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 conference: 2011
Cracow: Sunday 3rd - Thursday 7th July 2011
The British Archaeological Association’s annual conference for 2011 will be held in Cracow, the medieval capital of Poland. The conference will be based at the Jagiellonian Library and will be concerned with the medieval art, architecture and archaeology of Cracow and the Lesser Poland region, as well the cultural and artistic links that bound the Polish kingdom to its central European neighbours. The programme will include 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 will visit 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 Cracow and the Kazimierz district, the Cistercian Monastery at Mogiła and the medieval town of Sandomierz.
The conference welcomes professional and amateur enthusiasts equally.
The 2010 Summer Conference will be held at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and will address the city of Newcastle and the county of Northumberland (together with the former county of Tyne and Wear).
This is an area outstandingly rich in monuments and buildings from all periods, many of them set in locations of striking beauty and grandeur. They include unquestionably the greatest survival of Roman Britain, Hadrian’s Wall, whose presence has influenced the development of the region ever since, together with well-preserved remains of forts and civilian settlements. Here may be seen some of the most evocative remains of Anglo-Saxon Christianity, including standing buildings of the monastery at Jarrow and Monkwearmouth, and the crypt of Bishop Wilfrid’s cathedral at Hexham. Northumberland is well provided with medieval great churches, including Lindisfarne, Tynemouth, Brinkburn and the present abbey church at Hexham.
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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. Click here for the call for papers.
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Newcastle 2010
Romanesque and the Past 2010
Canterbury 2009
Limerick 2008
Coventry 2007
Prague 2006
Kings Lynn 2005
Cardiff 2004
Mainz 2003
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.