British Academy Media Library

The British Academy events programme and other activities generate a range of outputs available via this website – including audio recordings, transcripts, presentation slides, and articles in the British Academy Review (BAR).

The Media Library lists outputs, as well as providing other navigation routes to the material. Click on the blue titles for details.

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Morality, law and normative conflict
Maccabaean Lecture in Jurisprudence, by Professor Peter Cane FBA, 15 November 2011
Outputs: audio recording

The idea of order: Circular architecture in Prehistoric Europe
Albert Reckitt Archaeological Lecture, by Professor Richard Bradley FBA, 9 November 2011
Outputs: audio recording; presentation slides

The King James Bible at 400: Celebration or valediction?
Conference, 4 November 2011
Outputs: audio recordings

End of Empire and the English novel
Panel discussion, 2 November 2011
Outputs: audio recordings

Between one and many:  Interpreting large numbers in the Buddhist art of China
Elsley Zeitlyn Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Culture, by Professor Hsueh-Man Shen, 1 November 2011
Outputs: audio recordings; presentation slides

How can social scientists and government work together to strengthen public trust in scientific evidence?
Panel discussion, 31 October 2011
Outputs: video recording; audio recording

Myself when young: Becoming a musician in Renaissance Italy – or not
Italian Lecture, by Dr Bonnie Blackburn FBA, 27 October 2011
Outputs: audio recording; presentation slides; lecture handout

Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
Professor Norman Davies FBA in conversation with Professor Christopher Clark FBA, 24 October 2011
Outputs: audio recording

Late Work
Lecture, by Professor Peter Brooks FBA, 18 October 2011
Outputs: audio recording; presentation slides

Creating competition: New auctions for public policy, by Professor Paul Klemperer FBA, 13 October 2011, Keynes Lecture in Economics
Outputs: audio recording; presentation slides

The Egyptian Revolution of 2011: Civil Resistance and Power Politics
Panel Discussion, 11 October 2011
Outputs: audio recordings

The resilient brain: Cognition and ageing
Joint British Academy/British Psychological Society Lecture, by Professor Lorraine K Tyler FBA, 22 September 2011
Outputs: video recordings; audio recording; presentation slides

Al-Qaeda and the 9/11 Wars: A View from the Ground
Lecture, by Jason Burke, 2 September 2011
Outputs: audio recording

Climate change and public policy futures
British Academy Policy Centre report published, 25 July 2011
Outputs: report

Interesting Times
Presidential Address to Annual General meeting, 21 July 2011
Outputs: text

Independence at what price? The Haldane Principle - past, present and future
Panel Discussion, 20 June 2011
Outputs available: audio recording

Neuroscience and Neuromania
Professor Raymond Tallis in conversation with Professor Robin Dunbar FBA, 14 June 2011
Outputs available: audio recording; presentation slides

Flexible Learning: The Future Higher Education Landscape?
Panel Discussion, 13 June 2011
Outputs available: audio recordings; presentation slides

Prizing the Past for the Present and Future
Professor David Lowenthal FBA in conversation with Sir Simon Jenkins, 1 June 2011
Outputs available: audio recording; BAR article

History for the taking? Perspectives on material heritage
British Academy Policy Centre report launch, 24 May 2011
Outputs available: report

New Light on Ancient Medicine
Panel Discussion, 17 May 2011
Outputs available: audio recordings; presentation slides; BAR article (summer 2011)

British Academy Literature Week

Lectures, 'in conversation' events, 9-12 May 2011

Shakespeare Poetry Hour
Readings, 9 May 2011
Outputs available: audio recording

Mind the gap: Making meaning in the theatre
Shakespeare Lecture, by Professor Laurie Maguire, 9 May 2011
Outputs available: audio recording; text

Contemporary satire: part of a great tradition?
Craig Brown and Posy Simmonds in conversation with John Mullan, 10 May 2011
Outputs available: audio recording

Pope's ethical thinking
Chatterton Lecture on Poetry, by Dr Christopher Tilmouth, 10 May 2011
Outputs available: audio recording

Phantasmagoria
Professor Marina Warner FBA in conversation with Professor Hermione Lee FBA, 11 May 2011
Outputs available: audio recording; BAR article (summer 2011)

Many-coloured glass, aerial images and the work of the lens: Romantic poetry and optical culture
Warton Lecture on English Poetry, by Professor Isobel Armstrong FBA, 11 May 2011
Outputs available: audio recording

Biography on the Stage
Panel discussion, 12 May 2011
Outputs available: audio recording

Tipping points
Joint British Academy/Royal Society seminar, 13-14 April 2011
Outputs available: BAR article (summer 2011)

Challenging Stereotypes: Perceptions of Islam in the European and US Media
Lecture, by Professor John Voll, 29 March 2011
Outputs available: audio recording

Why were the Middle Ages 'The Dark Ages'?
Professor Graham Caie in conversation with Dr Chris Jones, 17 March 2011
Outputs available: audio recording

Mr Gladstone: Public Intellectual and Intellectual in Politics
Lecture, by Sir David Cannadine FBA, 15 March 2011
Outputs available: audio recording

The Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in the Modern University
Speech, by Rt Hon David Willetts MP, 1 March 2011
Outputs available: audio recording; BAR article (March 2011)

Language diversity, endangerment and public awareness
British Academy Lecture, by Professor David Crystal FBA, 23 February 2011
Outputs available: audio recording; BAR article (summer 2011)

Language matters more and more
British Academy position statement launch, 9 February 2011
Outputs available: statement; transcript of launch

Thoughtfulness and the Rule of Law
British Academy Law Lecture, by Professor Jeremy Waldron, 1 February 2011
Outputs available: audio recording; BAR article (summer 2011)

Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation
Panel discussion, 31 January 2011
Outputs available: audio recordings; BAR article (March 2011)

Britain, Germany and Social Europe, 1973-2020
Anglo-German Foundation Lecture, by Sir Tony Atkinson FBA, 25 January 2011
Outputs available: audio recording; text; BAR article (March 2011)

Healthy mental ageing: Grey matters ... and white matters too!
Lecture, by Professor Ian Deary FBA, 24 January 2011
Outputs available: audio recording

Not for Profit: Why Democracy needs the Humanities
Special Lecture, by Professor Martha Nussbaum FBA, 16 December 2010
Outputs available: audio recordings

How might social mobility be increased?
British Academy Forum, 14 December 2010
Outputs available: BAR article (March 2011)

‘Where the night still hangs like a half-folded bat’: The Poetry of D.H. Lawrence
Chatterton Lecture on Poetry, by Dr Santanu Das, 9 December 2010
Outputs available: audio recording

Writing National Literatures
Panel discussion, 8 December 2010
Outputs available: audio recordings

Speed Data-ing: The Effects of the Rapid Rise of the Data Society
Panel discussion, 1 December 2010
Outputs available: audio recordings

The Mexican Revolution 1910-2010: Historical and Cultural Perspectives
Conference, 17 November 2010
Outputs available: audio recordings; presentation slides

British Academy Medieval Week

Lectures, 'in conversation' events, 15-18 November 2010

Monuments in Motion
Professor Rosemary Cramp FBA in conversation with Dr Barbara Crawford, 15 November 2010
Outputs available: audio recording; BAR article (March 2011)

Portable Christianity: Relics in the Medieval West (c.700-1200)
Raleigh Lecture on History, by Professor Julia Smith, 15 November 2010
Outputs available: BAR article (March 2011)

'He That All Our Comford Was'? Robert the Bruce in Scottish Sources Before Barbour's Bruce
Professor Dauvit Broun in conversation with Professor Alexander Broadie, 16 November 2010
Outputs available: audio recording

More than 'Skimble-Skamble' Stuff: The Medieval Welsh Poetry Associated with Owain Glyndwr
Sir John Rhys Memorial Lecture, by Professor Gruffydd Aled Williams, 16 November 2010
Outputs available: audio recording; BAR article (March 2011)

'The Middle Ages - A Distant Mirror': Medieval life and death and through the centuries
Professor Graham Caie in conversation with Dr Chris Jones, 17 November 2010
Outputs available: audio recording

Personifications of Old Age in Medieval Poetry
Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture, by Professor Ad Putter, 17 November 2010
Outputs available: BAR article (March 2011)

The Past as Propaganda: The Declaration of Arbroath
Talk, by Professor Alexander Broadie, 18 November 2010
Outputs available: audio recording

The Past as Propaganda: The Mongol 'World History'
Aspects of Art Lecture, by Professor Robert Hillenbrand FBA, 18 November 2010
Outputs available: audio recording; BAR article (March 2011)

International Engagement Day 2010: The Role of Area Studies in Higher Education
Conference, 10 November 2010
Outputs available: presentation slides; BAR article (March 2011)

Stress at Work
British Academy Policy Centre report launch, 29 October 2010
Outputs available: presentation slides; BAR article (March 2011)

Copyrights and Wrongs: The Impact of Copyright on the Arts and Authorship in the Digital Area
Panel discussion, 27 October 2010
Outputs available: audio recordings

How The Market Gives Us What We Want - Even If We Are Irrational
Keynes Lecture in Economics, by Professor Robert Sugden FBA, 20 October 2010
Outputs available: audio recording; presentation slides

Global Justice: Sharing the Wealth and Saving the Planet
Professor Graciela Chichilnisky in conversation, 14 October 2010
Outputs available: audio recording

Are Job-Training Programmes Effective?
Lecture, by Professor Donald Rubin FBA, 12 October 2010
Outputs available: audio recording; presentation slides

Happy families? History and family policy
British Academy Policy Centre report published, 11 October 2010
Outputs available: report; BAR article (October 2010)

Psychology and Climate Change: Collective Solutions to a Global Problem
Joint British Academy/British Psychological Society Lecture, by Professor David Uzzell, 23 September 2010
Outputs available: audio recording; BAR article (October 2010)

Arts, humanities and social sciences: Why should we care?
Panel discussion, 20 September 2010
Outputs available: audio recordings; BAR article (October 2010)

Drawing a New Constituency Map for the United Kingdom
British Academy Policy Centre report published, 2 September 2010
Outputs available: report

The 2010 Spending Review: Implications for the State and its reach
British Academy Forum, 30 July 2010
Outputs available: presentation slides; BAR article (October 2010)

Universities and research under the axe
Presidential Address to the Annual General Meeting, 22 July 2010
Outputs available: BAR article (October 2010)

Literature, Classics and Class
Performance event, 1 July 2010
Outputs available: audio recordings

How to Make Deliberative Democracy Practical: Consulting the Public Thoughtfully
Lecture, by Professor James S Fishkin, 30 June 2010
Outputs available: transcript

'Multicultural' London
British Academy Forum, 15 June 2010
Outputs available: BAR article (October 2010)

Is there such a thing as European culture?
Professor Julia Kristeva FBA in conversation, 24 May 2010
Outputs available: audio recordings

The Jewish History Wars
Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture, by Professor Simon Schama, 13 May 2010
Outputs available: audio recording

‘The Reason of this Preference’: Sleeping, Flowing and Freezing in Pope’s Dunciad
Warton Lecture on English Poetry, by Dr Valerie Rumbold, 4 May 2010
Outputs available: audio recording

UK-Colombia Collaboration: Past, Present and Future
Conference, 27 April 2010
Outputs available: audio recordings; presentation slides; published texts

‘Enter Cælia, the Fairy Queen in her Night Attire’: Shakespeare and the Fairies
Shakespeare Lecture, by Professor Michael Hattaway, 22 April 2010
Outputs available: audio recording; presentation slides

Mending a broken financial system: What are the real lessons from the 1930s?
British Academy Forum, 16 April 2010
Outputs available: presentation slides

Political/ministerial decision-making during a crisis
British Academy Forum, 30 March 2010
Outputs available: BAR article (October 2010)

Unequal Britain: 60 years of equalities policy
Panel discussion, 25 March 2010
Outputs available: audio recordings

Who Speaks for Islam?
Lecture, by Dr Dalia Mogahed, 24 March 2010
Outputs available: audio recording

Islamic Studies in Europe
Conference, 23-24 March 2010
Outputs available: summary report; BAR article (October 2010)

The Nairobi Report: Frameworks for Africa-UK Research Collaboration in the Social Sciences and Humanities
British Academy/ACU report launch in Nairobi, 18 March 2011
Outputs available: report; speech

Towards A Better Tomorrow? The Crucial Role of Social Science
Panel discussion, 16 March 2010
Outputs available: audio recordings

Choosing an Electoral System
British Academy Policy Centre report launch, 10 March 2010
Outputs available: report; BAR article (March 2010)

Proposals for a British Bill of Rights
British Academy/AHRC Forum, 8 March 2010
Outputs available: transcript

Writing National History
Panel discussion, 4 March 2010
Outputs available: audio recordings

The Fiscal Challenge
British Academy Forum, 4 March 2010
Outputs available: presentation slides; BAR article (March 2010)

Robbing our own future: Intergenerational justice under the microscope
Panel discussion, 2 March 2010
Outputs available: audio recordings

The Mixed Constitution: Monarchical and Aristocratic Aspects of Modern Democracy
British Academy Lecture, by Dr Mogens Hansen FBA, 25 February 2010
Outputs available: audio recording

Social Science and Family Policies
British Academy Policy Centre report launch, 23 February 2010
Outputs available: report; BAR article (March 2010)

The economics of undergraduate tuition fees and maintenance support
British Academy Forum, 2 February 2010
Outputs available: audio recordings, and presentation slides

Addiction research: the next steps
Panel discussion, 21 January 2010
Outputs available: audio recordings

The Fate of Freedom
Panel discussion, 12 January 2010
Outputs available: audio recordings

Academics, Academies and Public Policy
British Academy Fellows Seminar, 7 January 2010
Outputs available: BAR article (March 2010)

Financial and Economic Horizon-scanning
British Academy Forum, 15 December 2009
Outputs available: letter sent to The Queen

Did South-East Asia Learn the Right Lessons from the 1997-98 Financial Crisis?
Lecture, by Dr Jomo Kwame Sundaram, 27 November 2009
Outputs available: audio recording; presentation slides

Our Unwritten Constitution
Maccabaean Lecture in Jurisprudence, by Professor Sir John Baker FBA, 24 November 2009
Outputs available: audio recording; PBA paper (2010)

SAGE forum on Evidence-based Policy
Workshop, 19 November 2009
Outputs available: audio, and accompanying presentation slides

Anthropology in the Territory of Rights – Human or Otherwise
Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthropology, by Professor Lila Abu-Lughod, 17 November 2009
Outputs available: audio recording

The Global Economic Challenges - Where do we go from here?
British Academy Forum, 16 November 2009
Outputs available: summary note

Shitao and the Traditional Chinese Conception of Ruins
Aspects of Art Lecture, by Professor Hung Wu, 10 November 2009
Outputs available: audio recording

Did Civil Resistance End the Soviet Empire?
Panel discussion, 27 October 2009
Outputs available: audio recordings

‘The New British Constitution’: Democracy and Participation
British Academy Forum, 26 October 2009
Outputs available: transcript

British Academy Literature Week

Lectures, 'in conversation' events, readings, 19-22 October 2009

17th Century Poetry and Drama
Outputs available: audio; handouts; BAR article (November 2009)

T S Eliot
Outputs available: audio recordings

American Writers on the English Stage
Outputs available: audio recordings

Contemporary Poetry in the Theatre
Outputs available: audio recordings

The Collapse of Communism in Europe: A Re-examination 20 Years After
Panel discussion, 15 October 2009
Outputs available: audio recordings; BAR article (November 2009)

Reassessing the 1970s
Panel discussion, 23 September 2009
Outputs available: audio recordings; BAR article (November 2009)

Rising to the Challenge
Presidential Address to the Annual General Meeting, 16 July 2009
Outputs available: BAR article (November 2009)

Two Decades of Military Interventions: Questions of Law, Morality, and Effectiveness
British Academy Forum, 10 July 2009
Outputs available: BAR article (November 2009)

Darwin Conference
Conference, 29-30 June 2009
Outputs available: BAR article (November 2009); BAR article (March 2010)

New Greek Texts from Oxyrhynchus
Workshop and panel discussion, 24 June 2009
Outputs available: BAR article (November 2009)

The Global Financial Crisis - Why Didn't Anybody Notice?
British Academy Forum, 17 June 2009
Outputs available: letter sent to The Queen

A Humanist's Conversation with the 20th Century (Isaiah Berlin, 1909-1997)
Isaiah Berlin Lecture, by Dr James H Billington, 6 June 2009
Outputs available: BAR article (November 2009)

Public Opinion, Public Diplomacy and Peace Making
Outputs available: BAR article (June 2009)

Democracy in Palestine and the Middle East Peace Process
Outputs available: BAR article (June 2009)

Restorative Justice on Trial: Reconciliation in Kosovo through the Reconstruction of Serbian Orthodox Heritage
Outputs available: BAR article (June 2009)

Africa's secret success story: Cape Verde
Outputs available: BAR article (June 2009)

Thinking Around the Box: The Work of the Bentham Project
Outputs available: BAR article (June 2009)

Surrealism and its Legacies in Latin America
British Academy Lecture, by Professor Dawn Adès, 27 May 2009
Outputs available: audio recordings; presentation slides

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Symposium, 2009
Showcase symposium, 22 April 2009
Outputs available: BAR article (June 2009); poster presentations

Civil War and Foreign Intervention in Spain
Panel discussion, 2 April 2009
Outputs available: podcasts

Rescuing the housing market
Panel discussion, 31 March 2009
Outputs available: audio recordings

Leon Battista Alberti and the Redirection of Renaissance Humanism
Italian Lecture, by Professor Martin McLaughlin, 26 March 2009
Outputs available: PBA paper (2010)

The Voluntary Sector in British Society
Workshop, 20 March 2009
Outputs available: BAR article (June 2009)

Talent and Autism
Conference, 29-30 September 2008; Panel discussion, 12 March 2009
Outputs available: audio recordings; webcast

‘The Strange Career of British Democracy’
British Academy Forum, 2 March 2009
Outputs available: transcript; BAR article (June 2009)

The history of romantic love in sub-Saharan Africa
Raleigh Lecture on History, by Professor Megan Vaughan FBA, on 26 February 2009
Outputs available: audio recording; PBA paper (2010)

Africa's Neglected Epidemic: Multidisciplinary Research, Intervention and Policy for Chronic Disease
Conference, 16-17 February 2009
Outputs available: conference report; BAR article (October 2010)

Middle Eastern Politics and Oil
Lecture, 4 February 2009
Outputs available: BAR article (June 2009)

The 'Winter of Discontent' in British Politics
Panel discussion, 22 January 2009
Outputs available: text of opening presentation; audio recording; BAR article (June 2009)

Lessons from the Icelandic Bond Market
BA-supported research
Outputs available: BAR article (January 2009)

John Milton: A Symposium to Commemorate the Quatercentenary of his Birth
Conference, 6 December 2008
Outputs available: Podcast of poetry reading

Many Legal Orders, One Law
British Academy Law Lecture, by Francis Jacobs, 2 December 2008
Outputs available: PBA paper (2010)

Auden Unparadised
Chatterton Lecture on Poetry, by Seamus Perry, 25 November 2008
Outputs available: audio recording

Trust in Public Life
Panel discussion, 10 November 2008
Outputs available: audio recording; BAR article (January 2009)

How Green Politics Went Mainstream
Lecture, 6 November 2008
Outputs available: audio recording; BAR article (June 2009)

The Good Friday Belfast Agreement, Ten Years On
Panel discussion, 5 November 2008
Outputs available: BAR article (January 2009)

Lessons from the Aberfan disaster and its aftermath
Talk, 22 September 2008
Outputs available: BAR article (January 2009)

Towards Polarised Differentiation: Changing Configurations of European Integration
BA-supported workshop, 10-12 September 2008
Outputs available: BAR article (November 2009)

Constitutional Renewal
Workshop, 16 June 2008
Outputs available: discussion paper; transcript, BAR article (July 2008)

UK Civil Nuclear Energy: What Lessons?
Lecture, 6 May 2008
Outputs available: BAR article (June 2009)

The social and ecological implications of landscape change since ca. 1800 in the South African Karoo
BA-supported research project
Outputs available: case study (May 2008)

Dispossession and Displacement: Forced Migration in the Middle East and North Africa
Conference, 28-29 February 2008
Outputs available: BAR article (July 2008)

English Local Democracy
Panel discussion, 27 November 2007
Outputs available: 'Perspectives' article

Mexico City through History and Culture
Conference, 30 October 2007
Outputs available: BAR article (January 2009)

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

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

Progress in Understanding 'Tone Deafness'
BA-supported research
Outputs available: BAR article (2007)

Word Comprehension in Younger and Older Adults: When is a Difference a Deficit?
BA-supported research
Outputs available: BAR article (2007)

Are we seeing a new Golden Age of Parliament?
Workshop and panel discussion, 5 July 2007
Outputs available: summary report; transcript

Cabinets and the Bomb
Workshop, 27 March 2007
Outputs available: transcripts; extracts from book; BAR article (2007); 'Perspectives' article

Moral Panics: Then and Now
Panel discussion, 9 March 2007
Outputs available: audio recording; BAR article (2007)