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||Celtic Studies || Brehon Law || Irish Studies USA || Irish Mediaeval Studies|| Boyne valley | Druids | St Patrick

 

 

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LOCATION: Universität Wien, Dr. Karl Lueger Ring 1, A-1010 Vienna, Austria

CONTACT DETAILS:
If interested in participating with a paper presentation or poster, send title and (for papers) ca. 250 word abstract (for posters short description ca. 50-100 words of topic covered) until 31.10.2002 to

Raimund Karl raimund.karl@univie.ac.at

Papers are expected to be in either German, English or French. Any topic related to Celtic Studies welcome. Further details to be announced as soon as they become available (on the UofV Celtic Studies homepage at http://www.univie.ac.at/keltologie - but don`t expect anything up there before 31.10.2002)

COSTS: Conference fee: students free, OAPs day ticket 10, conference ticket 25

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

ACCOMMODATION: arrangements for (comparably) cheap accomodation can be made upon request. However, Vienna is a tourism-oriented city, and thus costs are relatively high even for the most basic accomodation. Calculate with at least 20 per night.
TRAVEL: Vienna can be reached by train or plane from almost all European destinations pretty easily. Vienna has a good public transport system at relatively low prices, a day ticket allowing travel with all public transport within Vienna costing 5, a 3-day ticket 12. Some bus services run 24hrs, so even at night you should be able to get to wherever you want. Meals: average meals cost about 10.
SOME OTHER THINGS: Vienna in February means... in the mid of winter. Weather can be pretty nice - but it is not necessarily so. Temperatures may be as high as 15Celsius, but they may as well be as low as -20Celsius, with half a metre of snow. Bring warm clothing (just in case).
ONE LAST THING... This is a student`s conference. As such, we will have serious papers (after all, organising the conference and giving papers is part of a class we in Vienna get graded for), but the thing also is about getting to know each other and having fun. As such, we won`t have a totally dry conference.

Third Annual Brehon Law Symposium

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LAW ON THE FRONTIER

Trinity College & The Royal Irish Academy

Trinity College, Friday January 24th - Sunday January 26th, 2003. Sponsored by the Faculty of Law, Trinity College.

"We both know that the conflict isn't between caricatured national types but between two deeply opposed civilizations, isn't it? We are really talking about a life-and-death

conflict aren't we? Only one will survive. "

-Hugh O Neill to his wife Mabel, in Making History by Brian Friel

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Fénechas III, the third annual Brehon Law Symposium will be held in in Dublin at Trinity College and the Royal Irish Academy, January 24th ?26th, 2003. The theme will be Law on the Frontier? This is partly inspired by the recent discoveries made during recent excavations at Carrickmines Castle, in South Dublin, which bordered the frontier between the palatine jurisdiction of Dublin (the Pale) and the native Leinster septs of the Wicklow hills.

Brehon Law (early Irish law) is the indigenous Irish legal system, which began in the pre-Christian oral tradition, and blossomed into a manuscript tradition in the sixth century. From the arrival of the Normans in 1169, until the Flight of the Earls in 1607, when England had military control of only parts of Ireland, Brehon Law and the English Common Law existed side by side. Just as Carrickmines Castle shows evidence of interaction, despite obvious conflict, between the two cultures, history now shows that there was a degree of interaction between these two systems. In the end, legal conquest followed military conquest, and Brehon Law was completely abolished, surviving now only in roughly one hundred vellum manuscripts. Today, barely half have even been translated.

Fénechas III is a week-end-long event, beginning at the Royal Irish Academy on Friday January 24th, lasting until Sunday January 26th, 2003. Leading figures from Ireland'a leading profession, such as The Hon. Mr. Justice Adrian Hardiman, Supreme Court of Ireland, join with an array of historians, archaeologists and linguists, such as Donnchadh ?Corr?n, University College Cork. The Brehon Law Symposia are organised by Fénechas, the Brehon Law Project, an academic legal history association. This year's event is sponsored, in part, by Law and Medieval History departments at Trinity College.

Participants will be given a tour of the libraries housing surviving manuscripts at Trinity College Dublin and The Royal Irish Academy. In addition, there will be an inter-faith service and a tour of theWicklow Hills, stopping at Carrickmines Castle on the way.

 

 

 

SPEAKERS

 

- Hon. Mr. Justice Adrian Hardiman, Supreme Court of

Ireland

- Prof. Donnchadh )O Corrn, University College Cork

- Dr. Howard Clarke, University College Dublin

- Dr. Katharine Simms, Trinity College Dublin

- Mr. Kenneth Nicholls, University College Cork

- Prof. Liam Breatnach, Trinity College Dublin

- Dr. Emmet O Byrne, Dictionary of Irish Biography

- Mr. Raimund Karl, University of Wales

- Dr. David Edward,s University College Cork

- Dr. Sean Patrick Donlan University of Limerick

- Dr. Mary Maxwell

& more?

 

PROGRAMME

 

FRIDAY 24th Jan: Royal Irish Academy

 

1.00 ?5.00 Introductory Lectures

5.00 ?6.00 Manuscript tour

6.00 - 7.00 Official Reception

7.00 - 9.00 Guest Lectures

9.00 Music session

 

SATURDAY 25th Jan: Trinity College

 

10.00 - 1.00 Advanced Lectures

1.00 -2.00 Lunch

2.00 - 4.00 Advanced Lectures

4.00 - 5.00 Manuscript tour

9.30 Conference Dinner (location to be announced)

 

SUNDAY 26th Jan:

 

Morning Inter-faith service (location to be announced)

Afternoon Bus tour to Wicklow Mountains, stopping at Carrickmines Castle

 

TICKETS

FULL: €40

Friday only €25

Saturday only €25

Sunday Free

 

TICKETS INCLUDE: Admission, symposium booklet, handouts, bus tour, tea/coffee, reception. Tickets do NOT include meals.

SPONSORSHIP

Fénechas, The Brehon Law Project, is greatly in need of

sponsorship. In return for contributions, we are offering:

- Space in the symposium booklet

- Honourable mention/opportunity to speak at events

- Inclusion in press statements/releases

- Recognition on web site, and electronic journal, Brehon Law Review

- Acknowledgement in book of published proceedings

- Free admission to all events

 

Please contact:

 

Vincent Salafia

Fénechas - The Brehon Law Project

[fenechas3@yahoo.com]

(087) 996-3098

For more information on Fénechas please see:

 

http://www.ucc.ie/law/irishlaw/events/brehonlaw_jan12142001.html

 

http://www.ucc.ie/law/irishlaw/events/brehon_jan2002.html

 

5th Annual GRIAN Conference on Irish Studies

March 7-9, 2003

Glucksman Ireland House, New York University

Irish Studies, while still "young," has in recent years come of age as a discipline. And with that relative maturity arise issues beyond those of discovery and establishment that have dominated much of the "youthful" discourse to-date. Both new responsibilities and possibilities arise at such a juncture, as well as contrary applications of traditional material. We are very excited at the possibility of a conference that embodies youthfulness in all its resistance to conventional definitions, and instead applies the multiple manifestations of that term in order to explore the concept of "youth" -the content, the methodology, the historiography and the interdisciplinarity of Irish Studies at its current moment.

Conference methodology:

Critical projects are in constant danger of transforming their objects of study into "children"- the push to make studies alive, pertinent and relevant endlessly inaugurating an act of "parentage." But these same critical projects also provide spaces for creation, nurturing and development. Why/how/where/with what tools do we forge youth? To what result? Youthful things discover, develop, and establish themselves; they also get produced, exploited, and represented by others. Describing/analyzing/questioning how Irish Studies has made its subject youthful and/or how youth has been the subject of Irish Studies is a return to the smithy's workshop as the site of conception/construction/contention; to see where, how, why and in what way we make pliable the raw material of youth in the ongoing fabrication of our discipline.

Regardless of particular focus, we especially desire works that are self-reflective about their processes. We hope to talk not simply about "youth" or Ireland, but to think critically and to complicate the term through the vehicle of Irish Studies. To forge, to make/create, to rebel. Some particulars to consider: the "non-traditional family" (i.e. Irish Studies and interdisciplinarity); the parents (mentorship, wisdom and generational anxiety); the children (what they witness, how they develop, what they remember); plus all of their stories (in works of literature, history, art, film, etc.).nOther applications might include questions of. forging or coining identity; politics of youth; memoir and nostalgia; formation and adolescence; rituals and rites of passage; rebellion; play and sport; innocence and naivete; witnessing and interpreting, or witnessing rather than interpreting violence; mythology of youth; memory; and self-consciousness. Methodological applications might explore new approaches to. (re)writing or (re)conceiving nationality; historiography; iconography; psychology and origins; anxieties of influence; education and teaching; and varieties of curriculum. This working conference, for both emerging and established scholars, will be held March 7-9, 2003 at Glucksman Ireland House (1 Washington Mews, New York, NY). Paper and panel proposals are due December 13, 2002. We welcome relevant papers from all disciplines. Those presented at the conference will be considered for publication in the fourth volume of Foilsiu, an Irish Studies journal. In addition, travel and/or housing assistance may be available for graduate student presenters.For information, or to propose a paper or panel, email grianconference@hotmail.com.

ST KIERAN'S COLLEGE KILKENNY THURSDAY 26 TO SATURDAY 28 JUNE 2003

Chair: MAIRE HERBERT

Organising Secretary: CATHERINE SWIFT

Programme Secretary: COLMAN ETCHINGHAM

The Seventeenth Irish Conference of Medievalists will be the first, in a series stretching back to 1987, to be held outside Maynooth. Next year's venue, St Kieran's College, is located in Kilkenny, a compact city which boasts an unusually impressive - by Irish standards - surviving medieval fabric and ambience. The surrounding countryside is also replete with relics of the Middle Ages, from ogam stones to tower houses. Kilkenny is an obvious location for the Medievalists' Conference and St Kieran's College enjoys an institutional link with NUI Maynooth as the venue for some of our distance learning programmes.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Offers of papers are invited on medieval archaeology, art, history, language, learning and literature. Preference will be given to papers with a bearing on Irish and Insular medieval studies.

Length of papers: Either 45-50 minutes (10-15 minutes discussion) or 20-25 minutes (5-10 minutes discussion).

Responses should reach DR COLMAN ETCHINGHAM, DEPT OF HISTORY,

NUI MAYNOOTH, CO. KILDARE, IRELAND by the deadline of 28 FEBRUARY 2003.Phone: (353 1) 7083816; Fax: (353 1) 7083314; e-mail: colman.etchingham@may.ie

Responses should indicate: (1) YOUR NAME, ADDRESS, PHONE OR E-MAIL

(2) TITLE OF PROPOSED PAPER

(3) LENGTH OF PAPER (45-50 or 20-25 minutes)

(4) BRIEF ABSTRACT OF PAPER (max. 100 words)

(5) PROJECTOR(S) REQUIRED

Details of FEES FOR REGISTRATION, ON-CAMPUS MEALS AND ACCOMMODATION will be circulated, together with the CONFERENCE PROGRAMME, in March 2003. Those needing advance information on these details, for securing funding from their institutions, should contact the Organising Secretary, DR CATHERINE SWIFT, DEPT OF HISTORY, NUI MAYNOOTH, CO. KILDARE, IRELAND (e-mail: catherine.swift@may.ie ), for a provisional estimate of costs. YOU CAN ACCESS OUR WEBSITE AT www.geocities.com/irishmedievalists.

O.P.W. Atrium, 51 St. Stephens Green, Dublin

A celebration of the art, imagery and archaeological landscape

ART EXHIBITION AND ILLLUSTRATED LECTURE

Paintings by Richard Moore, focused on the Boyne Valley megalithic sites.10th December - 20th December (office hours)

Richard's work inspired by the study of the Boyne Valley, how legends may relate to the astronomical events at these locations, and an interest in how local place names came to be.

Illustrated Lecture by Dr Geraldine Stout, Archaeologist/Author

9th December 6.15 p.m.

The Boyne Valley archaeological landscape, and how this has inspired artists such as Nano Reid, Louis le Brocquay, 18th century landscape painters and contemporary local artists. Geraldine's book 'Newgrange and the Bend in the Boyne' is due for publication in December 2002 by Cork University Press  

Dr. Robin Stacey will be delivering a series of five

public lectures in Seattle this winter, entitled: "Druids, Poets, Clerics: Ireland's "Golden Age"

7:30-9:00 p.m., Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington

Wednesdays 1/15, 1/29, 2/12, 2/26, 3/12

Christian missionaries arriving in Ireland in the fifth century C.E. encountered something they had never seen before: a powerful class of native intellectuals charged with the perpetuation and preservation of traditions distinctly different from their own. Druids, poets, and seers had existed also among Celtic-speaking peoples on the continent. In Ireland, however, which had never been Romanized, these and other native professionals were too thoroughly integrated into contemporary political structures to be dislodged. This course explores the various ways in which in these two great traditions - one native, pagan, and oral, and the other Latin, Christian, and literate -came to terms with one another. How did they reconcile their priorities, perceptions, and personnel? How did the Church rewrite native concepts of gender, of kingship, and of heroic tradition in a manner acceptable to itself? And how does the remarkable literature that results from this fusion of cultures complicate our ideas about "native tradition"?

For further information and a link to the registration page, please go to:

http://www.lectures.org/wed.html

 The National Museum, Kildare St., Dublin, will run a series of lectures on Patrick and his time during February and March.

Lunchtime lectures (1 p.m.) will be of 30 minutes duration and those in the evening (7 p.m.) will last an hour.

5 February

Palladius and Patrick:

12 February

Representations of St. Patrick: Peter Harbison

19 February

Excavations in Armagh on a site associated in tradition with St.Patrick: Chris Lynn

26 February

The Cult of Patrick and the Politics of Armagh in the 7th Century Charles Doherty

5 March

Patrick: the Archaeology of a Saint: Cormac Bourke

12 March

Preaching at the Ends of the Earth: the Spirituality of St. Patrick: Tom O'Loughlin

19 March

St. Patrick in Irish Folk Traditions: Clodagh Doyle