Celtic Seminars – Spring Term, 2025
Introduction
The Celtic Seminar is held jointly 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. When in person, they are in Jesus College (Memorial Room). Please contact david.willis@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk if you need a link to join online.
All CAWCS seminars will be held online at 5.00 pm on Thursdays via Zoom, and, for hybrid seminars, in person at CAWCS. Please contact a.elias@wales.ac.uk for the link.
Programme
| Date | Location | Title | Speaker | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 January, 17:15 | Oxford (online only) | Message and audience in Irish bardic poetry: the case of the Mac Sweenys. | Brendan Kane (Connecticut) | david.willis@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk |
| 30 January, 17:00 | CAWCS (online only) | The Story of Islam in Wales: Findings from the Islam in Wales History Project | Abdul-Azim Ahmed (Cardiff) | a.elias@wales.ac.uk |
| 6 February, 17:15 | Oxford (hybrid) | “Dw i YN!” Constructing a case for contact-induced change in contemporary Welsh yn | Laura Arman (Cardiff) | david.willis@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk |
| 13 February, 17:00 | CAWCS (online) | Llysieulyfr Salesbury ac Enwau Planhigion Cysylltiedig 1400–1700 | Iwan Edgar | a.elias@wales.ac.uk |
| 20 February, 17:15 | Oxford (hybrid) | Merlin, Gwenddydd, and the End of our Age | David Callander (Cardiff) | david.willis@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk |
| 27 February | No meeting | |||
| 6 March, 17:15 | Oxford (hybrid) | In search of the nineteenth-century Gaelic Caribbean | Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh (Edinburgh) | david.willis@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk |
| 13 March, 17:00 | CAWCS (online only) | Rhwydweithiau Cudd a Chodi Llais: Cefnogaeth Cymry i Lydawyr ar Ffo wedi’r Ail Ryfel Byd | Kathryn Jones (Swansea) | a.elias@wales.ac.uk |
| 27 March, 17:00 | CAWCS (hybrid) | Language Dynamics in Society: A New Analytical Framework for Ethnolinguistic Vitality | Conchúr Ó Giollagáin (University of the Highlands and Islands) | a.elias@wales.ac.uk |
