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The British Academy – for the humanities and social sciences. Supporting the best in UK and international academic research for over a century and furthering our understanding of the past, present and future through research, policy reports, publications and public events.
Welcome to the British Academy
E ach year the British Academy mounts a programme of more than 50 lectures, panel discussions,
conferences and other events celebrating the study of what it means to be human and how we relate to the world around us. Our events highlight fascinating new research and shed light on a wide range of human and social issues which affect us all. New perspectives on areas of knowledge ranging from history to psychology, archaeology to economics, and from philosophy to law, provide fresh insights and valuable understanding into the world we live in and how our environment shapes us.
Research stemming from the humanities and social sciences deepens our understanding of human behaviour and the decisions we make, not just as individuals but as a society. Decisions, for example, about the future direction of our economy, broadening education to all, addressing our cultural impoverishment, or how we deal with major challenges such as ageing, migration or the effects of constitutional change. These should all be
informed by the understanding, research and expertise of the humanities and social sciences.
British Academy events offer a rich mix of insights and new thinking across broad, deep and constructive academic research and highlight the immense public value they provide. The events programme is the central pillar of the Academy’s commitment to encourage and engage in public discussion and debate. We hope you will find them enjoyable and stimulating – and very much look forward to welcoming you to the British Academy.
Lord Stern of Brentford President of the British Academy
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Wednesday 11 September, 6.30 to 7.45pm
Britain and the Occupations of IraqPanel Discussion
Thursday 12 & Friday 13 September, 9.30am to 5.30pm
Gertrude Bell and Iraq – A Life and Legacy ConferenceConference
Tuesday 24 September, 6 to 7.15pm
Dyslexia: An Impairment of Language Learning British Academy/British Psychological Society Lecture
Thursday 26 & Friday 27 September, 9.15am to 6pm
The Cognitive Revolution 60 Years OnConference
Tuesday 8 & Wednesday 9 October, 9am to 5.15pm (9pm finish Tuesday)
Emerging Powers Going Global Conference
Wednesday 16 October, 6 to 7.15pm
What If? Models, Fact and Fiction in EconomicsKeynes Lecture in Economics
Tuesday 22 October, 6 to 7.15pm
A Heavenly Aura: Confucian Modes of Relic Veneration Elsley Zeitlyn Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Culture
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Events Diary September – December 2013All events are FREE and take place at the British Academy unless otherwise indicated.
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For details of events independently organised by British Academy Schools and institutions, please see pages 20-23.
Wednesday 23 October, 6 to 7.30pm
The Changing Face of ValuePanel Discussion
Tuesday 5 & Wednesday 6 November, 9.30am to 5.30pm
Desert Island Discs and the discographic selfConference
Tuesday 5 November, 6 to 7.15pm
Desert Island Discs: Music and MemoriesPanel Discussion
Tuesday 12 November, 6 to 7.15pm
Charlemagne and Europe Raleigh Lecture on History
Tuesday 26 November, 6 to 7.15pm
Getting A Word In: Contact, Etymology and English Vocabulary in the Twelfth CenturySir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture
Thursday 5 December, 6 to 7.15pm
Britain and the beginning of ScotlandSir John Rhys Memorial Lecture
Wednesday 11 December, 6 to 7.30pm
William Trevor: RevaluationsPanel Discussion
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Wednesday 11 September 2013, 6.30pm followed by a reception.
FREE registration required: www.britac.ac.uk/events
In the 10th anniversary year of British participation in the invasion and occupation of Iraq, join a host of
international experts as they explore the kinds of politics from which British occupation(s) of Iraq emerged and the political order that they have helped to bring into being. The focus of the panel will be contemporary, but will allow for reflection on the ways in which the histories of Iraq and Great Britain have been intertwined. The interests, the prejudices and the passions on both sides have set in motion forces that have shaped the histories of both countries and the four panellists will introduce a number of themes that will help the audience to reflect on the consequences that are still unfolding today.
Britain and the Occupations of Iraq
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Sir Adam Roberts KCMG, FBA (Chair) is Senior Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor of International Relations, Oxford University and was President of the British Academy from 2009 to July 2013. His recent books include (ed., with Timothy Garton Ash), Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present (2009); and (ed.), Democracy, Sovereignty and Terror: Lakshman Kadirgamar on the Foundations of International Order (2012).
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In association with the Gertrude Bell Archive
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Venue: The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Ali A. Allawi is an author, biographer and former government minister in Iraq.
Nadje Al-Ali is Professor of Gender Studies at SOAS, University of London.
Rosemary Hollis is Professor of Middle East Policy Studies and Director of the Olive Tree Scholarship Programme at City University London.
Charles Tripp FBA is Professor of Politics with reference to the Middle East, at SOAS, University of London.
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Thursday 12 September – Friday 13 September 2013, 9.30am – 5.30pm.
FREE registration required: www.britac.ac.uk/events
Exactly 90 years after the foundation of the Iraq Museum and a decade on from the 2003 invasion and
occupation of Iraq, join a wide range of international experts to examine the life and legacy of Gertrude Lowthian Bell (1868–1926), the renowned scholar, explorer, writer, archaeologist and British civil servant. This three-day conference will focus on her role in shaping British
policy in the Middle East, especially the establishment of the Iraqi monarchy and state, her interests in Iraq’s past (she was instrumental in the foundation of the Iraq Museum in 1923), and reflect on her legacy for modern Iraq and neighbouring regions.
This is the first major international conference to examine Bell’s extensive work in Iraq.
Gertrude Bell and Iraq – A Life and Legacy eventJoint British Institute for the study of Iraq/British Academy event
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Professor Nadje Al-Ali School of Oriental and African Studies Dr Lamia al-Gailani Werr University College LondonÇigdem Aydin Independent ScholarProfessor Helen Berry Newcastle UniversityDr Magnus Bernhardson Williams CollegeDr Tamara Chalabi Independent ScholarSir Terence Clarke KBE, CMG, CVO Former British Ambassador to Iraq, 1985–1989
Dr Paul Collins The Ashmolean MuseumDr Lisa Cooper University of British Columbia Dr Toby Dodge London School of Economics Dr Saad Eskander Director of Iraq’s National Library and ArchiveMoayad Hanoush Independent ScholarProfessor Stephen Hill University of Gloucestershire Dr Mark Jackson Newcastle UniversityProfessor Ian M. Johnson University of Aberdeen
Dr Fouad Kadhem University of Exeter Dr Wolfgang Köhler Independent ScholarDr Glen Rangwala University of Cambridge Ms Lynn Ritchie Newcastle UniversityDr Eleanor Robson University College London Dr Peter Sluglett National University of SingaporeDr Rosalind Wade Haddon Independent ScholarMyriam Yakoubi Collège de France/Paris 8 University
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Without the ability to read fluently and with accurate comprehension, for many
children there can be a downward spiral of poor educational achievement and career prospects. Studies following the development of children at family-risk of dyslexia have revealed that it is associated with language delays and speech difficulties in pre-school years before reading instruction even begins. Literacy outcomes in children depend not only on the risk factors that predispose reading difficulties but also on protective factors which mitigate the risk. Join Professor Snowling as she discusses the impact dyslexia has on society and asking whether it is possible to intervene early to ameliorate its impact?
Dyslexia: An Impairment of Language LearningJoint British Academy/British Psychological Society Lecture
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Professor Maggie Snowling FBA is President of St. John’s College, Oxford. She was a member of the Rose Review on Dyslexia and is Past-President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. She is also a fellow of Academy of Medical Sciences.
Tuesday 24 September 2013, 6 – 7.15pm followed by a reception.
FREE. Seats allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Arranged in partnership with
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Sixty years ago, the young Noam Chomsky put forward a new theory of language which radically altered
our understanding of language and cognition. At the time, Chomsky’s theory was seen as a paradigm example of the promise of the application of formal, computational methods originating in the sciences to understanding central and, in the case of language, unique aspects of human cognition. This was in many ways
the beginning of modern cognitive science. Chomsky’s ideas had a major impact well beyond linguistics: in psychology, philosophy and computer science. He also founded the fields of computational linguistics and psycholinguistics. This conference aims to assess the situation in modern linguistics and cognitive science six decades on.
The Cognitive Revolution 60 Years On
Thursday 26 and Friday 27 September 2013, 9.15am – 6pm.
FREE registration required: www.britac.ac.uk/events
SPEAKERS
Professor Bob Berwick Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Balthasar Bickel University of Zurich Professor Lera Boroditsky Stanford University Professor Jennifer Culbertson George Mason University Professor Ewa Dabrowska Northumbria University Professor Daniel Everett Bentley University Professor Janet Dean Fodor City University of New York Graduate Center James Higginbotham FBA University of Southern California
Professor Shalom Lappin FBA King’s College London Professor Stephen Levinson FBA Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen Professor Lisa Matthewson University of British Columbia Professor Barbara Partee University of Massachusetts at Amherst Professor Geoffrey Pullum FBA University of Edinburgh Professor Luigi Rizzi FBA Ecole Normale Superieure Paris Professor Paul Smolensky Johns Hopkins University Professor Edward Stabler UCLA
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What are the global implications of the rise of emerging powers? What are the opportunities and
challenges presented by their growing economic strength and political influence both within states and on a global scale?
This conference will take a situated global perspective by engaging both specialists on the impact of emerging powers in Africa, Latin America and Asia and leading scholars of the wider international
Emerging Powers Going Global
Tuesday 8 and Wednesday 9 October 2013, 9am – 5.15pm (9pm finish Tuesday).
FREE registration required: www.britac.ac.uk/events
SPEAKERS
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern PBA London School of Economics and Political Science
Professor Ngaire Woods University of Oxford
Professor Deborah Bräutigam John Hopkins University
Professor Ian Taylor University of St Andrews
Professor Sir Adam Roberts FBA University of Oxford
For a full list of speakers, please see the website.
political and economic order. The conference will assess emerging powers’ global geopolitical impact and the policy implications for investment, business and trade, as well as for international development, global health, agriculture and food security, and climate change.
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What would have happened to economic growth if the railway had not been invented? What if
the monetary system behaved like a hydraulic machine? And why have economists argued about the exchanges that Robinson Crusoe might have made with Friday on their desert island? Join Professor Morgan as she uses materials from the history of economics to illuminate how economists have created and used models – devices that combine elements of the factual and fictional – to explore the economic world.
What If? Models, Fact and Fiction in EconomicsKeynes Lecture in Economics
Wednesday 16 October 2013, 6 – 7.15pm followed by a reception.
FREE. Seats allocated on a first come, first served basis.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Mary S. Morgan FBA is Professor of History and Philosophy of Economics at the London School of Economics and University of Amsterdam. Her book The World in the Model (2012) follows others on “travelling facts”, on measurement, and on observation. She has recently held a British Academy / Wolfson Research Professorship for “Re-Thinking Case Studies Across the Social Sciences”.
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The veneration of relics is usually identified with Buddhism in China. However, ideas about the special
efficacy of things associated with great persons developed long before the introduction of Buddhist practices. For instance, the display of personal items that had once belonged to Confucius (c.551–479 BC) powerfully evoked the ancient sage to later devotees who visited his memorial temple. His possessions, images, and even trees he allegedly planted were
A Heavenly Aura: Confucian Modes of Relic VenerationElsley Zeitlyn Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Culture
Tuesday 22 October 2013, 6 – 7.15pm followed by a reception.
FREE. Seats allocated on a first come, first served basis.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Julia K. Murray is Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin and Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. Her research focuses on the visual and material culture associated with the worship of Confucius, particularly pictorial portraits, sculptural images and hagiographical illustrations. She is currently writing the history of a shrine at the alleged burial site of Confucius’ robe and cap.
believed to harbour his beneficent spirit and possess supernatural power, inspiring paranormal events. Professor Murray’s talk will explore how auspicious objects could be transferred or replicated elsewhere, bringing blessings to new regions.
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In this period of, arguably, unprecedented economic, technological and social change,
‘The Changing Face of Value’ sets out to explore and critique how our sense of value and values may be shifting or indeed completely changing. The discussion will probe and challenge our understandings of what is valued by whom and why in the 21st century.
Bringing together a diverse range of experts from within and outside the Academy, this timely debate will present a compelling range of perspectives on the following themes:
• Thedigitalworld:Isitshapingoursocial and cultural values, and if so, how?
• Theapparentriseinvalueofnotionssuch as ‘authenticity’, ‘openness’ and ‘connectivity’
• Thevalueofobjectsandnewformsofmaterial culture
• Theshiftofvaluesfromtheenduringto the ephemeral
• Thefutureofvalueitself
‘The Changing Face of Value’ is part of the Culture Capital Exchange’s ‘Inside Out’ Festival. Details of speakers will be available from July on the website.
The Changing Face of ValueJoint event with the Culture Capital Exchange
Wednesday October 23 2013, 6 – 7.30pm followed by a reception.
FREE registration required: www.britac.ac.uk/events
Arranged in partnership with
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Tuesday 5 and Wednesday 6 November 2013, 9.30am – 5.30pm.
FREE registration required: www.britac.ac.uk/events
Desert Island Discs and the discographic self
The radio programme Desert Island Discs has run continuously since 1942 and represents a unique
record of the changing place of music in British society. In recognition of its iconic status, the BBC has recently created an online archive that currently includes podcasts of the last 25 years of programmes. This conference brings together musicologists, sociologists and media scholars to reflect on the programme’s historical and contextual significance, its changing position in Britain’s continually evolving media and its imitators in other parts of the world.
SPEAKERS
Professor Andrew Blake University of East London
Professor Philip Bohlman University of Chicago
Professor Georgina Born University of Oxford
Dr Julie Brown Royal Holloway, University of London
Dr Michael Bull University of Sussex
Professor Nicholas Cook FBA University of Cambridge
Professor Stephen Cottrell City University London
Professor Tia DeNora University of Exeter
Dr Jenny Doctor Syracuse University
Professor John Ellis Royal Holloway, University of London
Professor Simon Frith FBA University of Edinburgh
Professor David Hendy University of Sussex
Dr Sarah Hill Cardiff University
Dr Jo Littler City University
Professor Will Straw McGill University
Dr Peter Webb University of Cambridge
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Tuesday 5 November 2013, 6 – 7.15pm followed by a reception.
FREE registration required: www.britac.ac.uk/events
Join a panel of musicians who have appeared over the years on one of the UK’s most popular radio programmes,
BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. As the panel journey through their experiences of selecting their castaway recordings, this event will explore the fascinating relationship between music and autobiography. Chaired by City University’s Professor of Music, Stephen Cottrell, this event promises to give a unique insight into why music has such a deep connection to our everyday lives and memories.
Please visit the website for an updated list of confirmed speakers.
Desert Island Discs: Music and MemoriesChaired by Professor Stephen Cottrell, City University London
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Tuesday 12 November 2013, 6 – 7.15pm followed by a reception.
FREE. Seats allocated on a first come, first served basis.
In this year’s Raleigh lecture, Medievalist Professor Dame Jinty Nelson examines the long association
between Charlemagne (Charles the Great) King of the Franks and Christian emperor of the West, and Europe. She will explore and explain the variegated forms, meanings and functions that this association has acquired, been invested with and performed. She will also look behind myth and historiography, asking how and why Charlemagne and some of his contemporaries might have understood Europe as an imagined community.
Charlemagne and EuropeRaleigh Lecture on History
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Professor Dame Jinty Nelson FBA taught Medieval History at King’s College London for almost forty years before retiring in 2008. She has longstanding interests in the Carolingian world. She is currently working on a biography of Charlemagne, and helping to plan a day-conference at the British Museum to mark the 1200th anniversary of his death on 28 January 814.
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Tuesday 26 November 2013, 6 – 7.15pm followed by a reception.
FREE. Seats allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Getting A Word In: Contact, Etymology and English Vocabulary in the Twelfth CenturySir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture
English vocabulary owes an enormous debt to the other languages of medieval Britain. Arguably, nowhere
is this debt more significant than in the twelfth century – a complex and fascinating period of transition, when (amongst many other things) influence from both Norse and French is increasingly apparent in writing. This lecture will explore the etymologies, meanings and contexts of some key words from this crucial time, as a way to think about the evidence for contact and change at the boundary of Old and Middle English and to illustrate how rich, diverse, challenging and surprising its voices can be.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr Richard Dance is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic and a Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. He is the author of a number of books and articles about Old and Middle English language and literature.
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The often-repeated account of Scotland’s beginnings in a ‘union of Picts and Scots under Cinaed
(Kenneth) mac Ailpín’ has been numerously called into doubt over the years. In this lecture Professor Dauvit Broun explores recent rethinking on Scottish origins by discussing the role of Britain as an ‘idea’, connections with England, the emergence of Scotland as a country in the 13th century, and the beginnings of the Scottish kingdom itself. Professor Broun will also examine if this has implications for how Scotland is viewed in relation to Britain today.
Britain and the beginning of ScotlandSir John Rhys Memorial Lecture
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dauvit Broun is Professor at the University of Glasgow. He has been lecturing on Scottish History since 1990 and has held the chair in Scottish History there since 2009.
Thursday 5 December 2013, 6 – 7.15pm followed by a reception.
FREE. Seats allocated on a first come, first served basis.
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William Trevor: Revaluations
Born in Ireland in 1928, resident in
Britain since 1953, an artist whose work embraces, but transcends these cultures, William Trevor is one of the most significant,
popular prose writers working today. This event will examine Trevor’s schooling in the art of fiction, tracing the influence of past masters (such as Dickens, Turgenev and Joyce), and more recent exemples (Camus, Beckett and Pinter).
Speakers will highlight his continuing responsiveness to historical and cultural change, how frequently his characters’ choices are constrained not only by nationality, language and religion, but also as a consequence of class, education, gender and race.
SPEAKERS
Wednesday 11 December, 6 – 7.30pm followed by a reception.
FREE registration required: www.britac.ac.uk/events
Paul Delaney is Lecturer in Irish Writing at Trinity College, Dublin.
Lyn Innes is Emeritus Professor of Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent.
Dame Hermione Lee FBA is Professor of English and president of Wolfson College, at Oxford University and a frequent literary reviewer and broadcaster.
Michael O’Neill is Professor of English at Durham University and a distinguished poet.
Michael Parker is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Central Lancashire. His and Paul Delaney’s co-edited collection, William Trevor: Revaluations, will be published this autumn.
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Other Events held at the Academy
Wednesday 18 September 2013, 6.30 – 7.45pm
FREE admission for BIAA members but registration required. Tickets for non-members £10. For further information please visit www.biaa.ac.uk or contact 020 7969 5204.
20th Century Turkish Literature – before and after Orhan PamukHow and why has there been a sudden burst of interest in twentieth century Turkish literature? What does this mean for Turkey and contemporary writing? In this lecture, Professor Freely will compare and contrast the official story with her own eyewitness account, as well as offering a list of exciting new (and old) names to watch out for in Turkish literature.
Professor Maureen Freely, University of Warwick and chair of the Translators Association
Arranged by the British Institute at Ankara
Thursday 14 November 2013, 6 – 7.15pm
FREE registration required. www.biea.ac.uk. For further information please contact [email protected]/020 7969 5201.
Africa – birthplace of the ‘First Industrial Revolution’?We think of the industrial revolution in terms of iron and steel, railways and steam engines, yet none of this would have been possible if a human being, half a million years ago, had not imagined what a stone attached to a stick might do and how it might make life a little easier. Join Professor Lawrence Barham as he explores this seemingly simple step in human technological achievement – with a focus on evidence and research across Africa.
Professor Lawrence Barham is Professor of African Archaeology at the University of Liverpool. He has worked in Zambia for 20 years and is extending his research into Ghana.
Arranged by the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA)
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Wednesday 20 November 2013, 6 – 7.45pm
FREE registration required: www.biea.ac.uk. For further information please contact [email protected]/020 7969 5274.
Excavating a provincial capital of the Assyrian Empire: The Ziyaret Tepe Archaeological ProjectKnown in antiquity as Tushan, Ziyaret Tepe was an Assyrian provincial capital and garrison town from 882 to 611 BC; as an archaeological site it is of exceptional importance. In this lecture, Dr MacGinnis will discuss the excavations carried out on the site to date and the finds that his team has uncovered, such as the remains of a palace, low status housing and an archive of cuneiform texts dating to the very end of the empire and one tablet that hints at the existence of a language hitherto unknown.
Dr John MacGinnis is Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. He is a consultant for UNESCO on the culture of ancient Mesopotamia and Field Director of the British Expedition to Ziyaret Tepe.
Arranged by Gertrude Bell Memorial. The British Institute for the Study of Iraq
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Monday 25 November 2013, 6 – 7.15pm
FREE registration required: www.bsr.ac.uk. For further information please contact [email protected]/ 020 7969 5247.
Debating Mussolini’s ItalyProfessor Paul Corner and Professor Christopher Duggan have recently produced two of the most significant contributions to the fascinating debates on fascist Italy. Join two of the most eminent experts in this field as they discuss their findings, based largely on rarely examined and unpublished archival material. Considering the experience of ordinary people and how they related to the regime, they will also touch on Mussolini’s legacy in contemporary Italy.
Paul Corner is Professor of European History and Director of the Euromasters programme at the Centre for the Study of Political Change, University of Siena.
Professor Christopher Duggan is Head of the Literature & Languages School at the University of Reading.
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Tuesday 10 December 2013, 6.30 – 7.45pm
FREE admission for BIAA members. Tickets for non-members £10. For further information and to register please contact Claire McCafferty at [email protected] 020 7969 5204 or visit the website www.biaa.ac.uk
The leopard changes its spots: recent work on societal change at CatalhoyukJoin Professor Ian Hodder, as he discusses recent evidence that demonstrates that Catalhoyuk was not such a stable entity as has often been supposed. In this lecture, he will look at the complex ritual and symbolic world that has become so well known, and explore how it was actually in continual turmoil, linked to changing economic and technological strategies and to the complex problem-solving challenges of everyday life.
Ian Hodder is the Dunlevie Family Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University. Professor Hodder is a pioneer of post-processualist theory in archaeology.
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