Past events 2002

THIRTY-FOURTH BA CONVERSAZIONE
Friday 22 February 2002
Prof. Jonathan Bate, FBA and Dr Adam Phillips
Madness & Literature: Friends or Foes?
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Wednesday 6 March 2002
The Whitworth Hall, Manchester University
Is there a female genius?
Professor Julia Kristeva, University of Paris
British Academy Centenary Lecture in Literary Criticism

Thursday 14 March 2002
Firth Hall, University of Sheffield
What is History Now? [MORE INFO]
Professor David Cannadine FBA, Director of the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London
British Academy Centenary Lecture in History

11 April 2002
Overestimating culture: A German problem
Isaiah Berlin Lecture, by Professor Wolf Lepenies

23 April 2002
Shakespeare and the anagram
Shakespeare Lecture, by Professor Christopher Ricks FBA

24 April 2002
Funding Opportunities In The Humanities And Social Sciences [PROGRAMME]
British Academy/RAGnet conference

1 May 2002
Raising Research Profiles - Fostering Media Coverage in the Arts and Humanities [PROGRAMME]
British Academy/CASE/AHRB conference

THIRTY-FIFTH BA CONVERSAZIONE
Thursday 2 May 2002
Prof. Anthony Nuttall, FBA and Dr Karen Sparck-Jones, FBA
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9 May 2002
This small island: Britain, size and empire
Raleigh Lecture on History, by Professor Linda Colley FBA

9 - 10 May 2002
Germany And Europe: A 'Europeanized' Germany? [PROGRAMME]
In association with ESRC, STICERD - LSE, and The Association for the Study of German Politics
Symposium

Thursday 16 May 2002
"Gilmorehill G12" University of Glasgow
A Hundred Years of Studying Politics: What Have We Got to Show for it? [ABSTRACT]
Professor Brian Barry, FBA Columbia University
British Academy Centenary Lecture in Politics

21 May 2002
The origins of the civilisation of Angkor
Albert Reckitt Archaeological Lecture, by Professor Charles Higham FBA

22 May 2002
Special paths or main roads? Making sense of German history
Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture, by Professor Peter Pulzer

30 May 2002
Yorkshire writers
Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture, by Professor Ralph Hanna

Friday 31 May 2002
Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources
Dr. David Howlett
(Book Launch will also take place Friday evening)
Symposium

24 & 25 June 2002
Conceptual Knowledge: Developmental, Biological, Functional And Computational Accounts [PROGRAMME]
Professor Lorraine Tyler, FBA
Symposium

27 June 2002
Reclaiming Literature [MORE INFO]
Organised by the ICA, British Academy and Dr Robert Eaglestone, Department of English, Royal Holloway

3 & 4 July 2002
The British Academy Centenary Conference [PROGRAMME]
The focus of the celebrations of the Academy's centenary.

Tuesday 1 October 2002
Freud?
Master-Mind Lecture, by Dr Adam Phillips 

Wednesday 2 October 2002
Do Humans Own Culture? [PROGRAMME]
Professor Patrick Bateson, FRS, Professor Robert Hinde, FBA, FRS, Professor Caroline Humphrey, FBA, Kenan Malik, and Professor Andrew Whiten, FBA, FRSE
Royal Society and British Academy Panel Discussion

Friday 4 October 2002
Shakespeare's Words
Professor David Crystal, FBA and Ben Crystal
Cheltenham Literary Festival Talk

Tuesday 15 October 2002
Human rights: Have the public benefited?
Thank-Offering to Britain Fund Lecture, by Lord Woolf FBA

Tuesday 22 October 2002
Great Hall, Queen's University Belfast
Geographical Knowledge/Political Powers
Professor David Harvey, FBA (City University, New York)
British Academy Centenary Lecture in Geography

Thursday 24 October 2002
Cultural interaction between China and central Asia during the Bronze and Early Iron Ages
Elsley Zeitlyn Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Culture, by Dr Jianjun Mei

Monday 28 October 2002, 5.15 pm - Great Hall, Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol
Classical Athenian Democracy And Democracy Today:
Culture, Knowledge, Power
Professor Josiah Ober (Princeton University)
5th British Academy Centenary Lecture (Ancient World)

Tuesday 29 October 2002
Robert Burns and British poetry
Chatterton Lecture on Poetry, by Professor Murray Pittock

Tuesday 5 November 2002, 5.00pm
6th British Academy Centenary Lecture (Scottish, Welsh and Irish Studies)
The Auditorium, King's College Conference Centre, University of Aberdeen
Location and Dislocation; Ireland, Scotland and Wales in their Insular Alignment
Professor Keith Robbins (Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Lampeter)

Wednesday 6 November 2002
Elegies of form in Bishop, Plath, Stevenson
Warton Lecture on English Poetry, by Professor Angela Leighton FBA

Thursday 7 November 2002
THIRTY-SIXTH BA CONVERSAZIONE
Human Error: Can We Prevent It? [MORE INFO]
Professor James Reason, FBA and Professor Jeff Paris, FBA

Tuesday 12 November 2002
The Quest for the Industrial Revolution
British Academy Lecture, by Sir Tony Wrigley FBA

Tuesday 12 November 2002, 6:30pm (Drinks from 6pm) - LTB 6, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester
7th British Academy Centenary Lecture (History of Art)
The Adventure of the Optic Nerve
Dr John Elderfield (Museum of Modern Art, New York)

Monday 18 November 2002
Is There a Crisis of Truth in the Humanities?
A discussion evening

Tuesday 19 November 2002 University of Warwick
8th British Academy Centenary Lecture
The Pursuit of a General Theory in Economics
Sir James Mirrlees, FBA, Trinity College, Cambridge

Thursday 21 November 2002
Development as a Process of Change: Towards a Dynamic Public Economics
Keynes Lecture in Economics, by Nicholas Stern

Thursday 28 November 2002
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Between Anarchy and Community in International Relations
Professor James Mayall, FBA, Director, Centre for International Studies, University of Cambridge

12-14 December 2002
Byzantium and the Crusades: Towards an Integrated Prosopography [MORE INFO]
Professor Averil Cameron, FBA Keble College, Oxford and Professor Judith Herrin, King's College London
A British Academy Symposium