Twenty-Fourth Annual Celtic Studies Conference of the University of California
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| Thursday, March 14, Royce Hall 314, UCLA Campus | |
| 2:00-2:05 Welcome | H. A. Kelly, Director, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies |
| 2:05-3:05 Guest Lecture 1 | Catherine McKenna (Graduate Center, CUNY), "Reading Math: Kingship in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi" |
| 3:05-3:15 Break | |
| 3:15-4:45 Paper Session 1 | Diana Luft (Harvard University), "Definitely not the Distichs of Cato" Lillis Ó Laoire (University of Limerick), "The Right Version: Specificity in Irish Gaelic Song Texts and the Dynamics of Community" Victoria Simmons (UCLA), "Brigit and the Modular Eye: Saints, Tricksters, and Shamanic Wisdom" |
| 4:45-5:00 Break | |
| 5:00-6:00 Special Presentation and Recital | Heather Larson (San Pedro, CA), "Strings and Songs: Images of Harp and Voice in Medieval Irish Literature" |
| 6:00-7:30 Reception | |
| 7:30-8:30 Guest Lecture 2 | Gwenno Ffrancon (University of Wales, Bangor), "'Hollywood Cinema is the Opiate of the Proletariat': Imaging Wales and the Welsh on Film, 1935 to 1951" (with film clips) |
| Friday, March 15, Royce Hall 314, UCLA Campus | |
| 8:30-9:00: Refreshments | |
| 9:00-10:30 Paper Session 2 |
David Fickett-Wilbar (Boston, MA), "Horses, Hounds, and Bare-Breasted Ladies." Jacqueline Fulmer (UC Berkeley), "Peig Sayers: The Woman Who Talks" Katharine Olson (Harvard University), "A Generous Serving of Salted Lion Heart and Turks' Heads on Plates: Exploring Elis Gruffydd's Depiction of the Third Crusade" |
| 10:30-10:45 Break | |
| 10:45-11:45 Guest Lecture 3 | Annalee Rejhon (UC Berkeley), "Holy Itineraries, Fish-Skin Hats, and Paramours: The Welsh Pilgrimage of Charlemagne" |
| 11:45-1:00 Break | |
| 1:00-2:30 Paper Session 3 | Peter McQuillan (University of Notre Dame), "Remarks on the Habitual Aspect in Irish" Lisa Bitel (USC), "St. Brigit After the Seventh Century: A Saint With Three Heads?" Wilson McLeod (University of Edinburgh), "Sgeinnfid ó Híelans Lucht Bláthbhoinéad: The Refracted View of Scottish Gaeldom in Irish Jacobite Poetry" |
| 2:30-2:45 Break | |
| 2:45-4:15 Paper Session 4 | Maria Teresa Agozzino (UC Berkeley), "The Caged Countess: Locating the Life and Legend of
Isabel of Buchan" James Emmons (UCSB), "'Like Images of Wood': Severan Influences in the Life of Aed mac Bricc" Eve Sweetser (UC Berkeley), "Jakez Riou's Story-Telling: A Nicely Engineered Collision Between Folk Tradition and Literary Style" |
| 4:15-4:30 Break | |
| 4:30-5:30 Guest Lecture 4 | Mary-Ann Constantine (Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth), "'Irish All Over and Bombast!': The Adventures of Ossian in Wales and Brittany" |
| 7:30 (Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall), The UCLA Celtic Colloquium Goes to the Movies (free of charge) | |
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Saturday, March 16, Mary Pickford Education Center, Autry Museum of Western Heritage, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Griffith Park, Los Angeles (directions: http://www.autry-museum.org/, or phone 323 667-2000) |
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| 10:00-11:00 Paper Session 5 | Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), "Neighbor Disruption and
Reaction: Some Examples from Scottish Gaelic" Charles McQuarrie (California State University, Bakersfield), "Sweeney Astray in the Wasteland: Suibne Geilt and T.S. Eliot's Sweeney" |
| 11:00-12:00 Guest Lecture 5 | Tomás Ó Cathasaigh (Harvard University), "Sírrabad Sualtaim ("Sualtaim's Long Warning") and the Order of Speaking among the Ulaid" |
| 12:00-2:00 Break and Guided Tours of the Autry Museum | |
| 2:00-3:30 Paper Session 6 | Gene Haley (Harvard University), "The Cattle Raid of Cualu? Onomastic Traces of a Táin toward Dublin" Thomas Owen Clancy (University of Glasgow), "Die Like a Man? The Ulster Death-Tales Revisited" Kathryn Stelmach (UCLA), "The 'Boyhood' of a Nation: Cúchulainn's Coming of Age in the Works of Yeats, O'Grady, Gregory, and Synge" |
| 3:30-3:45 Break | |
| 3:45-4:45 Guest Lecture 6 | Ruairí Ó hUiginn (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), "The Late Ulster Cycle: From Romance to Romanticism" |
| 7:30 Banquet (for location, availability of spaces, and price, please contact Professor Nagy) | |
| Sunday, March 17, Royce Hall 314, UCLA Campus | |
| 9:30--10:00 Refreshments | |
| 10:00-11:00 Paper Session 7 | Ned Sturzer (Chattanooga, TN), "Inconsistencies and Infelicities in the Welsh Tales: Their
Implications" Carolyne Larrington (St. John's College, Oxford), "The Punishment of Gilfaethwy and Gwydion: Some Comparative and Psychological Perspectives" |
| 11:00-12:00 Guest Lecture 7 | Patrick K. Ford (Harvard University), "Gwydion: Prydydd y Moch" |
| 12:00-1:00 Break | |
| 1:00-2:00 Paper Session 8 | Leslie Ellen Jones (Santa Monica, CA), "Mabinogion as Myth: Internal Coherence and Underlying Structure" Paula Powers Coe (Los Angeles, CA), "Manawydan's Blues" |
| 2:00-3:00 Guest Lecture 8 | Dylan Foster Evans (Cardiff University), "The Mabinogi, the Red Book and Herefordshire" |