The British Academy lectures
From 2013, the subject range of the British Academy’s lecture programme was extended to include subjects not covered by the existing named series.
Lectures by year
May 2026 Sustainability, interdisciplinarity and the policy-environment nexus by Professor Nick Pidgeon FBA (video | event information)
Feb 2025 Brain Boost: Healthy Habits for a Happier Life by Professor Barbara Sahakian FBA (video | event information)
Mar 2025 Bonds that Last: The Social Life of Byzantium by Professor Dr Claudia Rapp FBA (event information)
Apr 2025 Reimagining Business and Management as a Force for Good by Professor Nelarine Cornelius (video | event information)
Apr 2025 Education and Social Mobility by Professor Richard Breen FBA (event information)
Apr 2025 Neo-Brahmanism in Modern India: Reformers and Orthodoxy in the 19th Century by Professor Tanika Sarkar (video | event information)
May 2025 'It’s not what you know, it’s who you know’: The problem of social capital by Professor John Guillory (event information)
May 2025 Development and the Organisation of Labour by Professor Oriana Bandiera FBA (event information)
Mar 2024 Versəs: An Experiment in Evaluative Criticism, by Dr Erica McAlpine (video | event information)
Mar 2024 Affirming the History of African and Caribbean People in Britain, by Professor Hakim Adi (video | event information)
Apr 2024 The Sign Language Myth, by Professor Annelies Kusters (video | event information)
Apr 2024 Loss and Recovery of Diversity in the Anthropocene: A Perspective from Biosemiotics, by Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen (event information)
May 2024 The Place of Theory in Babylonian Astral Science, by Professor John Steele ( video |event information)
May 2024 Planting Resistance: Botanical Legacies of the African Diaspora, by Professor Judith Carney (audio | event information)
Jun 2024 Reflections on UK science-policy relationships after COVID-19, by Professor Susan Michie FBA (event information)
Nov 2024 Anti-Imperial Epistemic Justice and Rights Politics in Most of the World, by Professor Sumi Madhok (video| event information)
Nov 2024 I Know What I Know: The Story of Graceland, by Professor Jason Arday (event information)
Feb 2023 New Music and the Heterogenous Sound Ideal, by Professor George Lewis FBA (event information)
Mar 2023 The Future of Music Studies, by Professor Tamara Levitz (event information)
Apr 2023 Early Irish Learning and Society, by Professor Sir Charles Thomas Edwards FBA (event information)
May 2023 The Elephant in the Room: Understanding Corruption in Roman Egypt, by Professor Colin Adams (event information)
May 2023 'The Enlightenment Prophet': Muhammad in Early Modern Europe, By Professor John Tolan (text | video | event information)
May 2023, Why have the British never understood Ireland or Northern Ireland?, by Lord Professor Paul Bew (text | event information)
Oct 2023, "One is not born, but becomes, a genius": another Simone de Beauvoir, by Dr Kate Kirkpatrick (text | event information)
Nov 2023, The Art of African Diaspora is for Everyone, by Bernadine Evaristo (text | event information)
Nov 2023, The Meaning of Brexit and the Future of the Union, by Professor David Reynolds (video | event information)
Dec 2023, Writing the History of Early Modern European Homosexuality, by Sir Noel Malcolm FBA (video / event information)
Feb 2022 From "commodity currencies" to COVID loans: Africa and global inequality, past and present, by Professor Toby Green (text | event information)
Mar 2022 For a reparatory social science, by Professor Gurminder K Bhambra FBA (text | event information | video)
Mar 2022 The UK after Brexit, by Professor Anand Menon (event information)
Mar 2022 Fair work for our future?, by Professor Patricia Findlay (event information)
Apr 2022 Generation X from birth to 50: inequalities in education, society and health, by Professor Alice Sullivan (event information | video)
Apr 2022 We are family: what really matters for children in new family forms by Professor Susan Golombok FBA (event information | video)
May 2022 Thinking through terror, by Professor Preti Taneja (text | event information)
Nov 2022 Education: undervalued and over measured by Professor Anna Vignoles FBA (text | event information)
Sep 2021 Seeing the city digitally: from picturing urban spaces to animating urban life, by Professor Gillian Rose FBA (video)
Feb 2019 Achilles’ psyche, by Professor Ineke Sluiter FBA (event information | audio)
Mar 2019 Islamophobia and normative sociology by Professor Tariq Modood FBA (text)
May 2019 Transnational Italian culture and the ghosts of empire, by Professor Charles Burdett (text | audio | presentation)
Feb 2018 Struggle, imagination and the quest for justice, by Professor Mona Siddiqui (audio)
Nov 2018 Higher education in turbulent times: A geographical perspective, Professor Meric Gertler FBA(text | audio)
Mar 2017 The duty to be generous (karam): Alternatives to rights-based asylum in the Middle East, by Professor Dawn Chatty FBA (text)
May 2017 ‘Soliloquies of suffering and consolation’: Fiction as elegy and refusal, by John Burnside (text | audio)
Jul 2017 The UK’s changing party system, by Professor David Sanders (text | audio, plus slides)
Feb 2016 Religion and the senses in Ancient Greek culture, by Professor Tanja Scheer (audio)
Mar 2016 Social class mobility in modern Britain: Changing structure, constant process, by Dr John Goldthorpe FBA (text | audio with slides)
Oct 2016 Modernist perambulations through time and space: From Enlightened walking to crawling, stalking, modelling and street-walking, by Professor Anne Fuchs FBA (text)
Jul 2015 Who reads Geography or History anymore? The challenge of audience in a digital age, Professor William Cronon (audio)
Dec 2015 Theology and the tragic: A debate revisited, by The Rt Revd & Rt Hon The Lord Rowan Williams of Oystermouth FBA (video)
Feb 2014 China’s Long March to Research and Innovation: Recent Progress and Some Contemporary Challenges, by Professor Christopher Howe FBA (video)
Apr 2014 The novel as therapy: Ministrations of voice in an age of risk, by Professor Patricia Waugh FBA (text | video)
Oct 2014 What are Prime Ministers for? by Lord Peter Hennessy of Nympsfield FBA (text | video | Q&A)
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