Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium
The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages & Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in professional academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by a team of students in the department, grown in size, and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.
The Harvard Celtic Colloquium is the only conference in the field of Celtic Studies to be wholly organized and run by graduate students. Since its inception, established and internationally-renowned scholars in Celtic as well as graduate students, junior academics, and unaffiliated scholars have been drawn to this dynamic setting, presenting papers on ancient, medieval, and modern topics in the many disciplines relating to Celtic Studies; including literature, linguistics, art, archeology, government, economics, music, and history.
Papers given at the Colloquium may be submitted for review to the organizers of the conference, who become the editors for those papers selected for publication in the Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium. Only papers presented at the annual conference are considered for publication.
Below is a list of in-print works in this collection, presented in series order or publication order as applicable.
Sort by title, author, format, publication date, or price »1. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 1: 1981 The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students and gained an international reputation. |
3. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 3: 1983 This volume includes “Knowledge and Vision in Early Welsh Gnomic Poetry,” by Maria Tymoczko; “‘What Stalked Through the Post Office?’: Pearse’s Cú Chulainn,” by Philip O’Leary; “VSO Languages and Welsh Configurationality,” by Richard Sproat; and other articles. |
4. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 4: 1984 The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students and gained an international reputation. |
5. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 5: 1985 The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students and gained an international reputation. |
6. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 6/7: 1986 and 1987 The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students and gained an international reputation. |
8. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 8/9: 1988 and 1999 This volume includes “Finn, Fothad, and Fian: Some Early Associations,” by Peter McQuillan; “Glasraige, Tóecraige, and Araid: Evidence from Ogam,” by William Mahon; “Wife as Vassal: Gender Construction in Medieval Wales,” by Nerys Patterson; and other articles. |
12. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 12: 1992 The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students and gained an international reputation. |
13. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 13: 1993 The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students and gained an international reputation. |
14. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 14: 1994 The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students and gained an international reputation. |
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16. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 16/17: 1996 and 1997 The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students and gained an international reputation. |
18. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 18/19: 1998 and 1999 The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students and gained an international reputation. |
20. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 20/21: 2000 and 2001 This double volume includes “Retoiric and Composition in Geneamuin Chormaic,” by Hugh Fogarty; “Gendering the Vita Prima: An Examination of St. Brigid’s Role as ‘Mary of the Gael,’” by Diane Peters Auslander; and nineteen other articles. |
22. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 22: 2002 This volume includes “Toward a Breton Musical Patrimony: Symbiosis and Synthesis of the Folkloric, the Classical, and the Impressionistic,” by Paul-André Beméchat; “Celts and Hyperboreans: Crossing Mythical Boundaries,” by Timothy Bridgman; “The Sea as an Emotional Landscape in Scottish Gaelic Song,” by Màiri Sìne Chaimbeul; and seven other articles. |
23. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 23: 2003 Amont other articles, this volume includes The Alans in the Iberian Peninsula and the Identification by Littleton and Malcor as the Milesians of the Lebor Gabála, Manuel Alberro; The ‘Gallic Disaster’: Did Dionysius I of Syracuse Order It?, Timothy Bridgman;. |
24. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 24/25: 2004 and 2005 This volume includes “The Celticity of Galicia and the Arrival of the Insular Celts,” by Manuel Alberro; “Reading Aislinge Óenguso as a Christian-Platonist Parable,” by Brenda Gray; “Celtic Legends in Irish Opera, 1900–1930,” by Axel Klein; and other articles. |
26. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 26/27: 2006 and 2007 |
28. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 28: 2008 This volume includes “The Influence of 19th century Anthologies of Celtic Music in Redefining Celtic Nationalism,” by Graham Aubrey; “A Reactionary Dimension in Progressive Revolutionary Theories?” by Olivier Coquelin; “The Spiteful Tongue: Breton Song Practices and the Art of the Insult,” by Natalie Franz; and other articles. |
29. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 29: 2009 This volume includes “Fabricating Celts: How Iron Age Iberians Became Indo-Europeanized During the Franco Regime,” by Aarón Alzola Romero and Eduardo Sánchez-Moreno; “Nations in Tune: the Influence of Irish music on the Breton musical revival in the 1960s and 1970s,” by Yann Bévant; “Ethnicity, Geography, and the Passage of Dominion in the Mabinogi and Brut y Brenhinedd,” by Christina Chance; and thirteen other articles. |
30. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 30: 2010 This volume contains articles on medieval Irish, Welsh, and Breton literature; post-1800 to modern poetry in Irish, Welsh, and Scottish Gaelic; the Irish Revival Movement; modern Irish and Welsh linguistics; and the 2010 Kelleher Lecture by Dr. M. K. Simms on the social expression of the literary model of the barefoot king in late medieval Ireland. |
31. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 31: 2011 This volume features Huw Pryce’s 2011 J. V. Kelleher lecture, “Culture, Identity and the Medieval Revival in Victorian Wales,” which examines Victorian views of the past in Wales. It also considers linguistic shifts in several Celtic languages, and contains articles concerning the history, culture, and literatures of Ireland, Wales, and Cornwall. |
32. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 32: 2012 Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 32 focuses on the culture and literature of medieval Ireland, as well as Scots Gaelic poetry, medieval Welsh genealogy, and twentieth century pan-Celtic nationalism. Irish literature essays consider a range of genre including place name lore, hagiography, and the epic Táin Bó Cuailnge. |
33. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 33: 2013 Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 33 features Thomas Owen Clancy’s 2013 Kelleher Lecture discussing connections between Scottish saints’ names and cults and the onomastics of settlements and topographical features gathered for a digital atlas project. The volume also includes other essays on Celtic history, literature, and poetry. |
34. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 34: 2014 Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 34 includes Ann Parry Owen’s 2014 John V. Kelleher Lecture, “‘An audacious man of beautiful words’: Ieuan Gethin (c.1390–c.1470).’ Additional articles in this volume cover a wide range of topics in the languages, medieval and modern, and literature of Ireland and Wales. |
35. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 35: 2015 Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 35 includes Fergus Kelly’s 2015 John V. Kelleher Lecture “Whodunnit? Indirect Evidence in Early Irish Law.” Other papers concern medieval Welsh and Irish literary, poetical, and hagiographical material; modern Celtic languages; and the considerations of using digital resources for Celtic Studies. |
36. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 36: 2016 Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 36 includes Jerry Hunter’s 2016 J. V. Kelleher Lecture “The Red Sword, the Sickle and the Author’s Revenge: Welsh Literature and Conflict in the Seventeenth Century.” Other papers offer a wide range of articles on topics across the field of Celtic Studies. |
37. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 37: 2017 Volume 37 of the Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium offers a wide range of articles on topics across the field of Celtic Studies. It includes the 2017 J. V. Kelleher lecture delivered by Paul Russell, Professor of Celtic, University of Cambridge, entitled “‘Mistakes of All Kinds’: The Glossography of Medieval Irish Literary Texts.” |
38. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 38: 2018 PHCC, 38 includes widely-ranging articles on medieval and modern literary and material culture, as well as language structure and formation, of the Celtic regions of Ireland, Wales, and Breton. Dr. Aled Jones of Bangor University delivered the special lecture, comparing modern astrophysics to the plasticity of time in medieval Celtic literature. |
39. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 39: 2019 PHCC, 39 offers a wide range of articles on topics across the field of Celtic Studies and includes the Colloquium keynote given by Barbara Hillers on the literary use of Irish and international folklore in the Irish tale “Aislinge Meic Con Glinne” (“The Vision of Mac Con Glinne”). Other papers expand the scope as far as the early twentieth century. |
40. | ![]() | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 40: 2021 Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 40 features Máire Ní Mhaonaigh on Irish chronicles, Ruairí Ó hUiginn assessing the Irish genealogical corpus in its sociological context, Georgia Henley on the reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s work in Norman Ireland and Wales, and other articles centered on Irish and Welsh. |