CALL FOR PAPERS

THIRTIETH ANNUAL UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CELTIC STUDIES CONFERENCE

MARCH 6-9, 2008, at the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

Sponsored by the UCLA Celtic Colloquium, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Department of English, and the Indo-European Studies Program

Invited speakers include:
Caoimhín Breatnach (University College, Dublin)
Geraint Evans (Swansea University)
Helen Fulton (Swansea University)
Geraint Jenkins (University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies)
Róisín McLaughlin (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)
Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail (University College, Dublin)
Eve Sweetser (University of California, Berkeley)
Gregory Toner (University of Ulster, Coleraine)
Jürgen Uhlich (Trinity College, Dublin)

In addition, there will be special presentations on virtual resources of compelling interest to those involved in Celtic studies, including:
The newly completed digital model of the St. Gall Plan and related data base of the material culture of early medieval monasticism (Patrick Geary, UCLA);
The NEH "Ireland and Irish Studies" Project, part of UC Berkeley's Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (Daniel Melia, UC Berkeley);
The digitization of the Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of the Irish Language (eDIL and PACDIL) (Gregory Toner, University of Ulster, Coleraine).

Paper proposals from scholars and students are welcome.  Your proposal (250 words or less), on a topic pertinent to Celtic studies, may be submitted on line to the program committee chair Joseph Falaky Nagy at jfnagy@humnet.ucla.edu.  Please indicate any computer or audio-visual needs.  Proposals are due by or on Friday, January 7, and they will be evaluated later that month.   

For more information about the conference, please contact Professor Nagy at jfnagy@humnet.ucla.edu.

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