Medieval Conferences




This is a selection of conferences on medieval art and related
topics.  Many are for graduate students, but conferences open to all are also 
included. Remember also to check the main 
Symposia page for other conferences with calls for papers in many or
all fields. Conferences with Web sites will be left posted after the event
for the pleasure of the reader.











Index for this Page




Kalamazoo Calls


Here is the way to the main site of the Call for Papers for the Conference,
 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, 7-10 May 2009. Western Michigan University,
 Kalamazoo, Michigan. Dealine for sponsorship proposals is 1 May 2008.



Other Medieval Conferences



Most of these seem to be offered every year.







Kalamazoo



 





 The International 
Congress of Medieval Studies 


 Call for Papers for The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)

at Kalamazoo for 9-10 May 2009. These are the sponsored & special programs.











 

All Medieval Conferences


Note that almost all of these conferences are held annually. This list also includes individual CFPs for Kalamazoo.






ANGLO-SAXON STUDIES COLLOQUIUM GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE




Saturday, February 16th 2008 Yale University. "The theme of this yearÍs conference is "Pleasure in Anglo-Saxon England." 
We invite submissions addressing any and all manifestations of pleasure in Old English or Anglo-Latin texts, Anglo-Saxon history, 
art, religion, or archaeology. We welcome a variety of methodologies, being equally pleased by the philological delight of a word 
study as by a wide-ranging treatment of emotions in Anglo-Saxon society. We also invite papers on the particular pleasures that the 
Anglo-Saxon world offers post-medieval scholars, artists, and armchair antiquarians. In the tradition of the Colloquium, we
will be having respondents for the paper presentations, which should be no longer than ten minutes.  

Proposals were due November 26, 2007. Contact via e-mail to pleasureatyale@hotmail.com, or send paper submissions to P.O. Box 
208302, New Haven, CT 06520. (Paper submissions should arrive by the deadline.)  Conference organizers: Irina Dumitrescu, Denis Ferhatovic, Jordan Zweck. 






ARIZONA CENTER FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES




Held 14-16 February 2008. (Every year at about that time) Abstracts due 1 November. For more information, check the Web site 
or contact:  ACMRS, Arizona State University, Box 872301, Tempe, AZ 85287-2301.  Phone: (602) 965-5900. Fax: 
(602) 965-1681.  
ACMRS E-mail: acmrs@asu.edu






AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND ASSOCIATION FOR MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES (ANZAMEMS)




Held 7-10 February 2007. Annual? University of Adelaide, South Australia. "Open theme; all topics in medieval and early 
modern studies welcome. Abstracts (c. 200 words), or proposals for panels, to (lawrence.warner@adelaide.edu.au) 
or Dr Lawrence Warner, Discipline of English, University of Adelaide, SA 5005 AUSTRALIA were due 1 November 2006.
Postgraduate students and early career researchers especially welcome; if potential Australian speakers in these 
categories need assistance to attend the conference, they are welcome to contact the ARC Network for Early European 
Research, which has a discretionary budget for such purposes: (http://www.neer.arts.uwa.edu.au/postgraduates).





BARNARD COLLEGE 
MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE




6 December 2008. "A one-day interdisciplinary conference exploring how time was measured, 
represented, and imagined in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The organizers seek papers to address 
a range of topics including the technology of measuring and organizing time; calendars and almanacs; 
astronomical, natural, and liturgical models of time; the expression of time in literature, fine arts, 
music, theater, historiography, law and science. Deadline for submission of proposals: May 15, 
2008. Abstracts of up to one page in length with c.v. should be sent to:







UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES : CONFERENCES ON LATE 
ANTIQUITY




Information on the Graduate Student Conference on Late Antiquity, and
on the International Conference on Late Antiquity.





CELTIC COLLOQUIUM




10-12 October 2008. Twenty-Eighth Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium, Harvard University. "We welcome proposals 
for 20-minute papers on topics which relate directly to Celtic studies (Celtic languages and literatures in any 
phase; cultural, historical, or social science topics; theoretical perspectives, etc.). Papers concerning 
interdisciplinary research with a Celtic focus are also invited. Closing Date for proposals: May 
3, 2008.






 
CENTER FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES, BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY INTERDISCIPILINARY CONFERENCE




25-26 April 2008. Theme: Venus and the Venereal: Interpretations and Representations from Classical Antiquity through the 
Eighteenth Century.





[CONFRATERNITIES] BROTHERHOOD AND BOUNDARIES: Lay Religion and Europe's Expansion in the late Medieval and Early Modern Period




26-27 September 2008 International Conference, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa - Italy. "Recent scholarship has explored 
the actions of confraternities as agents of lay piety, civic religion, and church reform within the Catholic world. Yet social 
kinship groups were found in many different religious and national communities, in many different social communities, and in
many different institutional contexts.  They both expressed and mediated the tensions that arose at a time of extraordinary 
historical change. This conference aims to explore the activities of social kinship groups in various religious, national, cultural, 
and social communities from the late Medieval through the Early Modern periods (ie., the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries), with 
a focus on those groups that aimed to either bridge or defend boundaries of one sort or another.  We seek papers that explore 
confraternities' activities in cross-cultural contexts both within Europe and in those parts of the world where the European presence 
is expanding. We are particularly interested in exploring the dynamics that result from action across various boundaries. Deadline 
for proposals was December 15, 2007.

 



CONVIVIUM : CONFERENCE AT SIENA COLLEGE




Held 7-8 October 2005. They seem to have lots of conferences but they NEVER update their Web sites--unless it's too late!





FEMALE FOUNDERS in Byzantium & Beyond




23-25 September 2008 Institute of Art History, University of Vienna, Austria. "This international colloquium 
celebrates the achievements of women founders, patrons and donors in Byzantium and in neighbouring regions. It arises 
out of the award to the University of Vienna of a professorial chair in Gender Studies by the Austrian Federal Ministry 
of Science and Research in recognition of the University's record in support of women scholars. During the 2007-2008 
term, courses and lecture series on Women, Men and Eunuchs; Sex and The City; The Muses; pro-seminars on Women and Power; 
Women and Sanctity; and The Byzantine Body; and graduate seminars on Female Founders have prepared the way for a 
three-day event with the international scholars most closely associated with the world-famous treasures commissioned by 
the female founders of Byzantium and housed in the Austrian National Library and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

"Students and scholars are invited to submit proposals on economic, historical, art historical, archaeological, and 
literary aspects of gender and patronage in Byzantium and neighbouring regions. Themes related to the following topics 
will be most appreciated:

- Individual founders, patrons, donors
- The economic power and legal position of women
- Women and spirituality
- The processes of patronage
- Monasteries, churches, tombs and their decoration
- Texts, textiles, ivories, manuscripts, icons, jewellery, seals
- "Kleine Stiftungen": light, bread, labour, etc.



"Please submit proposals for 15-minute papers, including a brief abstract (ca. 300-500 words) and a short CV as 
E-mail attachments no later than May 31, 2008, to the project coordinators: (matthew.savage@univie.ac.at) or 
(galina.fingarova@univie.ac.at). We look forward to welcoming you to Vienna,

Lioba Theis, Margaret Mullett, Michael GrŸnbart
Institut fŸr Kunstgeschichte,
Institut fŸr Byzantinistik und NeogrŠzistik
der UniversitŠt Wien







GENDER AND MEDIEVAL STUDIES CONFERENCE




9-10 January 2009 King's College, London Theme: "Locating Gender." [The conference] is geared as much 
towards postgraduate students as established scholars. Deadline for proposals:1 September 2008. For more 
information please see the Web site.





ILLINOIS MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION




Held 22-23 February 2008. 





INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDIEVAL STUDIES SYNMPOSIUM: "Violence, Conflict, and Humor"
 



Held 3 March 2008. Annual? Who knows! Write them and ask!! Abstracts were due February 1, 2008 
to the following address:






INTERNATIONAL MEDIEVAL CONGRESS: 
LEEDS




 13-16 July 2009. University of Leeds,  UK. The deadline for submissions of paper proposals is September 1, 
2008. See the Web site for more details.





LOUISIANA CONSORTIUM OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE SCHOLARS




Held 26-28 October 2007. Web site is dead...





MEDIEVAL SEAS




18-19 October 2008 A Weekend Conference to be held at Rye College, East Sussex, UK. "Proposals 
for papers are welcome on any matters relating to 'Medieval Seas' broadly defined, covering the 
period c.500-c.1500. Possible subjects include: shipping and shipbuilding; material remains/maritime 
archaeology; navigation; cartography and world view; society at sea and ashore; trade; war at sea; 
artistic and literary expressions of the sea and maritime affairs; maritime law. Contributions are 
encouraged from established scholars and early career researchers. Proposals for 30-minute presentations 
should take the form of title and brief abstract. The deadline for proposals was Monday 7 April 2008.
Proposals and enquiries should addressed to:







MEDIEVAL SPATIALITY




25-28 FEBRUARY 2009 Part of the College Art Association Conference. Los Angeles, CA, USA. "Session description:  
In recent years scholars from many disciplines have created a new field of study focusing on cultural constructions of 
space and place; this work ranges from David Harvey's "socio-spatial dialectic" through Foucault's "heterotopias" to 
examinations of virtual networks by Paul Virilio, William J. Mitchell, and others. In art history, the shift underway 
is from a paradigm of visuality to one of spatiality.  This session considers the scholarly turn towards the spatial 
and its implications for the study of medieval art.  The spaces of the medieval world offered shifting juxtapositions of 
sacred and secular, urban and rural, elite and populist, centered and dispersed. Within particular spatial practices, 
art helped create complex cognitive maps informing the ways in which medieval people inhabited and understood space; 
additionally, medieval works of art regularly featured complex represented spaces. We solicit proposals from many
perspectives and urge speakers to balance the theoretical and historical. Please submit an abstract, CV, letter 
explaining speaker's interest, and CAA membership status, by Friday May 9, 2008, to: Gerry Guest, Art History 
Department, John Carroll University, University Heights, OH 44118. For submission guidelines, see:
http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/CallforParticipation2009.pdf






MID-AMERICA MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION




Held 23 February 2008. MISSOURI VALLEY COLLEGE, Marshall, Missouri. If you are interested in presenting a paper or panel, please send a one-page
abstract to (mama32@sbcglobal.net). Telephone: 660-831-4231; Fax: 660-831-4039. THE DEADLINE WAS DECEMBER 14, 2007. 
Please make a Web site!!





MIDWEST MEDIEVAL HISTORY CONFERENCE




Held 13-14 October 2006. Annual? Who knows?





NEW COLLEGE CONFERENCE ON MEDIEVAL-RENAISSANCE STUDIES




Held March 6-8, 2008. Biennial. Areas: "The program committee invites one-page abstracts of proposed twenty-minute papers on topics in 
European and Mediterranean history, literature, art, and religion from the fourth to the seventeenth centuries. Interdisciplinary work 
is particularly appropriate to the conferenceÍs broad historical and disciplinary scope. Planned sessions are welcome. The deadline for 
abstracts WAs September 15, 2007.[N. B.: 
An excellent conference! Highly recommended by the editor!] For more information see the Website and contact:







NEW ENGLAND MEDIEVAL STUDIES 
CONSORTIUM GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE




Held 1 March 2008. The 25th Annual Conference took place at Brown University. The deadline for abstract submission 
was Thursday, November 1st, 2007. 





NORTH TEXAS MEDIEVAL GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM




Held 8-9 November 2007. University of North Texas. Denton, Texas. "Deadline for submissions was  OCTOBER 1ST.
Theme:  "Medieval Places: Geographical Approaches to Medieval Culture." 





PATRISTIC, MEDIEVAL, 
AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES CONFERENCE




10-12 October 2008. Villanova University. "Deadline for Papers Submission: May 30, 2008." Please visit 
*the Web site* for more details.  






POWER & PATRONAGE IN THE MIDDLE AGES




Held 14-15 March 2008. Centre for Medieval Studies Annual Conference, University of Toronto. The conference "will explore the role 
and function of medieval patronage in all its forms, from patron-client relationships in the Late Antique Mediterranean to civic 
patronage systems in Late Medieval Europe, and from networks of economic and political power to structures of literary and artistic 
production. The keynote speaker, Richard Firth Green, Humanities Distinguished Professor of English and the Director of the Center for 
Medieval & Renaissance Studies at The Ohio State University, will give a talk on Humphrey de Bohun and the translation of Guillaume de 
Palerme into English.

"The organizing committee invites proposals for topics relating to medieval patronage in any of its forms; those proposals that cross 
over traditional disciplinary boundaries are especially welcome. Proposals were due 15 September 2007.  The Centre for Medieval 
Studies will be changing  locations within the university over the summer, so electronic submissions are especially encouraged.

medieval.conference@utoronto.ca 


-or-








REMEMBERING THE CRUSADES: MYTH, IMAGE, AND IDENTITY




Held 29-30 March 2008. New York City. 28th Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University. 





SACRED LEAVES GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM




Held 21-22 February 2008. Annual? University of South Florida, Tampa Library, Tampa, FL. "This year's theme is '"Religions of the Book: 
Manuscript Traditions in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, 1000-1500'. The Special Collections Department of the Tampa Library, University of South Florida 
seeks papers from graduate students and recent M.A. or Ph.D. recipients for its Second Annual Sacred Leaves Graduate Symposium. We 
encourage interdisciplinary topics with comparative emphases on monotheistic religions in the medieval world. 

"Please e-mail an abstract of no more than 250 words to Dr. Jane Marie Pinzino, Symposium Coordinator, at jpinzino@lib.usf.edu.  
SUBMISSIONS were due: DECEMBER 14, 2007. Notification of acceptances will be e-mailed by January 4, 2008.  Please include 
the title of your paper, name, affiliation and e-mail address. 





SEWANEE MEDIEVAL COLLOQUIUM




Held 11-12 April 2008. "Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers or for 3-paper sessions related to the theme ("Francis, 
Dominic, their orders and their tradition") in any way. Abstracts were due 1 October 2007. Completed papers, including notes, will be due no later than 10 March 2008. The Sewanee Medieval 
Colloquium Prize will be awarded for the best paper by a graduate student or recent PhD recipient (degree awarded since July 2005)."







SOUTHEASTERN MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION




Held 4-6 October 2007. Hosted by Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. "SEMA is pleased to invite you to our 33rd 
Annual Meeting.  We welcome paper or panel proposals on the topic of "The Medieval Spirit" or any other aspect of medieval 
studies.  The conference will feature plenary addresses by Wayne Storey, Professor of French and Italian at Indiana University 
and Kenneth Baxter Wolf, the John Sutton Miner Professor of History and Associate Dean of The College at Pomona College.  In
addition, participants will have the opportunity to tour the Wofford College Arboretum and visit the historic Cowpens Battlefield.  
Please send proposals to:







SPACE IN MEDIEVAL CULTURE




Held 10-13 April 2008. Buffalo, NY. The Northeast MLA (NEMLA) Convention. "This panel seeks to address the relationship 
between the representation of space and the use of space in medieval culture. Papers on concepts of medieval space in 
literature, architecture, social customs, and other aspects of material culture as well as papers that address the link
between two concepts of space (say, between the holy space and vernacular or courtly literature) are welcome. Please send 
abstracts to Christopher Roman at croman2@kent.edu by September 15, 2007. Please include with your abstract: Name and
Affiliation / Email address / Postal address / Telephone number / A/V requirements.





TEXAS MEDIEVAL CONFERENCE




2-4 October 2008. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. "Early submissions are greatly welcomed, but please 
try to send in all session proposals and paper abstracts (150-300 words) no later than September 1 [sic]." See the 
Web site for details.





UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS MEDIEVAL GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM




30-31 January 2009 "In honor of UNT's two new Graduate Student Scholarships for the study of Islamic or Middle 
Eastern Art History, the topic for this year's Symposium will be East Meets West in the Middle Ages...The Graduate Student 
Symposium will take place on Saturday, January 31st  from 10 AM until 4PM...While we will entertain papers from any 
discipline of Medieval Studies and on any topic, we particularly welcome those that engage the intersections of the East 
and the West.  We encourage submission of papers that have been submitted and/or delivered elsewhere. The deadline 
for submission is November 1st, 2008.  A reminder notice and second call for papers will come out in September. Paper 
Abstracts should be sent to:


  • Abel@unt.edu or

  • Dr. Mickey Abel

  • Assistant Professor, Art History

  • University of North Texas

  • P.O. Box 305100

  • Denton, TX 76203-5100


    • 

    

    UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA 
COLLEGE AT WISE MEDIEVAL-RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE XX
    

    

    Held 14-16 September 2006. Wise, Virginia. "The Medieval-Renaissance Conference promotes scholarly discussion 
in all disciplines of Medieval and Renaissance studies. The conference welcomes proposals for papers and panels on 
Medieval or Renaissance literature, language, history, philosophy, science, pedagogy, and the arts.  Abstracts for 
papers should be 250 or fewer words.  Proposals for panels should include: a) title of the panel; b) names and 
institutional affiliations of the chair and all panelists; c) abstracts for papers to be presented (250 or fewer 
words).  A branch campus of the University of Virginia, the University of VirginiaÍs College at Wise is a public 
four-year liberal arts college located in the scenic Appalachian Mountains of Southwest 
Virginia.  For more information, please visit the website. Deadline for Submissions was June 10, 2006. 

    

    

    THE UNNATURAL WORLD
    

    

    7-10 July 2008 Part of Leeds 2008. "The Natural World." "In recent years, a number of scholars have turned their 
attention to issues of monstrosity, magic and witchcraft, abnormal geographies, and their connections with broader medieval 
culture and discourse.  These subjects are often (though not always) viewed as being aberrations, outside of nature. I [sic] 
therefore propose a set of sessions on "The Unnatural World," in response to and in accordance with the year's theme. There is 
a stress in the general Leeds CFP on interdisciplinary work, and so the growing field of "Monster Studies" is a perfect fit.
Topics might include:  the monstrous races in art and literature, Sheela-na-gig, theoretical approaches to monstrosity, 
geographic marginality, magic, hybridity, unnatural births, borderlands, cannibalism, etc. Such Others -- differing in race, 
species, culture, diet, geography, and so on -- reveal a great deal about the cultures by which they were created and so form 
a powerful locus for theoretical, literary, historical and art historical investigation. Proposals were due to (mittman@asu.edu) by 
August 20."

    

    

    

    VAGANTES
    

    

    HELD Feb. 28 - Mar. 2, 2008. The Ohio State University.  "Vagantes is an annual, traveling conference for graduate students 
studying any aspect of the Middle Ages.  The conference was conceived with several goals in mind, including the 
fostering of a sense of community among graduate medievalists, providing exposure to an interdisciplinary forum, and 
showcasing the resources of the host institution ¨¢ all within a student budget...Abstracts for twenty-minute papers 
are welcome from graduate students on any topic dealing with the Middle Ages, including areas outside the Latin West. Abstracts for 
twenty-minute papers are welcome from graduate students on any topic dealing with the Middle Ages, including areas outside the Latin 
West. Papers should strive for significance to a broad medievalist audience. Proposals were due October 15, 2007 to:

    

    

    Publication Possibilities
    

    "The online journal Peregrinations has offered to publish a special edition or section on the Bayeux Tapestry. The journal's focus 
is on pilgrimage related art in the Middle Ages, but the focus of this special edition need not be. In fact, this special edition is 
interested in all sorts of approaches to this eleventh-century mysterious fabric from a variety of disciplines: literature, art, 
history, texile studies, new media, and semiotics. If you would like to submit an essay on the Bayeux Tapestry to be 
considered for this special edition, please send a proposal or the paper 
itself to the following address by November 30:

    

    

    


    

    

    


    

    

    

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