[Englecturers] 30th Annual UC Celtic Studies Conference at UCLA, March 6-9

[John Ganim]

>Announcing the Thirtieth Annual University of 
>California Celtic Studies Conference, March 6-9, 
>2008, in Royce Hall 314, on the UCLA Campus!
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>Hosted by the UCLA Celtic Colloquium, and 
>co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Medieval and 
>Renaissance Studies (CMRS), the Department of 
>English, the Friends of English, and the Indo-European Studies Program.
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>PROGRAM
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>Thursday, March 6
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>1:30: Coffee, registration
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>2:00: Welcome: Brian Copenhaver, Director, CMRS
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>2:15: Geraint Jenkins (University of Wales 
>Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies), 
>“Truffle-Hunter or Parachutist? Iolo Morganwg the Historian”
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>3:15: Rosemarie Deist (University of San 
>Francisco), “Tristan and the Love Potion: 
>Medieval Adaptations of a Celtic Theme”
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>3:45: Antone Minard (University of San Diego), 
>“Peredur’s Zoo: Natural and Unnatural Animals in the Welsh Triads”
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>4:15: Break
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>4:30: Amy Eichhorn-Mulligan (University of 
>Memphis), “Playing for Power: Macha Mong-rúad’s 
>Sovereign Performance” (sponsored by the USC 
>Institute for British and Irish Studies, and the 
>USC Center for Feminist Research)
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>5:30: Reception
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>7:00: Patrick Geary (UCLA), “The St. Gall Monastery Plan Project”
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>7:30: Gregory Toner (University of Ulster), 
>“eDIL (electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language)”
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>8:00: John Bollard, “Landscapes of the Mabinogi”
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>Friday, March 7, 2008
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>8:30: Coffee, pastries
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>9:00: Maria Teresa Agozzino (American Folklore 
>Society/Ohio State University), “Midsummer 
>Madness: Welsh Worldview and the Ritualesque”
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>9:30: Patrick Ford (Harvard University), “Four 
>and Twenty Meters, Packed in a Song¬True?”
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>10:00: Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh (NUI Galway and 
>University of Notre Dame), “Towards the 
>Contextualization of Initial h- in Old-Irish”
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>10:30: Break
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>10:45: C. Jürgen Uhlich (Trinity College Dublin), “Serc do Día ‘God’s Love’?”
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>11:45: Lunch Break
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>1:00: Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail (University College 
>Dublin), “Scribal Transmission in Eighteenth- 
>and Nineteenth-Century Ireland: A Re-Appraisal”
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>2:00: Break
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>2:15: Arthur Bahr (MIT), “The Welsh Sheen of a Middle English Pearl”
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>2:45: Edyta Lehmann-Shriver (Harvard 
>University), “The Plight of the Hero: In Defense of Bres”
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>3:15: Aled Llion Jones (Harvard University), “Two by Two: Men and Chariots”
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>3:45: Daniel Melia (UC Berkeley), “The 
>Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) and Irish Studies”
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>4:15: Break
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>4:30: Róisín McLaughlin (DIAS), “Fénius Farrsaid and the Alphabets”
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>5:30: Dinner Break
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>7:00: Margaret Lloyd (Springfield College) reads 
>from her recently published poetry collection A 
>Moment in the Field: Voices from Arthurian Legend (Plinth Books, 2006).
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>Saturday, March 8, 2008
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>8:30: Coffee, pastries
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>9:00: Charles MacQuarrie (CSUB Antelope Valley), 
>“What’s So Celtic About Cormac McCarthy?”
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>9:30: Calvert Watkins (UCLA), “The Milk of the Dawn Cows Revisited”
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>10:00: Sarah Zeiser (Harvard University), 
>“Threads of Battle: Weaving and Gender Association in Old Irish Narratives”
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>10:30: Break
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>10:45: Gregory Toner (University of Ulster), 
>“Memory, Writing, and the Preservation of Knowledge in Medieval Ireland”
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>11:45: Paper sessions conclude for the day.
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>Sunday, March 9, 2008
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>8:30: Coffee, pastries
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>9:00: Eve Sweetser (UC Berkeley), “Celtic 
>Romanticism, Celtic Modernity, and Jakez Riou”
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>10:00: Maggie Harrison (Harvard University), 
>“There and Back Again: Music, Step-Dancing, and 
>Cultural Identity in Nova Scotia and Scotland”
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>10:30: Break
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>10:45: Caoimhín Breatnach (University College 
>Dublin), “Conflicting Portrayals of Fionn mac 
>Cumhaill and the Fiana: The Story of an Early Modern Irish Narrative”
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>11:45: Lunch Break
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>1:00: Matthieu Boyd (Harvard University), 
>“Affinities of the Two Hags Trading Crooked 
>Quatrains in Aislinge Meic Con Glinne”
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>1:30: Geraint Evans (Swansea University), “The 
>Welsh Printer’s Device on Shakespeare Quarto Title-Pages”
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>2:00: Helen Fulton (Swansea University), “Welsh 
>Translations of the Prophecy of the Six Kings”
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>General Information:
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>To attend the paper sessions, advance 
>registration is not required and there is no 
>fee. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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>UCLA Campus Parking:
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>Parking permits may be purchased ($8) from a 
>UCLA Parking Services kiosk on the day of the 
>event. Be sure to mention that you are here to 
>attend the Celtic Studies Conference in Royce 
>Hall. Please note: On Sunday morning, the only 
>Parking Services kiosk open before 10 am is 
>located on Westwood Blvd., just north of Le 
>Conte Avenue on the south side of campus. For 
>more information about campus locations, 
>parking, and driving directions, please see www.ucla.edu
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>Need More Information?
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>Visit the UCLA Celtic Studies website at 
><http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/celtic/>http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/celtic/. 
>Download a PDF copy of the schedule at 
><http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/celtic_conf_program_2008.pdf>http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/celtic_conf_program_2008.pdf 
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>For any other questions, please contact 
>Professor Joseph Nagy of UCLA at 
><mailto:jfnagy at humnet.ucla.edu>jfnagy at humnet.ucla.edu 
>or call the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 310.825.1880.
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John M. Ganim
President, New Chaucer Society
Professor of English
Department of English
University of California, Riverside
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