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Please join the Vagantes board for our first Mentorship & Professionalization event!  Have you ever wondered about how to publish your work as a graduate student? Or what it means to invest in professional development? Join the Vagantes Mentorship & Professionalization representative, Kris Racaniello, to discuss navigating journal applications, unconventional publishing, and what a “professional” […]

The 24th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies co-hosted by Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will take place at Duke University in Durham, NC from April 3-5, 2025. Vagantes is an interdisciplinary community of junior and early career scholars that offers an ideal opportunity for sharing new research from across the

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Join us Thusday, March 21 at 7:00 pm for a concert presented by the Newberry Consort! The program will be centered around the Vints Hans Lied, an extraordinary Yiddish historical song chronicling the Fettmilch Uprising of 1614. Tickets are free, but we ask that you register in advance! Register here or by scanning the QR

Vagantes 2024 is coming soon! This year’s conference features a fabulous selection of papers as well as events including workshops, a visit to the conservation lab at the Northwestern University Library, and a concert presented by the Newberry Consort! The conference will also have two exciting keynote lectures by Dr. Susie Phillips (Northwestern University) and

The deadline to submit abstracts for the Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies has been extended to Sunday, December 10th, 2023! See the poster for more details and please share it widely! If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out. We look forward to welcoming you to Northwestern University in March!

The 23rd Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies will take place at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL from March 21–23, 2024. Vagantes is an interdisciplinary community of junior scholars that offers an excellent opportunity for sharing new research. Abstracts of 300 words and a 1-page CV including names and pronouns are due by December 4, 2023.  We