Vergangene Veranstaltungen

Michiel de Vaan (Universität Basel) Gaulish and its role in the rise of complex yes/no-answers in Gallo-Romance and West Germanic Please note that the talk starts at 6 pm sharp. If you would like to take part, please register with celtic@uni-bonn.de for the link. Time

Alle Studierenden, vor allem die Erstsemester, sind eingeladen zu unserem Ausflug am 10.10. um 13:30 zum LVR Landesmuseum. Treffpunkt ist vor dem Museum, Eintritt und Führung sind kostenlos. Nach der Führung könnt ihr euch frei im Museum bewegen und es entdecken. Meldet euch für die Teilnahme bitte mit eurer Uni-Mail unter keltenfa@uni-bonn.de an, da es nur begrenzte Plätze gibt.

Am Donnerstag den 09.10. gibt es von 11-12 Uhr eine Infoveranstaltung rund um das Keltologiestudium, die Kurse und das Kennenlernen der Dozierenden. Der Fachausschuss wird sich ebenfalls vorstellen. Anschließend gibt es eine Uni- und Stadtführung, damit ihr einen Überblick von den wichtigsten Orten für euer Studium habt. Treffunkt ist um 12 Uhr an Seminarraum 7. Keine Anmeldung nötig.

Die Abteilung für Keltologie (Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie) der Universität Bonn richtet vom 27. bis 30. August 2025 das Vierte Europäische Keltologie-Symposium aus. Abstracts (Länge max. 1700 Zeichen inklusive Leerzeichen) können bis zum 28. Februar 2025 als PDF-Datei via E-Mail eingereicht werden. Alle weiteren Informationen finden Sie unter Aktuelles > Tagungen.

Elisabeth Chatel (University of Western Brittany) City of Light or Shadow of the Self? Brittany, Paris and Celtic studies under the Third Republic Please note that the talk starts at 6 pm sharp. If you would like to take part, please register with celtic@uni-bonn.de for the link.

Joe Eska (Virginia Tech) On realism and ultra-realism in Celtic historical phonology: some case studies Please note that the talk starts at 6 pm sharp. If you would like to take part, please register with celtic@uni-bonn.de for the link.

Michael Hornsby (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) and Jonathan Morris (Cardiff University) Queering language revitalisation: Case studies from Breton and Welsh Please note that the talk starts at 6 pm sharp. If you would like to take part, please register with celtic@uni-bonn.de for the link.

Renan, Arnold, Unamuno: Philology and the Minority Languages Did developments in Indo-European Philology influence the perception of Western European minority peoples and also our own self-perception and behaviour? An event in 1864 on the coast of north Wales serves to dramatize and illustrate a wider history seen through the prism of linguistic science which was itself developing. The dilemmas of those times have not wholly disappeared. Ned Thomas is a writer, journalist and academic who taught at the universities of Salamanca, Moscow and Aberystwyth before becoming Director of University of Wales Press. He founded the Mercator Centre which for thirty years has run projects on minority languages, linguistic diversity and literary translation. He is a Fellow of Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and the Learned Society of Wales, and was recently awarded an honorary D. Litt by University of Wales Trinity St David’s.

Word and Image in Medieval Welsh Manuscripts Although comparatively few medieval Welsh manuscripts contain planned series of illustrations, closer inspection reveals a great variety of visual images, from full-size coloured drawings to marginal penwork figures. But what is the purpose or function of these visual images, and how Welsh are they? Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan was formerly Head of Manuscripts and Visual Images at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. Her publications on medieval textual culture and the relationship between word and visual image include An Index of Images in Welsh Manuscripts and English Manuscripts in Wales (2011). She is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales Trinity St Davids.

Natalia Petrovskaia (Utrecht University) Looking at science fiction in the light of Old Irish travel narratives Please note that the talk starts at 6 pm sharp. If you would like to take part, please register with celtic@uni-bonn.de for the link.

The European annual rugby tournament, the six nations, starts on Friday, 31 January. On Saturday, 8 march at 5:45pm, the two Celtic nations Wales and Scotland face each other at Murrayfield in Edinburgh. Honorary Welsh Parina and fly-half Lichterfeld invite you to watch the game together and, beforehand, tell you a little about the playing countries, their national anthems, and the game itself. PS Bring nibbles etc.

Dewi Alter (Cardiff University) Robert Owen's de adventu Cadwalladri Regis Britonum ad Urbem (1585?) recently rediscovered in the Vatican Library Please note that the talk starts at 6 pm sharp. If you would like to take part, please register with celtic@uni-bonn.de for the link.

Mark Darling (Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg) British Latin as a window on early Brittonic-Celtic Please note that the talk starts at 6 pm sharp. If you would like to take part, please register with celtic@uni-bonn.de for the link.

Viktoriia Krivoshchekova (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies) Prepositions and metaphorical thinking in Old Irish: constructing mental space Please note that the talk starts at 6 pm sharp. If you would like to take part, please register with celtic@uni-bonn.de for the link.

Myrzinn Jaouen (Skol an Emsav / SKSK) "Middle Breton literature, a northwestern production" Please note that the talk starts at 6 pm sharp. If you would like to take part, please register with celtic@uni-bonn.de for the link.

Unter dem Titel "Frühmittelalterliche Glossen - Eine Schnittstelle zwischen Keltologie, Linguistik, Digitalen Geisteswissenschaften und Mediävistik" wird Bernhard Bauer (Universität Graz) eine Vortrag zum Thema Glossen, was wir aus ihnen über die Beziehung zwischen Sprechern der keltischen Sprachen und Latein lernen können. Der Vortrag findet auf Deutsch statt. Alle Interessierten werden gebeten, sich bis zum 11. November per E-Mail an celtic@uni-bonn.de anzumelden.

Die Abteilung für Keltologie läd alle neuen Erstsemester herzlich ein an der Infoveranstaltung teilzunehmen. Es werden die Dozierenden und die zu belegenden Module vorgestellt. Desweiteren stellt sich die studentische Vertretung, der Fachausschuss Keltologie, vor.

Die Abteilung für Keltologie veranstaltet vom 29. bis 31. August 2024 in der Rabinstraße 8 in Bonn ein internationales Colloquium mit rund 25 Wissenschaftlern und Wisssenschaftlerinnen aus sieben europäischen Ländern zu Ehren des am 14. März 1857 in Basel geboren und am 9. August 1940 in Bonn verstorbenen Keltologen und Indogermanisten Rudolf Thurneysen. Das Colloquium war eigentlich bereits für August 2020 anlässlich seines 80. Todestages geplant. Wegen der Covid-19-Pandemie musste das Colloquium jedoch verschoben werden. Eine ausführliche Beschreibung sowie das Tagungsprogramm und die Abstracts können hier eingesehen werden:

Áine ‘Neans’ de Paor/Nancy (Wyse-)Power (1899–1963) und Caitilín Ní Maol-Chróin/Kathleen Mulchrone (1895–1973): zwei Keltologinnen aus der Schule Rudolf Thurneysens Durch ein Promotionsstipendium der National University of Ireland kamen die beiden Irinnen Áine de Paor und Kathleen Mulchrone unabhängig voneinander nach Bonn, um bei Rudolf Thurneysen, dem Altmeister der deutschen Keltologie, zu studieren. Áine de Paor promovierte bei Thurneysen im Jahre 1921 und Kathleen Mulchrone im Jahre 1924. Anschließend ging Áine de Paor in den Staatsdienst und wurde eine hochrangige Beamtin. Kathleen Mulchrone war 1938–1966 Professorin für Alt- und Mittelirisch und keltische Philologie am University College, Galway. Dieser Vortrag gibt einen detaillierten Überblick über das Leben und Werk dieser beiden bahnbrechenden Frauen.

Prophecy and Voice: the Middle Welsh Dialogue of Merlin and and his sister Gwenddydd and its afterlife in the 16th century This paper illuminates the latest developments of the “Merlin Project”, a project led by Welsh scholars to study in detail and edit all Welsh poems in the voice of Merlin up to the year 1800. Seven Middle Welsh prophetic poems survive which are at least partially in the voice of Merlin. They are an important source for the Merlin legend and have an interesting and not yet fully explained relationship to the works of Geoffrey of Monmouth. This paper studies in particular the little-known dialogue between Merlin and his sister Gwenddydd, in the earliest manuscripts and also as part of the early modern Chronicle of Elis Gruffydd.

Im Rahmen des DFG-Projekts „Frühneuzeitliche Übersetzungskulturen von Wales: Aufbrüche und Kontinuitäten“ veranstaltet die Abteilung für Keltologie vom 27. bis 28. Juni 2024 die internationale Tagung „Contents of Faith in Transfer: Texts and Contexts of Early Modern Catechism Translations / Glaubensinhalte im Transfer: Texte und Kontexte frühneuzeitlicher Katechismusübersetzungen“.

Anna Muradova (independent scholar, Tbilisi) "A step towards Celtic Studies in Russia: Ekaterina Balobanova (1847–1927) and her collection of Breton legends"

Meet John Sam Jones, campaigner for LGBT rights in Wales and award-winning author, who will read from his literature as well as talk about his journey of becoming a writer as a young gay man. The meeting takes place in seminar room 7! More about John Sam Jones: https://www.walesartsreview.org/in-conversation-with-john-sam-jones-2/ IAAK Queer Week program: https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/en/content/queer-week

Bernadette Smelik (Radboud University, Nijmegen) "The Dragon's daughter: Maartje Draak as defender of Celtic Studies in the Netherlands"

Plain of Banbha, Inis Fáil and the Green Fields of Fódla - Comparing Kenningar for Ireland in Classical Irish Bardic Poetry The strict, and simultaneously elaborate, metres of Classical Irish Bardic Poetry (Dán Díreach) famously did not leave room for change in terms of linguistic features, themes, or expressions. In this paper, I intend to demonstrate that, despite these formal constraints, the historical and political situation within Ireland in the period from 1200 to 1650 is nonetheless reflected in the poems. To this end, formulaic descriptions for Ireland were compared and analysed in approximately 200 poems. I compare the oldest and the latest poems in the period indicated. This investigation, in my opinion, yields interesting results regarding the use of descriptions that utilise mythological references, e. g. “Banbha” or “Fódla”, and other references that name real or imagined kings of Ireland, e. g. “Níall”.

Gisbert Hemprich (University of Bonn), Erich Poppe (University of Marburg), Patricia Ronan (TU University Dortmund) "In memoriam Hildegard Tristram: remembering a versatile scholar"

Mair Ffion Jones (Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth) "Performing past and present: The self-fashioning of Angharad Llwyd (1780–1866), antiquary, author, and facilitator" This paper will examine the figure of antiquary, author, and facilitator Angharad Llwyd (1780–1866), who fashioned her unique identity in parallel with the Welsh cultural revival sponsored by the Cambrian and Cymreigyddion Societies in the first half of the nineteenth century. The conjunction of sociability and antiquarianism were central to Angharad's experience, as she strove to consolidate and expand a dearly-held legacy – the collection of documents relating to Welsh history inherited from her father, one-time rector of Caerwys, John Lloyd (1733–93).

Drawing on data from an ethnographic study conducted in Wales between 2014 and 2018, the present paper will discuss the motivations to learn Welsh as well as language ideologies and attitudes of the research participants (Polish adult migrants) towards the usefulness of learning Welsh in their lives and future professional careers. In their document Cymraeg 2050: A Million Welsh Speakers (2017), the Welsh Government emphasizes not only the role of intergenerational transmission for achieving their target number of speakers, but also that of new speakers, i.e. those who acquired the language outside home, for example in schools or as adults, and coming from different backgrounds. It is therefore important to understand what motivates Poles, currently the largest migrant group in Wales, to learn Welsh, both on language courses and informally in the сommunity, and to integrate into Welsh communities.

Abigail Burnyeat (Sabhal Mòr Ostaig) "Anima Celtica: Ella Carmichael as scholar, activist and muse in the Scottish Celtic Revival" Please register via celtic@uni-bonn.de. The meeting link will be send to all participants shortly before the event.

The European Annual Rugby Tournament, the Six Nations, starts on Friday, 02 February. On Saturday, 03 February, 4.30pm (German time), the two Celtic nations Wales and Scotland face each other in the magnificent Principality Stadium Cardiff. Honorary Welsh Elena Parina and fly-half Imke Lichterfeld invite you to watch the match together with them. Beforehand, they will tell you a little about the countries playing, their national anthems, and the game itself. The event takes place in Room 8 at Rabinstraße 8. Please bring your own snacks.