Round-up of recent awards in ASNC
Medieval History

Round-up of recent awards in ASNC


The Leverhulme Trust has made a grant to the Department for an international network entitled ?Converting the Isles: Conversion to Christianity in the Insular World?. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh will serve as Principal Investigator for the grant, working in collaboration with her co-applicant, Roy Flechner. A Network Facilitator for the grant will be appointed in due course. A colloquium on one aspect of the theme will be held on 12 May in the Department; for further details click here.

Megan Cavell, who has just completed her PhD in ASNC on Old English literature, has been awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Post Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto.

Denis Casey has been awarded a fellowship by the European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) international researcher mobility programme. He will hold his fellowship at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies during 2012-13, conducting research on ?The intellectual world of Conall Mag Eochagáin: the medieval and early modern contexts of the Annals of Clonmacnoise?.

Congratulations to all concerned!




- Literacy, Memory And The Conversion Of The Isles
Dr Brittany Schorn writes: Literacy, Memory and the Conversion of the IslesNovember 2-4, 2012 University College Dublin  The Leverhulme Trust Converting the Isles network, based in ASNC, looks forward to our next colloquium this week at University...

- Congratulations
Congratulations to Dr Paul Russell (soon to be Prof. Paul Russell) who has been promoted to a personal Chair of Celtic in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, and to Dr Rosalind Love, who has been promoted to a Readership, from 1st October...

- Conversion And Social Change
Dr Roy Flechner writes: On 12 May the International Research Network 'Converting the Isles' held its second colloquium in Cambridge, entitled 'Conversion to Christianity and Social Change in the Insular World'. The colloquium consisted...

- More Congratulations!
The awards and prizes are flooding in this month! Here are some more: Dr Nick Zair, Research Fellow in Peterhouse and Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics in Cambridge has been awarded the Johann-Kaspar Zeuss Prize for the best PhD in Celtic...

- Digital Resource For Palaeography
Congratulations to Affiliated Lecturer in ASNC, Dr Peter Stokes, who teaches Palaeography in the department, and who has just been awarded a prestigious Starting Grant from the European Research Council for a project to develop a 'Digital Resource...



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