Every two years, the Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies organizes an international conference in a different Swiss university on a topic in medieval and early modern English studies that the host institution chooses in agreement with association members.
A volume based on the preceding international conference is then published.
The next biennial conference, Tolerance and Dissent, will take place from the 24th to the 26th of June 2026 at the University of Fribourg. It will be organised by Prof. Kilian Schindler, Prof. Elisabeth Dutton and Dr. Honor Jackson. The keynote speakers for the conference are Sharon Achinstein (Johns Hopkins University), Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Institute for Advanced Study, (Princeton, NJ)), Alexandra Walsham (University of Cambridge), and Adrienne Williams Boyarin (University of Victoria).
The call for papers is now closed, but registration for the conference is open until 22 May 2026. Please register here on the conference website. The provisional conference programme can likewise be accessed on the conference website (samemes2026.com).
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