Twenty-Sixth Annual University of California Celtic Studies Conference

Twenty-Sixth Annual University of California Celtic Studies Conference hosted by the UCLA Celtic Colloquium Royce Hall 314, March 4-7, 2004 (all events take place in Royce Hall 314, unless otherwise indicated)

Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Department of English, the Center for the Study of Religion, and the Indo-European Studies Program, with the special assistance of the Campus Programs Committee

Program

Thursday, March 4

Welcome (2:00) Professor Michael Allen, Director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Session 1 (2:15-3:45) Leslie Ellen Jones (University of California, Los Angeles), "Pwyll the Chaste and Uther the Chaser: Shape-Shifting and the Begetting of Heroes (Or Not) in Welsh Mythology" Donncha Ó hAodha (National University of Ireland, Galway), "The Relationship between Immram Brain (The Voyage of Bran) and Echtrae Chonnlai (The Adventure of Connla) Ranke de Vries (Trinity College, Dublin), "Saints and Wild Women"

Session 2 (4:00-5:30), Colloquium of the UCLA Center for the Study of Religion Bernhard Maier (University of Bonn), "Pagan Spell and Christian Prayer: An Early Irish Case Study" Discussant: Joseph Falaky Nagy (University of California, Los Angeles)

Reception (5:30-7:00)

Session 3 (7:00-8:00) Gerald Morgan (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), "Don't Welsh on Welsh History: A View of the Landscape"

Friday, March 5

Coffee and Pastries (9:00)

Session 4 (9:30-10:30) Jonathan Golden and Whitney Papailiou (Drew University), "Fact, Fantasy, and the Modern Appetite for Celtic Human Sacrifice" Matt Nichols (California State University, Sacramento), "Language, Learning and National Identity: The Imposition of an English-Only Education System in Wales, 1847- 1870" Session 5 (10:45-12:15), Seminar Damian McManus (Trinity College, Dublin), "The Smallest Man in Ireland Can Reach the Tops of her Trees: Utopian Imagery in Bardic Poetry"

Session 6 (3:00-4:45), at the Leavey Library, University of Southern California Colum Hourihane (Princeton University), "Survival: Gothic Irish Art and the Native Traditions in Late Medieval Ireland" Lisa Bitel (University of Southern California), "St. Brigit in Cyberspace: Iconography and Cult in the Electronic Age"

Reception at the James Harmon Hoose Library of Philosophy, University of Southern California (5:00-6:00)

Concert by the Welsh Choir of Southern California (Director: Michael J. Lewis) 8:00, Royce Hall 314, University of California, Los Angeles

Saturday, March 6

Session 7 (9:30-11:00) Kathryn A. Klar (University of California, Berkeley), "Cynghanedd Notation in the Welsh Bardic Grammar" Barry Lewis (Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth), "Getting Started in Welsh Bardic Poetry: How Poems Open in the Fourteenth Century" Candon McLean (University of California, Irvine), "Middle Welsh Cynghanedd: A Use of 'Natural Language'"

Session 8 (11:15-12:15) Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, "Táin Bó Cuailnge and Early Irish Law"

Session 9 (1:30-3:00) Maria Teresa Agozzino (University of California, Berkeley), Theres plenty more where that came from: Revealing Anglo-Welsh Oikotypes Patrick P. Lynch (Marymount High School), "Anger Alters All: Fury and Liminal Space in the Ulster Cycle, Joyce, and Heaney" Salvador Ryan (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), "'A Slighted Source': Rehabilitating Bardic Religious Poetry in the Twenty-First Century"

Session 10 (3:15-4:15) Kristen Over (Northeastern Illinois University), "Kings and Monsters: Images of Insular Power in Medieval British Literature" Session 11 (4:30-6:00) Judith L. Bishop (Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley), Language and Authority in the Bethu Brigte Charles MacQuarrie (California State University, Bakersfield), "Inclement Sea Sons: Arguments against a Common Origin for Manannán and Manawydan" Antone Minard (San Diego State University), "Creepy-Crawlies and the Supernatural: The Etymologies of Púca and Bug Revisited"

Banquet at VIP Seafood Harbor, 11701 Wilshire Blvd. (8:00), $25 (payable by check or cash to Joseph Nagy) per person, including gratuity but not including beverage other than tea; SPACE IS LIMITED--PLEASE SIGN UP WITH NAGY FOR THE BANQUET AS SOON AS POSSIBLE ([email protected]; checks may be mailed to him c/o English, UCLA, Box 90095-1530, LA CA 90095-1530)

Sunday, March 7

Session 12 (9:30-10:30) Jennifer Miller (University of California, Berkeley), "Cotton MS. Vespasian A.xiv and Anglo-Saxon England"

Session 13 (10:45-11:45) Kimberly Ball (University of California, Irvine), "Oral Tradition, Writing, and the Otherworld in the Acallam na Senórach" Lisabeth C. Buchelt (Boston College), "Ye of Little Faith: Convincing Doubting Thomases in Christ and Satan and Siaburcharpat Con Culaind"

Session 14 (12:00-1:00) Patrick K. Ford (Harvard University), "What We Don't Know about Medieval Welsh Poetry . . ."

For more information about campus locations, parking, and directions, please go to the websites at www.ucla.edu and www.usc.edu. For nearby accommodations, please visit http://www.cho.ucla.edu/housing/hotels.htm. For any other questions, please contact Professor Joseph Nagy of UCLA at [email protected].