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SMA Annual Conference 2025 Round-up
The Society for Medieval Archaeology recently held its 2025 annual conference in the vibrant city of Leicester. Delegates enjoyed a bumper weekend of talks beginning in Leicester Cathedral with an inspiring keynote from Stephanie Wynn-Jones (York University) who invited us to explore the Swahili medieval towns of coastal Africa through the lens of Italo Calvino’s
Medieval Archaeology 69.1 now available!
We are very pleased to announce that issue 69.1 of Medieval Archaeology has now been published online and the print copy should be arriving with members shortly. The content in this issue includes six original articles focusing on new research from Britain, Belgium, Central Eurasia, Iberia, and Norway and covers both the early and late
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
Spring 2025 Newsletter is here!
The Spring 2025 issue of the Medieval Archaeology Newsletter should be hitting members’ doormats shortly. Issue 73 contents include: Details of the upcoming Student Colloquium and the SMA Annual Conference A research project studying medieval wetland communities in Vátyon, Hungary A spotlight on the projects that have received recent Society grants and awards A tribute
SMA Annual Conference 2025 – booking now open!
We are delighted to announce that registration for the SMA Annual Conference 2025 is now open! This year’s conference will take place at the Attenborough Arts Centre, University of Leicester on the 13th and 14th September 2025, with a keynote lecture on the evening of Friday 12th September, held at Leicester Cathedral. The theme for
The Jarrow Lecture 2025
We’d like to draw your attention to the forthcoming Jarrow Lecture for 2025: “What has Bede to do with the Franks casket?: The wider context”. It will be delivered by Professor Leslie Webster, former Senior Curator and Head of Department at the British Museum from 1964-2007. The talk is free to attend at will take