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In addition to its own events, the Society regularly sponsors over a dozen other conferences each year. If you are a Society member, you can apply for conference funding here
Events List
| event title | venue | daterange | weblink |
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| The Earliest Records of the British Heroic Age | Upper Bursary, Merton College | ||
| Tradition and Design in Twelfth-century French Romance | Upper Bursary, Merton College | ||
| The Lollard Knights | New Common Room, Merton College | ||
| The Twelfth Century Renaissance in French Literature | New Room, Magdalen College | ||
| Rhetoric in Fourteenth Century Oxford | New Room, Magdalen College | ||
| Editing Medieval Lyric Poetry: Marcabru's D'aisso lau Dieu | St. John's College | ||
| Images and Audience: Piers Plowman and Wallpainting | Lady Margaret Hall | ||
| Blossoming Garden & Circling Melody: a reading of Paradiso XXIII | Lady Margaret Hall | ||
| Excommunication and Conscience in the Middle Ages | Lady Margaret Hall | ||
| The Owl and the Nightingale | Lady Margaret Hall | ||
| The Individual Voice in Medieval Spanish Prose | St. Hilda's College | ||
| Anglo-Norman Medicine | St. Hilda's College | ||
| Justice and Judgement at the Court of King Arthur: The Trial of Guinevere | St. Hilda's College | ||
| Towards a History of Medieval Theory and Criticism | Lady Margaret Hall | ||
On Recognising and Failing to Recognise Signals to Irony and Fiction in Court Literature |
Summer Common Room, Magdalen College | ||
| Byrhtferth and his Books | Magdalen College | ||
| Language and National Identity in the British Isles 1100-1400 | University College | ||
| On Allegory: 2005 Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference | |||
The Place of Thought in Late Medieval Didactic Literature: The Case of Christine de Pizan |
Mansfield College | ||
| Robustissimus Antichristi Achilles: Thomas Netter, Wyclif and the Lollards | Balliol College | ||
Learning to Read the Hard Way (Peter of Celle: "On Afflication and Reading") |
Balliol College | ||
| The Musical Stanzas in Martin le Franc's Le champion des dames | Balliol College | ||
| Medieval History: Angevin England through Medieval Eyes | Balliol College | ||
| Imagery of Dance in Early Medieval Europe | Balliol College | ||
| Late Medieval Song | University College | ||
Private Book-Collecting in Spain from St Isidore (570-636) to the Marquis of Santillana (1398-1458) |
Magdalen College | ||
| Literal and Metaphorical in the Bible | Lady Margaret Hall | ||
| The Right to Emend | Merton College | ||
| The pseudo-Denys in the West | Merton College | ||
Peasant Holding and Inheritance Custom in Medieval England: A Comparative Study |
Merton College | ||
| Medieval English Literature: Heads and Tales | Merton College | ||
| Dafydd ap Gwilym: a Welsh Contemporary of Chaucer | Balliol College | ||
| The Conception of the old English Phoenix | Balliol College | ||
| Approaches to Chaucer | Balliol College | ||
| Anglo-Saxon Illumination and the Continent in the 11th Century | Taylorian Institute | ||
| Dante and Wisdom | Magdalen College | ||
| A Mediaeval Bishop of Norwich: Dr Thomas Brouns | Magdalen College | ||
| Thomas More and the Visual Arts | Lady Margaret Hall | ||
| Medieval Patterns of History | Merton College | ||
| Allegory in the Divina Commedia: the Epistle to Cangrande | St. Peter's College | ||
God's Amnesty: Hartmann's Gregorius and the Vie du Pape Saint Gregoire |
Lady Margaret Hall | ||
| The Writings of Marguerite Porete | |||
| Tribute to Professor Jack Bennett | |||
| The Bamberg MSS of c.1000AD and the God of the World | |||
| William Marshall and Arthur of Britanny: A Detective Story | Merton College | ||
Fourteenth-century Theology. Piers Plowman and some Radical Franciscans |
Merton College | ||
| By Hylle and by Vale in the Gawain Country | Merton College | ||
The Countesses of Gloucester and the status of women in Norman and Angevin England |
Merton College | ||
| Petrarch and Monasticism | Merton College | ||
Transmission, Translation and Dissemination in the European Middle Ages, 1000 – 1500 |
University College Cork | ||
| The Italian Renaissance State? | University of Oxford | ||
| Summer School in Old and Medieval French | Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies, Ghent | ||
| The Mediterranean City: Space / Religion / Connectivity | Institute of Medieval Studies, University of St Andrews | ||
| Palaeography Workshop | University College Cork | ||
Annual Conference of the British Branch of the International Arthurian Society |
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| 19th International Congress of the Société Rencesvals | Wadham College | ||
There and Back Again: Writing Spaces, Mapping Places in the Medieval World |
Queen's College | ||
Care and Cure: Diseases, Disabilities and Therapies in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period |
Swansea University | ||
| The Ends of Story-telling | University of Durham | ||
| Gender in Material Culture | Bath Spa University | ||
| Exegesis: from East to West | Heythrop College, London | ||
Gospel Meditations in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-century Europe: Three Voices from the Upper Rhine |
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol | ||
Says who? Contested Spaces, Voices, and Texts, Santa Barbara Medieval Studies Annual Graduate Student Conference |
Santa Barbara, CA | ||
| Performing Medieval Texts | Merton College | ||
| Celtic Legal Procedure | |||
| Symposia Iranica: 1st Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies | University of St. Andrews | ||
| Sleep: Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference | |||
| Grammatica and the Celtic Vernaculars in the Medieval World | Christ Church College | ||
| Skill: The 2013 Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference | Ioannou Centre | ||
| London Anglo-Saxon Symposium | Senate House, London | ||
| Nuns’ Literacies in Medieval Europe | Antwerp | ||
| Old English Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels | University of Westminster | ||
| Meat: The 2012 Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference | |||
| Humanism in England during the Fifteenth Century | Corpus Christi College | ||
| Ludic Margins: the Gravity of Play in Gothic Manuscripts | Lincoln College, Oxford | ||
| Play: 2009 Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference | |||
| Light: The Fourth Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference | |||
| Mary of the Europeans: Emotion and Devotion | St. Hilda's College | ||
These things are figures of the true': Uses of Biblical Typology in Medieval Spanish Literature |
St. Hilda's College | ||
| Death And Resurrection | |||
| The Dream of the Rood' and Eighth-Century Northumbria | Mansfield College | ||
| Judgment And Apocalypse | |||
| Borderlines XIV: Codices and Codification | Queen's University, Belfast | ||
| Error: The 2010 Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference | |||
How the Dominican Order Dealt with Error within its Own Ranks: Unsanctioned Publication and the Censure of Durand of St-Pourçain |
Lincoln College, Oxford | ||
| Romance in Medieval Britain | University of Oxford | ||
| London Anglo-Saxon Symposium 2012 | School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London | ||
| Medievalists and Classicists in Conversation: Epic | Corpus Christi College | ||
| Bibles: Reading Scripture from Medieval to Early Modern | Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of Liverpool | ||
| Contextualizing Miracles in the Christian West | Wolfson College, Cambridge | ||
Estate and Precedence: The Form and Function of Beds in Medieval Households |
Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College, Oxford | ||
| The Medieval Library | Durham Castle | ||
| Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages | University of Oxford | ||
| Burckhardt's Renaissance, 150 Years Later | |||
| Medieval Anchorites in their Communities | Gregynog Hall, Newtown, Powys | ||
| Journey: The 2014 Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference | Ioannou Centre | ||
| Montpelier 8 | University of Oxford | ||
| London Anglo-Saxon Symposium 2014: Religion and Beliefs | All Hallows by the Tower, Byward Street, London | ||
| Storytelling in Court & Cloister | Kings Manor, University of York | ||
| Autumn School: 'Old and Middle French and Medieval Latin' | Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies, Ghent | ||
| The Fifteenth Century Conference | Christ Church College | ||
XXIII. Anglo-German Colloquium: Lehren, Lernen und Bilden in der Literatur des deutschen Mittelalters (Teaching, Learning and Educating in the German Middle Ages) |
University of Nottingham | ||
| Graduate Workshop on Digital Resources: Data and Databases | University College, Dublin | ||
| DUKY Medieval Studies Conference | Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York | ||
| Locating Boccaccio | University of Manchester | ||
| Gervase of Tilbury and International Courtly Culture | University of Lincoln | ||
The Senses in Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Sight and Visual Perception |
University College, Dublin | ||
| Colour: the 2015 Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference | |||
Mightier than the Sword? Grasping the Point of the Anglo-Saxon Riddle Tradition |
Bancroft Building, Queen Mary, University of London | ||
| Image in Medieval Studies | |||
| The Medieval and Early Modern Garden: Enclosure and Transformation | Swansea University | ||
Looking back with Auerbach: A Convivial Celebration of Dante’s 750th Birthday |
St. John's College | ||
| Telling Tales: Manuscripts Books and the Making of Narrative | St. Anne's College | ||
| The Influences of the Dominican Order in the Middle Ages | Taylorian Institute | ||
| Dominus Episcopus | Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquity, Stockholm Sweden | ||
| Art and Articulation: Illuminating the Mystical, Medieval and Modern | St. Hilda's College | ||
| Subversions of Classical Learning (Aberdeen) | University of Aberdeen | ||
Medieval Thought Experiments: Poetry and Speculation in Europe, 1100-1450 |
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| Gender in Medieval Studies | |||
| Animal in Medieval Studies | |||
| Leeds Monasticism Conference | University of Leeds | ||
The Art of Ritual: Object, Image and Space in Medieval/Early Modern Europe |
Senate House, London | ||
Transforming Scripture: Biblical translations and adaptations in Old and Middle English |
University of Oxford | ||
| Didacticism, Satire, and Song: Understanding the Jena Songbook | Somerville College | ||
Across the North Sea: North Sea Connections from 400 AD into the Viking Age |
Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands | ||
| From eald to new: Translating early medieval poetry for the 21st century | School of English, University College Cork | ||
Robert Grosseteste and the Pursuit of Religious and Scientific Learning in the Middle Ages |
Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln | ||
| Latin Palaeography and Medieval Liturgy Workshop | University of Ghent | ||
Stephen Langton's Theological Questions and MS Cambridge, St John's College, C7 (57) |
St. John's College | ||
London Anglo-Saxon Symposium 2015: Constructing Gender in Anglo-Saxon England |
Deller Hall, Senate House, London | ||
| North of England Saints, 600-1500 | Lady Margaret Hall | ||
| The Power of the Bishop: Bishops as Diplomats | John Percival Building, University of Cardiff | ||
Literary Networks of the Vicars Choral and the Clerical Proletariat in Late Medieval York |
Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park, Nottingham | ||
Teaching the Codex 2: further pedagogical approaches to palaeography and codicology |
Merton College | ||
| The Material Culture of Religious Change and Continuity, 1400-1600 | University of Huddersfield | ||
| Architectural Representation in the Middle Ages | University College | ||
TIME: Aspects and Approaches. The 2017 Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference |
Merton College | ||
| Animals: The 2017 London Anglo-Saxon Symposium | Senate House, London | ||
| Storytelling: York CMS Graduate Conference 2017 | University of York | ||
| Mobility and Space in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe | TORCH | ||
| Biennial London Chaucer Conference: Chaucer and the Law | Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London | ||
Ovid Across Europe: Vernacular Translations of the Metamorphoses in the Middle Ages & Renaissance |
University of Bristol | ||
| Neighbours and Strangers: The 2017 Medium Ævum Day Conference | University of Southampton | ||
| A Lecture on Decorated Charters | S.T. Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library, London | ||
| Transmissions and Translations in the Medieval World | Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York | ||
| Bennett & Kerr - Twelfth Night Open Day Invitation | Millhill Warehouse, Church Lane, Steventon | ||
| Power and Identity: The Reading of History in High Medieval Europe | Old College, Aberystwyth University | ||
| Translating, Editing and Using Medieval Documents | Cardiff University | ||
| Shaping, Representing and Using the Medieval City | University of Ghent | ||
| Saints and Sinners: Footprints of Mary and Margaret, Queens of Scots | IASH, Edinburgh University | ||
| Fifth London Anglo-Saxon Symposium 2016 | Court Room, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, Uni. of London | ||
| Wonder: the 2016 Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference | |||
Gerald's Hard Country: Representations of Landscape and Enclosure in the Itinerarium Kambriae |
Cardiff University | ||
| MAE Annual Lecture and AGM 2016 (Cardiff) | Cardiff University | ||
| Eleanor Knott Memorial Conference | Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity College Dublin | ||
| Medieval Culture and War: Ideals, Representations, Realities | University of Leeds | ||
| Interrogating the Germanic a category and its use in Late Antiquity | University of York | ||
| Pastoralia in the Late Middle Ages: Teaching, Translation, Transmission | University of Kent | ||
| Old Norse Poetry in Performance | Somerville College | ||
| Crusading Masculinities Conference (Zurich) | University of Zurich | ||
The Crusades in France and Occitania – Roots, Impact, and Cultural Signification of the Crusading Movement in Medieval Texts |
Institute of Historical Research, London | ||
| People, Places and Possessions, 1350-1550 | TORCH | ||
| The Codex Amiatinus and its Contexts | University of York, Bede's World, Jarrow | ||
| New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, 2016 | Queen Mary, University of London | ||
Æthelred II and Cnut the Great: A Millennial Conference to Commemorate the Siege of London in 1016 |
University of London | ||
Celts, Romans, Britons: Classical and Celtic Influence in Britain, 55 BC - 2016 AD |
Radcliffe Humanities Building | ||
| Old Norse Poetry in Performance: Text and Texture | Christ Church College | ||
| Mediating Dante | University College Cork | ||
| Angels in the Medieval World | University of York | ||
| Power of the Bishop IV: Bishop as Patron from Late Antiquity to 1500 | Sarum College, Salisbury | ||
The 2019 MÆ AGM and Lecture - David d'Avray (UCL), 'How to explain the Medieval Papacy' |
University of Birmingham | ||
The Early English Drama and Performance Network Graduate and Early Career Symposium. |
Fribourg | ||
| Deviance: The 2019 Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference | Kellogg College | ||
Crossing Boundaries?: Trade and Connections on the Medieval Mediterranean |
St John's College, Oxford, Woolf Institute | ||
| International Medievalisms Conference | Maynooth University | ||
| The Life Course in Early Medieval England | Cambridge University | ||
| The 2020 Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference | |||
| Dark Archives 20/20 | online | ||
| Medieval Cultures: Conversations and Confrontations | University of Reading | ||
| Decoding the Past: Critical Editions and Their Editors | The Trinity Long Room Hub | ||
| Teaching the Codex III: Decentring the Codex | Merton College | ||
| Dark Archives: A Conference on the Medieval Unread and Unreadable | English Faculty, Oxford | ||
| Constructing the Public Intellectual in the Premodern World | University of Manchester | ||
Speaking Internationally: Medieval Women’s Literary Culture and the Canon in the Global Middle Ages |
Bangor University, Wales | ||
| Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades: 3rd Annual Symposium | University of Huddersfield | ||
| Conference Title: Gender and Aliens: Gender and Medieval Studies 2019 | Durham University | ||
| LASS 2018: 'Anglo Saxon London' | Senate House, London | ||
| Margery Kempe in the 21st Century | University College, Oxford | ||
| Medieval English (ca600-1500) in a Multilingual Context network | University of Westminster, Seville, University of Bristol, Cardiff University | ||
| Medieval Bodies Ignored: Politics, Culture, and Flesh | Parkinson Building, University of Leeds | ||
Application Deadline for AHRC CHASE Collaborative Doctoral Award: 'Beautiful Fragments: Glass, Ceramics, Leather and Metalwork in Medieval London' |
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| The Animal in Medieval Romance | Kalamazoo, Michigan | ||
| Wycliffitism and Hussitism: Contexts, Methods, Perspectives | St. Anne's College, Oxford | ||
Brussels Medieval Culture and War Conference: Power, Authority, and Normativity |
Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles | ||
| Sixth Annual Symposium on Medieval & Renaissance Studies | Saint Louis University, Saint Louis Missouri | ||
| 2018 John Coffin Memorial Lecture | Chancellor's Hall, First Floor, Senate House, London | ||
Names and Identity in the Medieval World: The 2018 Medium Ævum Day Conference |
University of Glasgow | ||
| Symposium in Historical Archaeoethnology: The Frisians | Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands | ||
| Symposia in Historical Archaeoethnology | Fries Museum, Leeuwarden | ||
MÆ Annual Lecture, Meeting and Colloquium - Medieval Life Writing - in Celebration of the Lecture's 60th Anniversary |
Harris Manchester College | ||
| Animals | Harris Manchester College | ||
‘Britain & its Neighbours: Cultural Contacts & Exchanges in Medieval & Early Modern Europe’, 28-9 June 2018 |
Swansea University | ||
| Reimagining Records | Kew, The National Archives | ||
The 2023 MAE Lecture: Causes and Chronography in Medieval Historical Writing |
Grosvenor Museum, Chester | ||
The 2022 MAE Lecture: Middle English Books of Devotion & Liturgical Privatisation in 15th England |
University of Nottingham | ||
Pfaff at 50: New Devotions and Religious Change in Late Medieval England. Celebrating 50 years of Richard Pfaff's New Liturgical Feasts |
University of Nottingham | ||
The 2021 MAE Lecture: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Women and Multilingualism in Late Medieval England |
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, online | ||
| DarkArchives 20/21 | online | ||
Polyphonic Communities: Ways of Belonging in the Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World |
Exeter College | ||
| The Medieval Inquisition | online | ||
2024 MÆ AGM and Lecture: ‘Shifting Landscapes: St Oswald of Northumbria in England and Germany’ |
Grimond Lecture 3, Grimond Building, University of Kent / Online | ||
| Comparative Afterlives: Medieval Eurasian Heavens and Hells | online |