The annual International Conference on Medievalism (known as the General Conference on Medievalism until 1993) began with two meetings at the University of Notre Dame in 1986 and 1987. Subsequent conferences were organized through the Newberry Library (Chicago) and Northeastern Illinois University (1988), the United States Military Academy (1989), Burg Kaprun, Austria, (jointly with the 5th Symposium on Mittelalter-Rezeption, 1990), the University of Delaware (1991), the University of South Florida (1992), the University of Leeds, UK (1993), Montana State University (1994), the Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts (1995), Kalamazoo College (1996), Christ Church College, Canterbury, UK (1997), Rochester, New York (1998), Montana State University (1999), Hope College, Michigan (2000), Buffalo State College, New York (2001), the University of Northern Iowa (2002), St. Louis University (2003), University of New Brunswick, Canada (2004), Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland (2005). The conference organizers and the editorial boards of YWIM and SIM thank everyone who participated in making these conferences successful. The 21st International Conference on Medievalism will be held 12-14 October, 2006 at The Ohio State University.

Additionally, SIM ususally sponsors sessions at the International Congresses on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo and the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds (UK). Conference proceedings, including papers from the annual ICOM and the Kalamazoo and Leeds sessions, have been published in The Year's Work in Medievalism.