Call for papers -- Aberystwyth 2012

Here is the call for papers for "Locating Revolution: Place, Voice, Community 1780-1820":

"Locating Revolution: Place, Voice, Community 1780-1820
Aberystwyth 9-12 July 2012

A conference jointly hosted by the Wales and the French Revolution Project at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies; the Centre for Romantic Studies, Aberystwyth University; and the Department of English, Swansea University.

This conference explores the relation between geography (considered as place, landscape, cartography, and real and imagined space) and change during the period of the revolutionary wars.  In what local, localised forms did the European upheavals of the age manifest themselves?  How were social, religious and political loyalties conditioned by particular landscapes and environments?  What were the coordinates of loyalism and opposition in particular rural, regional, urban and metropolitan communities?  The conference seeks to place 'history' in specific locations, mapping connections across Europe, the Atlantic, and the wider world.  It also sets out to consider the dramatic material forms that Romanticism, revolution and reaction took at this time.  Delegates are invited to consider a range of cultural productions, material objects and literary forms with a view to revealing how the multiform phenomenon we term 'Romanticism' was experienced on the ground and in precise cultural locations.

Abstracts for 25-minute papers, and suggestions for panels, should be sent by 31st January 2012 to Angharad Elias.  Panels on the following are particularly welcome:

• local/regional/national/European identities
• readings of 'place' and 'space'
• cartographies of loyalism and opposition
• four Nations criticism: refining the 'British' response
• neglected/silenced voices
• oral traditions

More information available at: http://frenchrevolution.wales.ac.uk."

Call for papers -- NAACLT Conference 2012

Here is the call for papers for the 2012 NAACLT conference:

"Announcing the 2012 Conference of the North American Association for Celtic Language Teachers (NAACLT)

'Bringing the Celtic Languages to America's Hearland'

The conference will be held May 30-June 2, 2012 at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.

WHO is invited to present?
NAACLT includes but is not limited to academic professionals. People involved in Celtic language learning and teaching from every walk of life are invited to participate, including:

• Community-based language teachers
• Celtic language enthusiasts
• Celtic language policy makers
• Celtic-language musicians.

We are now accepting abstracts for twenty-minute talks in any of the following (or related) areas:

• Methods, techniques, and best practices in teaching Celtic languages
• Incorporating Celtic cultures into the classroom or learning experience
• Application of computer technology to Celtic language teaching or research
• Pedagogical materials: what works, what doesn't
• Topics in Celtic linguistics, sociolinguistics, and Second Language Acquisition
• Language policy and planning in the Celtic world
• Promotion or appreciation of Celtic languages and cultures

Please send abstracts of between 200-300 words to Kevin Scannell by April 15, 2012. Information about accommodations and conference registration is available on the NAACLT web site.

We offer a $100 scholarship for financial assistance to partially offset the cost of attending the conference. If you are interested in presenting a paper and would benefit from this modest scholarship, please indicate on your registration form that you would like to be considered for the scholarship."

Call for Papers -- SCN Symposium 2012

The call for papers has just been announced for the XII International Symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica, which will be held 11-13 June 2012 in Helsinki. Papers of 20 minutes in length are invited on any aspect of Celtic Studies. Abstracts of 200 words or less as well as proposals for sessions are due to conference oganizers by 29 February 2012.

Keynote speakers include Dr. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Prof. Tom O'Loughlin, Prof. Peter Schrijver, and Dr. Jane Webster.

For more information on the symposium, visit the SCN website.

Online Irish Book Club -- Readings for 2012

Clubleabhar.com is an 'online book club [that] aims to encourage people in Ireland and abroad to read Irish language books'. Registration for groups and individuals is free and can be completed on the Clubleabhar website. The selections for 2012 are as follows:

• January: Scéal Ghearóid Iarlaby Máire Mhac an tSaoi
• February: Filíocht Ghrá na Gaeilge edited by Ciarán Mac Murchaidh
• March: Filleann Seoirse by Éilís Ní Anluain
• April: I gCóngar i gCéin by Pádraig Standún
• May: Beirt Bhan Mhisniúla by Pádraig Ó Siadhail
• June: Ólann mo Mhiúil as an nGainséis by Gabriel Rosenstock

Sample chapters and vocabulary lists are available on the Clubleabhar website.

UCLA Celtic / CSANA Conference 2012

Here is the call for papers for the 2012 UCLA Celtic / CSANA Conference. Hyperlinks in the original announcement have been modified to suit the blog's format:

"CALL FOR PAPERS­ University of California Celtic Studies Conference/Annual Meeting of the Celtic Studies Association of North America, March 8-11, 2012

Members of CSANA are invited to submit paper proposals on Celtic topics for this upcoming conference, sponsored jointly by the UCLA Celtic Colloquium, the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the UCLA Department of English, the UCLA Indo-European Studies Program, the UCLA Dean of Humanities, and California State University, Bakersfield, along with the Celtic Studies Association of North America.

The proposal should be no longer than a double-spaced page and should indicate any audio-visual needs. Proposals may be submitted to Joseph Nagy as late as January 13 (Friday), and those whose proposals have been approved by the program committee will be informed no later than the end of that month.

Only proposals from members of CSANA in good standing (i.e., fully paid-up members) will be accepted. For information on how to join CSANA or renew your membership, please see the website.

Invited speakers include Thomas Clancy (Univ. Glasgow); Fiona Edmonds (Cambridge); Sìm Innes (Harvard); Tara MacLeod (Notre Dame); Torsten Meissner (Cambridge); Daniel Melia (UC Berkeley); Brian Ó Conchubhair (Notre Dame); Nollaig Ó Muraile (NUI Galway); Paul Russell (Cambridge); David Stifter (Maynooth); and Karin Stüber (Univ. Zürich).

A special session on texts pertaining to the “heroic biography” of Conchobar mac Nessa is being organized by Chantal Kobel (Trinity College Dublin) and Anna Pagé (UCLA).

Plans are also afoot for a reception Thursday evening, a concert Friday evening, a banquet in Westwood Village (next to the UCLA campus) Saturday evening, and an expedition Sunday afternoon for conference members staying on after the final paper session (which should be over by three o’clock). Details will be forthcoming.

For information about hotels in the UCLA area, see:
http://map.ais.ucla.edu/portal/site/UCLA/menuitem.789d0eb6c76e7ef0d66b02ddf848344a/?vgnextoid=d7fc064a9a7d1010VgnVCM1000008f8443a4RCRD
(Note: the UCLA Celtic Colloquium does not vouch for the “Banana Bungalow.”)

We hope to see you here in March! For more information, please contact Professor Joseph Nagy, co-chair of the program committee."

Call for Papers -- Cambridge Colloquium 2012

"The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge invites paper proposals from Masters and Doctoral students for its annual interdisciplinary postgraduate conference."

The theme for this year's conference, which will take place on February 25, is "Junctions and Crossroads."

Proposals of no more than 250 words are due to conference organizers by 19 December 2011.

ICM 2012

The 26th Irish Conference of Medievalists will take place at University College, Dublin on 5-7 July 2012.  A call for papers is forthcoming and will be posted on the ICM website.