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 9, 2008
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
Professor Damian McManus
School of Irish & Celtic Languages
Trinity College, Dublin
“Good-Looking and Irresistible: The Irish Hero
from Early Saga to Classical Poetry”
~ This event is
open to the Public ~
Colloquium Sessions
October 10, 2008
Dydd Gwener / Dé hAoine / Friday
9:00-10:30 a.m. Session One
D. Graham Aubrey(Australian Institute of Celtic Studies) The Influence of 19th c. Anthologies of Celtic Music in Redefining Celtic Nationalism
Dan Milner (Hunter College) Irish Songs from New York’s Early Entertainment Emporiums
Eva Guillorel(CERHIO- Université Rennes 2) When Historians Study Breton Oral Ballads: A Cultural Approach
10:45-11:45 a.m. Session Two
Philip O’Leary (Boston
College) Mici Muc v. Mickey Mouse: Gaelic Attitudes toward the Cinema in the 1940s
Stephen Regan(University of Durham) Thirteen Ways of Looking at an Irish Blackbird
12:00-1:00 p.m. Session Three
Timothy P. Bridgman(Binghamton University) Names and Naming Conventions of Celtic Peoples in Caesar’s De Bello Gallico
Philip Freeman (Luther College) Alexander the Great and the Celts
2:30-4:00 p.m. Session Four
Gruffydd Aled Williams(Aberystwyth University) Towards a Welsh Renaissance Ars Poetica
Aled Llion Jones (Harvard University) Two Impossibilities Together as One: Some Thoughts on Bilingualism
Adrian Morgan(Aberystwyth University) The Beginnings of Welsh Witchcraft: Robert Holland and the Dialogue of Tudur
and Goronw
4:15-5:45 p.m. Session Five
Karen Eileen Overbey(Tufts University) Clothes Make the (Holy) Man: Clothing Relics in Medieval Ireland
Sabine Heinz(Humboldt Universität - Berlin) The British Tristan Tradition
Sarah Zeiser(Harvard University) Performing a Literary Paternity Test: The Bonedd yr Arwyr and the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi
Food, drink, and spontaneous musical performances.
The Kates Room in Warren House, directly opposite the Barker Center. Please walk up the stairs one floor,
where the door to the Kates Room will be directly opposite.
Free: all welcome.
Bring your pipes and dancing shoes!!!
October 11, 2008
Dydd Sadwrn/ Dé Sathairn / Saturday
9:30-11:00 a.m. Session Six
Bleddyn Owen Huws(Aberystwyth University) Dafydd ap Gwilym’s Trouble at an Inn and the medieval sermon
Patricia Malone(Harvard University) Se principem nominat:Rhetorical Self-fashioning and Epistolary Style in the Letters of Owain Gwynedd
Kassandra Conley(Harvard University) Duty and Nation: the Liminal Discourse of Adam of Usk
11:15-12:45 p.m. Session Seven
Edyta Lehmann(Harvard University) "And Thus I Willed It:" Queen Medb and The Will To Power
Daniel Ranbom(Aberystwyth University) The Giants who Dwarf Culhwch ac Olwen
Matthieu Boyd (Harvard University) Breuddwyd Rhonabwy and memoria
2:15-3:45 p.m. Session Eight
John T. Koch (Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies) “Tartessian”: The Newest and Oldest Celtic Language
Peadar O Muircheartaigh(University of Edinburgh) Getting (H)igh in Celtic Orthography
Keith Plaster(Harvard University) Rhyme in Old and Middle Irish Verse: A New Analysis
4:00-5:00 p.m. Session Nine
Nathalie Ginoux(Institut National d'archéologie préventive) Pendragon’s Ancestors
Sharon Paice MacLeod(Smith College) Abduction, Swordplay, Monsters and Mistrust: Findabair, Gwenhwyfar and the Restoration of Honour
5:15-6:45 p.m. Session Ten
Heather Laird(University College Cork) Time and the Translation of the Irish Brehon Laws
D. Blair Gibson(El Camino College) Celtic Democracy: Appreciating the Role Played by Alliances and Elections in Celtic Political Systems
Charlene M. Eska(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Harvard University) The Glossing of Trinity College, Dublin MS 1433 [E.3.5], pp. 1-20
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 12, 2008
Dydd Sul/ Dé Domhnaigh / Sunday
9:30-10:30 a.m. Session Eleven
Marc Caball(University College Dublin) Irish Gaelic and Protestant: A Case Study in Early Modern Self-fashioning
Olivier Coquelin(University of Western Brittany, Brest) A Reactionary Dimension in Progressive Revolutionary Theories? The Case of James Connolly’s Socialism Founded on the Re-Conversion of Ireland to the Celtic System of Common Ownership
10:45-11:45 p.m. Session Twelve
Craig Davis(Smith College) Something There Is that Does Not Love a Hall: Celtic Anti-Sovereignty Themes in Beowulf
Ranke de Vries(Utrecht University) Death by Droning
12:00-1:00 p.m. Session Thirteen
Kristen Mills(University of Toronto) Caílte’s Tears in the Acallam na Senórach
Christopher Leydon(City University of New York) Judas, his sister, and the miraculous cook in the Middle Irish poem Críst ro crochadh
