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We’re back! The twenty-third biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies will take place 5–7 March 2026 in Sarasota, Florida. The program committee invites 250-word abstracts of proposed twenty-minute papers on topics in European and Mediterranean history, literature, art, music and religion from the fourth to the seventeenth centuries. Planned sessions are welcome (see guidelines below), and interdisciplinary work is particularly appropriate to the conference’s broad historical and disciplinary scope. The deadline for all abstracts is 1 October 2025.
Junior scholars whose abstracts are accepted are encouraged to submit their papers for consideration for the Snyder Prize (named in honor of conference founder Lee Snyder), which carries an honorarium of $400.
The Conference is held on the campus of New College of Florida, the honors college of the Florida state system. The college, located on Sarasota Bay, is adjacent to the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, which will offer tours arranged for conference participants. Sarasota is noted for its beautiful public beaches, theater, food, art and music. Average temperatures in March are a pleasant high of 77f (25c) and a low of 57f (14c).
More information will be posted here on the conference website as it becomes available, including plenary speakers, conference events, and area attractions. Click here for a downloadable PDF of this CFP.
PLANNED SESSION GUIDELINES
PLANNED SESSION GUIDELINES
If you are considering submitting a proposal for a planned session, please be aware of the following:
No one may present a paper in more than one session. Furthermore, no one should commit to more than two out of the following three activities: 1) presenting a paper; 2) chairing a session; and 3) participating in a roundtable. Organizing sessions does not count in these calculations, but session organizers are subject to them along with everyone else (i.e. you may organize as many sessions as you like, but you may only present one paper, and chair a separate session).
Session chairs should not also present in the panel they are chairing. Session organizers may either chair or present in a panel that they have arranged, but not both. If you are organizing a planned session, you may either arrange for a chair and include him/her in your proposal, or submit your panel without a chair and conference organizers will assign one. (The acceptance of your panel will not depend on whether or not your planned session already has a chair.)
Those organizing planned sessions should also know that the program committee strongly prefers sessions that include participants from more than one institution.
Send any inquiries to info@newcollegeconference.org.
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