The British Archaeological Association are excited to present a diverse conference which includes postgraduates and early career researchers in the fields of medieval history of art, architecture, and archaeology. This postgraduate conference offers an opportunity for research students at all levels from universities across the UK and abroad to present their research and exchange ideas.
Register for the conference here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtd-2urzMtGtII4nZmnWgWYGx7g9uBG886
Conference programme
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
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