The Association holds an annual conference at a centre of established importance in the medieval period, usually in the British Isles and occasionally in mainland Europe, collating the results of recent research on major cathedrals, minsters and abbeys and including visits to places of relevant interest.
Our next annual conference: 7-11 July 2012 is in Norwich
Further details and booking forms will be posted on the website in February, 2012.
Our next Romanesque conference is in Palermo: 16-18 April 2012
The British Archaeological Association will hold the second of the biennial series of International Romanesque conferences in Palermo on 16-18 April, 2012. The theme is Romanesque and the Mediterranean, and the aim is to examine points of contact between the Latin West and the Byzantine and Islamic worlds in the 11th and 12th centuries. This took many forms, from the widespread importation of artefacts - textiles, ceramics, ivories and metalwork for the most part - to a specific desire to recruit eastern artists or emulate eastern Mediterranean forms and buildings, particularly those in Jerusalem.
The Conference will be held in the historic centre of Palermo from 16-18 April, with the opportunity to stay on for two days of visits to medieval buildings in and around Palermo from 19-20 April. All speakers have now been confirmed, and the final programme will be posted on the website in January, 2012. Booking forms for both UK and non-UK applicants can be downloaded here.
Click here to download a booking form
Click here to download a provisional copy of the programme
For information about our last conference:
please see belowKracow: Sunday 3rd - Thursday 7th July 2011
The British Archaeological Association's annual conference for 2011 was held in Kracow, the medieval capital of Poland. The conference was based at the Jagiellonian Library and was concerned with the medieval art, architecture and archaeology of Kracow and the Lesser Poland region, as well the cultural and artistic links that bound the Polish kingdom to its central European neighbours. The programme included lectures on Romanesque and Gothic archaeology, architecture, sculpture and painting as well as touching on the reception of medieval art in post-Reformation times. We visited the archaeological museum on Wawel royal hill as well as the newly opened archaeological exhibition under the Old Town Market, the cathedral and other medieval churches in Kracow and the Kazimierz district, the Cistercian Monastery at Mogia and the medieval town of Sandomierz.
The 2010 Summer Conference was held at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and addressed the city of Newcastle and the county of Northumberland (together with the former county of Tyne and Wear).
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The biennial series on International Romanesque Conferences was launched as the result of a generous donation from one of the Association's members, John Osborn. The first was held in London on 9-11 April, 2010 under the heading 'Romanesque and the Past: Retrospection in the Art and Architecture of Romanesque Europe', and was attended by around 150 scholars, speakers and amateur enthusiasts from a dozen countries. Click here for conference abstracts.
The next conference in the biennial series is 'Romanesque and the Eastern Mediterranean' to be held in Palermo from 16-18 April, 2012. See above for details and booking
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The proceedings of our annual conferences are published. Please see our publications section for a list of volumes in this series, or order from the Maney's website (the association's publisher).
Click here to download a copy of the programme of one of our conferences: 2009 in Canterbury.