• 1998 – Victoria University of Wellington
• 2000 – The University of Sydney
• 2001 – The University of Western Australia
• 2003 – The University of Melbourne
• 2005 – The University of Auckland
• 2007 – The University of Adelaide
• 2008 – The University of Tasmania
• 2011 – The University of Otago
• 2013 – Monash University
• 2015 – The University of Queensland
• 2017 – Victoria University, Wellington
• 2019 – The University of Sydney
• 2020 – The University of Adelaide
• 2022 – The University of Western Australia

 1998 – Victoria University of Wellington

The First Conference of ANZAMEMS was held at the Victoria University of Wellington in 1998.

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2000 – The University of Sydney

The Second Conference of ANZAMEMS was held at the The University of Sydney in 2000.

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2001 – The University of Western Australia

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2003 – The University of Melbourne

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 The Conference Website has been archived by the Internet Archive.

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2005 – The University of Auckland

Old Worlds, New Worlds: the Fifth Conference of ANZAMEMS was held at the University of Auckland from 2 – 5 February 2005.

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2007 – University of Adelaide

The Sixth Conference of ANZAMEMS as held at The University of Adelaide, 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).

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2008 – The University of Tasmania

The 7th Biennial International Conference was held at The University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 2-6 December 2008. The theme was ‘Alter Orbis’.

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

Conference convenors: Elizabeth Freeman and Jenna Mead

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

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2011 – The University of Otago

ANZAMEMS Eighth Biennial International Conference, The University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2-5 February 2011.

Keynote speakers:

• Professor Alastair Minnis (Yale University)
• Professor Michael Hunter (Birkbeck College)
• Emeritus Professor Peter Matheson (University of Otago)
• Professor Dauvit Broun (Glasgow University)

Conference Website: www.otago.ac.nz/mems/anzamems

Conference Convenors:

• Dr Simone Celine Marshall
• Dr Judith Collard
• Professor Peter Anstey

For a report on the recent conference in Otago, by participants Julie Ann Smith (University of Sydney) and Eva Schlotheuber (University of Düsseldorf), please visit the Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften’s website.

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2013 – Monash University

ANZAMEMS Ninth Biennial International Conference, ‘Cultures in Translation‘.
Caulfield Campus, Monash University, Melbourne, 12-16 February 2013

Keynote speakers:

• Chris Baswell (Columbia University)
• Anne Dunlop (Tulane University)
• John Najemy (Cornell University)
• Charles Zika (The University of Melbourne)

Conference Website

Conference convenors:
Dr Carolyn James and Dr Clare Monagle

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2015 – The University of Queensland

ANZAMEMS Tenth Biennial International Conference. The University of Queensland, 14–18 July, 2015. The conference was followed by a PATS on the 20 July, 2015.

Keynote speakers:

• Professor Alexandra Walsham (The University of Cambridge)
• Professor Laura Knoppers (Notre Dame University)
• Professor Jessie Ann Owens (UC Davis)

Conference Website
Twitter Hashtag: #ANZAMEMS2015

Conference Convenor:
Dr. Dolly MacKinnon

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2017 – Victoria University, New Zealand

ANZAMEMS Eleventh Biennial International Conference, ‘Mobility and Exchange’. Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, February 7–10, 2017. The conference was followed by a PATS on the 11 February, 2017.

Keynote speakers:

• Associate Professor Erin Griffey (University of Auckland)
• Professor Martha Howell (Columbia University)
• Professor Lorna Hutson (Oxford University)
• Professor Cary Nederman (Texas A&M University)

Conference Website
Twitter Hashtag: #anza17

Conference Convenor: A/Prof Sarah Ross

Photos from the first day of the Conference (Click on a thumbnail to enlarge the photo):

Copyright © Image Services, Victoria University of Wellington. All rights reserved.

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2019 – The University of Sydney

ANZAMEMS Twelfth Biennial International Conference, ‘Categories, Boundaries, Horizons’. The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia February 5-8, 2019. The conference was preceded by a PATS on the 4–5 February, 2019.

Keynote speakers:

• Assoc. Prof. Seeta Chaganti (English, University of California – Davis)
• Prof. Jane Davidson (Music, Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne)
• Assoc. Prof. Yuen-Gen Liang (History, National Taiwan University)
• Prof. C.H. Lüthy (Philosophy, Radboud University)
• Prof. Elaine Treharne (English, Stanford University)

Conference Website
Twitter Hashtag: #anza19

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2020 – The University of Adelaide

The Western Civilisation in the Twenty-First Century’ Symposium was held on 20–21 February 2020 at The University of Adelaide, and was supported by ANZAMEMS.

Symposium Website

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2022 – The University of Western Australia

ANZAMEMS Thirteenth Biennial ANZAMEMS Conference, ‘Reception and Emotion’. The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, 27–30 June 2022. The conference was held online via Zoom. Conference convenors: Dr Kirk Essay (UWA) and Dr Marina Gerzić (UWA).

Keynote speakers:

• Professor Holly Crocker (University of South Carolina)
• Professor Brian Cummings (University of York)
• Associate Professor Shino Konishi (Australian Catholic University)

Conference website
Twitter hashtag: #anza22

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