Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures
Harvard University
All Sessions of the Colloquium are held
in the Thompson Room (Room 110)
Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Thursday October 4, 2007
5:00 p.m.
~ John V. Kelleher Lecture
Sponsored by the
Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures,
Harvard University Faculty Club Library, 20 Quincy
Street, Cambridge, MA
Richard Suggett
Royal
Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of
Wales
“Poets and Carpenters:
Creating the Architecture of Happiness
in Late-medieval Wales
”
~ This event is
open to the Public ~
Colloquium Sessions
October 5, 2007
Dydd Gwener / Dé hAoine / Friday
8:00-8:45 a.m. Coffee
8:45-9:00 a.m. Opening of Conference
9:00-10:00 a.m. Session One
Sarah B. Campbell (Boston
University) The Matter of Taliesin: Then and
Now
Donald McNamara (Kutztown
University) The Real Charlotte: The Inclusive Myth of Somerville and Ross
Break: 15 minutes
10:15-11:15 a.m. Session Two
Charlene M. Eska (Virginia
Tech and Harvard University) Problematic Pigs: Swine Values in Bodleian
MS Rawlinson B.506, ff. 55b-56d
Matthieu Boyd (Harvard
University) Competing Assumptions about the Drúth in Orgain Denna Ríg
Break: 1 5 minutes
11:30-12:30 p.m. Session Three
Philip O'Leary (Boston
College) Tons of Wasted Paper? Gaelic Translation in
the 1940s
Máire Ní Chiosáin (University College Dublin) Language Shift in Early 20th Century
Ireland: A Quantitative Analysis
Lunch: 90 minutes
2:00-3:00 p.m. Session Four
Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost (Cardiff University) From Jailtacht to Gaeltacht
Eric Zuelow (West Liberty
State College) “Deadly Threat”: Tourism and
Language Preservation in the Irish Gaeltacht
Break: 15 minutes
3:15-4:15 p.m. Session Five: Panel
Sally-Anne Shearn (University of Wales, Bangor) Conceptions of an Urban Ideal and the Early
Modern Welsh Town
Nia M.W. Powell (University of Wales, Bangor) Misconceptions of the Early Modern Urban
Achievement in Wales
Break: 15 minutes
4:30-6:00 p.m. Session Six
A.D.M. Forte (University
of Aberdeen) “Ane Horss Turd”? Sir John
Skene of Curriehill — A Gaelic-speaking Lawyer in the Courts of
James VI?
Anna Bosch (University of
Kentucky) Revisiting Preaspiration: Evidence from the
Survey of the Gaelic Dialects of Scotland
Benjamin Bruch (Harvard
University) Towards a Critical Edition of the Tregear Homilies
Friday Evening
8:00 P.M. Music and Silent Film: Irish Destiny (1926)
Silent film, with live musical accompaniment by Paddy Homan (tenor), Larry Reynolds, Michael Reynolds.
Introduced
by
Robert Lyons (University of Southern Maine). The film
will be shown
in the Thompson Room, Barker Center. Free: all welcome; light refreshments will be
provided.
October 6, 2007
Dydd Sadwrn/ Dé Sathairn / Saturday
8:30-9:30 a.m. Coffee
9:30-10:30 a.m. Session Seven
Joseph F. Eska (Virginia
Tech) Where Have All the Object Pronouns
Gone?
Francis Favereau (Université Européenne de Bretagne Rennes
2) Homophony and Breton Loss of
Lexis
Break: 15 minutes
10:45-12:15 p.m. Session Eight
Sharon Paice MacLeod (Smith College) A Confluence of Wisdom: The Symbolism of Wells, Whirlpools and Waterfalls in Early Celtic Narrative
Diana Delia White (Rhode Island College) Reinventing Ireland
Helen Marie-Brighid Scanlon (Harvard University) More Celtic than Thou: Diverse Literary Response to the Call of the Celtic Heritage in the Early Twentieth Century
Lunch: 90 minutes
1:45-3:15 p.m. Session Nine
Anders Ahlqvist (National University of Ireland, Galway) A Poem from St. Gall Codex 904
Lesa Ní Mhunghaile (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick) An Overview of the Scribal and Manuscript
Tradition in Co. Meath during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Centuries
Lahney Preston-Matto (Adelphi University) Derbforgaill, the Normans and the Concept
of Sovereignty: Becoming a Goddess is Easy!
Break: 15 minutes
3:35-4:30 p.m. Session Ten: Panel
Duncan Tanner (University
of Wales, Bangor) “Building a Nation?” The Labour
Party and Devolution 1976-1979
Andrew Edwards (University
of Wales, Bangor) 'Death of a Nation'? Examining
the Impact of 1979 on Welsh Society
Break: 15 minutes
4:45-6:15 p.m. Session Eleven
Sarah-Jane Murray (Baylor
University) Visions of Heaven and Hell: Marie de
France's Feminine Translatio
in the Espurgatoire saint
Patrice
Amy Eichhorn-Mulligan (University of Memphis and University of
Wisconsin) Navigating Peripheralization: Vernacular
Voyage Tales and the Position of Agency
Joseph F. Nagy (University of California, L.A.) Fenian Female Food and Other ossianic Oddities
Saturday Evening
The Colloquium Banquet will be held at Christopher's in Porter
Square.
Porter Square may be reached either on foot by walking some 20
minutes up Massachusetts Avenue,
or by subway by taking the Red
Line outbound one stop.
The Banquet will begin at 7:30 p.m. (Attendance by reservation in advance only.)
October 7, 2006
Dydd Sul/ Dé Domhnaigh / Sunday
8:30-9:30 a.m. Coffee
9:30-11:00 a.m. Session Twelve
Fiona Salisbury (University of Cambridge) The Anoetheu Dialogue in Culhwch ac Olwen
Aled Llion Jones (Harvard
University) Approaches to the use of cynghanedd
Owen Thomas (University of Wales, Lampeter) Types of Ambiguity in Dafydd ap Gwilym’s Poetry
Break: 15 minutes
11:15-12:15 p.m. Session Thirteen: Panel
Wil Griffith (University
of Wales, Bangor) “Gorchfgyu Gormes”: Themes and
Issues in Welsh Devolution, c. 1940-1960
Mari Elin Wiliam (University of Wales, Bangor) “Barnu Barn”: Reaction to the
Modernisation of Welsh Identity in the Early 1960s
Break: 15 minutes
12:30-1:30 p.m. Session Fourteen
William Raffel (Buffalo
State College) Defining Celtic Music: the Marketplace
Meets Tradition
Margaret Harrison (Harvard
University) Òrain Luaidh Màiri nighean
Alasdair: A Voice in Gaelic Waulking
