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British Academy Media Library
The British Academy events programme and other activities generate a range of outputs available via this website – including podcasts, transcripts, articles in the British Academy Review, and papers in the Proceedings of the British Academy.
The Media Library lists the latest additions, as well as providing other navigation routes to the material. We recommend you bookmark this page and keep checking back as it will be frequently updated.
Latest additions
The Fiscal Challenge
British Academy Forum, 4 March 2010
Outputs available: presentation slides
The economics of undergraduate tuition fees and maintenance support
British Academy Forum, 2 February 2010
Outputs available: podcasts, and accompanying slides
Addiction research: the next steps
Panel discussion, 21 January 2010
Outputs available: podcasts
Religious-Secular Distinctions
Conference 14 January – 16 January 2010
Podcasts of the conference are available from the project website.
The Fate of Freedom
Panel discussion, 12 January 2010
Outputs available: podcasts
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: podcast; PowerPoint presentation
Our Unwritten Constitution
Maccabaean Lecture in Jurisprudence, by Professor Sir John Baker FBA, 24 November 2009
Outputs available: podcast
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: podcast
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: podcast
‘The New British Constitution’: Democracy and Participation
British Academy Forum, 26 October 2009
Outputs available: transcript
Did Civil Resistance End the Soviet Empire?
Panel discussion, 23 October 2009
Outputs available: podcasts
British Academy Literature Week
Lectures, 'in conversation' events, readings, 19-22 October 2009
17th Century Poetry and Drama
Outputs available: podcasts; handouts; BAR articleT S Eliot
Outputs available: podcastsAmerican Writers on the English Stage
Outputs available: podcastsContemporary Poetry in the Theatre
Outputs available: podcasts
The Collapse of Communism in Europe: A Re-examination 20 Years After
Panel discussion, 15 October 2009
Outputs available: podcasts; BAR article