#  Harvard Celtic Colloquium & Proceedings 

 



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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.

This years keynote speaker will be Professor A. Joseph McMullen of the Department of English, Indiana University.

October 9,10 & 11, 2026

Harvard University  
Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street Cambridge MA.  
The Thompson Room (Room 110)

[Colloquium Schedule](https://celtic.fas.harvard.edu/colloquium-program-schedule)

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Papers given at the Colloquium may be published in the Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium



 

  [### The John V. Kelleher Lecture

 ](/event/john-v-kelleher-lecture-1?occ_id=0)October 8, 2026

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 5:00PM - 7:00PM EDT 

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 Harvard University. Barker Center, Thompson room 

 

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 The 22nd John V. Kelleher Lecture is given this year by Professor Barry Lewis of the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. "The poet in the medieval Welsh court: rereading Phylip Brydydd's encounter with the gofeirdd." The... 

 

 

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   [### The Harvard Celtic Colloquium

 ](/event/harvard-celtic-colloquium?occ_id=0)Oct. 9 - Oct 11, 2026

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 9:00AM - 3:00PM EDT 

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 Harvard University. Barker Center, Thompson room 

 

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 Harvard Celtic Colloquium We are looking forward to the 45th HCC. October 9-11, 2026. Details to follow. This three day colloquium has been operating since 1981. The graduate students of the Harvard Celtic Department have organized and hosted the Annual... 

 

 

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