Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Events

Seminars in Celtic Literature and Culture

The Humanities Center at Harvard sponsors a series of seminars in Celtic Literature and Culture throughout the academic year, featuring talks by visiting scholars with ample opportunity for discussion. Upcoming seminars are also announced in the Humanities Center calendar. Interested members of the community may ask to receive announcements by email of the talks.

Spring 2012

Dr. Daniel G. Williams

Thursday, March 1, 2012, 4:30 p.m.: Dr. Daniel Williams (Swansea University and Harvard University), "Convergence and Divergence in African American and Celtic Studies," Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.

Dr. Katherine Olson

Thursday, March 29, 2012, 4:30 p.m.: Dr. Katherine Olson (Bangor University and Harvard University), "Religious Identities, Cultural Reorientation, and the Literary Tradition in Britain and Ireland, c.1435-c.1700: The Case of Wales," Kates Room, 201 Warren House, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.

Dr. Barbara Hillers

Thursday, April 12, 2012, 4:30 p.m.: Dr. Barbara Hillers (Harvard University), "‘The Wandering of Ulysses’ and the Makings of Early Irish Literature," Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.

Professor E. Wyn James

Thursday, April 26, 2012, 4:30 p.m.: Professor E. Wyn James (Cardiff University and Harvard University), "Images of Slavery and Welsh Print Culture," Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.

Dr. Paul Russell

Thursday, May 3, 2012, 4:30 p.m.: Dr. Paul Russell (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge), "In aliis libris: adaption and reworking in the commentaries to Amrae Coluimb Chille," Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.

Past seminars in Celtic Literature and Culture

Harvard Celtic Colloquium

The Harvard Celtic Colloquium is a three-day conference organized each October by graduate students in the department. The conference attracts scholars and graduate students from around the world, and all those with a serious interest in Celtic studies are welcome to participate. The call for papers is issued in February or March.

John V. Kelleher Lecture

The John V. Kelleher Lecture commemorates Harvard’s first professor of Irish Studies. John Kelleher was a distinguished scholar and legendary teacher in many areas, from the early heroic sagas to James Joyce; from the medieval annals and kinglists to the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and beyond. A native of Lawrence, Massachusetts and a graduate of Dartmouth College, he came to Harvard as a Junior Fellow in 1940, and except for his years of service in Washington during the Second World War, remained at Harvard until his retirement in 1986. He died in January 2004. In inviting our Kelleher Lecturers, we seek out the finest scholars in the world of Celtic studies, speakers whose range and depth is worthy of John Kelleher’s legacy. Seamus Heaney delivered the inaugural Kelleher Lecture in 2004, and subsequent lecturers have included Damian McManus, Joseph F. Nagy, Philip O’Leary, Patrick Sims-Williams and Richard Suggett. For information about the next Kelleher Lecture, please see the Harvard Celtic Colloquium page.

Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures · Harvard University
Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street · Cambridge, MA 02138 · phone 617/ 495-1206 · fax 617/ 495-1010 · email us