UWP Lecturers UC Celtic Studies Conference, March 4-7, at UCLA

[John Ganim]

>Announcing the 32nd Annual University of California Celtic Studies Conference
>
>March 4 - 7, 2010, at UCLA
>
>Hosted by the UCLA Celtic Colloquium
>
>Sponsored by:
>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.
>
>Schedule
>
>Thursday, March 4, 2010, Royce Hall 314, UCLA
>
>3:30     Coffee, Registration
>
>4:00     Welcoming Remarks
>
>             Brian P. Copenhaver, Director, UCLA 
> Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies
>
>4:15     Lenore Fischer (San Pedro), “Some 
>Annals of Ulster Glosses and Brian Bórumha: Evidence of Lost Annals?”
>
>4:45     Amy Hale (St. Petersburg College), 
>“‘Magnifying the Senses’: Cornwall’s Changing Brand”
>
>5:15     Natasha Sumner (Harvard University), 
>“Efnisien: A Case Study of a Medieval Psychopath-Trickster”
>
>6:00     Reception
>
>7:00     Enid Morgan (Aberystwyth), “Revenge and 
>Reconciliation in the Four Branches: A Girardian Approach”
>
>7:30     Gerald Morgan (Aberystwyth), “Power in the Welsh Landscape”
>
>
>Friday, March 5, 2010, Royce Hall 314, UCLA
>
>8:30 am Coffee
>
>9:00     Paul Russell (University of Cambridge), 
>“Reading Ovid in Early Medieval Wales”
>
>10:15   Break
>
>10:30  Jessica Hemming (Corpus Christi College, 
>Vancouver, BC.), “‘I Could Love a Man with Those 
>Three Colors’: The Female Gaze and the
>             Red/White/Black Motif in Two Irish Tales”
>
>11:00   Gretchen Kern (University of Wisconsin), 
>“On Secondary Stress in Old Irish”
>
>11:30   Kassandra Conley (Harvard University), 
>“Black Men on the Borders: The Case of gwr du in the Mabinogion”
>
>12:00   Break
>
>12:15   Katharine Simms (Trinity College 
>Dublin), “‘Mulieres nudae, carnes crudae (Naked 
>women, raw meat)’: Gaelic Ulster, Impressions and
>             Realities”
>
>1:15     Lunch Break
>
>2:30     Diana Luft (Cardiff University), “From 
>Fantasy to Fact: The Eighteenth-Century Recovery of the Mabinogi”
>
>3:00     Thomas R. Walsh (UC Santa Cruz), “Irish 
>súantraige: Poetics and Sleep”
>
>3:30     Elizabeth Moore (Harvard University), 
>“Symmetrical Structure and the Role of the Helper-Figures in Owein”
>
>4:00     Break
>
>4:15     Kim McCone (NUI Maynooth), “Mad Dogs and Irishmen”
>
>5:15     Dinner Break
>
>6:30     Cormac Bourke (Ulster Museum), “More 
>the Metalwork: Early Ecclesiastical Hand-Bells in Ireland and Britain”
>
>7:30     Break
>
>8:00     “Musical Twilight: The Celtic 
>Connection” (Concert by UCLA Sounds in the Powell Library Rotunda)
>
>
>Saturday, March 6, 2010, Royce Hall 314, UCLA
>
>8:30     Coffee
>
>8:30     Margaret Harrison (Harvard University), 
>“The Gaelic Panegyric Tradition in the 19th Century”
>
>9:00     Matthieu Boyd (Harvard University), 
>“Irish Manuscripts as Performance”
>
>9:30     Kristen Over (Northeastern Illinois 
>University), “Rewriting the Literary Welshman in Peredur vab Efrawc”
>
>10:00   Break
>
>10:15   Kelly Randall (University of Cambridge), 
>“(Re-)Defining Translation Style: Structure and 
>Variation in Cyfranc Lludd a Llefelys”
>
>10:45   Edyta Lehmann (Harvard University), “The 
>Power of Words: The Narrative Force Behind the Character of Deirdre”
>
>11:15   Myriah Williams (UC Berkeley), 
>“Conversations in King Arthur’s Court: A New 
>Examination of Ymddiddan rhwng Arthur a Gwenhwyfar”
>
>11:45   Break
>
>12:00   Gary Holland (UC Berkeley), “Old Irish 
>cach and nach Constructions: Inheritance or Innovation?”
>
>1:00     Lunch Break
>
>2:30     Sarah Zeiser (Harvard University), “The 
>Sacred and the Secular in Welsh Approaches to Latin”
>
>3:00     Joseph F. Eska (Virginia Tech), 
>“Remarks on Epenthetic Vowels and Intrusive Vowels in Ogam Irish”
>
>3:30     A. Joseph McMullen (Harvard 
>University), “Dwelling in ‘Smooth Space’: 
>Creating Place on the Periphery in the Acallam na Senórach”
>
>4:00     Break
>
>4:15     Abigail Burnyeat (University of 
>Edinburgh), “Cesta Cóema: Early Irish Dialogue 
>Form and Medieval Educational Practice”
>
>
>Sunday, March 7, 2010, Royce Hall 314, UCLA
>
>  8:30    Coffee
>
>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”
>
>10:00   Patrick Wadden (Exeter College, Oxford), 
>“Prímchenéla and fochenéla: A Reassessment of the Irish Sex Aetates Mundi”
>
>10:30   Break
>
>10:45   Dara Hellman (University of San 
>Francisco), “The Born(e) Legitimacy: Coherence, 
>Conjucture, and Closure in Gereint vab Erbin”
>
>11:15   Peter Smith (University of Ulster), “The 
>Poetic Aesthetics of Eochaid ua Flainn’s Éistet áes ecna aíbind”
>
>11:45   Lunch Break
>
>1:00     Georgia Henley (UC Berkeley), “Vengeful 
>Wells and Spouting Lakes: Expressions of 
>Hydrolatry in Gerald of Wales, Chrétien de Troyes, and Celtic Myth”
>
>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.
>
>2:30     Break
>
>2:45     Donald Stewart (University of 
>Edinburgh), “Alexander Carmichael and St Michael’s Day”
>
>3:45     Closing Remarks
>
>
>General Information
>
>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.
>
>UCLA Campus Parking­New Procedure!
>
>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 
><http://map.ais.ucla.edu/go/portal/1002187>http://map.ais.ucla.edu/go/portal/1002187. 
>Please note! 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.
>
>Need More Information?
>
>Please contact Professor Joseph Nagy at 
><mailto:jfnagy at humnet.ucla.edu>jfnagy at humnet.ucla.edu 
>or Dr. Karen Burgess at <mailto:kburgess at ucla.edu>kburgess at ucla.edu.
>
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