Twenty-Second Annual University of California Celtic Studies Conference Program

Please note:

1) Friday's events at the Clark Library require pre-registration for all, and a fee for non-students ($10). To register, please send your name, address, phone number, and academic affiliation (if any), along with a check for ten dollars made out to "UC Regents," to:
Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
310 Royce
UCLA
Box 951404
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1404 If you are a student, please so indicate, and do not send a check. Lunch, refreshments, and a reception will be provided to pre-registrants.

2) Saturday evening's banquet will cost $25 per person, including tax (but not including alcoholic beverage). To reserve a place at the banquet, please send your check (made out to Joseph Nagy) to:
Professor Joseph Nagy
English, UCLA
Box 90095-1530
LA CA 90095-1530
Please send the $25 as soon as possible. Space is limited at the banquet. If you have any questions, please contact Professor Nagy at jfnagy@humnet.ucla.edu, or 310-825-4173. If you will require transportation to the Clark Library or to the banquet (off-campus sites), please let Professor Nagy know right away.

3) If you are coming from out of town and are in need of accomodations, we recommend the Claremont Hotel (1044 Tiverton Ave., Westwood, 310-208-5957; fax 208-2386), which costs $43 plus tax per night, per person, and is within easy walking distance of the UCLA campus and various restaurants and shops. There is also the nearby Hilgard House (927 Hilgard Ave., 310-208-3945; fax 208-1972), which is $104 single/$109 double plus tax per night. For more information or suggestions, please feel free to contact Professor Nagy.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 16
ROYCE 314
2:00 Lecture Katharine Simms (Trinity College)
"Poetic Judges, and Poets Judged"
3:00 Paper Session

Maria Teresa Agozzino (UC Berkeley)
"Transplanted Traditions: An Assessment and Analysis of Welsh Folklore in Patagonia"

David Fickett-Wilbar (Boston)
"Cernunnos: Iconography and Ideology"

Clodagh Harvey (UCLA)
"Storytelling 2000: Ireland Embraces the Millennium"
4:30 Break
5:00 Lecture

Daniel Melia (UC Berkeley)
"Global Positioning in Medieval Ireland:Narrative, Onomastics, and Genealogy"
6:00 Reception
8:00 Lecture

Patrick K. Ford (Harvard University)
"The Ulaid and the Iliad"
FRIDAY, MARCH 17
CLARK LIBRARY


2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles; one block east of Arlington Avenue,
and two blocks south of the Santa Monica Freeway)

PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED (SEE ABOVE)
"The Gaelic Literary Imagination in
the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries"
9:30 Coffee and Refreshments
10:00 Workshop

Mícheál Mac Craith (NUC Galway)
"Fun and Games among the Jet Set: A Glimpse of Seventeeth-Century Gaelic Ireland"

Catherine McKenna (Graduate Center, CUNY)
"Crafting Saints for the Counter-Reformation: John Colgan, the Trias Thaumaturgae, and Irish National Identity"
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Workshop

Máirtín Ó Briain (NUC Galway)
"Aspects of Satire in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Irish (Gaelic)
Poetry"

William Gillies (University of Edinburgh)
"Coping with the Cuckoo: Gaelic Poetry and Ossian"
4:30 Reception
SATURDAY, MARCH 18
ROYCE 314
8:30 Coffee and Refreshments
9:00 Paper Session

Amy Mulligan (Oxford)
"A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Man: The Structural Function of the Bodily Grotesque in a Poet's Initiation"

Bronagh Ní Chonaill (Trinity College)
"'I Am Not Yet of Age to Take a Wife' (Culhwch)
: Children in the Mabinogion"

Jeremy Lowe (Cambridge)
"Contagious Violence and the Spectacle of Death in the Táin"
10:30 Break
11:00 Paper Session

Paul Birt (University of Ottawa)
"The Impact of the Eisteddfod on Literature from the Welsh Settlements in Chubut, Argentina, 1880-1999"

Peter T. Mcquillan (University of Notre Dame)
"Irrealis and Irish"

Diane Auslander (Graduate Center, CUNY)
"Matters of Time: Manipulation of Memory in Early Irish Hagiography"
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Sean Nós Concert Lillis Ó Laoire (University of Limerick)
3:00 Lecture Gearoid Denvir (NUI Galway)
"The World from Within: The Oral Poetry of the Connemara Poet Learaí Phádraic Learaí Ó Finneadha"
4:00 Break
4:30 Paper Session

Heather Larson (Harvard University)
"The Laments of Tochmarc Ferbe"

John W. Shaw (School for Scottish Studies)
"Gaelic Post-Immigration Legends in Cape Breton"
5:30 Lecture John Koch (Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies)
"Dark Age 2000: Pausing to Re-think the Insular Migration Period"
8:00 Banquet
J.R. Seafood Restaurant #1,
11901 Santa Monica Blvd., West Los Angeles (310-268-2463)
SUNDAY, MARCH 19
ROYCE 314
9:00 Coffee and Refreshments
9:30 Paper Session

Lillis Ó Laoire (University of Limerick)
"Metaphors We Live By: Some Examples from Donegal Irish"

Antone Minard (UCLA)
"On The Boundary of the Sacred: The Saints of Brythonic Narrative"

James B. Emmons (UCSB)
"Prolegomena to the Study of the Life of Saint Áed mac Bricc"
11:00 Break
11:30 Paper Session

Dylan Phillips (Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies)
"The Dragon Roars: The Emergence of Civil Disobedience in Welsh Language Politics"

Charles MacQuarrie (Antelope Valley Community College)
"Yoknapatawpha County and 'Cracker Culture': A Study of the 'Celtic' Component in Faulkner's Mythical South"
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Lecture Máire Herbert (NUI Cork)
"Identity and Exile: Ireland and Scotland before 1200"
3:00 Paper Session

Paula Powers Coe (Los Angeles)
"'So That No Use Might Be Made of Them': Equine Sacrifice in Celtic Contexts"

Leslie Jones (UCLA)
"Hi, My Name's Fox"? An Alternative Explication of 'Lindow Man's' Fox Fur Armband and Its Relevance to the Question of Human Sacrifice among the Celts"
4:00 Break
4:30 Paper Session

Kristen Over (UCLA)
"Historical Revision in Fouke le Fitz Waryn"

Aideen O'Leary (University of Notre Dame)
"Saint Andrew in Pictland"