Since 1981, the graduate students of the Harvard Celtic Department have organized and hosted the Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium and have published selected papers in The Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium. The Colloquium attracts students and scholars from North America, Ireland, Great Britain and Europe, and welcomes paper proposals dealing with any aspect of the Celtic languages, their literatures and their cultures in any period, including papers with an interdisciplinary or theoretical perspective.

The Colloquium is held each year in October, and opens with the John V. Kelleher Memorial Lecture sponsored by the department on the Thursday afternoon of the Colloquium weekend.

Call for Papers

The Harvard Celtic Department cordially invites proposals for papers on topics which relate directly to Celtic studies (Celtic languages and literatures in any phase; cultural, historical or social science topics; theoretical perspectives, etc.) for their 31st Annual Celtic Colloquium, to take place at Harvard University, October 7-9, 2011. Papers concerning interdisciplinary research with a Celtic focus are also invited. Attendance is free.

Presentations should be no longer than twenty minutes. There will be a short discussion period after each paper. Papers given at the Colloquium may later be submitted for consideration by the editorial committee for publication in the Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium.

Potential presenters should send a 200-250 word abstract suitable for reproduction, plus a brief biographical sketch. Submissions should be sent by e-mail to hcc@fas.harvard.edu, faxed, or posted to the departmental address; we encourage submissions in the form of RTF email attachments.

Closing date for proposals: May 14, 2012.

Registration

There is no registration fee for the Harvard Celtic Colloquium. Colloquium speakers whose proposals have been accepted and who have provided abstracts and biographical information to the organizers are registered for the Colloquium. However, so that we can better plan to accommodate guests who do not plan to give papers, we ask you to complete our registration form and submit it by mail, fax, or email attachment no later than September 10, 2012.

Registration Form (PDF)

Call for Paper Proposals (PDF)

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