Please pass this message along to graduate students in your department. The Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies is now accepting applications for our 2018 host institution. The conference is an itinerant, interdisciplinary graduate student conference focusing on the Middle Ages, and is entirely organized and run by graduate students. Vagantes in a unique opportunity to showcase the Medieval Studies community at your institution, as well as to gain valuable professional development experience in planning and organizing the event, and to meet and interact with top medievalist graduate students. Applications can be found on the conference website, athttp://vagantesconference.org/hosting-vagantes/. Please submit any questions and completed applications to Kyle G. Sweeney [kgsweene@rice.edu] by 4 May 2016. The 2018 host will be selected at the Vagantes Board Meeting at Kalamazoo.

Sincerely,

The Vagantes Board of Directors