38th Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium

Day two of the Colloquium features our Keynote Speaker, Professor Aled Llion Jones of Bangor University.  Additionally the Colloquium dinner will be at The Maharaja in Harvard Square.  Details to follow.

Dydd Sadwrn/ Dé Sathairn / Saturday

9:00 -10:30 a.m. Session Six

• Anouk Nuijiten (Cambridge University) Subverted Heroism in Aided Cheit maic Mágach           
• Sharon Wofford  (Boston College) Returning to Bodily "Wholeness" in Medieval Irish Literature
•  Tom Walsh (UC Berkeley) Ríastrad Revisited

10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Session Seven

• Mary Gilbert (University of Indiana-Bloomington) Stops and Sonority: the Historical-Phonological Development of s+Consonant Clusters in Irish         
• Charlene Eska (Virginia Tech) The Early Irish Legal Text Muirbretha Sea-Judgments
•  Joe Eska (Virginia Tech Laryngeal Realism, Articulatory Phonetics, and Early Insular Celtic Orthography

12:15-1:45 (Lunch)

1:45- 3:15 p.m. Session Eight

• Liam A. Brannelly (Harvard University) Tactile Emotions & the Aesthetics of Patronage in Dafydd ao Gwylim’s “Diolch am Fenig”
•  John Bollard (Independent Scholar) What, If Anything, Is Gruffudd Gryg’s “Yr Ywen Uwchben Bedd Dafydd”?
• Myra Booth-Cockcroft (University of Glasgow) Contemporary Poetry in Llyfr Coch Hergest: “Canu Dychan” and Its Manuscript Context

3:30- 5:00 p.m. Session Nine

• Lisabeth Buchelt (University of Nebraska-Omaha) “Quos edocetis fastos?”: The Hisperica Famina as Productive Reading Guide”
•  Kathryn O'Neill (Harvard University) Holy Trinity Abbey and the Writing of History in Gaelic Ireland
• Catherine Swift (University of Limerick) The Lands That Time Forgot: The Foundation and Estates of the Cistercian Monastery of Monasternenagh, Co. Limerick in Their Twelfth and Thirteenth Century Contexts.

5:15-6:15 P.M. Keynote Address

• Aled Llion Jones (Bangor University) Good time(s), Bad time(s): Myths and Metaphysics in Some Medieval Literature