British Academy Lectures, 2016-17 [Paperback]

For over 100 years, the British Academy's public lectures have communicated the best scholarship in the humanities and social sciences to both specialists and general audiences. This volume publishes lectures from the 2016 and 2017 programmes. The lectures are also made available in the open accessJournal of the British Academy.This volume publishes British Academy's public lectures from the 2016 and 2017 programmes, which were posted to theJournal of the British Academyin 2017.

The subjects covered include: penal power in America; papal law; lifelong learning; party realignment at Westminster; globalisation and wage inequality; alternatives to rights-based asylum in the Middle East.Janet Carstenis Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Edinburgh.

Simon Frithis Tovey Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh.