The 25th Annual California Celtic Studies Conference and Annual CSANA Conference at the University of California, Berkeley

April 3-6, 2003

370-371 Dwinelle Hall

Thursday, April 3

1:30-2:20 p.m.: Registration

2:20-2:30 p.m.: WELCOME. Joseph J. Duggan, Associate Dean of the Graduate Division.

First Session: 2:30-4:00 p.m.: Chair: Daniel F. Melia

2:30-3:00 p.m.: Helen Fulton (University of Sydney). "The Mabinogi and the Education of Princes.”

3:00-3:30 p.m.: Diana Luft (Harvard University). "The Bad and the Ugly: Native and Foreign Rhetoric in Ymddiddan Selyf a Marcwlff."

3:30-4:00 p.m.: Heather Rose Jones (UC Berkeley). "Just Between Us, For God's Sake! The Case of Erof a Duw."

4:00-4:30 p.m.: Break

Folklore Roundtable: 4:30-6:00 p.m. Chair: Maria Teresa (Mabli) Agozzino.

Keynote Speaker: 4:30-5:00 p.m.: Joseph F. Nagy (UCLA). "The Wisdom of the Couch Potato."

Keynote Speaker: 5:00-6:00 p.m.: Diarmuid Ó Giolláin (University College Cork). "Folklore, Globalization and Cultural Diversity."

6:00-7:00 p.m.: RECEPTION (Buffet).

Keynote Speaker: 7:00-8:00 p.m.: Sioned Davies (University College of Wales, Cardiff). "From Manuscript to Multiplex: Re-creating the Mabinogi." Chair: Kathryn Klar.

8:00-9:45 p.m.: Mabinogi Film.

FRIDAY, APRIL 4

8:30-9:00 a.m.: Coffee & pastries

Keynote Speaker: 9:00-10:00 a.m.: Diarmuid Ó Giolláin (University College Cork). "Traditional Culture and Modern Society." Chair: John Lindow.

10:00-10:15 a.m.: Break

Second Session: 10:15-11:45 a.m.: Chair: Kathryn Klar.

10:15-10:45 a.m.: Lenora Timm (UC Davis). "Dilemmas of Language Revitalization: Lessons from Brittany."

10:45-11:15 p.m.: Kara Olsen Theiding (San José State University). "Performing Identities: Portraits, Pageantry, and the Celtic Revival."

11:15-11:45 p.m.: Brian Ó Conchubhair (University of Notre Dame). "'A Lecture on the Irish Language and the Irish Nationality,' Delivered to the San Francisco Gaelic Society in 1891."

11:45-12:00: Break

Keynote Speaker: 12:00-12:40 p.m.: Patrick K. Ford (Harvard University). "Ul na n'Ulad." Chair: Joseph F. Nagy.

LUNCH: 12:40-2:10 p.m.: [Local Restaurants]

Third Session: 2:10-3:40 p.m.: Chair: Gary Holland.

2:10-2:40 p.m.: Tomás Ó Cathasaigh (Harvard University). "Sound and Sense in The Battle of Allen."

2:40-3:10 p.m.: Griffin Murray (University College Cork). "Give Me Your Hand: St. Lachtín's Arm-Shaped Reliquary in Context."

3:10-3:40 p.m.: Joseph F. Eska (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University). "Epigraphic Practice and Linguistic Meaning."

3:40-4:00 p.m.: Break

Fourth Session: 4:00-5:00 p.m.: Chair: Arthur W. Bahr.

4:00-4:30 p.m.: Geraint Evans (University of Sydney). "Crossing the Border: National and Linguistic Boundaries in Twentieth-Century Welsh Writing."

4:30-5:00 p.m.: Jasmine Donahaye (University College Wales, Swansea) "Wales in the Work of Lily Tobias."

5:00-5:10 p.m: Break

Keynote Speaker: 5:10-6:10 p.m.: Oliver Padel (University of Cambridge). "Oral and Literary Culture in Medieval Cornwall." Chair: Annalee Rejhon.

6:10 p.m.: RECEPTION Wine & hors d'oeuvres (Donna DeDiemar Catering). Celtic music by Barbary Grant.

Saturday, April 5

8:30-9:00 a.m.: Coffee & pastries

Keynote Speaker: 9:00-10:00 a.m.: William Gillies (University of Edinburgh). "The Origins of Scottish Gaelic." Chair: Daniel F. Melia.

10:00-10:15 a.m. Break

Fifth Session: 10:15-11:45 a.m.: Chair: Jennifer Miller.

10:15-10:45 a.m.: Catherine McKenna (Queens College, CUNY). "Gothic Brigit: The Collection of Saints' Lives and the Representation of Sanctity in the High Middle Ages."

10:45-11:15 a.m.: Andrea Fitzgerald Jones (UCLA). "Keeping Open Battle with the Fiend: Torture in the Vernacular Irish and English Lives of St. Juliana."

11:15-11:45 a.m.: Rebecca Danielle Blustein (UCLA). "Goliath the Fomorian: Biblical Allusion in Cath Maige Tuired."

11:45 a.m.-12:00. Break

Sixth Session: 12:00-1:00 p.m.: Chair: Joe Nugent.

12:00-12:30 p.m.: Anders Ahlqvist (National University of Ireland, Galway). "Old Irish masu 'if is' and Similar Forms."

12:30-1:00 p.m. Peter Mcquillan (University of Notre Dame). "The Pragmatics of dúthaigh and dúchas in Early Modern Ireland."

LUNCH: 1:00-2:30 p.m.: [Local Restaurants]

2:30-4:00 p.m.: CSANA Seminar: "The Recently-Discovered Middle Cornish Verse Play (NLW MS. 23,849D) of St. Ke and King Arthur." Discussion to be led by Dr. Oliver Padel (University of Cambridge), based on two extracts and a summary of the whole prepared by Dr. Padel, in advance of the forthcoming editio princeps by Graham Thomas and Nicholas Williams. [For the Seminar texts, please see the end of the Program.]

4:00-4:15 p.m.: Break

Seventh Session: 4:15-5:15 p.m.: Chair: Eve Sweetser.

4:15-4:45 p.m.: Antone Minard (Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth). "Fou! Fad! Fec'h! Ec'h!: Stone Giants and Their Occasional Use as Folk Medicine."

4:45-5:15 p.m.: Patrick Schwieterman (UC Berkeley). "Fairies, Celticity and Sir Orfeo."

5:15-5:30 p.m.: Break

Keynote Speaker 5:30-6:30 p.m.: Proinsias Mac Cana (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies). "Praise Poetry before the Normans." Chair: Tomás Ó Cathasaigh.

6:30 p.m.: CSANA Business Meeting

8:00 p.m.: BANQUET Faculty Club. Celtic music by Seán Ó Nualláin (CSLI, Stanford) and Melanie O'Reilly (Little Duke Centre for Performing Arts) sponsored by Folklore Roundtable. [Reservations must be made in advance. Please see the end of the Program.]

Sunday, April 6

8:30-9:00 a.m.: Coffee & pastries

Eighth Session: 9:00-10:30 a.m.: Chair: Annalee Rejhon.

9:00-9:30 a.m.: Edgar Slotkin (University of Cincinnati). "Altram Tige Dá Medar as a Syncretic Text."

Keynote Speaker 9:30-10:30 a.m.: Sarah L. Higley (University of Rochester). "EVERNEW TONGUE: Celtica and a Brief History of Inventing Languages."

10:30-10:45 a.m.: Break

Ninth Session: 10:45 a.m.- 11:45 a.m.: Chair: Jacqueline Fulmer.

10:45-11:15 a.m.: Charles W. MacQuarrie (California State University, Bakersfield). "The Isle of Man in Medieval Gaelic Sources and Sagas."

11:15-11:45 a.m.: Amy C. Eichhorn-Mulligan (St. Anne's College, Oxford). "Sovereignty's Body: The Anatomy of Power and the Miracle of Kingship."

11:45 a.m. -12:00 p.m.: Break

Tenth Session: 12:00-1:00 p.m.: Chair: Joseph F. Nagy.

12:00-12:30 p.m.: Arthur W. Bahr (UC Berkeley). "Political Uses of English Literature in a Fifteenth-Century Welsh Manuscript."

12:30-1:00 p.m.: Dan M. Wiley (Hastings College). "The Metaphor of the Great Tree in the Legends of Diarmait mac Cerbaill."

Conference Committee:

Chair, Maria Teresa (Mabli) Agozzino

Seamus Brennan Sharon K. Goetz Maureen Hurley Hilary Bonds Kathi Brosnan Ellen Langer Frances Katsuura Kimberly Applegate` Lisa August-Schmidt Arthur W. Bahr Anna Carloni

Chantal Clarke Sinead Dinsmore Efrat Ell Emmy Gladney Isolde Honoré Melanie Hsia Matthew Loran Erin Paul Patrick Schwieterman Kara Olsen Theiding Jennifer Ullrich

Folklore Roundtable:

Chairs, Carl Rogers, Maria Teresa (Mabli) Agozzino

Orli Bein Sheila Bock Seamus Brennan Alina Christian Chantal Clarke Rikki Edelman Jason Evren Kathy Hong Silvia Huang Mari Issacs

Jeana Jorgensen Roseanne Lazzarotto Linda Lee Leah Lowthorp Hanne Pico-Larsen Kelly Revak Claire Snell-Rood Paul Wallick Victoria Zetterquist Adam Zolkover

Program Committee:

Chair, Annalee Rejhon

Gary Holland Eve Sweetser Kathryn Klar

Maria Teresa (Mabli) Agozzino Joe Nugent Daniel F. Melia

Acknowledgements

—This conference is sponsored by the following administrators and organizations of the University of California, Berkeley for whose kind support and generosity the Celtic Studies Program would like to express its gratitude:

Ø Mary Ann Mason, Dean of the Graduate Division

Ø Elaine Tennant, Chair of the Department of Scandinavian

Ø Ralph Hexter, Dean of Arts and Humanities

Ø Christina Gillis, The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities

Ø William Hanks, Department of Anthropology

Ø Alan Dundes, Chair of the Folklore Program

Ø Eric Naiman, Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature

Ø Leanne Hinton, Chair of Linguistics

Ø Janet Adelman, Chair of the English Department

Ø Niklaus Largier, Chair of Medieval Studies

Ø David Hult, Chair of the Department of French

Ø Deborah Anderson, Indo-European Language and Culture Working Group

Ø The Graduate Assembly

Ø The Associated Students of the University of California

Ø The Office of Student Life

Ø Folklore Roundtable

CSANA SEMINAR:

"The Recently-Discovered Middle Cornish Verse Play (NLW MS. 23849D) of

St. Ke and King Arthur."

Discussion to be led by Dr. Oliver Padel

University of Cambridge.

The complete Cornish text, prepared with background information by Dr. Padel, is tentatively expected to be available on the University of Cambridge web site by March 25, 2003 at the following address:

www.asnc.cam.ac.uk

The texts that will form the basis for the seminar are now available. They consist of: 1) two extracts (total 16 pp) from the play, one from the St. Ke section, the other from the Arthurian one, in Cornish with an accompanying English translation and complete summary prepared by Dr. Padel; and 2) a full translation of the St. Ke section (42 pp), prepared by Michael Polkinhorn.

These texts are not to be passed on or reproduced without permission. Both the text and the translations represent work in progress. They are available ONLY to those attending the CSANA Seminar and may be obtained as Word Document attachments upon request from Dr. Annalee Rejhon at the following e-mail address:

cymraeg@socrates.berkeley.edu

Please send in your request no later than April 1, 2003. A small number

of hard copies of the Cornish extracts will be available at the seminar.

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ACCOMMODATIONS:

BERKELEY HOTELS:
http://ishi.lib.berkeley.edu/cshe/events/leadership/hotels.html
http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/fcsuit/Events/Hotels-October2002.htm

See also: http://www.berkeley.edu/calparents/letterhome/1999/summer/guide_stay.html

¾The conference organizers recommend the following hotels in Berkeley, all of which are within walking distance of the campus. Prices are current.

Hotel Durant
2600 Durant Ave., Berkeley
Built in 1928, a Berkeley institution with popular pub on ground floor. 140 rooms

Reservations (510) 845-8981; (800) 238-7268; FAX (510) 486-8336; www.hoteldurant.com
(Ask for the "UC Rate" $120 single to $145 double) )

The Beau Sky Hotel
2520 Durant Ave., Berkeley
Turn-of-the-century rooming house just off Telegraph in the thick of things. 20 rooms
Reservations (510) 540-7688; (800) 990-2328; FAX (510) 540-8089
(Ask for the "UC Conference Rate" $109 single, $119 double + $10 for each additional person.)

The French Hotel
1538 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley
In the heart of the North Shattuck shopping and dining area. 18 rooms
Reservations (510) 548-9930; FAX (510) 548-9930.
(Ask for the "UC Rate" $79 - $105)

Hotel Shattuck Plaza
2086 Allston Way, Berkeley
Reservations (510) 845-7300; (800) 742-8825 [within California],
(800) 237-5359 [outside California]; FAX (510) 644-2088
(Ask for the "UC Conference Rate" $99 single + $10 for each additional person)

The Bayporter Express is a good way to get to and from both San Francisco and Oakland Airports: website and phone number: www.bayporter.com (510) 864-4000.

BANQUET RESERVATIONS:

—The Banquet will be held at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 5, 2003 in The Seaborg Room of the Faculty Club, UC Berkeley. Celtic music will be performed by Sean O Nuallain and Melanie O'Reilly. There will be a no host bar.

To be able to attend the Banquet, YOU MUST MAKE YOUR RESERVATION AND CHOOSE YOUR DISH IN ADVANCE by sending a personal check or money order (by March 28, 2003), made out to Eve Sweetser, to:

Prof. Eve Sweetser
Celtic Studies Program
6303 Dwinelle Hall
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-2690

Since mail may be delayed, we also strongly suggest that you confirm your reservation by e-mail to <sweetser @cogsci.berkeley.edu>,

You will be able to pick up your Banquet Ticket at the Registration Table of the Conference.
"------------------------------------------------------------------------------------PLEASE RESERVE: #_______ Banquet Reservation(s) for:

Name(s) : _____________________________________________________

Please choose from the following and indicate the number. (All entrees will come with the usual side dishes of vegetable, salad, bread, and tea or coffee.) Tax is included:

* Stuffed pork loin ($35.00 ) : #

* Grilled salmon ($35.00) : #

* Artichoke capellini (vegetarian) ($35.00 ): #


Total: $___________