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The British Academy Conferences

2025/26

Bringing together scholars from around the world to consider and evaluate new research in the humanities and social sciences

British Academy Conferences bring together scholars from around the world to present, discuss and consolidate new research in the humanities and social sciences. Held at the British Academy’s own premises in London, at venues across the UK, or online, these landmark occasions offer students, scholars and specialists a chance to expand their networks and learn about the latest developments in their field. The scheme includes a strand of British Academy / Wellcome Trust Conferences, designed to foster discussion and debate on health and wellbeing-related themes.

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British Academy Conference grants

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Proceedings of the British Academy

Edited collections of articles developed from British Academy Conferences are published by the British Academy, typically as volumes in the Proceedings of the British Academy series.

Past British Academy Conferences

Information about past British Academy Conferences, and the edited collections of articles arising from these conferences.

Future British Academy Conferences

Find out about forthcoming British Academy Conferences, including how to register.

30 Apr - 1 May 2024 - Colchester

The Realisation of Human Rights in Societies Beyond Growth

Bringing together internationally leading scholars and practitioners from the human rights and post-growth fields, this conference will explore the relationship between economic growth and human rights; identify opportunities and challenges for human rights in post-growth strategies; and explore pathways to realising human rights while living within planetary boundaries.

11 - 12 May 2024 - Chichester

The Commercial Business of Comics: Transforming Authorship, Distribution, Technology, Story and Aesthetics in the Global North and South

What are the global comics industries and how do changing business patterns and practices co-produce new authorship, distribution, technical processes of making and production, and reception of comics?

13 - 14 May 2024 - London

Transnational Elites: Imperial Histories, Global Power and Public Resistance Today

Today’s increasing economic inequality goes hand in hand with an uptick in elite power worldwide. This conference brings together leading interdisciplinary scholars to explore this from an international perspective, considering the past and present imperial and (neo)colonial contexts in which elites operate in an increasingly unequal world.

28 - 29 May 2024 - University of Oxford

Comparative Perspectives on Migration Attitudes and Behaviours: Causes, Consequences, Interventions

Several decades of diverse research have productively explored how, why, and with what consequences people move. By bringing world-leading scholars of migration into conversation with senior policymakers and practitioners, this two-day in-person conference will take stock of existing knowledge and set an agenda for future migration research.

12 - 14 Jun 2024 - Darlington

Resisting fascism: Fifty years of anti-fascism ‘from below’, 1974-2024

On 15 June 1974, during a violent counterdemonstration against the far-right National Front, Kevin Gately, a mathematics student from the University of Warwick was killed in London’s Red Lion Square. This was the first death of an anti-fascist at a counter-protest in British political history. Fifty years on, this landmark …

1 - 2 Jul 2024 - London

Music and Majesty: Chapels Royal, Cathedrals, and Colleges, c.1485-1688

Royal chapels, cathedrals, and collegiate institutions are acknowledged as unique sanctuaries which safeguarded English church music from a variety of socio-political events. Although their importance to the musical and religious development of the English ‘long Reformation’ has received considerable attention from historians and musicologists, interdisciplinary perspectives and discussions are vital …

26 - 27 Oct 2024 - Oxford

Knowing the Vernacular: Critical Reflections and Future Directions

Vernacular architecture is rooted in community, place and tradition. This conference seeks to identify new areas of research and new ways of engaging with vernacular architecture; and to explore ways to make the knowledge embodied in vernacular traditions more widely available beyond academia.

4 - 5 Nov 2024 - Birmingham

Laughter and Medicine

Laughter is not always the 'best medicine'. Connecting knowledge across the disciplines, this conference will put practicing doctors in direct dialogue with researchers in the humanities to understand the social, diagnostic, therapeutic and physiological implications of laughter, inside and outside the clinic.

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