Annual Raymond J. Lord Symposium on Historical European Martial Arts
This day-long Symposium will feature presentations of interpretive work on re-creating historical martial arts and research conducted to better understand the contexts in which they existed.
Our keynote speaker this year is Dr. Chassica Kirchhoff, Assistant Curator of European Sculpture & Decorative Arts at the Detroit Institute of Arts. She is the author of The Thun-Hohenstein Album: Cultures of Remembrance in a Paper Armory, (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer,2023), ‘Silver-Pommeled Swords and Old Italian Cannonballs: The Martial Collections of Paulus Hector Mair’ in Martial Culture in Medieval Towns, (Basel: Schwabe, 2023), and ‘Memories in Steel and Paper: A Spectacular Armor and its Depictions in Early Modern Augsburg,’ Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture Online, 4: Objekte der Erinnerung (August 2019), 26-57.
Pre-registration is required as there is limited space. Please email to register. There is no charge and lunch will be provided.
This year’s Symposium is sponsored in part by the HEMA Alliance and Phoenix Swords.
