ANZAMEMS holds biennial international conferences, hosted by one of the universities in Australia or New Zealand.

ANZAMEMS CONFERENCE 2008: ALTER ORBIS

The 7th  Biennial International Conference was held at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 2-6 December 2008. 

Keynote speakers: Mary Carruthers, Conal Condren, Ruth Evans, Edward James, Rodney Thomson. 

Conference convenors:
Elizabeth Freeman Elizabeth.Freeman@utas.edu.au
Jenna Mead Jenna.Mead@utas.edu.au

Conference Web site: http://www.anzamems2008.utas.edu.au/

The Sixth Conference of ANZAMEMS was held at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, 7-10 February 2007. Co-convenors: Dr Heather Kerr and Dr Lawrence Warner.

Keynote speakers:

• Professor Jaynie Anderson, University of Melbourne, author of Tiepolo's Cleopatra (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); Judith (Éditions du Regard, 1997) Giorgione: The Painter of Poetic Brevity ( Flammarion, 1997)

• Professor John Ganim, University of California-Riverside , author of Medievalism and Orientalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), Chaucerian Theatricality (Princeton UP, 1990), and Style and Consciousness in Middle English Literature (Princeton UP, 1983)

• Dr Vanessa Harding, Birkbeck College London, author of A Short History of Early Modern London (Cambridge UP, 2005); The Dead and the Living in London and Paris, 1500-1670 (Cambridge UP, 2002)

• Professor David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania , author of Premodern Places (Blackwell, 2005); The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature (ed.; Cambridge UP, 1999); and Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages, Associational Forms in England and Italy (Stanford UP, 1997)

Old Worlds, New Worlds: the Fifth Conference of ANZAMEMS was held at the University of Auckland from 2 - 5 February 2005. Please visit the Conference Web site for more details.

Memory and Commemoration: the Fourth Conference of ANZAMEMS was held at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, from February 5-8, 2003. The Conference Web site has been archived by the Internet Archive.

The Third Conference, Metamorphoses -- Peoples, Places, Times, was held at the University of Western Australia in Perth in July 2001. The programme for this conference has been archived here as a PDF file (366KB).

A closely related conference, Cultural Encounters in the Indian Pacific Region, 1200-1800 was also held in Perth on 10-13 July 2001 under the aegis of Parergon. The programme for this conference has been archived here as a PDF file (193KB).

The First Conference of ANZAMEMS was held at the Victoria University of Wellington in 1998 and the Second at the University of Sydney in 2000.