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 North America, Ireland, Great Britain and Europe, and welcomes paper proposals dealing with any aspect of the Celtic languages

Dydd Sul/ Dé Domhnaigh / Sunday

9:00-10:00 a.m. Session Ten

• Sadie Jarrett (Bangor University) Filial Duty in the Welsh Gentry: The Salesburys of Rhug as Fatherless Sons, 1581-1660
• Fabienne Schwizer (University of Basel) Beards and Barbarians: Marginal illustrations in Manuscripts of Gerald of Wales’ Topographia Hibernica

10:15-11:15 a.m. Session Eleven

• Nicholas Thyr (Harvard University) “Iceland, or Etna? Chasing a Classical Allusion in the Navigatio Sancti Brendani
• Rosie Taylor (UC Berkeley) The Otherworld and the Hunt: Dogs and the Tristan Legend

11:15-12:00 Lunch

12:00 – 1.30 p.m. Session Twelve

• Philip O’Leary (Boston College) Walter Macken and Theatre in Irish
• Clíona Ní Ríordáin (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3) The Irish Language, TV and Translation.
• Brian Ó Conchubhair (University of Notre Dame) The Celtic Literary Society: Another Gaelic League?

Closing remarks.