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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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  

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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/  

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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/9780393337761

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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-dcal   

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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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