British Academy Lectures, 2015-16

Janet Carsten is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Simon Frith is Tovey Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh.

Eugene Rogan: Rival jihads: Islam and the Great War in the Middle East, 1914-18
Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke: Economic impossibilities for our grandchildren?
Colin Mayer: Reinventing the corporation
Martin Jones, Harriet Hunt, Catherine Kneale, Emma Lightfoot, Diane Lister, Xinyi Liu, and Giedre Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute: Food globalisation in prehistory: The agrarian foundations of an interconnected continent
John H. Goldthorpe: Social class mobility in modern Britain: Changing structure, constant process
Noel Malcolm: Thomas Hobbes: Liberal illiberal
Lorna Hutson: The Shakespearean Unscene: Sexual phantasies in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Joep Leerssen: Cúchulain in the General Post Office: Gaelic revival, Irish rising
Linda Woodhead: Why No Religion is the new religion
Helen Cooper: Passionate, eloquent, and determined: Heroines' tales and feminine poetics
Penelope Curtis: The Inner Eye: Journeys around the museum
Anne Fuchs: Modernist perambulations through time and space: From enlightened walking to crawling, stalking, modelling, and street-walking