We hereby would like to announce that the registration for the 20th Medieval and Early Modern Student Association Conference in Durham University is open! The conference theme this year will be ‘Connection, Conversation, and Contention: Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern World’, and the event itself will feature 36 papers on this theme by Postgraduates from different disciplines and countries. In addition, there will also be three keynotes by Dr. Lisa Kattenberg, Dr. Natalie Goodison and Professor Stuart Carroll. This will be a great opportunity to meet peers and to get an insight in the current research themes on Premodern world.
The tickets for the conference itself will be £30, which includes refreshments and lunches. There will also be an optional add-on dinner for the first day (Monday the 13th of July). Furthermore, we will organise an optional special collections library tour and a Durham city tour which are both free of charge.
We kindly ask you to register by 20th June 2026 using the following link: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=i9hQcmhLKUW-RNWaLYpvlFFYknFXEpJOkqwtgqakMuZUMkZGTE1aTEVEUFVVTEE3NlVVOTRMMlRSSi4u&route=shorturl
The conference itself will take place on the 13th and 14th of July at St. John’s College (3 South Bailey, Durham). The location can be easily reached from Durham train station, and the train station in turn, is well connected with Newcastle airport through metro and train services. If you have any questions, regarding to staying in Durham or any other aspect of the conference experience, do not hesitate to contact us at memsa.conference@durham.ac.uk. We hope to meet you in Durham soon!