Past events 2001

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4 December 2001
Reason or Mumbo Jumbo — the Common Law's Approach to Property
Professor James Harris, Keble College, Oxford
MACCABEAN LECTURE IN JURISPRUDENCE

30 November – 1 December 2001
Idols of the People: Miniature Images of Clay in the Ancient Near East
Dr Roger Moorey, FBA, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
SCHWEICH LECTURES ON BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY

29–30 November 2001
Germany and Europe: A 'Europeanized' Germany?
Research Workshop (in association with the Economic and Social Research Council, the London School of Economics, and the Association for the Study of German Politics)   INFORMATION

21 November 2001
A Third Concept of Liberty
Professor Quentin Skinner, FBA, Christ's College, Cambridge
ISAIAH BERLIN LECTURE

20 November 2001
The Life of Learning
Sir Keith Thomas, FBA
FIFTH BRITISH ACADEMY LECTURE

19 November 2001
The Origins of Chinese Landscape Painting: Evidence from Archaeology
Professor Jessica Rawson, FBA, Merton College, Oxford
ZEITLYN LECTURE

15–16 November 2001
Mediterranean Urbanisation
A two-day conference   INFORMATION

8 November 2001
Poetry against Empire: Milton to Shelley
Dr Karen O'Brien, University of Warwick
WARTON LECTURE ON ENGLISH POETRY

5 November 2001
Elementary, my dear Watson, the clue is in the genes . . . or is it?
Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith, FBA, Neurocognitive Science Unit, Institute of Child Health
Special lecture to celebrate the centenary of the British Psychological Society

1 November 2001
Welfare-to-Work – Which Policies Work and Why?
Professor Richard Blundell, FBA, University College London
KEYNES LECTURE IN ECONOMICS

31 October 2001
'Viva Savoia': The Cultural Foundation of the Kingdom of Italy, 1849–1878
Professor Adrian Lyttleton, University of Pisa
ITALIAN LECTURE

18 October 2001
The Disease of Language: Is There Any Cure?
Professor James Fernandez, University of Chicago
RADCLIFFE-BROWN LECTURE IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

13-15 September 2001
Trust as a Pre-condition to Communication, Social Thinking and Social Practices During Democratic Transition in Post-Communist Europe
A two-day conference INFORMATION

3 September 2001, at the University of Glasgow
From Scribe to Scanner; Computers, Images and Ancient Documents
JOINT BRITISH ACADEMY / HUNTERIAN MUSEUM PRESENTATION (a contribution to the British Association Festival of Science)   INFORMATION

6–7 June 2001
Risk, Democratic Citizenship and Public Policy
Conference   INFORMATION

15 May 2001
Two Enlightenments: A Contrast in Social Ethics
Professor Gertrude Himmelfarb, FBA
ELIE KEDOURIE MEMORIAL LECTURE

11- 12 May 2001
Aerial Archaeology - Into the Future
A two-day symposium INFORMATION

10 May 2001
‘After Glyn Dwr’: An age of Reconciliation
Professor Ralph Griffiths, University of Wales, Swansea
SIR JOHN RHYS MEMORIAL LECTURE

1 May 2001
Prosperity and Power in the Age of Bede and Beowulf
Dr J L Maddicott, FBA, Exeter College, Oxford
RALEIGH LECTURE ON HISTORY

26 April 2001
‘I see men as trees suffering’: The vision of Keith Douglas
Dr Tim Kendall, University of Bristol
CHATTERTON LECTURE ON POETRY

25 April 2001
‘A World Elsewhere’ — Sense of an exit
Professor Richard Wilson, University of Lancaster
SHAKESPEARE LECTURE

5 April 2001
Gertrude Stein and the Question of Modernism
Professor Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University
SARAH TRYPHENA PHILLIPS LECTURE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

29 March 2001
How Northern was the Northern Master at Assisi?
Dr Paul Binski, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
ASPECTS OF ART LECTURE

28 March 2001
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Professor Robert Putnam, Harvard University
British Academy Lecture at CREST Conference on ‘Is There a Crisis of Democracy?’, held at the Academy

10 March 2001
Bayes’s Theorem
Conference   PROGRAMME

9–10 March 2001
(1) Economic Policy for Competition and Consumers
Professor John Vickers, FBA, Director General, The Office of Fair Trading
(2) Game Theory
Professor Ken Binmore, FBA, University College London
British Academy Lectures to the Economics and Business Education Association annual conference, Leeds