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Host the 22nd Annual Vagantes Conference in 2023!   Application Deadline: Tuesday, August 31st, 2021   The Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies is now accepting applications to host the 2023 conference. Hosted by a different institution each year, Vagantes is an interdisciplinary graduate student conference focused on the Middle Ages. Run and organized entirely by […]

We are excited to announce the Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies Board of Directors for 2021–22! Chair: Claire Kilgore (Ph.D. Candidate, Art History, UW–Madison) Co-Host Institution Representative: Russell David Green (Ph.D. Student, Art History, CWRU) Co-Host Institution Representative: Anna O’Connell (DMA Student, Historical Performance Practice, CWRU) Secretary: Abby Armstrong-Check (Ph.D. Student, Art History, UW–Madison) Webmaster:

The Vagantes Board of Directors is excited to announce the winner of the 20th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies Paper Prize! Charlotte Whatley (Ph.D. Candidate, History, UW–Madison) has won for her paper “Bending Time and Building Authority in the Late Medieval English Common Law.” Congratulations Charlotte!

Host the 22nd Annual Vagantes Conference in 2023!   Application Deadline: Saturday, May 15, 2021   The Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies is now accepting applications to host the 2023 conference. Hosted by a different institution each year, Vagantes is an interdisciplinary graduate student conference focused on the Middle Ages. Run and organized entirely by

We’re THREE days away from the 20th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies! Share your swag and make sure to use the #vagantes2021 in all of your Vagantes related posts. We can’t wait to see you next week! If you have not registered yet, you can can do so at:http://vagantesconference.org/conference-program/

The 20th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies program for 2021 is now LIVE! You can see the full program on our Conference Program tab under Vagantes 2021. At the bottom of the page there is an option to download a PDF version of the program.

Please join us for the 20th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies Host Institution Keynote Lecture. Elizabeth Lapina, Associate Professor of History at UW–Madison, will be presenting her paper “Depicting the Holy War on Wall Paintings in England and France in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries,” on Friday March 19th, 2021 at 5:00pm CDT. Abstract: In

In conjunction with the 20th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies, Professor Cord Whitaker (English, Wellesley College) will be giving his talk “‘The Shade of Trees Their Ancestors Left’: Medieval Blackness, African American Medievalism, and the Resistance of the Far Right” on Thursday, March 18th, 2021 at 5:00pm CST.

The Board of Directors of the Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies is proud to announce the second Vagantes Award for Best Graduate Paper. As a graduate organization, we are pleased to offer this additional avenue for professional development for those presenting at the conference. The finalists for the award will be voted on by the