Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures

A three-day interdisciplinary colloquium on Celtic Studies, organized by graduate students of the Harvard Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures and featuring a keynote address by Joey McMullen (University of Indiana Bloomington). For a full...

Barry J. Lewis (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), The Poet in the Medieval Welsh Court: Rereading Phylip Brydydd's Encounter with the Gofeirdd. Reception to follow.

Gruffudd Antur (University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth), Lewys Glyn Cothi : Revisiting the Manuscripts of a Welsh Pencerdd.

Pádraic Moran (University of Galway), Greek in the Reichenauer Schulheft . Co-sponsored by the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures and the Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities.

Pádraic Moran (University of Galway), Reading Old Irish texts in the Reichenauer Schulheft . Co-sponsored by the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures and the Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities.

Joseph F. Eska (Virginia Tech), The Birth and Development of Writing in the Ancient Celtic World . Co-sponsored with the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures.

Pádraic Moran (University of Galway), Unity in Diversity? Connecting Threads in a Ninth-Century Scholar's Notebook (the Reichenauer Schulheft ). Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures.

Natasha Sumner (Celtic Languages and Literatures) discusses her new book Heroes of the Gael: A History of Fionn and the Fianna (Princeton University Press, 2026). Stories about Fionn mac Cumhaill (also known as Finn McCool) and his roving warrior band...

The 44th annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium, a three-day conference addressing Celtic languages, literatures, and cultures, with a keynote address by Dr. Sarah Zeiser (Harvard University). For more information and a complete program, please visit the...

Marie-Luise Theuerkauf (Harvard University/University of Bonn), Imitatio Imperii: Classical Epic and Imperial Thinking in Medieval Ireland. Co-sponsored with the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures.