British Academy events
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
How To Make The World Add Up
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Statistics are vital in helping us tell stories – we see them in the papers, on social media, and we hear them used in everyday conversation - and y...
Is COVID-19 a turning point in history? Learning from the past
21 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The course of human history has been shaped by war, disease and natural disaster. Whether the Black Death, world wars or COVID-19, these crises have s...
Confronting COVID-19: nudge and sludge
21 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Governments across the world are using behavioural ‘nudges’ to help slow the spread of coronavirus: wash your hands, don’t touch your face, stay...
Global Perspectives: decolonial feminism
31 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Françoise Vergès discusses the history of counter revolution against women’s liberation from the 1970s to the 2000s and the forms it concretely to...
Thinkers for our Time: Martin Kemp FBA on Leonardo da Vinci
02 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Martin Kemp FBA reflects on Leonardo's extraordinary life and legacy, the commercial implications of his worldwide fame, and the endless con...
Thinkers for our Time: Merce Cunningham
02 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Thinkers for our Time: Merce Cunningham by The British Academy
What does ‘TubeCrush’ reveal about modern desire?
27 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What does ‘TubeCrush’ reveal about modern desire? by The British Academy
Identity politics: a term whose time has gone?
08 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Author, broadcaster and editor-at-large for The Guardian Gary Younge discusses how identity politics has effectively come to mean anything you want it...