CSANA programme for the

24th Annual Meeting, 29 March -1 April 2001

Thursday, 29 March

12.30-2.00: Registration (Lobby of Donaldson Brown Hotel and Conference Center)

All sessions will be held in rooms D & E of the Donaldson Brown Hotel and Conference Center

1.30: Welcome: Johann Norstedt (Chair: Dept. of English, Virginia Tech)

Session I

Chair: Andrew Welsh (Rutgers University)

1.45: Dara Hellman (St. Mary’s College): Whose (birth) tale is it anyway? Pwyll and Gereint, pruning the branches

2.15: Ned Sturzer (Chattanooga, TN): No two of the Four branches have the same author

2.45: Edgar Slotkin (University of Cincinnati): Maelgwn Gwynedd. Speculations on a common Celtic legend pattern

Guest lecture

Chair: Catherine McKenna (Queens College & Graduate Center, CUNY)

3.35: R. Geraint Gruffydd (Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies -- Aberystwyth): Light on the 'Dark Ages'. A ninth-century Welsh court poem?

Session II

Chair: Daniel W. Mosser (Virginia Tech)

4.55: Kristen Over (UCLA): Conquest and national cultural production

5.25: David Radcliffe (Virginia Tech): James MacPherson, Robert Burns, and the invention of Scottish culture

5.55: Martha C. Meeks (University of Edinburgh): What did they eat in Scotland? Changes in food consumption patterns in the Scottish Highlands from the medieval period to the potato famine

7.00-9.00: Reception (University Club)

Friday, 30 March

Session III

Chair: Edgar Slotkin (University of Cincinnati)

8.45: Eve Sweetser (University of California -- Berkeley): Metaphoric harmony. Convergences and tensions among metaphors for the heroic society in Early Welsh poetry

9.15: Patrick K. Ford (Harvard University): Tafod a thant. The poetics of minstrelsy

9.45: Lawrence Eson (UCLA): ‘I was in the fort of Gwydion.’ Taliesin, poetic fame, and Welsh cosmology

10.15: Break

Guest lecture

Chair: Elissa Henken (University of Georgia)

10.35: Sioned Davies (University of Wales -- Cardiff): Performing from the pulpit

Session IV

Chair: Joseph F. Nagy (UCLA)

1.15: Tomás Ó Cathasaigh (Harvard University): What happened at Dinn Ríg?

1.45: Daniel F. Melia (University of California -- Berkeley): Counting on St. Patrick. David Howlett and medieval style

Guest lecture

Chair: Joseph F. Eska (Virginia Tech)

3.05: Mark R. V. Southern (University of Texas -- Austin): Words over swords. Metaphor, tokens, kennings, and the power of the word in Celtic and Irish tradition

Session V

Chair: Joseph F. Eska (Virginia Tech)

3.50: Benjamin Bruch (Harvard University): Tyrants, torturers, and textual unity in Beunans Meriasek

4.10: Michael Meckler (Ohio State University): The god Grannus

4.40: Timothy Bridgman: (Trinity College -- Dublin): The Gallic disaster. Was Dionysius I of Syracuse responsible?

5.10: Business meeting

Saturday, 31 March

Session VI

Chair: Charlene Shipman (Harvard University)

8.45: Joseph F. Nagy (UCLA): Life in the fast lane

9.15: Tracy M. Kopecky (College of DuPage): Cultural indicators within the Lebor Gabála Érenn

9.45: Sheila Marie Boll (University of Cambridge): Representations of foster-kinship in two ‘mythological’ tales

Guest lecture

Chair: Tomás Ó Cathasaigh (Harvard University)

10.35: Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (University of Cambridge): Twelfth-century Irish battle sagas

Session VII

Chair: Maria Tymoczko (University of Massachusetts)

1.15: Robin Chapman Stacey (University of Washington): Cows on stage

1.45: Lisi Oliver (Louisiana State University): Insult and injury in Early Irish and Anglo-Saxon laws

2.35: Toby Griffen (Southern Illinois University -- Edwardsville): Ogam. Celtic or pre-Celtic?

Seminar

3.05: Joseph F. Eska (Virginia Tech): The Châteaubleau tile

Session VIII

Chair: Dorothy Ann Bray (McGill University)

4.25: Diane Auslander (Graduate Center, CUNY): Saintly culture shock. The assimilation of St. Brigid in the South English Legendary

4.55: Maria Mahoney (Louisiana State University): The characterization of female saints in Old Irish and Old English

5.25: Catherine McKenna (Queens College & Graduate Center, CUNY): Between two worlds. The figuration of St. Brigit’s relationship to pre-Christian religion in the Vita prima

7.00-9.00: Banquet

(India Garden Restaurant, 210 Price's Fork Road)

Sunday, 1 April

Session IX

Chair: Lisi Oliver (Louisiana State University)

8.45: Dorothy Ann Bray (McGill University): Miracles and wonders in the composition of early Irish hagiography

9.15: Jessica A. B. Banks (Penn State): St. Bernard’s firing range. Continental Cluniacs and the Clann Sínaich abbots of Armagh

Session X

Chair: Anthony Colaianne (Virginia Tech)

10.05: Pádraig Breatnach (University College -- Dublin and National Humanities Center) & Pádraig Ó Néill (University of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill): Scribal teamwork in Irish tradition. Two examples

10.35: Ashley R. Colley (Baton Rouge, LA): An artist and a madman. Suibhne Geilt and Flann O’Brien