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The world’s leading professors explain the latest thinking in the humanities and social sciences in just 10 minutes.
Classical liberalism, in the tradition of the philosopher John Rawls, upholds the value of equal basic liberties and the fair exercise of po...
What happens when we centre disabilities as a driving subject of intellectual, personal and political inquiry? Professor Dan Goodley FBA unp...
A common criticism of social media is that groups of people are creating echo chambers that exclude different perspectives, but these echo c...
The 19th century became the age of the first information revolution. Driven by colonial and imperial geopolitics, rapid technological innova...
Cervantes’ groundbreaking novel, Don Quixote, is a comic but profound meditation on dreams, disillusionment and the blurred line between ill...
A cosmology or worldview is the framework of beliefs and attitudes through which we interpret and make sense of the world, including how we...
Cities are central to both the problems and solutions of the climate crisis. Climate change is often seen as a global issue that can only be...
In 1922, the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings astounded archaeologists and the public alike. Beyond the ornate tre...
“Gender studies as a discipline is by definition interdisciplinary, drawing from several paradigms, and it is defined by a set of debates an...
"How did Sir Walter Raleigh invent the potato?” In this 10-Minute Talk, Rebecca Earle FBA takes up Philomena Cunk’s question to explore the...
From a fake news report claiming a French victory to fictional memoirs and literary retellings, the Battle of Trafalgar’s legacy in France b...
In a post-truth world, can we always trust data? And what about our human biases? Walking us through ‘the ladder of misinference’, Alex Edma...
Eugenics is a coercive ideology with a destructive history over the course of the 19th and 20th Centuries. But did support for eugenics die...
What are the Dead Sea Scrolls? Who discovered them? And why are they important? Professor Philip Alexander FBA explores the history of the s...
What really happened when a breakdown of the legal system in the English Civil War fuelled a series of witch-hunts? In this 10-Minute Talk,...
Classical music is often wrongly considered to be unaffected by political and social change. Exploring Franz Schubert’s ‘Die Forelle’, Laura...
‘Salvator Mundi’ is a painting surrounded by mysteries. In this talk, Professor Martin Kemp FBA explores evidence that it is indeed a work o...
What exactly is the work of a neuropsychologist? In this 10-Minute Talk, Professor Barbara Sahakian FBA unpacks some of her key work over th...
Japanese theatre has, from its beginnings, encouraged audience participation – from formal fan-clubs to lessons on dancing and chanting. Hea...
How do we understand empire in the modern age? In this 10-Minute Talk, Professor Gurminder K Bhambra challenges the idea that modern nation-...
While books are often thought of as victims of war, looted or burned in libraries, in this 10-Minute Talk Professor Andrew Pettegree suggest...
Expanding on her book, ‘Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy’, Professor Annette Gordon-Reed unpacks the evidence aro...
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 Shak...
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 i...
In the West, emotions are often understood through the philosophy of cognition and experimental psychology – separated from the world of art...
In this 10-Minute talk, Laura Mulvey FBA responds to three key questions regarding her 1975 essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’. Re...
‘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...
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was one of the most influential political theorists and philosophers of the 20th Century. In this 10-Minute Talk,...
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...
Following the partition of India in 1947 and the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, what was once one nation became three. Presenting anecdo...
The question of what makes you ‘you’ has been a central theme in philosophical thought since ancient times. In this talk, Professor Richard...
Traversing the history of coffee through several literary examples, Professor Wen-chin Ouyang FBA explores coffee as not only a drink, but a...
Sharing insights from his book 'Why Politics Fails', in this 10-Minute Talk Ben Ansell FBA unpacks the challenges of democracy. Given that h...
How we understand autism has changed greatly over time. In this talk, Uta Frith FBA discusses developments in the scientific study of autism...
Gary Younge Hon FBA explores the French Liberation of 1944 and the story of Georges Dukson, "le Lion du 17ème", a soldier from French Equato...
In this talk, Ato Quayson shares insights drawn from his book Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature . He argues that disputatiousness is one o...
In this talk, Georgina Waylen discusses hypermasculine leadership within the context of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaker:...
The modern history of humiliation is different from the history of public shaming; both share certain features and practices, but differ as...
In this talk, Professor Kathleen Coleman FBA highlights certain paradoxes at the root of Roman civilisation, specifically those related to t...
In this talk, Professor Julian Hoppit FBA introduces his new book, The Dreadful Monster and its Poor Relations. Taxing, Spending, and the Un...
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) is, in terms of sheer achievement, the greatest English commoner of all time and yet remains a deeply controvers...
In this talk, Derek Attridge addresses the question: "What is a poem's mode of existence?" Using a poem by William Wordsworth as an example,...
In this talk, Jane Lightfoot considers what a particular corner of the classical world, astrology, thought about disease – how it classified...
In this talk, Peter Gatrell discusses the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, signed in Geneva on 28 July 1951. He...
Syntax is the cognitive system that underlies the patterns found in the grammar of human languages. In this talk, David Adger explains what...
This talk introduces research on the sign languages of deaf communities: natural, complex human languages, both similar to and different fro...
Over the winter of 1610-11, a magnificent telescope was built in London. It was almost two metres long, cast in silver and covered with gold...
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur (1735-1813) was a farmer as well as a complex thinker of the contradictions of American identity as describe...
Goods and possessions offer us ways into understanding how late medieval people saw the world and their position in it. In this talk, Christ...
The British Academy is the UK's national academy for the humanities and social sciences and was founded in 1902. In this talk, Professor Sir...