Program Schedule for 42nd Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium

We are looking forward to the 43rd Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium

October 11-13, 2024

 

Thursday, October 5, 2023

3:00-4:00 Fionn Folklore Database Launch. Natasha Sumner, Harvard University

Warren House 201, Kates Room

5:00-6:00 The 19th John V. Kelleher Lecture. Harvard Faculty Club

Helen Fulton, University of Bristol

Place and Emotion in Medieval Irish and Welsh Narrative

6:00-8:00 Reception. Harvard Faculty Club

 

Friday, October 6, 2023

8:30 Check-in, Greetings and Opening Remarks

Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Thompson Room 110

HCC Senior Organizers Rachel Martin and Graham O'Toole

 

9:00-11:00  Session One. Chair: Lorena Alessandrini

Mícheál B. Ó Mainnín, Queen's University Belfast

Aspects of the Early Medieval Topography and Toponymy of Armagh City with Particular Reference to Trian Saxan

River Atwood Tabor, Maynooth University

Columba's Crane: An Exploration of Medieval Irish Ecological History

Geraint Evans, Swansea University

Creating a Welsh-language Historical Map of Swansea

Matthieu Boyd, Fairleigh Dickinson University

Animal Studies Meets Medieval Studies...Meets Celtic Studies

Break

11:15-12:45 Session Two. Chair: Sam Puopolo

Yves Coativy, University of Western Brittany

Medieval Breton Libraries (13th-15th Century)

Tudi Crequer, Rennes University

The First Commercial Discs of Breton Language in 1910

Myrzinn Boucher-Durand, Harvard University

The Fragments of Bignan, an Example of the Gwenedeg Dialect in Classical Middle Breton?

Lunch

2:00-3:30 Session Three. Chair: Graham O'Toole

Deborah Hayden, Maynooth University

Language, Education and Medical Learning in the Premodern Gaelic World: An Introduction to the LEIGHEAS Project

Adrian Doyle, University of Galway and the Insight Centre for Data Analytics

Nitatsoír huili oc tintuúth abélru innalaill ɫ ocsaigid forsunu ɫ octabairt ruún essib: Questionable New Translations in the Universal Dependencies Treebank of the St. Gall Glosses, and Why They Don’t Matter

Elisa Roma and Chiara Zanchi, Università di Pavia

Old Irish in the PaVeDa Database

Break

3:45-4:45 Keynote Lecture. Chair: Joseph F. Nagy

Gregory Darwin, Uppsala University

How to Train your Näcken: Death, Dismemberment, and the Dissemination of Some Maritime Fabulates

Dinner 

For restaurant options, you might check:

https://www.harvardsquare.com/

Reception and Céilí 

6:30-8:30 Music and dancing, Thompson Room and Barker Cafe

 

Saturday, October 7, 2023

9:00-10:30 Session Four. Chair: Dylan Cooper

Joe Eska, Virginia Tech University

Celtic in Greek Characters and Implications for Phonology

Dolores Fors, Uppsala University

The Irish English Progressive: Investigating Early Hiberno-English Texts

Anabelle Caso and Oisín Ó Muirthile, Harvard University

Secondary Predication in Irish

Break

10:45-12:15  Popular Media Roundtable. Chair: Rachel Martin

Rick Riordan, Author, Percy Jackson series and other works

Jerry Hunter, Professor of Celtic Studies, Bangor University, and author of numerous Welsh-language novels

Hugo Sahuquet, Narrative Director of Assassin's Creed: Valhalla and Wrath of the Druids DLC at Ubisoft

Lunch

1:30-3:00 Session Five. Chair: Colin Brady

Benedetta D’Antuono, Maynooth University

The Gaelicisation of Two Medieval Irish Romances: Beathadh Sir Gui o Bharbhuic and Bethadh Bibuis o Hamtuir

Philip Mac a' Ghoill, Maynooth University

Beannacht duit, beannacht d’fhearaibh th’oileamhna: Insights from the Elegy for Dáibhíth Óg de Barra (†c.1605)

Margo Griffin-Wilson, University of Cambridge

Crafting a Drinking-cup: The Verbal Artistry of Cuach ríogh Connacht Cuanna Séad

Break

3:15-4:45 Session Six. Chair: Rory Yarter

Dylan Bailey, Maynooth University

‘His honour would remain forever…’ – A Reassessment of the Relationship between Royalty and Physical Impairment in Medieval Irish Society

Mairéad Finnegan, Maynooth University

Dress, Clothing and Accessory in Late Medieval Ireland c. 1100 – c. 1550

Madison Bailey, Independent Scholar

An Analysis of the Áes Dana and their Status in Early Irish Law

Break

5:00-6:00 Session Seven. Chair: Dolan Gallagher

Máire McCafferty, University College Dublin

Dialects, Demographics and Development: The Irish Language Summer College in Ulster, 1905-1930

Aoife Whelan, University College Dublin

‘Progress … in the Old World and the New’: The Preservation Society’s Transnational Revival Efforts Post-1900

Conference Dinner

6:30 The Maharaja Restaurant, 57 JFK Street, Cambridge.

Please sign-up and pay for dinner (cash or check) during Conference Check-in.

 

Sunday, October 8, 2023

9:00-10:30 Session Eight. Chair: Jo Wolf

Tim Swales, Independent Scholar

How to Swear in Manx: Curses from the Ecclesiastic Court Records in the 18th Century

Lorena Alessandrini, Harvard University

Songs from Drowning Women: A Comparative Analysis of “A’ Bhean Eudach”/“A Bhean Ud Thall,” a Gaelic Variant of “The Twa Sisters” (Child 10)

Roxanne Reddington-Wilde, Cambridge College

Beyond Poetry: Viewing Clanship through Highland Letters and Family Papers

Break

10:45-12:15 Session Nine. Chair: Myrzinn Boucher-Durand

Sarah Zeiser, Independent Scholar

A Storm, a Harvest, and a Mischief of Mice: Locating the Context for a Poem by ‘Ricmarchus’

Tristan Gutbezahl, Johns Hopkins University

The Sword in the Mere: The Case for Brittonic Influence in Beowulf

Shannon Rose Parker, Harvard University

A Tumultuous Noise: Music in the Mabinogi

Lunch

(Provided in Thompson Room)

1:00-2:30 Session Ten. Chair: Nicholas Thyr

Natalia Schwien, Harvard University

Betwixt Earth and Heavens: The Theological Inspiration for Robert Kirk's The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies in the Works of Origen of Alexandria

Dustin Ashley, Emmanuel Christian Seminary

From Eriugena to Duns Scotus: The Development of Medieval Gaelic Theology

Jesse Harrington, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

Brittonic and Gaelic Hagiography in the Latin "Lives" of St. Lorcán Ua Tuathail

Closing Remarks

HCC Senior and Junior Organizers

Dylan Cooper
Rachel Martin
Graham O'Toole
Sam Puopolo