Past events 2005
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Friday 14 January 2005
Transparency: The Term and the Doctrine
Conference
Outputs: PBA volume (2006)
Monday 7 - Tuesday 8 February 2005
Enlarging the Euro-Zone: The Euro and the Transformation of East Central Europe
Conference
Monday 14 February 2005
Roman Mythology: was there any?
Panel Discussion, 6.00pm
Thursday 17 February 2005
'They Worship Death Here': William Faulkner, Sanctuary, and Hollywood
Sarah Tryphena Phillips Lecture in American History, by Professor Richard Gray FBA, 5.30pm Thursday 24 February 2005
Empire and the Contemporary Global Order: an Historian's Comment
Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture, by Professor Dominic Lieven FBA, 5.30pm Friday 4 - Saturday 5 March 2005
2005: The Centenary of Einstein’s Annus Mirabilis
Symposium including:
Friday 4 March 2005
Einstein
Master-Mind Lecture, by John Stachel, 6.00pm
Monday 7 March 2005
A Question of Culture? Europe and Islam
Panel Discussion, 5.30pm (venue: Queen's University Belfast)
Outputs: audio recording
Thursday 31 March 2005
Beyond nature and culture
Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthropology, by Professor P Descola, 5.30pm Tuesday 5 April 2005
Relationships and children’s discovery of the mind
Joint British Academy/British Psychological Society Lecture, by Professor Judith Dunn FBA, 5.30pm Tuesday 12 April 2005
Identity Politics
Panel Discussion, 6.00pm
Outputs: audio recording Monday 18 - Wednesday 20 April 2005
Understanding the History of Ancient Israel
Conference
Outputs: PBA volume (2007)
Tuesday 26 April 2005
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Symposium
Presentations, showcasing the work of BA Postdoctoral Fellows Tuesday 3 May 2005
New Evidence on Social Structure and Historical Consciousness in Late Western Zhou China (c. 800 BC): The Inscribed Bronzes from Yangjiacum
Elsley Zeitlyn Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Culture, by Professor Lothar von Falkenhausen, 5.30pm Friday 13 - Saturday 14 May 2005
Thirty Years On: The United States and the Legacy of the Vietnam War 1975-2005
Conference Monday 16 - Wednesday 18 May 2005
Going Over: The Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in North-West Europe
Conference (venue: Julian Hodge Lecture Theatre, Cardiff University)
Outputs: PBA volume (2007)
Wednesday 25 May 2005
Does the Reformation still matter?
Panel Discussion, 6.00pm Thursday 26 May 2005
The Child in Poetry
Warton Lecture on English Poetry, by Dr Margaret Reynolds, 5.30pm Wednesday 15 June 2005
Why has it all gone wrong? The past, present and future of British pensions
Conference
Outputs: British Academy Occasional Paper (2006) Friday 8 July 2005
Craft and World Commerce
Conference Tuesday 20 September 2005
Practical Issues in UK Monetary Policy
Keynes Lecture in Economics, by Professor Stephen Nickell FBA, 5.30pm Tuesday 27 September 2005
Staging Matters: Shakespeare, the Director, and the Theatre Historian
Shakespeare Lecture, by Professor Alan Dessen, 5.30pm Saturday 1 October 2005
Dryden in the 1690s: The Virgil and the Fables
Conferences Wednesday 12 - Friday 14 October 2005
Anglo-Saxon/Irish Relations before the Vikings
Conference
Outputs: PBA volume (2009) Wednesday 19 October 2005
The Influence of History in Public Life
Panel Discussion
Outputs: audio recording Thursday 20 October 2005
Byron, Conversation and Discord
Chatterton Lecture on English Poetry, by Dr Jane Stabler, 5.30pm Friday 21 - Saturday 22 October 2005
Philosophical Analysis and the Criminal Law
Conference
Wednesday 26 October 2005
Becoming Human: the Archaeological Challenge
Ninth British Academy Lecture, by Professor Lord Renfrew FBA, 5.30pm
Outputs: audio recording
Thursday 27 October 2005
The Judges: Active or Passive?
Maccabaen Lecture in Jurisprudence, by Rt Hon Lord Bingham of Cornhill FBA, 5.30pm (venue: Cardiff Law School, Museum Avenue, Cardiff) Thursday 3 November 2005
Europe: Addressing the Socio-Economic Agenda
Conference Thursday 3 November 2005
Dante's Epistle to Cangrande and its Two Authors
Italian Lecture, by Professor Carlo Ginzburg FBA (venue: The Italian Cultural Institute, 39 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8NX) Thursday 10 November 2005
Everyman in Motion: From Bosch to Bruegel
Aspects of Art Lecture, by Professor Joseph Koerner, 5.30pm Tuesday 15 November 2005
General Franco: Saviour of Spain or War Criminal?
Professor Angel Viñas in conversation with Professor Paul Preston FBA, 6.00pm
Outputs: audio recording
Tuesday 22 November 2005
Mutualities and Obligations: changing social relationships in early modern England
Raleigh Lecture on History, by Professor Keith Wrightson FBA, 5.30pm
(This lecture was repeated at the University of Newcastle on Tyne on 24 November 2005) Monday 28 November 2005
Demystifying the Middle East, West and East
Professor Fred Halliday FBA in conversation with Professor Roger Owen, 6.00pm
Outputs: audio recording Friday 2 December 2005
Useful Knowledge
Isaiah Berlin Lecture, Dame Marilyn Strathern DBE FBA, 5.30pm Tuesday 6 December 2005
What is Cornwall?
Sir John Rhys Memorial Lecture, by Professor Charles Thomas FBA, 5.30pm Wednesday 7 - Friday 9 December 2005
Giuseppe Mazzini and the Globalization of Democratic Nationalism 1805-2005
Conference
Outputs: PBA volume (2008)
Friday 16 - Saturday 17 December 2005
Democracy, Equality and Justice
Conference | 