British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Autumn / Winter Public Events Programme 2010/11
Please note, due to redevelopment works, events located at the British Academy during October may be moved to an alternative venue.
Please check the British Academy website for the most up to date information. We apologise in advance for any convenience this may cause.
September
Monday, 20 September 2010
Arts, humanities and social sciences: Why should we care?
Panel Discussion
Venue: The Royal Society
Thursday 23 September 2010
Psychology and Climate Change: Collective Solutions to a Global Problem
Joint British Academy / British Psychological Society Lecture
Venue: The Royal Society
October
Tuesday 12 October 2010
Are Job-Training Programmes Effective?
Lecture, 5.30pm
Wednesday 20 October 2010
How The Market Gives Us What We Want - Even If We Are Irrational
Lecture, 5.30pm
Thursday 21 October 2010
Personifications of Old Age in Medieval Poetry
Lecture, 4.15pm (held at the University of Bristol)
Wednesday 27 October 2010
Copyrights and Wrongs: The Impact of Copyright on the Arts and Authorship in the Digital Area
Panel discussion, 6.30pm
November 2010
Monday 8 November – Tuesday 9 November 2010
Medical Law and Ethics in the Media Spotlight
Conference
December 2010
Thursday 9 December 2010
‘Where the Night Still Hangs Like a Half-Folded Bat’:
The Poetry of D.H. Lawrence
Lecture, 5.30pm
January 2011
Thursday 13 January 2011 – Saturday 15 January 2011
Red Strains: Music and Communism Outside the Communist Bloc after 1945
Conference
