Celtic Seminar Michaelmas Term 2023

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 the History of the Book Room in the English Faculty, Manor Road. 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 the National Library of Wales. Please contact a.elias@wales.ac.uk for the link.

12 October
CAWCS (online)
Martin Crampin (CAWCS)
Emblems of the Past: saints, stained glass and early medieval antiquities

19 October
Oxford (hybrid)
Chantal Kobel (DIAS)
Secret writing and abstruse language in medieval Irish lawyers’ books

26 October
CAWCS (hybrid at the Drwm, NLW)
Harkaitz Zubiri Esnaola (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU), Hezkuntza, Filosofia eta
Antropologia Fakultatea)
Making Basque accessible to all:
exploring successful actions aimed at effective teaching and learning the language in schools

2 November
Oxford (hybrid)
Stuart Dunmore (Edinburgh)
Language acquisition motivations and identity orientations
among Scottish Gaelic diasporas in Nova Scotia and New England

9 November
CAWCS (hybrid at the Drwm, NLW, with translation)
5.00-8.00pm
CAWCS and the National Library of Wales present an evening of talks, readings and performances to mark
the tercentenary of Richard Price, Llangeinor - one of Wales’s most radical and influential thinkers

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

23 November
CAWCS (online)
Sara Elin Roberts (Chester)
“O’r llyvrev gorev a kavas”: Cynnull y Llyfrau Cyfraith

30 November
Oxford (hybrid)
Oliver Currie (Ljubljana)
17th-century Welsh sermons