California Celtic Colloquium #31
Celtic Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting
12-15 March 2009

370/371 Dwinelle Hall
University of California
Berkeley

THURSDAY

4:00-4:15 Welcome by Dean

Session 1:
4:30 Aled Llion Jones, Harvard University, Towards the Genre of Prophecy
5:00 Tina Chance, Harvard University, A Dream that was Rome: Reading Breuddwyd Maxen Wledig after the Edwardian Conquest
5:30 Antone Minard, CSU, Northridge, The Waterfowl Wife in Early Irish Literature
6:00 Charles MacQuarrie, CSU, BakersfieldThe Nature of Manawydan

6:30-6:45 BREAK

6:45 Dorothy Bray, McGill University,The Life of Resurrection: The Trope of Raising the Dead in Irish Hagiography
7:15 Kassandra Conley, Harvard University, Cid dochuaid mo dalta? Affective Piety and the Vision of St. Ite

7:45 Cheese & Wine

FRIDAY

8:30 Coffee and Pastries
9:00 First Plenary Session: David Howlett, Dictionary of Mediaeval Latin from British Sources, Dating the Life of St. Samson

10:00 - 10:15 BREAK

Session 2:
10:15 Eva Guillorel, Université de Bretagne Occidental,History, Memory and Breton Ballads, the Death of the Marquis of  Pontcallec in 1720: A New Approach
10:45 Matthieu Boyd, Harvard University,The Legend of the City of Ys in Comic Books and Graphic Novels
11:15 Elissa Henken, University of Georgia, Then was spoken the proverb . . . The Proverb Legend in Ireland and Wales

11:45-1:30 LUNCH (Local Restaurants)

Session 3:
1:30 Lenora Timm, University of California, Davis, Reflections on Language Contact and Bilingualism in Brittany & England 1100-1500 CE"
2:00 Francois Louis, CRBCUniversité de Rennes 2, Dalhousie University, Is Vannetais dialect of Breton peurunvan compatible?

2:30-2:45 BREAK

Session 4:
2:45 Barbara Hillers, Harvard University, Gaelic Ballads? ‘Our Goodman’ (Child 274) in Gaelic Scotland and Ireland
3:15 Maggie Harrison, Harvard University, "Child Ballads in the Scottish Gaelic Song Tradition."
3:45 Georgia Henley, University of California, Berkeley, Irish Mirabilia in Gerald of Wales

4:15-4:30 BREAK

4:30 Jessica Hemming, Corpus Christi College, Vancouver, B.C., "Beast Boys and Evil twins: Folk Narrative Names in the Four Branches."

5:00- 5:30 BREAK

5:30 -6:30 Alan Dundes Lecture: Diarmuid OGiollain, University College, Cork, “National science or middle-brow science? Universalism, particularism and folklore studies”.  (Co-Sponsored by the Program in Folklore.)

6:30-7:30  Reception

SATURDAY

8:30-9:00 Coffee & Pastries

9:00-9:15 Greetings

Session 5
9:15 Joseph Nugent, Boston College, The Human Snout: Pigs, Priests, and Peasants in the Parlour

9:45 Edgar Slotkin, University of Cincinnati,  Oidheadh Chloinne Uisnigh and the Glenmasan MS.
10:15 Matthew Holmberg, University of California, Berkeley, Cultural Atlas Project Demonstration: Ireland and Irish Studies

10:45-11:00 BREAK

11:00-12:00 CSANA SEMINAR: Breton Folktales of the Sea, from P-J Helias.  
(Leaders: Anthony Vitt and Myriah Williams)

12:30-1:30 LUNCH (Local restaurants)

Session 6
1:30 Robin Chapman Stacey, University of Washington, The Kings of Judah Ploy
2:00 Sarah Zeiser, Harvard University, Is scith mo chrob on scribainn and the language of writing
2:30 Deborah Hayden, University of Cambridge, Anatomical Metaphor . . .in Auraicept na nEces . . .

3:00-3:15 BREAK

3:15-4:15 Second Plenary Session: Ruairi O hUiginn, NUI, Maynooth, Dating Some Ulster Tales

4:15-4:30 BREAK

Session 7
4:30 Mª. P.>  Burillo-Cuadrado & F. Burillo-Mozota, Universidad de Zaragoza “A Sun God in Celtiberian Iconography.”
5:00 Joseph Eska, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Script and Language at Voltino
5:30 Mark Hall, Berkeley, CA, Ironworking Styles in Early Medieval Ireland 

5:30-6:30 CSANA Business Meeting

7:30 Banquet, Anh Hong Restaurant ($35)

SUNDAY

8:30-9:00 Coffee and Pastries

9:00-10:00 Third Plenary Session: Joseph Falaky Nagy, UCLA, “Fenian BFFs”

10-10:15 BREAK

Session 8
10:15 Frederick Suppe, Ball State University, Sizing up Sais in Dyffryn Clwyd: English Welshmen in Late Mediaeval Wales.
10:45 Stephen Jones, Ball State University, The (Post) Colonial Discourse of Land, Language and National Identity in Saunders Lewiss Cymru Fydd
11:15 Patricia Malone, Harvard University, What saist mon? Dialogism and Disdain in Tudur Penllyns Conversation between a Welshman and an Englishwoman.
11:45 Meagan Loftin, Berkeley, CA, Mapping the Divine, Geographic Anxiety and Religious Drama in the Chester Mystery Cycle

12:15 Bon Voyage