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 8, 2009
5:00 p.m. ~ John V. Kelleher Lecture
Sponsored by the
Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures,
Harvard University Theatre Room, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy
Street, Cambridge, MA
Professor Patrick Sims-Williams
Department of Welsh, Aberystwyth University
"‘So Many Dark and Time-worn Volumes’:
How our Understanding of Early Irish Literature has Progressed"
~ This event is
open to the Public ~
Colloquium Sessions
October 9, 2009
Dydd Gwener / Dé hAoine / Friday
9:00-10:30 a.m. Session One
Erin Boon
(Harvard University) Arthur as Alexander in Culhwch ac Olwen
Herve Le Bihan
(Université Rennes 2, Brittany) "An Dialog etre Arzur Roe d’an Bretounet ha Guynglaff" and its connections with the Arthurian tradition
Natalia I. Petrovskaia
(University of Cambridge) Dating Peredur: New Light on Old Problems
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Session Two
Sarah Zeiser
(Harvard University) Qui venerunt angeli: Latin and the vernacular in medieval Wales
Kasi Conley
(Harvard University) Deflowering Gwynedd: (Dis)use of the Sovereignty Goddess Myth in the Fourth Branch
Sarah L. Pfannenschmidt
(University of Aberystwyth) "From the Shame You Have Done": Comparing the stories of Blodeuedd and Bláthnait
1:30-3:00 p.m. Session Three
Kylie Murray
(University of Oxford) Dreams of Medieval Scottish Nationhood: the epic case of William Wallace
A. Joseph McMullen (Harvard University) Land Genealogy: The Phenomenological Function of Place in the Early Irish Dindshenchas
Patrick Wadden
(University of Oxford)
Cumtach na n-Iudaide n-rad: A middle Irish Poem on Nation Characteristics
3:15-4:45 p.m. Session Four
Sheila Kidd
(University of Glasgow) Readers, listeners and nineteenth-century Scottish Gaelic dialogue
Philip O'Leary
(Boston College) Gaelic Gumshoes and Gunslingers: The early work of Cathal Ó Sándair
Ríona Nic Congáil
(St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin/DCU) "Some of you will curse her": women's fiction during the Irish-language revival
5:00-6:00 p.m. Session Five
Matthieu Boyd
(Harvard University) The commonplaces ofGwerziou Breiz-Izel, and other remarks on an English translation of François-Marie Luzel's Breton ballads
Éva Guillorel(Harvard University and Université Européenne de Bretagne) Collecting in the Breton islands: prejudices and realities
October 10, 2009
Dydd Sadwrn/ Dé Sathairn / Saturday
9:00-10:30 a.m. Session Six
Alaw Mai Jones
(University of Wales) The Sweet and the Sour: the medieval feast and the imagery of food and drink in fifteenth-century Wales
Tina Chance(Harvard University) Ethnicity,
Geography, and the Passage of Dominion in the Mabinogi and Brut y
Brenhinedd
Kelly Ann Randell
(University of Cambridge) "And there was a fourth son, Llefelys": narrative structure and variation in Cyfranc Lludd a Llefelys
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Session Seven
Aaron Alzola Romero and Eduardo Sanchez-Moreno
(University of Oxford and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Fabricating Celts: How Iron Age Iberians became Indo-Europeanized during the Franco regime
Dinah Evans
(Bangor University) "Constructing the priceless heritage of Welsh children?": a study of bilingualism in Welsh schools in the 1950s
Tomos Dafydd Davies
(Aberystwyth University) The British Conservative Party and the "Celtic Fringe"
1:30-3:00 p.m. Session Eight
Natalie Anne Franz
(Harvard University) At the Crossroads: World War One and the shifting roles of men and women in Breton ballad song practice
Gwendal Denez
(Université Rennes 2, Brittany) Gwalarn: an attempt to renew Breton literature
Yann Bevant
(Université Rennes 2, Brittany) Nations in tune: the influence of Irish music on the Breton musical revival
3:15-4:45 p.m. Session Nine
Nicholas Zair
(University of Oxford) MW. heul, MB. heol, MC. houl "sun" and the development of Proto-British *aw
Anders Ahlqvist
(University of Sydney) Irish sí and English she
Benjamin Bruch
(University of Bonn) An lavar kôth yu lavar guîr: The Cornish Englyn Revisited
5:00-6:30 p.m. Session Ten
Natasha Sumner
(Harvard University) The Life and Tales of Peig Sayers: A Woman's Foray into Masculine Territory
Adam Coward
(University of Wales, Newport) Rejecting Mother's Blessing: the Absence of the Fairy in the Welsh Search for National Identity
Gearóid Denvir
(NUI Galway) The True Word: The Oral Poetry of Learaí Phádraic Learaí Ó Fínneadha
October 11, 2009
Dydd Sul/ Dé Domhnaigh / Sunday
8:30-10:00 a.m. Session Eleven
Charlene Eska
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Mothers, Sons and Sureties in Early Irish Law
Edyta Lehmann
(Harvard University) A Walk on the Wild Side: Women, Men, and Madness
Beth Moore
(Harvard University) "The Marshalled Fence of Battle of All the Men of Earth": A Reading of Cú Chulainn’s First Recension ríastrad
10:15-11:45 a.m. Session Twelve
Michael Linkletter
(St. Francis Xavier University) The Early Establishment of Celtic Studies in North American Universities
Katie Gramich
(Cardiff University) "Big Peig" Sayers and Kate "Queen of Our Literature" Roberts
Joshua Byron Smith
(Northwestern University) The Composition and Sources of Benedict of Gloucester's Vita Dubricii
12:00-1:00 p.m. Session Thirteen
Maire Johnson
(Clarion University of Pennsylvania) Apocryphal Sanctity in the Lives of Irish Saints
Gene Haley
(Harvard University) Irelands of the mind: early Irish allegories and the great seventh-century Easter dispute
