Association of Celtic Students

📢 We've decided to EXTEND the Call for Papers for the 2023 Celtic Students Conference until 8th November !! So if you missed yesterday's deadline, now is your chance!  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cuiridh sinn fàilte mhòr ro pàipearan anns na cànanan Ceilteach!  All the information can found below:  – Where & When? University of Glasgow, 30th March–1st April 2023  – But you can't travel? No worries! The conference will be hybrid!  – Are you a Gàidhlig / Gaelg / Gaeilge / Cymraeg / Brezhoneg / Kernewek speaker? We strongly encourage submissions in Celtic languages. The last conference had papers in 5 out of the 6 Celtic languages, and we offer simultaneous interpretation into English for those papers.  – What does the conference look like? Listen to Stiofán, former chair of the 2020 and 2021 conference and Erin, chair of the 2023 conference, talk about it in our podcast: https://anchor.fm/celticstudents/episodes/Season-3--Episode-10-The-Celtic-Students-Conference-202...

[Celtic languages below] The Association of Celtic Students (formerly: of Ireland and Britain) will be holding its tenth annual conference from the 30th March to the 1st April 2023.    Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and in the interest of greater accessibility, this year’s conference will be a hybrid event. Guests are warmly invited to attend in-person presentations at the University of Glasgow, or to attend online if they prefer. All arrangements are subject to national health advice and restrictions and may change as the situation develops.  We welcome presentations in English and in any of the Celtic languages. We accept papers from current students and recent graduates on any aspect of Celtic Studies, as well as any topic associated with any of the Celtic languages, peoples, literatures, histories, and/or cultures. Conference papers should be between 15-20 minutes in length. We will also be hosting posters on our online Conference Hub throughout the event. We w...

  🚨 Our 2021 Celtic Students Conference starts TOMORROW, 22nd October 2021! Make sure to register & fill an attendance form to receive the Zoom links! (all info below) We have papers on all Celtic languages, all aspects of #CelticStudies , modern and medieval, historical, literary, linguistic & more! We are particularly proud to have papers in 5 of the 6 Celtic languages : #Cymraeg , #Gaeilge , #Kernewek , #Brezhoneg and #Gàidhlig . Simultaneous interpretation will be provided for these papers! 🗣 Our keynote speakers this year are Prof. Barry Lewis and Prof. Regina Uí Chollatáin. Prof. Barry Lewis, of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, will speak on Friday night about "Literary beginnings: Thinking about the origins of literature in #Irish and #Welsh " Prof. Regina Uí Chollatáin of University College Dublin and Foras na Gaeilge will speak on Saturday night about "Máirín Uí Mhuiríosa (1906-1982): Scoláire ceannródaíoch an Léinn Cheiltigh agus COBÁC...

In this episode, Kensa Broadhurst talks about the Cornish Gorsedh, Gorsedh Kernow, with Elizabeth Carne, Grand Bard, and Pol Hodge, Deputy Grand Bard. They discuss what the Gorsedh is, its formation, how people become Bards and the activities with which the Gorsedh is involved.  Y’n towlen ma Kensa Broadhurst a gews a-dro Gorsedh Kernow gans Melennek, Bardh Meur, ha Mab Stennak Veur, Kannas Bardh Meur. I a dhadhel pyth yw an Orsedh, hy fondyans, fatel wra an dus a dheuth ha bos Berdh ha gwriansow an Orsedh.  Links & notes:   Elizabeth Carne (Melennek), Grand Bard  Pol Hodge (Mab Stenak Veur), Deputy Grand Bard  Gorsedh Kernow ( www.gorsedhkernow.org.uk )  Federation of Old Cornwall Societies ( www.oldcornwall.net )  Cornish Language Board ( www.kesva.org )  Henry Jenner, First Grand Bard  Robert Morton Nance, Second Grand Bard  Lowender Peran Festival ( www.lowenderperan.co.uk )  Kernewek Lowender Festival in Australia ( www.ke...