UWP Lecturers Fwd: March 8-11: Annual UC Celtic Conference at UCLA

[John Ganim]

>UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
>
>
>34th Annual University of California Celtic 
>Studies Conference / Annual Meeting of the 
>Celtic Studies Association of America (CSANA)
>March 8-11, 2012
>
>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.
>
>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, Bakersfield—Antelope Valley Campus.
>
>
>THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012
>Royce Hall 314, UCLA
>
>1:30-2:00 Registration
>
>2:00-2:15 Welcoming remarks by David Schaberg, 
>Dean of Humanities, and Massimo Ciavolella, Director, CMRS
>
>2:15-3:15 Session I
>Fiona Edmonds (University of Cambridge), 
>“Saints’ Cults and Irish Influence in North-eastern Wales”
>
>3:15-4:15 Session II
>Karin Stüber (University of Zurich), 
>“Grammaticalized Constructions of the Old Irish Verbal Noun”
>
>4:15-4:30 Break
>
>4:30-5:30 Session III
>Torsten Meissner (University of Cambridge), "Gaulish Women and Their Names"
>
>5:30-6:30 Reception
>
>6:30-8:30 Session IV
>Brian Ó Conchubhair (University of Notre Dame), “Mapping the Shannon”
>Tara MacLeod (University of Notre Dame) “The 
>ABC of Teaching Irish to Generation Z”
>
>
>FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2011
>Royce Hall 314, UCLA
>
>8:00-10:00 Session V
>D. Blair Gibson (El Camino College), “Gaelic 
>Territorial Organization in Medieval Munster: Decoding the Tripartite Deed”
>Lisabeth Buchelt (University of Nebraska-Omaha), 
>“Memory and Manifestation in Scéla Mucce Meic Dathó”
>Deborah Furchtgott (Harvard University), 
>“Reading the Poet: Approaches to the Personas 
>of Dafydd ap Gwilym and Charles d’Orléans”
>Georgia Henley (Harvard University), “Latinate 
>Models, Vernacular Tradition: The Vernacular 
>Histories of Thirteenth-Century Wales”
>
>10:00-10:15 Break
>
>10:15-11:15 Session VI
>David Stifter (NUI Maynooth), “Magic Regained: 
>New Readings in the Stowe Missal fol. 67v”
>
>11:15-11:30 Break
>
>11:30-1:00 Session VII
>Aaron Griffith (University of Vienna), “The Milan Glosses Database”
>Michael Meckler (The Ohio State University), 
>“Celtic Dog Breeds of Classical Antiquity”
>Brian Stone (Southern Illinois University, 
>Carbondale), “Narrative Strategy and the 
>Twelfth-Century Reform of the Irish Church: 
>Senchas Fagbála Caisil and Acallam na Senórach”
>
>1:00-2:00 Lunch Break
>
>2:00-3:00 CSANA Seminar (texts will be made available)
>Anna Pagé (UCLA), “Conchobar and Compert”
>Chantal Kobel (Trinity College Dublin), “The 
>Textual Transmission of the Longest Version of 
>Aided Chonchobuir ‘The Violent Death of Conchobar’”
>
>3:00-3:15 Break
>
>3:15-4:45 Session VIII
>Jessica Hemming (Corpus Christi College), 
>“Where Did the Raven Go? Peredur, Perceval, and the Blood-on-Snow Scene”
>Edyta Lehmann (Harvard University), “’I am a 
>clean whirlwind from the far sees’: Biddy 
>Jenkinson’s Conversation with the Romance of Mis and Dubh Rois”
>Matthew Holmberg (Harvard University), “Fergus 
>mac Róich and Analogues to the Celtic Fertility God”
>
>4:45-5:00 Break
>
>5:00-6:30 Session IX
>Jacqueline Borsje (University of Amsterdam), 
>“Epaid (spell, charm) in The Vision of Mac Con Glinne”
>Kassandra Conley (Harvard University), “’A 
>mirror in which to see himself’: John Davies and the Giants of Patagonia”
>Matthieu Boyd (Fairleigh Dickinson University), 
>"Medieval Celtic Fodder for Animal Studies"
>
>6:30-6:45 Break
>
>6:45-7:30
>John Bollard and Margaret Lloyd (Springfield 
>College), Dramatic Presentation of the Mabinogi
>
>
>SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2012
>Royce Hall 314, UCLA
>
>8:00-9:30 Session X
>Sarah Zeiser (Harvard University), “Sulien and 
>Sons Strike Again? Some Observations on Lambeth Palace Library MS 1230”
>Lawrence Eson (Denver, CO), “Female Voice, 
>Ritual Discourse and Physical Markers in Tochmarc Ailbe”
>Lizabeth Johnson (South Dakota State 
>University), “Sex and the Single Woman: 
>Regulating Women’s Sexuality in Post-Conquest Wales”
>
>9:30-9:45 Break
>
>9:45-10:45 Session XI
>Sìm Innes (Harvard University), “A Finn fagoibhsi ifrind: Fionn in Hell”
>
>10:45-11:00 Break
>
>11:00-12:30 Session XII
>Catherine McKenna (Harvard University), “A 
>Portrait of the Pencerdd as a Young Man”
>Charlene Eska (Virginia Tech), “Celtic and 
>Germanic Light on Hittite Divorce Law”
>Joey McMullen (Harvard University), “Renowned 
>Helm of Britain: The Prince’s Body as Ynys Prydein in Medieval Wales”
>
>12:30-2:00 Lunch Break
>
>2:00-3:00 Session XIII
>Thomas Clancy (University of Glasgow), "Medieval 
>Gaelic Nature Poetry Revisited"
>
>3:00-3:15 Break
>
>3:15-4:45 Session XIV
>Joseph Eska (Virginia Tech), “TeuoχToniọn! and Related Matters”
>Natasha Sumner (Harvard University), “The 
>Doubling of Ferches in Cath Maige Mucrama”
>Lahney Preston-Matto (Adelphi University), 
>“Testing, Testing: Treaty-Breaking in Early Irish Literature”
>
>4:45-5:00 Break
>
>5:00-6:00 Session XV
>Paul Russell (University of Cambridge), 
>“’Something of a more congenial nature’: 
>The Discovery of Old Welsh, the Invention of Old Breton, and Henry Bradshaw”
>
>
>SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2012
>Royce Hall 314, UCLA
>
>9:30-10:30 Session XVI
>Daniel Melia (UC Berkeley), "Evidence for St. 
>Patrick versus Evidence for ‘St. Patrick’"
>
>10:30-10:45 Break
>
>10:45-11:45 Session XVII
>Lisa Bitel (USC), “Knock, Knock, Who's There? 
>It's the Virgin . . .: A Modern Irish Visionary and His Angry Apparition”
>Kelly Randell (University of Cambridge), 
>“Brothers Behaving Badly: Fraternal Relations 
>in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae”
>
>11:45-12:45 Session XVIII
>Nollaig Ó Muraile (NUI Galway), “An Untilled 
>Field -- Some Neglected Works of Early Modern Irish Prose”
>
>
>
>General Information
>Registration is not required and there is no 
>fee. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
>
>UCLA Campus Parking
>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.
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>Need More Information?
>Contact the Center for Medieval and Renaissance 
>Studies by email at 
><mailto:cmrs at humnet.ucla.edu>cmrs at humnet.ucla.edu or call 31-0825-1880.
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