Conferences

This page indexes the reviews I’ve written of various conferences I’ve attended.

• The International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, reviewed in two posts here and here
• The Second Colloquium of the Cultures of Christian and Islamic Iberia, University of Exeter, reviewed here
• A Symposium on Early Medieval Spain, Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, Queen Mary University of London, reviewed here
• International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, reviewed in four (4) posts, here, here, here and here
• Digital Cultural Heritage – Essential for Tourism. EVA Vienna Conference 2008, Vienna, reviewed here
• Haskins Society Conference, Georgetown University, Washington DC, reviewed here
• Between the Islands: Interaction with Vikings in Ireland and Britain in the Early Medieval Period, Cambridge Centre for Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities, reviewed (solely from other reports) here
• Monasteries and Secular Authorities in the Pre-Millennial Medieval World, University of St Andrews, reported in three posts here, here and here
• International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, reported in four posts, here, here, here and here
• Excellentissima et merito famosissima historica, a ‘Schriftfest’ in celebration of Professor Rosamond McKitterick, Trinity College, Cambridge, reported in two posts here and here
• Princess Eadgyth of Wessex and her World, University of Bristol
• Crisis, What Crisis? The ‘Long’ Ninth Century, McDonald Institute, University of Cambridge
• Clare College Research Symposium 2010, Clare College, Cambridge
• The 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, University of West Michigan, Kalamazoo, reviewed in five posts starting here and continuing here, here and here and concluding here
• The International Medieval Congress 2010, University of Leeds, reviewed in four posts here, here, here and here
• The 17th Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Università per Stranieri, Siena
• The Clerical Cosmos: Ecclesiastical power, culture, and society, c. 900 to c. 1075, Oxford University
• The 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, University of West Michigan, Kalamazoo, covered in four posts here, here, here and here
• 711: reassessing the Arab conquest of Spain in its 1300th year, Institute of Archaeology, Oxford University
• The International Medieval Congress 2011, University of Leeds, written up in four posts as has become traditional, here, here, here and here, but with two touristic precursors from one of the conference expeditions, here and here
• Digital Diplomatics 2011: tools for the digital diplomatist, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II and Società Napoletane di Storia Patria, Naples, covered in three posts here, here and here
• The International Medieval Congress 2012, University of Leeds, in four posts, here, here, here and here
• The O’Donnell Lectures in Celtic Studies 2013, University of Oxford
• Byzantium and the West: Byzantine Spain, University of Oxford
• Historians of Medieval Iberia: a research symposium, University of Exeter
• The International Medieval Congress 2013, University of Leeds, covered in the canonical four posts here, here, here and here
• The 15th Postgraduate Colloquium of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
• The Carolingian Frontier and Its Neighbours, described in three posts here, here and here
• The International Medieval Congress 2014, University of Leeds, once more covered in four posts here, here, here and here
• The 53rd Summer Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society, described here
• The 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, West Michigan University, Kalamazoo, covered in four posts here, here, here and here
• Fragmentation: the Eastern Mediterranean in Conflict and Cohesion, 16th Annual Postgraduate Colloquium of the Centre of Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
• The International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, for 2015, covered in four posts here, here, here and here as has become customary
• The Second Conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean, University of Lincoln, recorded in two posts here and here

That was the last detailed conference write-up I could find the time to do, and by then it was nearly three years backdated so it obviously couldn’t continue thus. Subsequent posts about conferences at least attempted to be more light-touch, and they are these below.

• The XVth International Numismatic Congress, Taormina, Sicily, recorded in two posts here and here
• The 22nd Annual Medieval Research Afternoon, University of Leeds, reported on here
• Framing the Late Antique and Early Medieval Economy Project Conference, Princeton University, reported on here
• The 2016 International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, recorded in two posts here and here
• The 50th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Global Byzantium, reported on here
• The 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, University of West Michigan, Kalamazoo, 2017, reported on here
• The International Symposium Byzantine Gold Coins in Late Antiquity, Institute of Ancient Civilizations, North-East Normal University, Changchun, reported on here
• The 2017 International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, reported on here
• ‘Something for my Native Town’: rare books and manuscripts in the R. E. Hart Collection, Blackburn Museum, 9th and 10th November 2017
• The Barber Coin Collection Colloquium Day: Past, Present and Future Research, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, 18th November 2017
• Islands at the Frontier of Empires in the Middle Ages, Bilkent Universitesi, Ankara, Turkey, 21st-23rd February 2018
• Rethinking the Medieval Frontier I, University of Leeds, 13th April 2018
• Boundaries and Frontiers in the Middle Ages, University of Nottingham, 4th to 5th May 2018
• 2018 International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 2-5 July 2018
• Non-Royal Rulership in the Earlier Medieval West, c. 600-1200, University of Leeds, 8th to 9th April 2019
• Medieval Women: Comparative Perspectives, Birkbeck, University of London, 17th June 2019
• International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 1st-4th July 2019