Past Events 2004

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19 February 2004
Whither Modern Jewish Studies: With or Without Hebrew?
British Academy Debate, 4.45pm

3 March 2004
A Question of Culture? Europe and Islam
Panel Discussion, 6.00pm

22-23 March 2004
The Refugee Problem and the Problems of Refugees
Conference

5 April 2004
Picasso: Genius or Showman?
Elizabeth Cowling in conversation with Dawn Adès FBA, 6.00pm

15-16 April 2004
Rock Carvings of North and West Europe: Documentation, Investigation and Presentation
Conference
Outputs: BAR article (2005)

21 April 2004
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Symposium
Presentations, showcasing work of BA Postdoctoral Fellows

23 April 2004
Barnardine's Straw: The devil in Shakespeare's detail
Shkaespeare Lecture, by Mr Michael Pennington, 5.30pm
Outputs: PBA paper (2005)

27 April 2004
Archaeology in Mesopotamia: Digging Deeper at Tell Brak
Albert Reckitt Archaeological Lecture, by Dr Joan Oates, 5.30pm
Outputs: PBA paper (2005)

30 April-1 May 2004
Imaginative Minds: An Interdisciplinary Symposium
Conference
Outputs: PBA volume (2007); BAR article (2008)

11 May 2004
Dulness and Pope
Warton Lecture on English Poetry, by Professor David Womersley, 5.30pm
Outputs: PBA paper (2005)

13-14 May 2004
The History of British Sociology in the Twentieth Century 
Conference
Outputs: Occasional Paper (2005)

26 May 2004
Rationalism, Platonism and God: A Symposium on Early Modern Philosophy
Dawes Hicks Symposium
Outputs: PBA volume (2007)

23-25 June 2004
After Alexander: Central Asia before Islam
Conference
Outputs: PBA volume (2007)

16-17 July 2004
Cultures of Commemoration: War Memorials Ancient and Modern
Conference

19 July 2004
Hutton: The Wider Issues
British Academy Debate, 5.00pm (venue: The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House)
Outputs: Occasional Paper (2004)

9 September 2004
Authority and Intertextuality in the Works of Ælfric
Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture, by Professor Joyce Hill, 5.30pm
Outputs: audio recording; PBA paper (2005)

Monday 13 - Tuesday 14 September 2004
Steady States: Institutional Stability in the Face of Political Change. The evidence from pre-modern Western Asia 
Conference
Outputs available: PBA volume (2007); BAR article (2007)

Friday 24 September 2004
Montaigne
Master-Mind Lecture, by Professor Terence Cave FBA, 5.30pm
Outputs: audio recording; PBA paper (2005)

Wednesday 6 October 2004
Early Globalisation: Transnational anarchism as practice and mediated imaginary in the late nineteenth century
Special Lecture, by Professor Benedict Anderson, 6.00pm (venue: The Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS)

Wednesday 13 October 2004
The New Political Economy
Keynes Lecture in Economics, by Professor Tim Besley FBA, 5.30pm
Outputs: audio recording; PBA paper (2005)

Tuesday 19 October 2004
Nomad’s Progress
Isaiah Berlin Lecture, by Lord Sutherland of Houndwood FBA, 5.30pm
Outputs: audio recording; PBA paper (2005)

Tuesday 19 October 2004
Patents and Public Health: Principle, Politics and Paradox
Inaugural British Academy Law Lecture, by Judge Edwin Cameron, 6.00pm (venue: The Playfair Library Hall, University of Edinburgh)
Outputs: PBA paper (2005)

Wednesday 20 - Friday 22 October 2004
Ashkelon, Seaport of the Canaanites and the Philistines
Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology, by Professor Lawrence Stager (a course of lectures delivered over three days, 5.30pm)

Tuesday 26 October 2004
The Prehistory of Chinese Music Theory
Elsley Zeitlyn Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Culture, by Professor Robert Bagley, 5.30pm
Outputs: audio recording; PBA paper (2005)

Friday 29 October 2004
Imperialism Ancient and Modern
Conference

Tuesday 2 November 2004
The Future of Our Universities
Thank-Offering to Britain Fund Lecture, by Lord Moser FBA, 5.30pm
Outputs: audio recording; PBA paper (2005)

Wednesday 3 November 2004
Margaret Atwood in conversation with Dame Gillian Beer FBA, 6.00pm
Outputs: audio recording

Tuesday 9 November 2004
Imagining Pan-Islam: Religious Activism and Political Utopias
Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture, by Dr James Piscatori, 5.30pm
Outputs: audio recording; PBA paper (2005)

Thursday 11 November 2004
Robert Graves and The White Goddess
Chatterton Lecture on English Poetry, by Dr Fran Brearton, 5.30pm
Outputs: audio recording; PBA paper (2005)

Saturday 13 November 2004
Marxist Historiography: Alive, Dead or Moribund?
Conference
Outputs: audio recording; Occasional Paper (2007)

Tuesday 16 November 2004
Everybody Counts But Not Everybody Understands Numbers: the Unrecognised Handicap of Dyscalculia
Joint British Academy/British Psychological Society Lecture, by Professor Brian Butterworth FBA, 5.30pm
Outputs: audio recording; BAR article (2006)

Friday 26 - Saturday 27 November 2004
Petrarch (1304-1374): Translations, Interpretations and Appropriations through the Ages
Conference
Outputs: PBA volume (2007)

Wednesday 1 December 2004
What Fates Impose: Facing Up To Uncertainty
Eighth British Academy Lecture, by Professor Mervyn King FBA, Governor of the Bank of England, 5.30pm
Outputs: audio recording; PBA paper (2005)

Thursday 9 December 2004
The Inquisition and The Renaissance
Raleigh Lecture in History, by Mr Alexander Murray FBA, 5.30pm
Outputs: PBA paper (2005)

Tuesday 14 December 2004
Keynes and the Treasury: Economic policy making since the 1920s
Panel discussion. Speakers: Professor George Peden, Lord Skidelsky FBA, Sir Samuel Brittan (Financial Times), Gus O'Donnell (HM Treasury)