This page list past events in the BAA’s Annual Lecture Series back to 2009.
For many of the lectures that were recorded, a video will be shown; you can also find videos of past events on the BAA’s YouTube channel
Upcoming lectures
Our lectures run from October to May, and take place on the first Wednesday of the month, at 5pm (with tea at 4.30pm). BAA lectures are held in the rooms of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE
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Wednesday 4 Oct 2023
‘Reconstructing Bury St Edmunds Abbey’ (now online)
PRESENTED BY
Dr Steven Brindle (English Heritage) -
Wednesday 3 May 2023
The Cosmati Mosaics at Westminster: Art, Politics, the Coronation and Exchanges with Rome in the Age of Gothic
PRESENTED BY
Professor Paul Binski (Cambridge University) and Professor Claudia Bolgia (Università di Udine) -
Wednesday 5 Apr 2023
Intertextuality and Romanitas: Twelfth-Century Responses to Roman Antiquities
PRESENTED BY
Dr William Kynan Wilson, The Open University -
Wednesday 1 Mar 2023
‘Limoges Enamel Caskets in Medieval Spain: A Sensuous Experience’
PRESENTED BY
Dr Jitske Jasperse, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin -
Wednesday 1 Feb 2023
The Sources of Viking Wealth: new results from lead isotope analysis of Viking silver hoards
PRESENTED BY
Dr Jane Kershaw, Oxford University -
Wednesday 4 Jan 2023
Opicinus de Canistris (1296–c. 1352) and Diagrams of Time in the Late Middle Ages
PRESENTED BY
Dr Sarah Griffin, Lambeth Palace Library -
Wednesday 7 Dec 2022
The Abbey of Santa Maria a Mare, San Nicola di Tremiti: an important early Romanesque monument all but lost at sea
PRESENTED BY
Dr Francis Woodman, Cambridge University -
Wednesday 2 Nov 2022
The Chantry Chapels of Cardinal Beaufort and Bishop Waynflete in Winchester Cathedral
PRESENTED BY
Jane Stewart, Courtauld Institute of Art