British Academy Lectures 2012-13

Edited by Janet Carsten and Simon Frith

A British Academy Publication

British Academy Lectures Series

Variety of academic subjects in the humanities and social sciences
Texts of lectures given by leading academics in the humanities and social sciences
Edited by two leading scholars, both Fellows of the British Academy

British Academy Lectures 2012-13

Edited by Janet Carsten and Simon Frith

A British Academy Publication

British Academy Lectures Series

Description

British Academy lectures have previously been published in the Proceedings of the British Academy. Lectures are now made available in the new open access Journal of the British Academy. But they will also be printed in an annual volume. This volume publishes xx lectures from the 2012 and 2013 programmes, which were posted to the Journal in 2013.

The subjects covered include early 20th-century ethnographic research among the Andaman Islanders and Polar Eskimos, the Scottish Mental Surveys of 1932 and 1947, Edward Lear's nonsense poetry, university authors' rights and the end of the British Empire in India.

The editors are Professors Janet Carsten and Simon Frith, who are both Fellows of the British Academy. The authors are all recognised experts in their fields within the humanities and social sciences and the texts published here have been rigorously peer-reviewed.

British Academy Lectures 2012-13

Edited by Janet Carsten and Simon Frith

A British Academy Publication

British Academy Lectures Series

Andaman Islanders and Polar Eskimos: emergent ethnographic subjects c. 1900 (Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthropology), Kirsten Hastrup
Edward Lear's lines of flight (Chatterton Lecture on Poetry), Matthew Bevis
'All the world's knowledge': Universal authors' rights (British Academy Law Lecture), Jane Ginsburg
An intelligent Scotland: Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson and the Scottish Mental Surveys of 1932 and 1947 (Joint BA/British Psychological Society Lecture), Ian Deary
The end of Empire in India revisited (Raleigh Lecture on History), Judith Brown
The appeal of fundamentalism (British Academy Lecture), Michael Cook
Parts of speech: solid citizens or slippery customers? (Philological Society Lecture), David Denison
Ronald Reagan and the re-constitution of American hegemony (Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture), Arne Westad
The Greek War of Independence in a global era (Sarah Tryphena Phillips Lecture in American History), Mark Mazower
Between art and science: music as performance (Aspects of Art Lecture), Nicholas Cook
Can leaders make a difference to organisational performance? (Sir John Cass's Foundation Lecture), Andrew Pettigrew
The sanctuary at Keros: questions of materiality and monumentality (Albert Reckitt Archaeological Lecture), Colin Renfrew
Imitations of Christ in 17th-century France: Some attendant difficulties (Lecture in Modern Languages), Richard Parish

British Academy Lectures 2012-13

Edited by Janet Carsten and Simon Frith

A British Academy Publication

British Academy Lectures Series

Author Information

Janet Carsten is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Edinburgh.

Simon Frith is Tovey Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh.

Contributors:

Kirsten Hastrup FBA is Professor of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen

Matthew Bevis is Lecturer in English and a Fellow of Keble College at the University of Oxford

Jane C. Ginsburg FBA is the Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law at Columbia University School of Law and Faculty Director of its Kernochan Centre for Law, Media and the Arts.

Ian J. Deary FBA is Professor of Differential Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, and Director of the Medical Research Council-administered Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology.

Judith M. Brown is Emeritus Beit Professor of Commonwealth History in the University of Oxford and Emeritus Professorial Fellow of Balliol College.

Michael Cook FBA is Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University.

David Denison holds the Smith Chair in English Language at the University of Manchester and has held visiting professorships at universities in Europe and North America.

Arne Westad is Professor of International History of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Mark Mazower is Ira D Wallach Professor of HIstory at Columbia University and Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities.

Nicholas Cook FBA is 1684 Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge.

Andrew Pettigrew FBA is Professor of Strategy and Organisation at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and Senior Golding Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford.

Colin Renfrew FBA (Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn) is Emeritus Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and former Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

Richard Parish is a Professor of French at the University of Oxford.