News, Seminars, Memorial Lectures, Conferences and Workshops
The University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies runs two series of seminars each year in collaboration with the seminars of the Celtic Chair at Jesus College Oxford. They are usually held at 5.00pm every other Thursday during the Easter and Autumn terms. The Centre also regularly hosts memorial lectures, mini-conferences or one-day forums. A warm welcome is extended to all. Our events are held hybrid or online only via Zoom.
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Celtic Seminar | Hilary Term 2026
The Celtic Seminar is held jointly by Oxford and the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (CAWCS), Aberystwyth. All Oxford seminars will be at 5.15 pm on Thursdays, either hybrid (online and in person) or online-only via Microsoft Teams. When in person, they are in Room 20.306 of the Schwarzman Centre, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road.
Please contact david.willis@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk if you need a link to join online. All CAWCS seminars will be held online at 5.00 pm on Thursdays via Zoom, and, for hybrid seminars, in person at CAWCS. Please contact a.elias@wales.ac.uk for the link.
22 January
Oxford (hybrid)
Brigid Ehrmantraut (Cambridge)
Death of the author? Authorship and authority in the Middle Irish classical adaptations
29 January
CAWCS
CAWCS (hybrid)
Elizabeth Edwards (CAWCS)
Home Circuits: the Ladies of Llangollen, queer temporalities and Welsh landscapes
5 February
Oxford (hybrid)
Rhiannon Marks (Cardiff)
Envisaging the end: the representation of language decline in contemporary Welsh writing
12 February
CAWCS (hybrid)
Llion Wigley (University of Wales Press)
Ynysoedd Gobaith: Adeiladu Iwtopia yng Nghymru’r Ugeinfed Ganrif
19 February
Oxford (online)
Sarah Zeiser (Harvard)
Finding allegory, history, and a complicated timeline in the harvest quatrain of Rhygyfarch ap Sulien
26 February
CAWCS (online)
Malo Adeux (CRBC)
Ystoria Daret: sources, circulation, reception
5 March
Oxford (hybrid)
Emmet Taylor (Cork)
Heads, hierarchy and the heroic
12 March
CAWCS (hybrid)
Eleanor Stephenson (Cambridge)
Landscapes of Extraction: Philippe de Loutherbourg and the Morris Family’s Copper Works, Swansea
