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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, 2023, 2024 and 2025. We also publish proceedings of each conference (more information here). 

We have grown our online presence through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and BlueSky as well as our blog (which you are on right now!) and our podcast (launched in 2020). We also now have a mailing list to which you can subscribe here to receive updates on our activities.

The next Celtic Students Conference will be held in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland in 2026. You can find more information about it 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

2025 - 2026

Chair: Freya Smith (Queen's University Belfast)

Secretary: Gearóid McGee (Maynooth University)

Treasurer: Gruffydd Rhys Davies (Aberystwyth University)

Deputy Treasurer: Michał Harris-Edwards (Aberystwyth University)

Honorary Treasurer: Dr Geraldine Parsons (University of Glasgow)

Finance Team: Rebecca Madlener (University of the Highlands and Islands), Freya Smith (Queen's University Belfast)

Conference Chair:  Manus Ó hEochaidh (Trinity College Dublin)

Conference Committee:  Cillian Ó Díomasaigh, Olly Dorgan Hughes (Trinty College Dublin)

Proceedings Team:  
    Rebecca Madlener (Sabhal Mòr Ostaig / University of the Highlands and Islands)
    Tyler Baxter (University of Edinburgh)
    Daniel Strogen (Swansea University)
    James Culhane (University College Dublin)
    Claire Lober (Bangor University)
    Méabh Ní Shluáin (Dublin City University)

Social Media Team:  
     Tomohiro Nakano (The University of Tokyo/Cardiff University)
    Joel Romero-Meredith (Purdue/Bangor University)

Blog Team:  
    Marieke Rotman (Utrecht University)
    Joel Romero-Meredith (Purdue/Bangor University)

Podcast Team:  
    Tomohiro Nakano (The University of Tokyo/Cardiff University)
    Michał Harris-Edwards (Aberystwyth University)
    Ceit Langhorne (Sabhal Mòr Ostaig / University of the Highlands and Islands)

Welfare & Disability Team: 
    Jasper Kaufhold (Universität Bonn)
    Máirín NicFhionghuin (University College Cork)

Language Officers:  
    Alex Nic Philbín (University of Valencia)
    Stiofán Ó Briain (University College Dublin)
    Antoine Garoff (Université de Bretagne Occidentale)
    Elisabeth Chatel (Université de Bretagne Occidentale)
    Gruffydd Rhys Davies (Aberystwyth University)
    Hannah Evans (Liverpool University)
    Cath Fincher (Bangor University)
    Steffan McLees-Gilbert (Aberystwyth University)
    Jo MacDonald (University of the Highlands and Islands)
    

Ordinary Members:  
    Aliénor Fischer (Université de Bretagne Occidentale)
    Dylan Bailey (Maynooth University)
    Eilidh Fergusson (Aberystwyth University)
    Jay Collay (Cardiff University)
    Karolin Gornetzki  
    Lucia Komen (Utrecht University)
    Robin Linders (Utrecht University)
    Sarah London (University of the Highlands and Islands)


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