The Centennial Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 20-22 March 2025, hosted by Harvard University in collaboration with Boston College, Boston University, Brandeis University, Fitchburg State University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stonehill College, Tufts University, and Wellesley College.

This is the first time that the Medieval Academy has gathered on the Harvard campus since 1975, when the Academy celebrated its golden anniversary over three days in April with ten workshops, two paper sessions, and four plenary lectures addressing Latin and Byzantine Christendom. Fifty years on, this year’s Centennial program will bring together nearly 500 scholars from three continents, 23 countries, over 200 academic institutions, and a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds for 114 paper sessions, four plenary lectures, and a host of associated workshops and events, addressing the medieval world from the North Atlantic to the Sea of Japan as well as the histories and possible futures of Medieval Studies itself.

While this will be an in-person meeting, our plenary lectures—given by Kristina Richardson (Professor of History and Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia), Sara Lipton (President of the Medieval Academy of America and Professor of History at Stony Brook University), Wendy Belcher (Professor of Comparative Literature and African American Studies at Princeton University), and a diverse group of medieval scholars and administrators—will be live streamed. Whether you are participating in person or virtually, we are excited to welcome you to Cambridge, and look forward to meeting you, learning from you, celebrating our shared commitment to Medieval Studies, and laying the foundations for our next hundred years!

Register through the medieval academy website.

View conference website at https://sites.harvard.edu/maacentennial2025