38th Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium

The graduate students of the Harvard Celtic Department have organized and hosted the Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium and have published selected papers in The Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium. The Colloquium attracts students and scholars from around the world.  Today we kick off the Colloquium with speakers from  North America, Ireland, Great Britain and Europe. A small reception will follow at the department's Kates room in the Warren House.

Dydd Gwener / Dé hAoine / Friday

Friday's program schedule:

8:30 - 9:00 a.m.

• Registration

9:00 - 9:15 a.m. Opening Remarks

• Celeste Andrews and Heather Newton

9:15-10:45 a.m. Session One

• Greg R. Darwin (Harvard University) ML 4080 “The Seal Woman” in Its Irish and International Context
• Tatiana Shingurova (University of Aberdeen) Mog Ruith: Perceptions of the Local Myth in Seventeenth Century Ireland
• Eva Guillorel (University of Caen) Dom Yann Derrien’s Journey to ‘Sant Jakez an Turki’: European Pilgrimages in Breton Ballads

11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Session Two

• Kentigwern Jaouen (University of Western Brittany) Piracy in the Celtic and Breton areas in the Lower Middle Ages
• Patrick Wadden (Belmont Abbey College) Adomnán, Bede and the Religious Underpinning of Northumbrian Power
• Calum H. Platts (Cambridge University) The Annals of Ulster and Anglo-Saxon Kingship

Lunch 12:30-2:00

2:00- 3:30 p.m. Session Three

• Llŷr Hughes (Bangor University) Cymru Lân, Cymru Lonydd/ ‘Clean Wales, Still Wales’—Travel Writing and the Perception of Cleanliness.
• Liam Mac Amhlaigh (Maynooth University) Modernism at Work in Irish-Language Poetry: the INNTI Generation and the Black Mountain Poets of North Carolina
• Willie Mahon (Aberystwyth University) Heroic Poetry in the Manuscripts of Tomáisín Bacach Ó Dubhgáin (c.1800 – 1874)

3:45- 5:15 p.m. Session Four

• Stephanie Le Pelleter (Rennes 2 University) The Immersive Nurseries in Breton, an Essential Tool of the Transmission of the Language
• Tanguy Solliec (University of Brest) From Dialectology to History, A New Window Open on the Diachrony of Breton. The Dialectometrical Contribution
• Myrzinn Boucher-Durand (Harvard University) On the Historical Dimension in the Inter-Comprehension Between Dialects in Modern Breton

5:30-7:00 p.m. Session Five

• Melissa Ridley Elme (Lindenwood University) Failed Ritualized Feasts and the Limitations of Community in Branwen ferch Llŷr
• Jerry Hunter (Bangor University) Reading Objects, Exchanging Meaning: Material Culture in the Four Branches of the Mabinogi
• Sioned Davies (Cardiff University) ‘A Most Venerable Ruin’: Word, Image and Ideology in Guest’s Geraint

Reception, Warren House 7pm