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: 2010
Newcastle and Northumberland: 17th-21st July 2010
Click here to download the Call for papers
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.
The conference will be based in Newcastle, (still named after its great 12th-century fortress), a city with numerous impressive parish churches, including St Nicholas’s Cathedral, friaries and the city wall, though it would be impossible to miss the 19th-century buildings that proclaim the city’s commercial and industrial prosperity. Finally, as a region on the frontier between England and Scotland, Northumberland is famous for its castles, including the quartet of Alnwick, Bamburgh, Dunstanburgh and Warkworth, as well as many houses of lesser status, fortified in a distinctively Northumbrian manner. We will be staying in the University, where lectures will also be held. We propose to visit sites in the city and to make excursions to Tynemouth Priory and Jarrow, and to Hexham, with sites on and near Hadrian’s Wall, and Aydon Castle.
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Romanesque and the Past: London, 9th-11th April 2010
Deadline for places: 31st October 2009
BAA members have been sent the form for them in the October 2009 mailing.
This conference has been introduced to invite scholars from all areas of Romanesque art and architecture to exchange ideas. The first of the series is being hosted by the BAA but the conference series is intended to cover all areas of study in this period in europe and will be held in new locations each time. The next conference in this new biannual series planned is: Romanesque and the Eastern Mediterranean in Palermo 2012.
To download this booking form for BAA members only (pdf version) click here (Word version) click here
To download a booking form for non-BAA members (pdf version) click here (Word version) click here
The conference for 2009 was in Canterbury from Saturday 18 July to Wednesday 22 July. This year was the 900th anniversary of the death of St Anselm of Canterbury and the 30th anniversary of the BAA's 1979 meeting there. Papers and site visits investigated the art, architecture and archaeology of medieval Canterbury and its environs.
As always conference always welcomed professional and amateur enthusiasts equally. You may also wish to download a sample copy of a programme from a previous conference as an example please see below (below).
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.