Past events 2000

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12 December 2000
‘Beowulf’ and Perception
Professor Michael Lapidge, FBA, Clare College, Cambridge; University of Notre Dame
SIR ISRAEL GOLLANCZ MEMORIAL LECTURE
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 111.   EXTRACT (pdf)

6–7 December 2000, at the Royal Society
Images and Artefacts of the Ancient World
JOINT ROYAL SOCIETY / BRITISH ACADEMY CONFERENCE
ARTICLE (pdf)

4 December 2000
Translation, Knowledges and Cultures
Conference 

22 November 2000
The Law: An Engine for Trade
The Lord Chancellor: The Right Honourable The Lord Irvine of Lairg
THANK-OFFERING TO BRITAIN FUND LECTURE
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 111

7 November 2000, at the Institute of Education, London
Other People
Professor Amartya Sen, FBA
BRITISH ACADEMY LECTURE
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 111.   EXTRACT (pdf)  /  TEXT

2 November 2000
White Masculinity: Smuts, Race and the South African War
Professor Shula Marks, FBA, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
RALEIGH LECTURE ON HISTORY
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 111.   BAR article (pdf)

1 November 2000
Waiting for God: John Milton’s Poems of 1671
Dr Margaret Kean, St Hilda’s College, Oxford
CHATTERTON LECTURE ON POETRY
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 111

26 October 2000
Rich Trades: Industrial Development Revisited
Professor John Sutton, FBA, London School of Economics
KEYNES LECTURE IN ECONOMICS
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 111

29–30 September 2000
Prosopography in the Twenty-First Century: Late Roman and Byzantine
Conference
ARTICLE (pdf)

14–15 September 2000
European States and the Euro
Conference  
ARTICLE (pdf)

12 September 2000
Who’s misunderstanding whom? Science, Society and the Media
JOINT ESRC / BRITISH ACADEMY SEMINAR (a contribution to the British Association Festival of Science)
ARTICLE (pdf)

8–9 July 2000
Rome and the Mediterranean World
Conference  

7–8 July 2000
The Humanities and the Social Sciences: Re-shaping the Discussion between the Universities and the State
Humanities and Social Sciences Forum: Meeting of representatives of English-speaking Academies, Learned Societies and Research Councils

17 May 2000
Wallace Stevens: Hypotheses and Contradictions
Professor Helen Vendler, Harvard University
WARTON LECTURE ON ENGLISH POETRY
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 111.   EXTRACT

16 May 2000
The Legend of the Great Game
Professor Malcolm Yapp, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
ELIE KEDOURIE MEMORIAL LECTURE
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 111.   EXTRACT

4 May 2000
Beginning in the Middle
Professor Peter Holland, Shakespeare Institute
SHAKESPEARE LECTURE
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 111.

27 April 2000
The Origin of Human Social Institutions
JOINT NOVARTIS FOUNDATION / BRITISH ACADEMY CONFERENCE
Published as Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 110.

13 April 2000
Plato
Myles Burnyeat, FBA, All Souls College, Oxford
MASTER-MIND LECTURE
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 111.   EXTRACT

28 March 2000
The Speciation of Modern Homo Sapiens
JOINT BRITISH ACADEMY / ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES CONFERENCE

18 March 2000
Henry Sidgwick
Conference
Published as Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 109.

3 March 2000
Interpreting Anglo-Saxon Coinage
Conference

1, 8 and 15 March 2000, at the National Gallery
Visions of Apocalypse
Professor Henry Mayr-Harting, FBA; Professor Joseph Koerner, Harvard University; Professor Ian Christie, FBA
Three lectures organised by the British Academy and the National Gallery in association with the British Museum

22 February 2000
Aksum: An African Civilization in its World Contexts
Dr David Phillipson, University of Cambridge
ALBERT RECKITT ARCHAEOLOGICAL LECTURE
Text published in Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 111.   EXTRACT (pdf)

17 February 2000, at the Royal Society
Coleridge Among the Scientists
Richard Holmes, FBA, FRSL
JOINT ROYAL SOCIETY / ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE / BRITISH ACADEMY LECTURE

29 January 2000
The Anglo-French fin-de-siècle
Conference

14–15 January 2000
Residentzstädten and ‘Landowner Towns’ in Germany and Britain in the Early Modern Period
Conference

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In Spring 2000, the final ‘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
The papers from the whole series have been published in Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 53, Number 4, October 2000