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CELTIC STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA ANNUAL MEETING

Schedule of Events

Thursday, April 17, 2008 ALANA Cultural Center
1:45 PM	Opening remarks
2:00 PM	Session 1 - Charlene Eska, Chair
	Shelley Williams (Brigham Young University), “The Bard’s Chair”
	Margo Griffin-Wilson (Harvard University), “Bedding and Blessing in a 17th-Century Irish Poem”
	Natalie Anne Franz (Harvard University), “Women and the Gwerzioù:Transgressions and Truth in Breton Song Tradition”
3:30 PM	Break
4:00 PM	Jan Erik Rekdal (University of Oslo), “Tuán mac Cairill—A Hero of Faith”
5:00 PM	Welcoming Reception, Colgate Faculty Club, Merrill House
Friday, April 18, 2008 ALANA Cultural Center
8:30 AM	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 AM	Session 2 - Patrick K. Ford, Chair
	Matthieu Boyd (Harvard University), “How to Tell a Gwerz when You Read One, and Other Aspects of Formulaic Language in the Breton-Language Vernacular Ballads”
	Aled Llion Jones (Harvard University), “The Harmony of Metre: Approaches to Creativity in the Bardic Poetry”
	Joseph Eska (Virginia Tech) & Angelo O. Mercado (University of California, Santa Cruz), “The Oldest Celtic Poem Redux”
10:30AM	Break
11:00AM	Dylan Foster Evans (Cardiff University), “On the Lips of Strangers: Welsh-Language Culture and Ethnic Diversity”
12:00PM	Lunch
2:00 PM	Session 3 - Joseph F. Nagy, Chair
	Lenora Timm (University of California, Davis), “Noblesse Oubli: Language Shift Among Elites in Medieval Brittany”
	Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost (Cardiff University), “Céalacán: Towards a Case Study of Language and Symbolic Violence”
	Edgar Slotkin (University of Cincinnati), “Frank O’Connor’s Irish Story”
3:30 PM	Break
4:00 PM	Róisín McLaughlin (Dublin Institute), “Types of Satire in Early Ireland”
5:00 PM	Reception, Colgate Faculty Club, Merrill House
Saturday, April 19, 2008 ALANA Cultural Center
8:30 AM	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 AM	Session 4 - Matthieu Boyd, Chair
	Charles Larkin (St. Leo University), “Celts in the Holy Land”
	Michael Newton, “Celts in Cyberspace: Digital Humanities and Celtic Studies”
	Sarah K. Sieracki, “Norse and Celtic Myths: Do They Reveal a Common Origin?”
10:30AM	Break
11:00AM	Robin Chapman Stacey (Washington University), “Hywel in the World”
12:00PM	Lunch
2:00 PM	CSANA Seminar on Gruffudd ap Cynan. Led by Paul Russell (Cambridge University), Catherine McKenna (Harvard University), and Patricia Malone (Harvard University)
3:00 PM	Break
3:30 PM	Session 5 - Dorothy Bray, Chair
	Daniel Melia (University of California, Berkeley), “The Rhetoric of St. Patrick’s Epistle”
	Cathinka Hambro (University of Oslo), “Both Goddess and Saint? The Female Protagonist in Three Early Irish Texts”
	William Sayers (Cornell University), “Celtic Kingship Motifs Associated with Bishop Aidan of Lindisfarne in Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica”
5:30 PM	CSANA Business Meeting
8:00 PM	Banquet (by reservation only)
Sunday, April 20, 2008 ALANA Cultural Center
8:30 AM	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 AM	Session 6 - Aled Llion Jones, Chair
	Tim Bridgman (Binghamton University), “Names and Naming Conventions of Celtic Peoples in the Extant Fragments of Posidonius of Apamea”
	Katherine R. Frazier (Saint Mary’s College), “More than a Name: Placenames in the Táin Bó Cúailnge”
	Stephen C. Crimmins (University of Washington), “Like a Bee that Grazes: Early Irish Legal Analogy in Bechbretha and Coibnes Uisci Thairidne”
10:30AM	Break
11:00AM	Session 7 - Catherine McKenna, Chair
	Patricia Malone (Harvard University), “ ‘There Has Been Treachery from the Beginning’: The Historia Gruffudd ap Cynan as Narrative Hybrid”
	Lahney Preston-Matto (Adelphi University), “Derbforgaill’s Responsibility in the Anglo-Norman Invasion: Women as Political Hostages in 12th-Century Ireland”
	Robert Spiegelman (Independent scholar), “The Month of the Shattered Hearth: Or, How the Despoiler of Derryveagh Remade Himself into the Biggest Irish-born Landholder of His Time”

OUR THANKS GO TO: Our co-sponsors—the Colgate University Department of English, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, Humanities Division, University Studies Division, and Dean of Faculty; Ben Eberhardt, Dennis Kochem, Jana, and the rest of the staff at the Colgate Inn; Dave Baird and David Terrazas; Stephanie McClintick; Mary-Anne White and Susie Huff; Erin Szydloski, Michael Coyle, Jane Pinchin, and Tess Jones. All of this information, together with directions to Colgate University and updates to the program, are available at http://www.colgate.edu/DesktopDefault1.aspx?tabid=3821. For any other questions, please contact Morgan Davies of Colgate University at mdavies@mail.colgate.edu or (315) 228-7158.