Isaiah Berlin Lectures

This lecture series was endowed through a bequest from Sir Isaiah Berlin FBA. The lecture is intended to appraise the contemporary condition of any one of the fields of learning with which the Academy is concerned. The lecture was first delivered in 2001.

ISAIAH BERLIN LECTURES
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2010  Working With the Media: A View from the Frontline, by Ian Kennedy

2009  A Humanist’s Conversation with the 20th Century (Isaiah Berlin 1909-1997), by James H Billington

2008  Reason and Identity, by Bhikhu Parekh

2007  Palace or Powerstation? Museums Today, by Duncan Robinson

2006  The Search for Perfection: Atlantic Dimensions, by Bernard Bailyn

2005  Useful Knowledge, by Marilyn Strathern

2004  Nomad's Progress, by Lord Sutherland

2003  The Re-description of Enlightenment, by J G A Pocock

2002  Overestimating Culture: A German Problem, by Wolf Lepenie

2001  A Third Concept of Liberty, by Quentin Skinner