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‘Salvator Mundi’ is a painting surrounded by mysteries. In this talk, Professor Martin Kemp FBA explores evidence that it is indeed a work of Leonardo Da Vinci, the painting’s key components, and the alleged whereabouts of the ‘Salvator Mundi’ today.
Speaker: Professor Martin Kemp FBA, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art, University of Oxford; Honorary Fellow, Trinity College, Oxford
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What exactly is the work of a neuropsychologist? In this 10-Minute Talk, Professor Barbara Sahakian FBA unpacks some of her key work over the years and more recent ventures – from developing early models of memory testing to now transforming psychological tests into game apps.
Speaker: Professor Barbara Sahakian FBA, Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, Department of Psychiatry and MRC/Wellcome Trust Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge
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Please find a blog version of this talk here: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/what-does-a-neuropsychologist-do/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=10mintalks&utm_content=copy
10-Minute Talks are a series of pre-recorded talks from Fellows of the British Academy screened each Friday on YouTube and also available on Apple Podcasts. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/10-minute-talks/id1530020476
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Japanese theatre has, from its beginnings, encouraged audience participation – from formal fan-clubs to lessons on dancing and chanting. Hear Professor Drew Gerstle FBA take us through the key characteristics of Kabuki, Bunraku and Noh theatre and the ways viewers interacted with these 14th-17th century performances, both as patrons and amateur practitioners.
Speaker: Professor Drew Gerstle FBA, Emeritus Professor of Japanese Studies, SOAS University of London
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How do we understand empire in the modern age? In this 10-Minute Talk, Professor Gurminder K Bhambra challenges the idea that modern nation-states emerged as a result of the break-up of empire, and instead invites us to rethink what defines empire entirely. By considering different colonial processes and the impact these have on how we understand empires, Bhambra unpacks the specific characteristics of European empire in the modern period.
Speaker: Professor Gurminder K Bhambra FBA, Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex
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For further reading, Professor Bhambra has recently published an article expanding on the themes of this talk: https://www.idunn.no/doi/10.18261/tfs.65.3.6
Please find a blog version of this talk here: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/what-are-empires-nation-states-and-colonialism/?utm_source=transistor&utm_medium=podcast&utm_id=10-minute-talk
10-Minute Talks are a series of pre-recorded talks from Fellows of the British Academy screened each Friday on YouTube and also available on Apple Podcasts. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/10-minute-talks/id1530020476
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While books are often thought of as victims of war, looted or burned in libraries, in this 10-Minute Talk Professor Andrew Pettegree suggests an alternative narrative: books are essential in the waging of war. Sharing insights from his recent publication, ‘The Book at War’, Pettegree explores the active role of books in wartime from the Napoleonic era to the Second World War.
Speaker: Professor Andrew Pettegree FBA, Professor of Modern History, University of St Andrews
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For further reading, please see Professor Andrew Pettegree’s ‘The Book at War’ https://profilebooks.com/work/the-book-at-war/
Please find a blog-version of this talk here: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/books-in-wartime-innocent-victims-or-guilty-parties/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=10mintalks&utm_content=cta
10-Minute Talks are a series of pre-recorded talks from Fellows of the British Academy screened each Friday on YouTube and also available on Apple Podcasts. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/10-minute-talks/id1530020476 .
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Expanding on her book, ‘Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy’, Professor Annette Gordon-Reed unpacks the evidence around this contested relationship and the role of historians in erasing the narratives of enslaved people. Exploring the ‘American dilemma’, this talk investigates the contradiction between Jefferson’s commitment to equality and his ownership of enslaved people.
Speaker: Professor Annette Gordon-Reed FBA, Carl M Loeb University Professor, Harvard University
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A blog version of this 10-Minute Talk is available: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/what-was-the-relationship-between-thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings/
For further reading on this topic, please find Professor Annette Gordon-Reed's books here:
- https://www.waterstones.com/book/thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemmings/annette-gordon-reed/9780813918334
- https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-hemingses-of-monticello/annette-gordon-reed/978039333776110-Minute Talks are a series of pre-recorded talks from Fellows of the British Academy screened each Friday on YouTube and also available on Apple Podcasts. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/10-minute-talks/id1530020476
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What is it that makes great works from the past endure in the present? In this 10-Minute Talk, Professor Sir Jonathan Bate FBA explores Shakespeare’s legacy and his continued cultural presence over time. From influencing Jane Austen’s writing, to inspiring modern-day TV and film adaptations like 1999’s ‘10 Things I Hate About You’ and 2023’s ‘Anyone but You’, or providing a means for avoiding censorship, Shakespeare’s works live on in the present and bring the past back to life.
Speaker: Professor Sir Jonathan Bate FBA, Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities, Arizona State University; Senior Research Fellow, Worcester College, University of Oxford
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Sign language and how we use it and implement it into society has developed rapidly in the last 50 years, from little-to-no representation in education in the 1970s to the British Sign Language (BSL) Act 2022 and a new British Sign Language GCSE to be taught from 2025. In this 10-Minute Talk, Professor Bencie Woll FBA unpacks her research and involvement in understandings of language development, automatic translation between BSL and English, and recent political and education developments for BSL.
Speaker: Professor Bencie Woll FBA, Professor of Sign Language and Deaf Studies, University College London
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For more information on BSL and research in Deafness Cognition, please visit:
BSL SignBank https://bslsignbank.ucl.ac.uk/ Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/research/deafness-cognition-and-language-research-centre-dcal10-Minute Talks are a series of pre-recorded talks from Fellows of the British Academy screened each Friday on YouTube and also available on Apple Podcasts. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/10-minute-talks/id1530020476
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In the West, emotions are often understood through the philosophy of cognition and experimental psychology – separated from the world of art and aesthetic. However, in pre-modern India, aesthetic and emotion were deeply intertwined. In this 10-Minute Talk, Professor Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad FBA discusses how the aesthetics of drama and literature were key to understanding emotions in the Sanskrit tradition, exploring ideas from Bharata’s treatise on drama to Abhinava Gupta’s theory of viewership. Hear his consideration of this ecology of affect, and the question of its role in our understanding of ourselves and others today.
Speaker: Professor Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad FBA, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy, Lancaster University
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In this 10-Minute talk, Laura Mulvey FBA responds to three key questions regarding her 1975 essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’. Returning to the origins of the essay and the concept of the ‘male gaze’, Mulvey explores the cultural climate of feminism and Hollywood which drove the conception of this now-cult term and the newer, controversial term ‘female gaze’.
Speaker: Laura Mulvey FBA, Professor of Film Theory, Birkbeck, University of London
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‘Genocide’ (meaning “to kill a group”) was first used as a legal term in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin in the hope that it would come to signal the agreed limits of sovereign power, alongside the parallel developments of the concepts of human rights and crimes against humanity. Professor Philippe Sands Hon FBA explains the origins of the term, its implications and consequences in this 10-Minute Talk.
Speaker: Philippe Sands FBA, Professor of the Public Understanding of Law at University College London.
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10-Minute Talks are a series of pre-recorded talks from Fellows of the British Academy screened each Friday on YouTube and also available on Apple Podcasts. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/10-minute-talks/id1530020476
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Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was one of the most influential political theorists and philosophers of the 20th Century. In this 10-Minute Talk, Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA explores three of Arendt's key concepts – totalitarianism, statelessness and the banality of evil – to explain the importance of her thinking for our times.
Speaker: Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA, Professor of Humanities and Human Rights, University of Birmingham
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10-Minute Talks are a series of pre-recorded talks from Fellows of the British Academy screened each Friday on YouTube and also available on Apple Podcasts. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/10-minute-talks/id1530020476
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In a famous 1963 letter, Martin Luther King Jr. argued that ‘extremism’ is not an inherently bad thing because it can be a way of describing radical action for the extension of justice. Professor Quassim Cassam FBA explores what we mean by extremism, what makes an ideology or course of action extremist, and whether King was right.
Speaker: Quassim Cassam FBA, professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick
10-Minute Talks are a series of pre-recorded talks from Fellows of the British Academy screened each Friday on YouTube and also available on Apple Podcasts. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/10-minute-talks/id1530020476
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Following the partition of India in 1947 and the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, what was once one nation became three. Presenting anecdotes from her book 'Shadows at Noon' – a rich history sharing the stories of South Asia from the 20th century – Professor Joya Chatterji FBA discusses her view that India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have remained more similar than different, while acknowledging the difficulties of nationalism.
Speaker: Professor Joya Chatterji FBA
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The question of what makes you ‘you’ has been a central theme in philosophical thought since ancient times. In this talk, Professor Richard Swinburne FBA takes us through the debates on personal identity, which were first had between Plato and Aristotle in the Western tradition. Through questioning the strength of the physicalist view, which says our personal identity is based on physical factors, he aims to demonstrate that maybe it is time to reconsider Plato’s belief in souls in the modern world.
Speaker: Professor Richard Swinburne FBA
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Traversing the history of coffee through several literary examples, Professor Wen-chin Ouyang FBA explores coffee as not only a drink, but as tradition, commodity, and source of controversy. From the works of Mahmoud Darwish to Haruki Murakami, coffee has persisted as a social and intercultural tool. Hear more in her 10-Minute Talk.
Speaker: Wen-chin Ouyang FBA, Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, SOAS University of London
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Sharing insights from his book 'Why Politics Fails', in this 10-Minute Talk Ben Ansell FBA unpacks the challenges of democracy. Given that humans rarely agree, there can be no such thing as the ‘will of the people’ – which is why it’s so difficult to override individual self-interest in favour of our collective interest in resolving some of our most pressing political problems. From the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to Brexit, hear about the importance of losers’ consent and “agreeable” disagreement.
Please note, at 3:34 the spelling of the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth should be S-E-J-M.
Speaker: Professor Ben Ansell, Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions at the University of Oxford, and the BBC's 2023 Reith Lecturer.
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10-Minute Talks are a series of pre-recorded talks from Fellows of the British Academy, published on YouTube and also available on Apple Podcasts. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/10-minute-talks/id1530020476Subtitles, also known as closed captions, are available on our YouTube videos. You can access them by clicking on the 'CC' button or gear icon on the video. The 'CC' button and gear icon are usually located at the bottom of videos.
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How we understand autism has changed greatly over time. In this talk, Uta Frith FBA discusses developments in the scientific study of autism and its re-evaluation from a rarely diagnosed disorder to being conceptualised as a spectrum of neurodiversity. Autism can now be explored in relation to the mentalising system and other internal mechanisms that make us social.
Speaker: Professor Uta Frith, developmental psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Development, University College London
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Gary Younge Hon FBA explores the French Liberation of 1944 and the story of Georges Dukson, "le Lion du 17ème", a soldier from French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon) who fought for the Free French forces during the liberation of Paris. Almost a million Africans, more than a million African Americans and roughly 16,0000 Caribbeans served in the Allied forces in the Second World War, but – often partly by design – their stories have rarely been heard. From the 'blanchissement' to the allied powers’ denial of the basic civil rights of Black and Brown people, Younge argues that the Second World War cannot be meaningfully understood as one for democracy or freedom.
Speaker: Professor Gary Younge Hon FBA, Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester; Journalist and author
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Image credit: Georges Dukson, a Black soldier, is on the edge of the procession that General Charles de Gaulle is leading down the Champs-Élysées as part of the liberation of Paris. Photo by Serge DE SAZO / Gamma-Rapho / Getty Images.
10-Minute Talks are a series of pre-recorded talks from Fellows of the British Academy, published on YouTube and also available on Apple Podcasts. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/10-minute-talks/id1530020476
Additional photos of Georges Dukson described in this talk can be viewed on this blog by Matthew Cobb: https://elevendaysinaugust.com/2013/03/09/georges-dukson-2/
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In this talk, Ato Quayson shares insights drawn from his book Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature. He argues that disputatiousness is one of the starting points that connects Greek and postcolonial tragedy.
Speaker: Professor Ato Quayson FBA, Professor of English, Stanford University
Image: Tragic mask in hand of greek statue of Melpomene. Via Getty Images
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