Conference: 44th Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium

Image from "Laws of Hywel Dda", ca.1350 (f. 29r), National Library of Wales

Date and Time

October 10 - October 12, 2025
08:30AM - 03:00PM EDT

Location

Barker Center, Room 110, Harvard University

Host: Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures

Conference: 44th Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium

Date and Time: October 10, 8:30 am to October 12, 3 pm


This three day colloquium has been in operation 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 keynote speaker will be Dr. Sarah Zeiser, Harvard University.

Picking a Fight with Daniel Huws: ‘Welsh’ Manuscripts and the Provenance of Lambeth Palace Library MS 1230

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.

October 10,11 & 12, 2025

Harvard University
Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street Cambridge MA.
The Thompson Room (Room 110)