UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

            UC-Berkeley Center for British Studies




32nd Annual University of California Celtic Studies Conference
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.*
  *March 4-7, 2010*

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 (University of 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”

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*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, Conjecture, 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

*For more information, please contact Professor Joseph Nagy at jfnagy@humnet.ucla.edu <mailto:jfnagy@humnet.ucla.edu> or Dr. Karen Burgess at kburgess@ucla.edu <mailto:kburgess@ucla.edu>.*



The Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies (PCCBS) invites paper and panel proposals for its thirty‐seventh meeting, to be held at Pomona College in Claremont, California. We solicit the participation of scholars in all areas of British Studies, broadly defined. In particular, we welcome proposals for interdisciplinary panels that draw on the work of historians, literary critics, and scholars in other disciplines whose focus is on Britain and its empire, from the Middle Ages to the present. Proposals for entire panels on a common theme will be given priority, although individual paper proposals will also be considered if several of them can be assembled to create a viable panel. Proposals for roundtable discussions of a topical work, or current issue in the field, or pedagogical practices with respect to the teaching of particular aspects of British Studies are also encouraged. The typical ninety‐minute panel will deliver three papers, each lasting fifteen to twenty minutes, and include the participation of a chair and a commentator. Proposals should include a general description of the panel or roundtable, a 200‐300 word abstract for each paper to be read and a one‐page curriculum vitae for each participant. The address, phone number, and e‐mail address of every participant (including the chair and commentator) must be included in the proposal. For panel or roundtable proposals the name of the main contact person should be noted clearly.

Please send your proposals by Friday, November 13 to:
Professor Thomas Cogswell
Department of History
University of California at Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521‐0204
thomas.cogswell@ucr.edu

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