BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:38th Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_1327995_0 SUMMARY:38th Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium DESCRIPTION:

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

LOCATION:The Thompson Room (Room 110) Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20181005T123000Z DTEND:20181005T220000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR