Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium

Papers given at the Harvard Celtic Colloquium may be submitted for review to the organizers of the conference, who edit the peer-reviewed 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.

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1.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 1: 1981

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 1: 1981

Doan, James E.
Buttimer, Cornelius G.

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.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 3: 1983

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 3: 1983

Koch, John T.
Rittmueller, Jean

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.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 4: 1984

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 4: 1984

Jefferiss, Paul
Mahon, William J.

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.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 5: 1985

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 5: 1985

Jefferiss, Paul
Mahon, William J.

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.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 6/7: 1986 and 1987

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 6/7: 1986 and 1987

Frykenberg, Brian R.
Hollo, Kaarina

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.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 8/9: 1988 and 1999

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 8/9: 1988 and 1999

Mahon, William J.

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.

12.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 12: 1992

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 12: 1992

Hillers, Barbara
Hunter, Jerry

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.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 13: 1993

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 13: 1993

Hillers, Barbara
Hopkins, Pamela
Hunter, Jerry

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.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 14: 1994

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 14: 1994

Hopkins, A.

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.

15.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 15: 1995

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 15: 1995

Chadbourne, Kathryn
Maney, Laurance J.

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.

16.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 16/17: 1996 and 1997

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 16/17: 1996 and 1997

Chadbourne, Kathryn
Larson, Heather
Malone, Pat
Radiker, Laura

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.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 18/19: 1998 and 1999

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 18/19: 1998 and 1999

Linkletter, Michael
Luft, Diana
Fogarty, Hugh
Richmond, Ian
Malone, Pat
Radiker, Laura

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.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 20/21: 2000 and 2001

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 20/21: 2000 and 2001

Bruch, Benjamin
Eska, Charlene Shipman
Fogarty, Hugh
Izzo, Kathryn
Luft, Diana
Olson, Katharine

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.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 22: 2002

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 22: 2002

Izzo, Kathryn
Olson, Katharine

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.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 23: 2003

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 23: 2003

Kimpton, Bettina

This volume includes “Milesians and Alans in the Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula and the Mythical Invasion of Ireland,” by Manuel Alberro; “The Breton Compositions of Jean Cras,” by Paul André Bempéchat; “The ‘Gallic Disaster’: Did Dionysius I of Syracuse Order It?,” by Timothy Bridgman; and fifteen other articles.

24.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 24/25: 2004 and 2005

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 24/25: 2004 and 2005

Jones, Samuel
Jones, Aled Llion
Knight, Jennifer Dukes
Chance, Christina
Knight, Matthew

In Volume 24: “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; and six other articles. In Volume 25: Keltoi, Galatai, Galli: Were They All One People?” by Timothy P. Bridgman; “On Verbal Nouns in Celtic Languages,” by Chao Li; and six other articles.

26.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 26/27: 2006 and 2007

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 26/27: 2006 and 2007

Chance, Christina
Boyd, Matthieu
Jones, Aled Llion
Lehmann, Edyta
Zeiser, Sarah

In Volume 26: Joseph F. Nagy, “Heroic Recycling in Celtic Tradition”; Marian J. Barber, “On the Celtic-American Fringe: Irish–Mexican Encounters in the Texas–Mexico Borderlands”; and eight other articles. In Volume 27: Richard Suggett, “Poets and Carpenters: Creating the Architecture of Happiness in Late-Medieval Wales”; and eight other articles.

28.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 28: 2008

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 28: 2008

Conley, Kassandra
Lehmann, Edyta
Zeiser, Sarah

In this volume: “The Influence of Nineteenth-Century Anthologies of Celtic Music in Redefining Celtic Nationalism,” by Graham Aubrey; “Breuddwyd Rhonabwy and Memoria,” by Matthieu Boyd; and twelve other articles.

29.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 29: 2009

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 29: 2009

Boon, Erin
Conley, Kassandra
Harrison, Margaret

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; and fourteen other articles.

30.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 30: 2010

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 30: 2010

Boon, Erin
McMullen, A. Joseph
Sumner, Natasha

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.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 31: 2011

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 31: 2011

Furchtgott, Deborah
Holmberg, Matthew
McMullen, A. Joseph
Sumner, Natasha

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.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 32: 2012

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 32: 2012

Furchtgott, Deborah
Henley, Georgia
Holmberg, Matthew

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.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 33: 2013

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 33: 2013

Brannelly, Liam Anton
Henley, Georgia
O'Neill, Kathryn

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.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 34: 2014

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 34: 2014

Brannelly, Liam Anton
Darwin, Gregory
McCoy, Patrick R.
O'Neill, Kathryn

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.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 35: 2015

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 35: 2015

Darwin, Gregory
Jacques, Michaela
Leach, Katherine
McCoy, Patrick R.

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.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 36: 2016

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 36: 2016

Jacques, Michaela
Leach, Katherine
Shack, Joseph
Wolf, Joe

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.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 37: 2017

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 37: 2017

Andrews, Celeste
Newton, Heather
Shack, Joseph
Wolf, Joe

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.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 38: 2018

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 38: 2018

Andrews, Celeste
Newton, Heather
Parker, Shannon
Gipson, Elizabeth

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.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 39: 2019

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 39: 2019

Boucher-Durand, Myrzinn
Gipson, Elizabeth
Parker, Shannon
Thyr, Nicholas

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.Cover: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 40: 2021

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 40: 2021

Alessandrini, Lorena
Boucher-Durand, Myrzinn
Brady, Colin
Muirthile, Oisín Ó
Thyr, Nicholas

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.

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