Meetings & Events: Conferences, One-day conferences, Postgraduate Conference
The BAA’s third annual postgraduate conference will take place on Zoom on 24-25 November 2021, starting at 1 pm GMT on both days. The PDF programme can be viewed here
Register for the conference here
Wednesday 24th November 2021
1:00–1:10 pm (GMT) — Welcome
Space, Place, and Language in Medieval Architecture
1:10–2:30 pm (GMT)
Paro Tomar (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Mosque Building By Artisanal Communities in Western India – Thirteenth to Seventeenth Centuries C.E
Alfie Robinson (University of York)
‘Like, or Better’: Building Contracts and Late-Medieval Perceptions of Quality in Architecture
Michele Guida Conte (Independent Scholar)
Liturgical spaces in Vicentine churches between the 13th and the 15th centuries
2:30–2:45 pm (GMT) — Break
Marginalised Communities
2:45–3.45 pm (GMT)
Aitor Boada-Benito (Complutense University, Madrid)
Natural landscape and Christian communities in the Sasanian Empire: How martyrs and environment developed a religious identity
Sophie Johnson (University of Bristol)
Marginalised in medieval Europe: the underrepresentation of women artists in the history of medieval art
3:45–4:00 pm (GMT) — Break
Materiality and Devotion
4:00–5:20 pm (GMT)
Emily Fu (University of Edinburgh)
Real Presences: Late Medieval Wood Sculpted Crucifixions
Soyoung Joo (Courtauld Institute of Art)
Flaying and Identity c.1500: Skin as Text, Surface, and Clothing
Andy Earnshaw (Oxford University)
Her Final Gift: Revealing Cultural Memory and Emotion in a 12th Century Jet Cross from St John’s Priory, Pontefract
5:20 pm (GMT) — End
Thursday 25th November 2021
1:00–1:10 pm (GMT) — Welcome back
Materiality, Memory, and Identity
1:10–2:10 pm (GMT)
Dr Ellora Bennett (Independent Scholar)
One will die young’: Juvenile weapon burials and processing loss in early medieval England
Dr Julia Faiers (University of St Andrews)
Bishop Louis d’Amboise and the invisible tomb: constructing piety in Albi cathedral
2:10–2:20 pm (GMT) — Break
Iconography and Devotion
2:20–3.20 pm (GMT)
Wiktoria Muryn (University of Glasgow)
Holy (Mis)conceptions: Late Medieval Depictions of the Visitation Featuring the Occupied Womb and their Female Monastic Audience
Daria Melnikov (Queen’s University)
The Guthlac Roll: Artwork and Model Book, circa 1200–1300
3:20–3:30 pm (GMT) — Break
The Building and the City
3:30–4:30 pm (GMT)
Francesca Rognoni & Filippo Gemelli (IUAV – University of Venice and Università degli studi di Pavia)
The Use of Westbau in Medieval Architecture in Central Italy: new data for the façade of Ascoli Cathedral
Dr Rafia Khan (Nirma University, Ahmedabad)
Monument and Monumentality in the Medieval Islamic City: Perspectives from the City and Province of Chanderi
4:30pm (GMT) — Closing remarks