The Kinney Renaissance Center hosts the annual Raymond J. Lord Symposium on historical European martial arts, a day-long event featuring presentations on martial traditions and their social contexts.
April 26, 2025. Keynote: Ann Tlusty (Bucknell University) 'Who Were the Swordmasters?: Swordfighting Professionals in the Holy Roman Empire during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries' and 'Tournament Swordfighting as Early Modern Sport'. Speakers: Eric Burkart (University of Trier) 'The Emergence of German Fight Books in the Fifteenth Century: Patronage, Guild Culture and a Question of Bare Survival ', and Ariella Elema 'Mapping Trial by Combat'.
April 20, 2024. Keynote: 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.
April 30, 2023. Keynote: Tobias Capwell, former Curator of Arms and Armour at the Wallace Collection in London. Author of Armour of the English Knight 1450–1500, Arms and Armour of the Medieval Joust, and several other publications. 'Armed in Alabaster: Monumental Effigies and the Study of Armour' and, 'Festivals of Peace and War: Jousting in the Renaissance.'
April 24, 2021. Keynotes: Arto Fama, 'From manuscript to movement, an approach to teaching Lichtenauers principles' and Vadim Senichev, 'Armoured dueling, interpretation of historical rulesets, and overall armoured HEMA community development'
April 27, 2019. Keynote: Ann Tlusty, Professor of History at Bucknell University and author of The Martial Ethic in Early Modern Germany: Civic Duty and the Right of Arms, and Bacchus and Civic Order: The Culture of Drink in Early Modern Germany.
April 28, 2018. Daniel Jaquet, "Inscription, description or codification of fighting techniques. Towards a typology of fight books" and "The Flügelhau. A case study of an essential martial technique of early 16th c. German fighting competitions with the longsword, as documented in the fight books."
April 22, 2017 . Roger Norling (Instructor, Gothenburg Free Fencers Guild) ‘The life of Freifechter and Fechtmeister Joachim Meyer’
April 30, 2016. Richard Marsden (President, Historical European Martial Arts Alliance) ‘The Polish Commonwealth and her Saber’
April 25, 2015. Ariella Elema (PhD, University of Toronto). ‘Trial by Battle’
April 26, 2014. Walter Green 'The English Masters of Defense: The professional practice of a fencing guild 1540-1590 CE'
April 27, 2013. Russ Mitchell, 'Hungarian Saber techniques and methods'
April 28, 2012. Jake Norwood 'Liechtenauer technique in practice'
April 23, 2011. Mark Donnelly 'Antiquarian Antagonistics'