPEARE LECTURE
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 105.   EXTRACT  /  SUMMARY

14–15 April 1999
The Evolution of Cultural Entities
Conference
ARTICLE

13 April 1999
Two Political Poems: Marvell’s ‘Horatian Ode’ and Yeats’ ‘No Second Troy’
Professor A D Nuttall, FBA, New College, Oxford
WARTON LECTURE ON ENGLISH POETRY
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 105.   EXTRACT