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SMA Conference 2026 – Call for Papers!
We are delighted to announce that on 19 September 2026, the SMA annual Symposium will take place in York, jointly hosted by the University of York’s Department of Archaeology and Centre for Medieval Studies. Our theme is Heritage Science. The event will be based in the historic Grade I/II-listed Guildhall – once a centre of
AGM and Winter Symposium 2025
The Society for Medieval Archaeology is pleased to announce that our Annual General Meeting will take place on Monday 1st December 2025 at 12pm. The AGM will be followed by the Winter Symposium – a set of three lectures that focus on new and emerging research in medieval archaeology. Speakers present early findings from projects
Student Colloquium 2025 Round-up
This year’s student colloquium, ‘Trials, Travels, and Transitions: Tales from the Medieval World’ was held between 30th July – 2nd August 2025. The four-day hybrid event was hosted at the University of Exeter’s, Digital Humanities Lab, led by this year’s student representative Hannah Britton, and supported by an Exeter based organising committee consisting of Laura
Medieval boardgames and trivia at the SMA Student Conference!
Our annual Student Conference is approaching fast! For those making the trip down to Exeter to join us, we’d like to invite you to a night of boardgames and trivia with a medieval flavour. We will be at St. Nicholas Priory from 5-8pm on Wednesday July 30th with games and refreshments, so why not drop
SMA Conference 2025 Programme of Talks
As the date of this year’s conference approaches, we thought we’d give you a little taster of the fascinating line-up of talks planned. This year’s programme spans continents and methodologies—from Swahili stone towns to Viking-Age trade networks, urban ecologies, castlescapes, and ecclesiastical memory. We bring together an international community of scholars to explore how medieval
SMA Student Colloquium – Registration Now Open!
We are pleased to announce that the SMA conference 2025 is now open for registration! The conference will be hosted at the University of Exeter, Digital Humanities Lab, from Thursday 31st July to Saturday 2nd August 2025. The event is hybrid so you are also welcome to join us online. Please use this form to