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Screenshot of the Zoom call participants of the online 2020 Celtic Students Conference with flags of all Celtic-speaking countries

2020 Online Conference

The Association of Celtic Students of Ireland and Britain was founded as a counterpart to similar graduate and undergraduate associations at the institutional level, providing a space for students to come together and find support both academically and socially. As our field is exceptionally broad, it is not uncommon for students to spend their entire academic career studying medieval Welsh literature, but to never encounter modern Gaelic sociolinguistics. The organization hopes to help bridge these gaps, to provide a place for students from the entire field of Celtic Studies to come together to learn and support each other with a diverse knowledge base and set of personal experiences in the field.

The Association was founded in 2012 by a group of students in Edinburgh, and within three months a conference was held with fifty delegates and a dozen papers, attesting to the importance of the new Association in the context of our field. Since then, the Association has continued to strive forward, with events at the National Eisteddfod in Wales, the National Mòd in Scotland and Seachdain na Gàidhlig (Edinburgh Gaelic Festival). The Celtic Students Conference has been held every year since 2013, including an online conference in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We have since been holding hybrid conferences, in 2021 and 2023. We also publish proceedings of each conference (more information here). We have grown our online presence through Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, as well as our blog (which you are on right now!) and our podcast (launched in 2020).

The next Celtic Students Conference will be held in Brest, Brittany in 2024. The Call for Papers and registration information will be published in due course; please keep an eye on our social media and on the conference page at the top of this blog!

Keep an eye out on our social media for the latest details and do not hesitate to contact us at celtic.students.council@gmail.com. 

2023 Celtic Students Conference in Glasgow

Committee

2023 - 2024

Chair:  Nina Cnockaert-Guillou (she/her), University of Cambridge

Treasurer:  Freya Smith (she/her), University College Cork

Secretary:  Erin McNulty (she/her), University of Glasgow

Management Committee Members:  Elisa Chiariotti (she/her), University of Cambridge   

    Kensa Broadhurst (she/her), University of Exeter

Conference Chair:  Elisabeth Chatel, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest

Conference Committee:  Seongwoo Kang, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest

Proceedings Team:  Freya Smith (she/her), University College Cork    

    Silvia Frattini, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest

    Ffion King (she/they), Aberystwyth University

    Rebecca Madlener, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig 

    Niall Ingham, University of Glasgow

    Lorena Alessandrini, Harvard University

Social Media Officers:  Stiofán Ó Briain (he/him|sé/é) - University College Dublin

    Elisa Chiariotti (she/her), University of Cambridge  

Blog Officers:  Rachel Martin (she/her), Harvard University

    Eilidh Fergusson (she/they|hi/nhw), Aberystwyth University

    Rebecca Madlener, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig 

Podcast Officers:  Stiofán Ó Briain (he/him|sé/é) - University College Dublin

    Pól Ó Sniadhaigh (he/him), Dublin City University

Language Officers:  Kensa Broadhurst (she/her), University of Exeter

    Emmet de Barra (sé/é), Coláiste na Tríonóide

    Liam Crouse - Oilthigh na Gàidhealtachd agus nan Eilean

    Alexandra Philbin (she/her). University of València

    Olivia Klee, University of Aberdeen

    Seongwoo Kang, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest

    Fañch Bihan-Gallig

Welfare and Disability Officers: Rosalind (Roe) Smith (they/them), University of Edinburgh

    Dylan Bailey (he/him), Maynooth University

Ordinary Members:  Graham O'Toole (he/him), Harvard University

    Méabh Ní Shluáin (Sloane) (she/her), Dublin City University

    Carter Pruetz (he/sé/é), University College Cork

    Matthew Needham (he/him), Birkbeck College, University of London

    Marieke Rotman, Utrecht University


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