6.0529 Celtic Conference (I) -- UC Berkeley March 1993 (1/136)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 18 Feb 1993 15:49:19 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0529. Thursday, 18 Feb 1993.

Date: Thu, 18 Feb 93 09:43:33 -0800
From: caedmon@violet.berkeley.edu
Subject: 15th Annual U.C. Celtic Conference Program



FIFTEENTH ANNUAL
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
CELTIC CONFERENCE
March 5-7, 1993




FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1993
Third Floor of Wheeler Hall--North Wing

Registration
English Department Lounge (331 Wheeler Hall) 1:00 -3:00 p.m.

Session I
Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall) 3:00 p.m.

Edgar Slotkin (Department of English, University of Cincinnati)
The Interpretation of Folktales: Bengt Holbek and
Sean O' Conaill's Iolann Airiminic

Robert Tracy (Department of English, UC Berkeley)
Three Nines are Seventeen, or, The Origin of the Ulster Sunday:
Notes on Ces Noinden

Break 4:45 p.m.

Session II
Maude Fife Room 5:00 p.m.

William Sayers (Sidney, British Columbia)
Severed Heads Under Conall's Knee

Karen E. Burgess (Folklore & Mythology Program, UCLA)
The Post-Diluvian Exploits of Adam's Head

Tanya Lane (Folklore & Mythology Program, UCLA)
Heb Enw, Heb Arfau, Heb Wraig: Men, Women and Marginality in
Math vab Mathonwy

Paula Powers Coe (Folklore & Mythology Program, UCLA)
Looking at Caesar's Gaulish Pantheon

Entertainment & Edibles
English Lounge 7:00 p.m.


SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1993
Mathematics Department Lounge (1015 Evans Hall)

Coffee and Pastries 8:30 a.m.

Session III 9:15 a.m.

Joseph Falaky Nagy (Folklore & Mythology Program, UCLA)
The Irish Herald

Sean O' Coilea'in (University College Cork)
The Haven Roars for Spouse or Patron:
an Examination of the Poem "Geisid Cu'an"

Break 10:45 a.m.

Session IV 11:00 a.m.

Angelique Gulermovich (Folklore & Mythology Program, UCLA)
A Garment of Silk Brocade About Her:
Clothing in the Four Branches

Patrick J. Ford (Department of Celtic, Harvard)
Liber T in B" Cuailgne or Liber T in B" Cuailgne

Lunch (Host Yourself Off-Campus) Noon

Session V 2:00 p.m.

Ann Matonis (Department of English, Temple University)
The Welsh Bardic Grammars as Genre: Taxonomies or Synonymies?

Break 3:00 p.m.

Session VI 3:15 p.m.

Denise Filios (Department of Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley)
The Empress and the Grail: An Analysis of the Grail and
Sovereignty in Part II of Peredur

Leslie Jones (Folklore & Mythology Program, UCLA)
The Call of the Wild: Owein's Shamanic Madness

Pamela Morgan (Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley)
John Muir and the Great Chain of Being:
Metaphors and the Environment

Break 4:45 p.m.

Session VII 5:00 p.m.

Joe Grady (Celtic Studies Program, UC Berkeley)
Verb and Verbal Noun in Irish

Orin D. Gensler (Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley)
Insular Celtic Syntax and Hamito-Semitic:
Substrata and Typology

Banquet
Plearn Thai Cuisine (2050 University Avenue) 6:45 p.m.


SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 1993
Mathematics Department Lounge (1015 Evans Hall)

Coffee and Pastries 8:30 a.m.

Session VIII 9:15 a.m.

Angela Bourke (University College Dublin)
Keening as Theater: Synge and the Irish Women's Lament

Gildas Hamel (Department of French, UC Santa Cruz)
The Kontadenno ar Bobl of F.M. Luzel

Break 10:45 a.m.

Session IX 11:00 a.m.

Alfred P. Smyth (Keynes College, University of Kent)
Saintly Monks or Worldly Prince-Abbots?

Sinead Ni Shabhlain (Archaeology Program, UCLA)
Church, Community and Parish in Late Medieval Ireland

Mark Hall (Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
Irishmen & Vikings: The Case of Hiberno-Norse Ironworking