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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Announcing the
<b>32<sup>nd</sup> Annual University of California Celtic Studies
Conference<br>
<br>
March 4 - 7, 2010, at UCLA<br>
<br>
</b>Hosted by the UCLA Celtic Colloquium <br>
<br>
Sponsored by: <br>
The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Department of
English, the Indo-European Studies Program, the University of Southern
California, and the California State University, Bakersfield, with
additional funding provided by the UCLA Campus Programs Committee of the
Program Activities Board.<br>
<b> <br>
Schedule<br>
<br>
Thursday, March 4, 2010, </b>Royce Hall 314, UCLA<br>
<br>
3:30 Coffee, Registration<br>
<br>
4:00 Welcoming Remarks<br>
<br>
Brian
P. Copenhaver, Director, UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance
Studies<br>
<br>
4:15 Lenore Fischer (San Pedro), “Some Annals of
Ulster Glosses and Brian Bórumha: Evidence of Lost Annals?”<br>
<br>
4:45 Amy Hale (St. Petersburg College),
“‘Magnifying the Senses’: Cornwall’s Changing Brand”<br>
<br>
5:15 Natasha Sumner (Harvard University),
“Efnisien: A Case Study of a Medieval Psychopath-Trickster”<br>
<br>
6:00 Reception<br>
<br>
7:00 Enid Morgan (Aberystwyth), “Revenge and
Reconciliation in the Four Branches: A Girardian Approach” <br>
<br>
7:30 Gerald Morgan (Aberystwyth), “Power in the
Welsh Landscape”<br>
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<b>Friday, March 5, 2010, </b>Royce Hall 314, UCLA<br>
<br>
8:30 am Coffee<br>
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9:00 Paul Russell (University of Cambridge),
“Reading Ovid in Early Medieval Wales”<br>
<br>
10:15 Break<br>
<br>
10:30 Jessica Hemming (Corpus Christi College, Vancouver, BC.), “‘I
Could Love a Man with Those Three Colors’: The Female Gaze and the<br>
Red/White/Black Motif in Two Irish Tales”<br>
<br>
11:00 Gretchen Kern (University of Wisconsin), “On Secondary
Stress in Old Irish”<br>
<br>
11:30 Kassandra Conley (Harvard University), “Black Men on
the Borders: The Case of <i>gwr du</i> in the <i>Mabinogion</i>”<br>
<br>
12:00 Break<br>
<br>
12:15 Katharine Simms (Trinity College Dublin), “‘Mulieres
nudae, carnes crudae (Naked women, raw meat)’: Gaelic Ulster, Impressions
and<br>
Realities”<br>
<br>
1:15 Lunch Break<br>
<br>
2:30 Diana Luft (Cardiff University), “From
Fantasy to Fact: The Eighteenth-Century Recovery of the Mabinogi”<br>
<br>
3:00 Thomas R. Walsh (UC Santa Cruz), “Irish
<i>súantraige</i>: Poetics and Sleep”<br>
<br>
3:30 Elizabeth Moore (Harvard University),
“Symmetrical Structure and the Role of the Helper-Figures in
<i>Owein</i>”<br>
<br>
4:00 Break<br>
<br>
4:15 Kim McCone (NUI Maynooth), “Mad Dogs and
Irishmen”<br>
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5:15 Dinner Break<br>
<br>
6:30 Cormac Bourke (Ulster Museum), “More the
Metalwork: Early Ecclesiastical Hand-Bells in Ireland and Britain”<br>
<br>
7:30 Break<br>
<br>
8:00 “Musical Twilight: The Celtic Connection”
(Concert by UCLA Sounds in the Powell Library Rotunda)<br>
<br>
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<b>Saturday, March 6, 2010, </b>Royce Hall 314, UCLA<br>
<br>
8:30 Coffee<br>
<br>
8:30 Margaret Harrison (Harvard University), “The
Gaelic Panegyric Tradition in the 19th Century”<br>
<br>
9:00 Matthieu Boyd (Harvard University), “Irish
Manuscripts as Performance”<br>
<br>
9:30 Kristen Over (Northeastern Illinois
University), “Rewriting the Literary Welshman in <i>Peredur vab
Efrawc</i>”<br>
<br>
10:00 Break<br>
<br>
10:15 Kelly Randall (University of Cambridge), “(Re-)Defining
Translation Style: Structure and Variation in <i>Cyfranc Lludd a
Llefelys</i>”<br>
<br>
10:45 Edyta Lehmann (Harvard University), “The Power of
Words: The Narrative Force Behind the Character of Deirdre”<br>
<br>
11:15 Myriah Williams (UC Berkeley), “Conversations in King
Arthur’s Court: A New Examination of <i>Ymddiddan rhwng Arthur a
Gwenhwyfar</i>”<br>
<br>
11:45 Break<br>
<br>
12:00 Gary Holland (UC Berkeley), “Old Irish <i>cach</i> and
<i>nach</i> Constructions: Inheritance or Innovation?”<br>
<br>
1:00 Lunch Break<br>
<br>
2:30 Sarah Zeiser (Harvard University), “The
Sacred and the Secular in Welsh Approaches to Latin”<br>
<br>
3:00 Joseph F. Eska (Virginia Tech), “Remarks on
Epenthetic Vowels and Intrusive Vowels in Ogam Irish”<br>
<br>
3:30 A. Joseph McMullen (Harvard University),
“Dwelling in ‘Smooth Space’: Creating Place on the Periphery in the
<i>Acallam na Senórach</i>”<br>
<br>
4:00 Break<br>
<br>
4:15 Abigail Burnyeat (University of Edinburgh),
“<i>Cesta Cóema</i>: Early Irish Dialogue Form and Medieval Educational
Practice”<br>
<br>
<b> <br>
Sunday, March 7, 2010, </b>Royce Hall 314, UCLA<br>
<br>
8:30 Coffee<br>
<br>
9:00 John Koch (Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic
Studies), “Out of the Flow and Ebb of the European Bronze Age: Heroes,
Tartessos, and Celtic”<br>
<br>
10:00 Patrick Wadden (Exeter College, Oxford),
“<i>Prímchenéla</i> and <i>fochenéla</i>: A Reassessment of the Irish
<i>Sex Aetates Mundi</i>”<br>
<br>
10:30 Break<br>
<br>
10:45 Dara Hellman (University of San Francisco), “The
Born(e) Legitimacy: Coherence, Conjucture, and Closure in <i>Gereint vab
Erbin</i>”<br>
<br>
11:15 Peter Smith (University of Ulster), “The Poetic
Aesthetics of Eochaid ua Flainn’s <i>Éistet áes ecna aíbind</i>”<br>
<br>
11:45 Lunch Break<br>
<br>
1:00 Georgia Henley (UC Berkeley), “Vengeful
Wells and Spouting Lakes: Expressions of Hydrolatry in Gerald of Wales,
Chrétien de Troyes, and Celtic Myth”<br>
<br>
1:30 Isle of Man Seminar, featuring Suzanne
Hertzberg (Archer School), Christine Marsh (CSU Bakersfield), and Adam
Smith (CSU Bakersfield). Charles MacQuarrie (CSU Bakersfield),
Organizer and Chair.<br>
<br>
2:30 Break<br>
<br>
2:45 Donald Stewart (University of Edinburgh),
“Alexander Carmichael and St Michael’s Day”<br>
<br>
3:45 Closing Remarks<br>
<br>
<br>
<b>General Information<br>
</b> <br>
To attend paper presentations and the concert on Friday evening,
registration is not required and there is no fee. Seating is limited and
available on a first-come, first-served basis. <br>
<br>
<b>UCLA Campus ParkingNew Procedure! <br>
</b> <br>
Please use the Self Pay Parking in UCLA Lots 2, 3, or 4. More parking
information and maps showing the locations of the parking lots are
available online at
<a href="http://map.ais.ucla.edu/go/portal/1002187">
http://map.ais.ucla.edu/go/portal/1002187</a>. <b>Please note!</b> The
only UCLA Parking Services kiosk that will be open all day on Saturday
and Sunday is located on Westwood Blvd. just north of Le Conte Avenue on
the south side of campus.<br>
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Need More Information?<br>
<br>
</b>Please contact Professor Joseph Nagy at
<a href="mailto:jfnagy@humnet.ucla.edu">jfnagy@humnet.ucla.edu</a> or Dr.
Karen Burgess at
<a href="mailto:kburgess@ucla.edu">kburgess@ucla.edu</a>.<br>
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