Programme
The conference takes place in Tieteiden Talo (the home of the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies), on Kirkkokatu/Kyrkogatan 6 (for which see the Helsinki guide map).
Thursday 21.09.2006
8.30 Registration starts
9.00 Opening of the Symposium
9.15-10.15 Plenary lecture ROOM 104
John Carey: From David to Labraid: Sacred Kingship and the Emergence of Monotheism in Israel and Ireland
(Department of Early and Medieval
Irish, University College Cork)
10.15-11.15 Session I: Tracing the History of Irish Tales ROOM 104
Chair: Alaric Hall
Harriet Thomsett: The Biography of Mongán in Medieval Irish Literature before 1200 (Jesus College, Oxford)
Kelly Fitzgerald: An Intertextual Analysis of ATU782, The King with Horse’s Ears in Ireland (Department of Folklore, University College Dublin)
OR Session II: Religion and Learning in Brittany ROOM 309
Chair: Katja Ritari
Roy Flechner: The Hibernensis in Brittany (Wadham College, Oxford)
Anna R. Muradova: The symbolic meaning of the red colour in Breton (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences)
11.15-11.45 Coffee break
11.45-12.45 Session III: Irish Literature ROOM 104
Chair: Tom Sjöblom
Geraldine Parsons: A Rendezvous with Death: Reicne Fothad Canainne as Exemplary Fíanaigecht Text (Trinity College, Cambridge)
Kevin Murray: Approaches to Baile Binnbérlach mac Búain (Department of Early and Medieval Irish, University College Cork)
OR Session IV: Kingship ROOM 309
Chair: Alaric Hall
Marion Deane: From Knowledge to Acknowledgement: Wisdom and Truth in Feis Tigi Becfholtaig (Independent scholar, Dublin)
Gaël Hily: The Ugly Hag in the Welsh Romance of Owein? (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, IVe section historique et philologique, Paris)
12.45-13.45 Tour of the folklore archives at the Finnish Literature Society
13.45-15.00 Lunch
15.15-16.45 Session V: Power of Words 1 ROOM 104
Chair: Tom Sjöblom
Tatyana A. Mikhailova: The Five Fifths of Ireland – a new approach (word of power, or history at service of phraseology) (Department of Germanic and Celtic philology, Moscow State University)
Dean A. Miller: King and Hero: The Power of Words, and the Ingratitude of Princes (Department of History, University of Rochester)
Jenny Graver: "What's in a name?" (Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo)
16.30-16.45 Break
16.45-17.45 Session VI: Christianity and Irish Literature ROOM 104
Chair: Katja Ritari
Alexandra Bergholm: Folly for Christ’s sake in early Irish literature: the case of Suibhne Geilt reconsidered (Department of Comparative Religion, University of Helsinki)
Nina Chekhonadskaja: "Fogur carpait fo rig" (Department of Ancient languages, Moscow State University)
Guided walking tour of Helsinki
Friday 22.09.2006
9.00-10.00 Plenary lecture ROOM 104
Jacqueline Borsje: Saints and spells in early medieval Ireland (University of Ulster/university of Utrecht)
10.00-11.00 Session VII: Population Groups and their Past ROOM 104
Chair: Anders Ahlqvist
Ruairí Ó hUiginn: An Gamanrad (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Christian Michael Zottl: ‘Visualising the present past’: Genealogical construction in the Lebor Gabála Érenn (Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna)
OR Session VIII: Teaching and Study of Celtic Languages ROOM 404
Chair: Alaric Hall
Kjetil Aasen: Linguistic variability revisited (Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo)
Karin Hansson: Using Irish language corpora in the university classroom (Celtic Section, Department of English, Uppsala University)
11.00-11.30 Break
11.30-13.00 Session IX: Power of Words 2 ROOM 104
Chair: Tom Sjöblom
Riitta Latvio: Authority: assessing, proclaiming and sitting on it (Department of Comparative Religion, University of Helsinki)
Tomás Ó Cathasaigh: Magic and the Law in Tochmarc Étaíne (Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University)
Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh: Causa scribendi: Endorsement of Medieval Irish Hymns (Department of Early and Medieval Irish, University College Cork)
OR Session X: Linguistics ROOM 309
Chair: Anders Ahlqvist
Natalia O’Shea: Hiatus verbs in Old Irish (Department of Germanic and Celtic Philology, Moscow State University)
Serge Ivanov: Conjugated Prepositions in Old Irish Cleft Constructions (Institute for Linguistic Studies, Saint Petersburg)
Elena Parina: Coherence markers: conjunctive personal pronouns in Middle Welsh (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences)
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.30 Plenary lecture ROOM 104
Máire Herbert: A saint's cult through the centuries: Some literary traditions about Colum Cille (Department of Early and Medieval Irish, University College Cork)
15.30-16.30 Session XI: Early Irish Monasteries ROOM 104
Chair: Alexandra Bergholm
Melanie C. Maddox: Early Irish Monasteries and their Dynastic Connections (Mediaeval History, University of St Andrews)
Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh: Devenish round tower: a depiction of the evangelists in twelfth-century Ireland? (School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies)
OR Session XII: Celticism in Brittany ROOM 404
Chair: Anders Ahlqvist
Iwan Wmffre: The Life and Times of the Breton Dialectologist Francois Falc'hun (Institute of Irish and Celtic Studies, University of Ulster, Coleraine)
Joël Hascoët: La ville d'Is, un mythe celtique toujours vivant (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest / Faculté Ouverte des Religions et des humanismes laïques, Charleroi)
18.00 Reception organised by the embassy of Ireland
Saturday 23.09.2006
9.00-10.00 Plenary lecture ROOM 104
Veikko Anttonen: A Difference That Makes A Difference: The Notion of 'sacred' in Human Cognition, Language and History (Department of Comparative Religion, University of Turku)
10.00-11.00 Session XIII: Naming Kings ROOM 104
Chair: Riitta Latvio
Clodagh Downey: Purple Reign - the naming of Conall Corc (School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies)
Grigory Bondarenko: Conn Cétchathach: the image of ideal king in Early Medieval Ireland (Research Institute for Irish and Celtic Studies, University of Ulster at Coleraine)
OR Session XVI: Modern Celtic Languages ROOM 312
Chair: Ailbhe Ó Corráin
Catherine McKeown & David Robinson: Results of "Celtic, Regional and Minority Languages Abroad Project" (Information Services, Queen’s University Belfast)
11.00-11.30 Break
11.30-13.00 Session XV: Continental Celtic ROOM 404
Chair: Anders Ahlqvist
Mícheál Ó Flaithearta: Return to the Ring: The Gaulish ring inscription of Thiaucourt (Meurthe-et-Moselle) (Celtic Section, Department of English, University of Uppsala)
Adolfo Zavaroni: Coins or embryos? Remarks on three figures of Cernunnos (Independent scholar, Reggio Emilia)
Marie Chantal Lhote-Birot: Divinités celtiques et cultes des eaux en Gaule Romaine (Metz)
OR Session XVI: Folklore and Poetry in Wales ROOM 312
Chair: Glyn Banks
Rhiannon Ifans: `Hosanna! dyma'r dydd: ushering in the festive season in Wales' (Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
Dafydd Ifans: Wmffre Dafydd ab Ifan (fl. 1620-1646) – parish clerk and poet (The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth)
Marion Löffler: Function and Transmission of New Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Wales: The Case of Iolo Morganwg (Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-16.00 Session XVII Irish Literature and History ROOM 104
Chair: Riitta Latvio
Angela Gleason: Legal position and care of the mer in early Irish society (Department of History, Princeton University)
Patricia Ronan: Snow in Early Irish Texts, a sign of icy times or else? (Department of English, University of St. Gall)
Ralph O’Connor: Prophecy, storytelling and the Otherworld in Togail Bruidne Da Derga (Department of History, University of Aberdeen)
OR Session XVIII: Celtic and Indian Connections ROOM 312
Chair: Tom Sjöblom
Uliana Kukhtina: Common Origins of Celtic, Roman and Indian Cults of Horse (Department of Religious Studies, Moscow State University)
Charles Doherty: Giraldus Cambrensis and the 'Horse Sacrifice': possible further evidence and parallels (School of History, University College Dublin)
Maxim Fomin: Hiberno-Indica: Further Tasks and Objectives (Research Institute for Irish and Celtic Studies, University of Ulster at Coleraine)
19.00 Conference dinner at Svenska Klubben
Optional excursion, Sunday 24th September
We have organised an excursion to western Uusimaa, the coastal regions west of Helsinki, on Sunday 24th September. We will leave at 9am and return to Helsinki at 4.30pm. During the excursion we will visit the medieval stone churches in Lohja and Karjaa and enjoy lunch at the eighteenth-century Mustio manor house.