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Spring 2025 Newsletter is here!

Posted On: May 15th, 2025

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

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SMA Annual Conference 2025 – booking now open!

Posted On: May 14th, 2025

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

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The Jarrow Lecture 2025

Posted On: May 13th, 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

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Joint SMA and ISSEME Virtual Seminar – registration now open!

Posted On: April 16th, 2025

The Society for Medieval Archaeology and the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England will be hosting a joint virtual seminar on Thursday 24th April 2025. The lecture will be given by Duncan Wright (Newcastle University) about the research project “Where Power Lies“. To join us for this fascinating talk, please register here.

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SMA Student Colloquium – Call for Papers Now Open!

Posted On: March 26th, 2025

The Department of Archaeology and Digital Humanities Lab at the University of Exeter are proud to be hosting this year’s Student SMA Conference. Entitled “Trials, Travels and Transitions: Tales from the Medieval World” this conference will take place between Thursday 31st July to Saturday 2nd August.  The call for papers is now open, we are

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PhD Research Fellowship Opportunity at University of Bergen

Posted On: February 25th, 2025

The Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion at the University of Bergen is inviting applications for a PhD Research Fellowship in Archaeology, commencing in August 2025. The fellowship will focus on the materiality of Christianity and its physical remains within the Norwegian territory, but with the possibility for studying this in a larger

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