Harvard Celtic Colloquium & Proceedings
This three day colloquium has been in operation since 1981. 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, their literatures and their cultures in any period, including papers with an interdisciplinary or theoretical perspective.
The Colloquium is held each year in October, and opens with the John V. Kelleher Memorial Lecture sponsored by the department on the Thursday afternoon of the Colloquium weekend.
Thanks to all who helped make the 45th HCC a great success! Our next HCC is scheduled for October 10-12, 2027. Refer back to this page for updates.
Big thanks to this year's keynote lecturer Prof. Joey McMullen of the Department of English, Indiana University on Friday, 10/9 at 3:45pm: Early Irish "Hermit Poetry" and the Landscape of Paradise.
October 9, 10 & 11, 2026
Harvard University
Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street Cambridge MA
The Thompson Room (Room 110)
Colloquium Schedule
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Papers given at the Colloquium may be published in the Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium