15th Oxford-Cambridge Celtic Colloquium
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15th Oxford-Cambridge Celtic Colloquium


Ronni Phillips writes:

The Oxford-Cambridge Celtic Colloquium took place last Saturday, 22nd May. It was held in the Old Music Room at St John?s College, Cambridge, with a dinner afterwards in the Upper Hall, Peterhouse. The Colloquium is a conference for postgraduate students from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, held alternately at each institution, and is now in its fifteenth year. This year there were eight speakers, four from Oxford and four from Cambridge, representing a variety of disciplines within the Celtic Studies field.

The programme was as follows:

11am: Tea and Coffee, Old Music Room, St John?s College

Session 1 
Chair: Veronica Phillips

11.30: Kelly Kilpatrick (Oxford), ?The Medieval Perceptions of the Pre-Christian ?cemeteries? of Ireland: a Toponymic Analysis of Senchas na Relec, Aided Nath Í ocus Adnacol and Related Dindshenchus?.

12.00: Dr Denis Casey (Cambridge), ?Sources for the Annals of Clonmacnoise?.

12.30: Patrick Wadden (Oxford), ?Cath Ruis na Ríg: Literature and History in the Twelfth Century?.


1.00: Lunch, Old Music Room, St John?s College



Oxford-Cambridge Celtic Colloquium 2010


Session 2
Chair: Robert Crampton

2.30: Angela Grant (Oxford), ?Rith and Anyan: the Nature of Magical Transformation in Pedeir Keinc y Mabinogi?.

3.00: Kelly Randall (Cambridge), ?(Re-)defining Translation Style: Structure and Variation in Cyfranc Lludd a Llefelys?.

3.30: Owain Wyn Jones (Oxford), ?Cyfoesi Myrddin a Gwenddydd ei Chwaer/The Prophecy of Myrddin and Gwenddydd his Sister?.

4:00 Tea and Coffee, Old Music Room, St John?s College

Session 3
Chair: Jon Wolitz

4.30: Natalia Petrovskaia (Cambridge), ?The Origins of Delw y Byd?.

5.00: Philip Dunshea (Cambridge), ?The Sub-Roman Afterlife of the Hadrian?s Wallforts?.

7.00: Dinner, Upper Hall, Peterhouse




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