Conferences
2026 AYIA Conference
20-22 March 2026
This year's AYIA Conference will be hosted by Queen's University Belfast. The conference offers an opportunity for early career archaeologists to present their work, meet like-minded people from across Ireland, and learn about possible careers in the field of archaeology. organized by the Association of Young Irish Archaeologists will once again offer a multitude of networking opportunities — read more
New Pastures Conference
15-16 April 2026
The New Pastures – Iron Age Research in Ireland and Beyond conference will take place at University College Cork. The event is organized by the Research Ireland-funded Coalesce project New Pastures and is open to papers dealing with any aspect of the archaeological record between ca. 800BC and AD400, including artefacts and chronologies as well as people, animals and lifeways — read more
2026 Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland Conference
17-18 April 2026
The 2026 IAI Conference will take place at the Clayton Hotel, Silver Springs, Cork. The theme is 'Common Threads – Connections across periods, places, and practices'. Beyond providing a forum for discussing issues relating to that theme, this annual event, organized by the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland will once again offer a multitude of networking opportunities — read more
2026 CSANA Conference
7-10 May 2026
The next annual conference of the Celtic Studies Association of North America will be hosted by Saint Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada, providing a forum for presenting research on any aspect of the language, literature, history, folklore and culture of the Celtic peoples (from any period) — read more
39th Irish Conference of Medievalists
28-29 May 2026
The upcoming annual Irish Conference of Medievalists will once again cover a broad variety of subjects relevant to medieval studies, including history, archaeology, literature, linguistics, art history, theology, and philosophy. This year's conference will be organized by Trinity College Dublin — read more
13th Celtic Students Conference
11-13 June 2026
The upcoming annual conference of the Association of Celtic Students will be hosted by Trinity College Dublin. It provides a unique opportunity to present and hear papers from across a range of disciplines pursued by students of all the Celtic languages. — read more
Ulidia 8 – The Eighth International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales
23-25 June 2026
Ulidia 8 is an interdisciplinary conference, hosted by the Rathcroghan Visitor Centre in the medieval village of Tulsk, Co. Roscommon. It covers any aspect of the Ulster Cycle (literature, language, history, archaeology, but also its modern reception in literature and the broader culture, etc. — read more
2026 International Medieval Congress
6-9 July 2026
The next International Medieval Congress will be organized, as ususal on an annual basis, by the Institute for Medieval Studies at Leeds University, with sessions on a broad variety of themes and the special thematic strand 'Temporalities' — read more
77th Internationales Sachsensymposium
29 August - 2 September 2026
The upcoming Internationales Sachsensymposium will be hosted by the University of Aberdeen, under the theme War: What is it Good For? Conflict and Defence in Roman Iron Age and Early Medieval Europe — read more
XXI UISPP World Congress
31 August - 4 September 2026
The International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences' next Word Congress will be held in Poznań, Poland, with a thematic focus on "Archaeology in Motion: Past Lessons, Future Responsibilities", but at the same time also covering a broad range of other subjects from world archaology — read more
45th Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium
9-11 October 2026
As ususal, this year's Harvard Celtic Colloquium, hosted by Harvard University's Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, welcomes paper proposals dealing with any aspect of the Celtic languages, their literatures and their cultures in any period, including papers with an interdisciplinary or theoretical perspective — read more