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<font face="Verdana" size=2><b>34th Annual University of California
Celtic Studies Conference / Annual Meeting of the Celtic Studies
Association of America (CSANA)<br>
March 8-11, 2012<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>A joint meeting of the Celtic Studies
Association of North America (CSANA) and the 34th Annual UC Celtic
Studies Conference, organized by Professor Joseph Nagy (English, UCLA)
and the UCLA Celtic Colloquium, will take place at UCLA. Sessions will
focus on all aspects of Celtic culture including language, literature,
history, art and archaeology, from late antiquity until the present day.
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>Co-sponsored by the UCLA Celtic Colloquium,
the UCLA Department of English, the UCLA Indo-European Studies Program,
the UCLA Dean of Humanities, the UCLA Campus Programs Committee, and the
California State University, BakersfieldAntelope Valley Campus.<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2><b>THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012<br>
Royce Hall 314, UCLA<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>1:30-2:00 Registration<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>2:00-2:15 Welcoming remarks by David
Schaberg, Dean of Humanities, and Massimo Ciavolella, Director, CMRS<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>2:15-3:15 Session I <br>
Fiona Edmonds (University of Cambridge), âSaintsâ Cults and Irish
Influence in North-eastern Walesâ<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>3:15-4:15 Session II<br>
Karin StĂŒber (University of Zurich), âGrammaticalized Constructions of
the Old Irish Verbal Nounâ<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>4:15-4:30 Break<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>4:30-5:30 Session III<br>
Torsten Meissner (University of Cambridge), "Gaulish Women and Their
Names"<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>5:30-6:30 Reception<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>6:30-8:30 Session IV<br>
Brian Ă Conchubhair (University of Notre Dame), âMapping the
Shannonâ<br>
Tara MacLeod (University of Notre Dame) âThe ABC of Teaching Irish to
Generation Zâ<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2><b>FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2011<br>
Royce Hall 314, UCLA<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>8:00-10:00 Session V<br>
D. Blair Gibson (El Camino College), âGaelic Territorial Organization
in Medieval Munster: Decoding the Tripartite Deedâ<br>
Lisabeth Buchelt (University of Nebraska-Omaha), âMemory and
Manifestation in ScĂ©la Mucce Meic DathĂłâ<br>
Deborah Furchtgott (Harvard University), âReading the Poet: Approaches
to the Personas of Dafydd ap Gwilym and Charles dâOrlĂ©ansâ<br>
Georgia Henley (Harvard University), âLatinate Models, Vernacular
Tradition: The Vernacular Histories of Thirteenth-Century Walesâ<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>10:00-10:15 Break<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>10:15-11:15 Session VI<br>
David Stifter (NUI Maynooth), âMagic Regained: New Readings in the
Stowe Missal fol. 67vâ<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>11:15-11:30 Break<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>11:30-1:00 Session VII<br>
Aaron Griffith (University of Vienna), âThe Milan Glosses
Databaseâ<br>
Michael Meckler (The Ohio State University), âCeltic Dog Breeds of
Classical Antiquityâ<br>
Brian Stone (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale), âNarrative
Strategy and the Twelfth-Century Reform of the Irish Church: Senchas
FagbĂĄla Caisil and Acallam na SenĂłrachâ<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>1:00-2:00 Lunch Break<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>2:00-3:00 CSANA Seminar (texts will be made
available)<br>
Anna PagĂ© (UCLA), âConchobar and Compertâ<br>
Chantal Kobel (Trinity College Dublin), âThe Textual Transmission of
the Longest Version of Aided Chonchobuir âThe Violent Death of
Conchobarââ<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>3:00-3:15 Break<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>3:15-4:45 Session VIII<br>
Jessica Hemming (Corpus Christi College), âWhere Did the Raven Go?
Peredur, Perceval, and the Blood-on-Snow Sceneâ<br>
Edyta Lehmann (Harvard University), ââI am a clean whirlwind from the
far seesâ: Biddy Jenkinsonâs Conversation with the Romance of Mis and
Dubh Roisâ<br>
Matthew Holmberg (Harvard University), âFergus mac RĂłich and Analogues
to the Celtic Fertility Godâ<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>4:45-5:00 Break<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>5:00-6:30 Session IX<br>
Jacqueline Borsje (University of Amsterdam), âEpaid (spell, charm) in
The Vision of Mac Con Glinneâ<br>
Kassandra Conley (Harvard University), ââA mirror in which to see
himselfâ: John Davies and the Giants of Patagoniaâ<br>
Matthieu Boyd (Fairleigh Dickinson University), "Medieval Celtic
Fodder for Animal Studies"<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>6:30-6:45 Break<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>6:45-7:30 <br>
John Bollard and Margaret Lloyd (Springfield College), Dramatic
Presentation of the Mabinogi<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2><b>SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2012<br>
Royce Hall 314, UCLA<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>8:00-9:30 Session X<br>
Sarah Zeiser (Harvard University), âSulien and Sons Strike Again? Some
Observations on Lambeth Palace Library MS 1230â<br>
Lawrence Eson (Denver, CO), âFemale Voice, Ritual Discourse and
Physical Markers in Tochmarc Ailbeâ<br>
Lizabeth Johnson (South Dakota State University), âSex and the Single
Woman: Regulating Womenâs Sexuality in Post-Conquest Walesâ<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>9:30-9:45 Break<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>9:45-10:45 Session XI<br>
SĂŹm Innes (Harvard University), âA Finn fagoibhsi ifrind: Fionn in
Hellâ<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>10:45-11:00 Break<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>11:00-12:30 Session XII<br>
Catherine McKenna (Harvard University), âA Portrait of the Pencerdd as
a Young Manâ<br>
Charlene Eska (Virginia Tech), âCeltic and Germanic Light on Hittite
Divorce Lawâ<br>
Joey McMullen (Harvard University), âRenowned Helm of Britain: The
Princeâs Body as Ynys Prydein in Medieval Walesâ<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>12:30-2:00 Lunch Break<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>2:00-3:00 Session XIII<br>
Thomas Clancy (University of Glasgow), "Medieval Gaelic Nature
Poetry Revisited"<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>3:00-3:15 Break<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>3:15-4:45 Session XIV<br>
Joseph Eska (Virginia Tech), âTeuoÏToniá»n! and Related
Mattersâ<br>
Natasha Sumner (Harvard University), âThe Doubling of Ferches in Cath
Maige Mucramaâ<br>
Lahney Preston-Matto (Adelphi University), âTesting, Testing:
Treaty-Breaking in Early Irish Literatureâ<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>4:45-5:00 Break<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>5:00-6:00 Session XV<br>
Paul Russell (University of Cambridge), ââSomething of a more
congenial natureâ: The Discovery of Old Welsh, the Invention of Old
Breton, and Henry Bradshawâ<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2><b>SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2012<br>
Royce Hall 314, UCLA<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>9:30-10:30 Session XVI<br>
Daniel Melia (UC Berkeley), "Evidence for St. Patrick versus
Evidence for âSt. Patrickâ"<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>10:30-10:45 Break<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>10:45-11:45 Session XVII<br>
Lisa Bitel (USC), âKnock, Knock, Who's There? It's the Virgin . . .: A
Modern Irish Visionary and His Angry Apparitionâ<br>
Kelly Randell (University of Cambridge), âBrothers Behaving Badly:
Fraternal Relations in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum
Britanniaeâ<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>11:45-12:45 Session XVIII<br>
Nollaig Ă Muraile (NUI Galway), âAn Untilled Field -- Some Neglected
Works of Early Modern Irish Proseâ<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2><b>General Information<br>
</b>Registration is not required and there is no fee. Seating is limited
and available on a first-come, first-served basis.<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2><b>UCLA Campus Parking</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>.<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2><b>Need More Information?<br>
</b>Contact the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies by email at
<a href="mailto:cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu">cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu</a> or call
31-0825-1880.<br>
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