Celtic Seminar Michaelmas / Autumn 2022

The Celtic Seminar will be held jointly this term by Oxford and the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (CAWCS), Aberystwyth. All Oxford seminars will be at 5.15 pm on Thursdays either hybrid (online and in person) or online-only via Microsoft Teams. 

Where held in person, Oxford seminars are in the History of the Book Room, English Faculty, Manor Road. Please contact david.willis@jesus.ox.ac.uk if you need a link. All CAWCS seminars will be held online at 5.00 pm on Thursdays via Zoom. Please contact a.elias@wales.ac.uk for the link.

13 October CAWCS (via Zoom and at the Council Chamber, National Library of Wales) 
Imanol Larrea Mendizabal (Soziolinguistika Klusterra), 
The Etxepare Basque Institute Alan R. King Professor in Residence 
Basque language seminar with translation into Welsh 
“Hizkuntza ohiturak aldatzeko ikerketa soziolinguisikoa Euskal Herrian: hainbat esperientzia” 
Ymchwil Sosioieithyddol a newid arferion iaith: profiad Gwlad y Basg 

20 October CAWCS (via Zoom) 
Elena Parina (Bonn) 
Dysgeidiaeth Cristnoges o ferch in Aberystwyth, NLW, Peniarth 403 and its sources 

27 October at Oxford (hybrid)
Jon Morris (Caerdydd) 
The interplay between social structures and language variation in Welsh-speaking communities 

3 November CAWCS (format to be confirmed) 
Llewelyn Hopwood (Oxford) 
Beth oedd ‘Cymraeg da’ (1300–1600)? 

10 November at Oxford (hybrid)
Charlene Eska (Virginia Tech) 
Let’s do it in the garden: A tale of temptation and redemption in NLS MS 72.1.26 

17 November at Oxford (hybrid) 
Sarah Hill (Oxford) 
Legacies and failures: Rethinking Welsh pop history 

24 November at Oxford (hybrid) 
Myriah Williams (Berkeley) 
Beginnings and endings: Moli Duw yn Nechrau a Diwedd and Cyntefin Ceinaf Amser 

1 December - seminar to be confirmed