Past events 2007

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Click on the blue titles for information on the original event and any outputs

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January

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Saturday 13 January 2007
Why Criminal Law?
Workshop

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February

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Friday 9 February 2007
ESRC/British Academy Information Day on Social Science opportunities in the Seventh Framework Programme
Workshop (venue: Royal Society)
Outputs: presentation slides

Thursday 15 - Friday 16 February 2007
The Frontiers of the Ottoman World
Workshop
Outputs: BAR article (2007); PBA volume (2009)

Thursday 22 February 2007
The Devil in the Holy Water: Political Libel in Eighteenth-Century France
British Academy Lecture, by Professor Robert Darnton FBA

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March

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Tuesday 6 March 2007
Celtic Origins, the Western and the Eastern Celts
Sir John Rhys Memorial Lecture, by Professor Wolfgang Meid
(This lecture was repeated at the Headley Lecture Theatre in the Ashmolean Museum, Beaumount Street, Oxford OX1 2PH on Thursday 8 March 2007, 5.00pm.)

Friday 9 March 2007
Moral Panics: Then and Now
Panel Discussion, 6.00pm
Outputs: audio recording; BAR article (2007)

Wednesday 14 March 2007
Who's Creating Knowledge? The challenge of non-university researchers
Panel Discussion, 6.00pm (venue: Great Hall, Queen's University, Belfast)
Outputs: BAR article (2007)

Wednesday 14 March 2007
Anthropology is not Ethnography
Radclifee-Brown Leture in Social Anthropology, by Professor Timothy Ingold FBA
Outputs: audio recording; BAR article (July 2008)

Tuesday 27 March 2007
Cabinets and the Bomb
Workshop
Outputs: transcript; British Academy Occasional Paper (2007); BAR article (2007)

Thursday 29 March 2007
Why Criminal Law?
Panel Discussion, 6.15pm

Friday 30 March 2007-Saturday 31 March 2007
The Eastern Mediterranean in the Thirteenth century: identities and allegiances: Building a prosopographical methodology
Conference

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April

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Friday 13 April 2007
Natural Law and Toleration in the Early Enlightenment
Workshop

Monday 23 April 2007
Hamlet's Two Fathers
Shakespeare Lecture, by Professor David Bevington FBA

Wednesday 25 April 2007
13th Annual British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Symposium

Thursday 26 April 2007
Byzantium and the Limits of Orthodoxy
Raleigh Lecture on History, by Dame Averil Cameron FBA

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May 

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Wednesday 2 May 2007
Palace or Power station? Museums today
Isaiah Berlin Lecture, by Mr Duncan Robinson
Outputs: BAR article (July 2008)

Tuesday 8 May 2007
The Archimedes Codex
Lecture, by Will Noel, to launch book The Archimedes Codex
Outputs: BAR article (2007)

Thursday 10 May 2007
Architectural Politics in Renaissance Venice
Italian Lecture, by Professor Deborah Howard

Monday 14 May 2007
Language Learning No Luxury
Panel Discussion, 6.30pm

Thursday 17 to Saturday 19 May 2007
A hundred years of Dunhuang, 1907-2007
Conference
17 May venue: British Library, Euston Road, London NW1
18 May venue: British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1
19 May venue: British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1

Thursday 17 May 2007
Visions of European Unity since 1945
Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture, by Professor Noel O'Sullivan

Wednesday 23 to Thursday 24 May 2007
European States and the Euro: The First Decade
Conference

Thursday 31 May 2007
Artists and Craftsmen in the Late Bronze Age of China (eighth - third centuries B.C.): Art in Transition
Elsley Zeitlyn Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Culture, by Professor Alain Thote

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June

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Thursday 7 June 2007
A Different Sade: Food for Thought
Panel Discussion, 6.00pm

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July

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Thursday 5 July 2007
Are We Seeing a New Golden Age of Parliament?
Workshop, followed by public Panel Discussion
Outputs: Transcript of panel discussion

Monday 9 July 2007
What's wrong with English local democracy? Can looking back help to move it forward?
Workshop

27-28 July 2007
The Legacy of H L A Hart: Legal, Moral and Political Philosophy
Conference (venue: Churchill College, Cambridge)

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September

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5 September 2007
Peer Review: The Challenges for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Launch of policy report

7-8 September 2007
The Reception of Continental Reformation in Britain and Ireland
Conference
Outputs: PBA volume (2010)

Wednesday 12 September 2007
Family Matters: An Evolutionary, Economic and Demographic Perspective on how Family Circumstances can Influence Children
Seminar, 2.00pm (venue: University of York)

Thursday 13 September 2007
Working Together Across Disciplines
Panel Discussion, 11.30am (venue: University of York)
Outputs: summary report; presentation slides

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October

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Wednesday 3 October 2007
The Contest between Poet and Priest
Lecture, by Professor Geoffrey Hartman FBA

Thursday 4 October 2007
Reconstructing the National Body: Masculinity, Disability and Race in the American Civil War
Sarah Tryphena Phillips Lecture in American Literature and History, by Professor Susan-Mary Grant

Monday, 8 October 2007
Toleration Past and Present
Panel discussion
Outputs: audio recording;'Perspectives' article; BAR article (July 2008)

Thursday 11 October 2007
What makes humans so different?
Joint British Academy/British Psychological Society Lecture, by Professor Robin Dunbar FBA
Outputs: audio recording; BAR article (July 2008)

Wednesday 17 October 2007
From shells and gold to plastic and silicon: a theory of the evolution of money, in the spirit of Keynes
Keynes Lecture in Economics, by Professor John Moore FBA

Thursday 25 October 2007
‘We keep the bread and wine for show’ - consistent irony and reluctant faith in the poetry of Dannie Abse
Warton Lecture on English Poetry, by Professor Tony Curtis

Friday 26 October 2007
'Hot in the City' - Urban Latin America in Film and Music
Conference (venue: Manchester Museum, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL; with an evening event at the Instituto Cervantes, 326-330 Deansgate, Manchester M3 4FN)

Tuesday 30 October 2007
Celebrating the City - Mexico City through History and Culture
Conference
Outputs: BAR article (January 2009); British Academy Occasional Paper (2009)

Wednesday 31 October 2007
‘But I, that knew what harboured in that hed’: Thomas Wyatt and his posthumous ‘interpreters’
Chatterton Lecture on Poetry, by Dr Cathy Shrank

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November

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Tuesday 6 November 2007
Classical music and the subject of modernity
Aspects of Art Lecture, by Professor John Butt FBA
Outputs: audio recording

Wednesday 7 November 2007
Cabinets and the Bomb
Book launch (venue: The National Archives)

Tuesday 13 November 2007
A Minority Opinion?
Maccabaean Lecture in Jurisprudence, by The Rt Hon. The Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE PC FBA
Outputs: audio recording

Thursday 15 November 2007
Evolving Societies
A showcase of UK overseas research into community, identity and environment (venue: Barbican Centre, London)

22-23 November 2007
The Changing World of European Central Banking: Internationalization and Europeanization
Conference

Tuesday 27 November 2007
Local devolution of public services: a break with the past or return to the past?
Panel discussion evening in association with History & Policy
Outputs: note

Friday 30 November and Saturday 1 December 2007
Ugaritic and the Beginnings of the West-Semitic Literary Tradition
Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology, by Professor Dennis Pardee
Lecture 1: Alphabetic Origins
Lecture 2: Ugaritic Literary Composition
Lecture 3: Literary Composition in the Hebrew Bible: the View from Ugarit

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December

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3 December 2007
Posterity: Present concerns with the future
Panel Discussion

7 December 2007
Social and Cultural Change in late pre-modern Korea
Conference

8 December 2007
Frank Speed and the Filming of Nigerian Cultures
Seminar (venue: Khalili Lecture Theatre, School of African and Oriental Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1)

10 December 2007
New Finds of Menander
Panel discussion

13-14 December 2007
Enquiry, Evidence and Facts: An Interdisciplinary Conference
Conference
Outputs: PBA volume (2011)