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Save the date for the 2025 GMS/SMFS Conference:

Gender: Charity and Care

Canterbury Christ Church University

2nd – 5th July 2025 (note the summer date)

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Past Conferences

2023 BIRKBECK and THE WELLCOME COLLECTION, Aftermath, Recovery, Repair

2022 THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, Resilience, Persistance and Agency

BL Royal 18 D. ii, f. 30v.

2021 UNIVERSITY OF SURREY Gender and Mobility

2020 SWANSEA UNIVERSITY Gender, Science and the Natural World

2019 DURHAM UNIVERSITY Gender and Aliens

2018 Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Gender Identity, Iconography

British Library, Egerton 881 f. 11

2017 Christ Church University, Canterbury

Gender Places, Spaces, Thresholds

 

2016 Hull

Gender and Emotion

2015 Bangor

Gender, Dirt and Taboo

2014 Winchester

Gender and Status

2013 Bath Spa

Gender in Material Culture

2012 Manchester

Gender and Punishment

2011 Swansea

Gender, Time and Memory

2009 London

Locating Gender

2008 Edinburgh

2007 Conference

2006 Cambridge

Gender, Ecstasy and Identity: Creation, Disruption, Transformation

2005 Leeds

Gender and Sexualities

2004 London

Constructing Gender

2002 London

Seeing Gender Perspectives

2001 York

Gender and Conflict in the Middle Ages

1999 Southampton

Gender and Play

1997 East Anglia

Gender and Space in the Middle Ages

1996 York

Gender and Transgression in the Middle Ages

1995 Newtown

Gender and Community in the Middle Ages

1994 Leeds

Sexualities in the Middle Ages

The Gender & Medieval Studies (GMS) Group is a UK-based organization devoted to furthering gender-focused medieval scholarship.

Since the late 1980s, it has run an annual conference to showcase and support the work of postgraduate students, early-career researchers and established scholars.