Registration
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Event Information
Date: 9–11 April 2025
Venue: Humanities Research Space, Arts Complex,
7 Woodland Road, University of Bristol
Bristol, BS8 1TB
Contact
For all queries, please contact:
french-of-celtic@bristol.ac.uk
Programme
Wednesday 9 April 2025
| 13.30–14.30 | Registration |
| 14.30–14.45 | Welcome Helen Simpson, APVC (Research & Innovation), University of Bristol Tristan Kay, Co-Director, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol |
| 14.45–16.30 | Panel 1: CONTEXTS Chair: Rachael Harkes Fiona Edmonds (Lancaster University) Breton, French, and Latin in Medieval Yorkshire Caitlin Ellis (University of Oslo) Invasion, Interaction and Identity: French Poetry in Ireland and Scotland Ken George (Cornish Language Board) The French Contribution to Cornish Literature, Lexicon and Toponymy |
| 16.30–16.45 | Break |
| 16.45–18.00 | Keynote Lecture 1 Chair: Luciana Cordo Russo Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, Honorary Fellow, University of Wales Trinity St Davids; formerly Head of Manuscripts and Visual Images, National Library of Wales In Search of French Manuscripts in Medieval Wales |
| 19:00–21:00 | Conference Dinner KUCH 133 Whiteladies Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 2PL (https://www.kuchspsf.co.uk/) |
Thursday 10 April 2025
| 8.45–9.15 | Welcome / Registration |
| 9.15–10.45 | Panel 2: METHODOLOGIES Chair: Helen Fulton Davide Battagliola (Scuola Superiore Meridionale) Towards a Definition of a Hiberno-Norman Scripta Karen Jankulak (Anglo-Norman Dictionary, Aberystwyth University) The Anglo-Norman Dictionary: Implications of Its Work and Corpus with Respect to Celtic Studies Llewelyn Hopwood (Cardiff University) The Absence of ‘Mighty French’ in Medieval Welsh Poetry |
| 10.45–11.00 | Break |
| 11.00–12.30 | Panel 3: SOURCES Chair: TBC Natalia I. Petrovskaia (Utrecht University) Peredur Episode IV: French Origins of a Welsh Continuation? Malo Adeux (Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique) The French Sources of the Welsh Ystoria Daret Matthieu Boyd (Fairleigh Dickinson University) [online] The Authentically Celtic in The Marvels of Rigomer |
| 12.30–13.45 | Lunch |
| 13.45–15.15 | Panel 4: TRAJECTORIES Chair: Leah Tether Bailey C. Behunin (Weber State University) The Celtic Connections in French Arthurian Literature: An Examination of Chrétien de Troyes and Marie de France Jessica Shales (Cardiff University) King Arthur in the Breton-Old French Romance Artus de Bretaigne Claudia Zimmermann (Independent Researcher) French Romance and/or Native Welsh Folklore? – Ystoryaeu Seint Greal and the Commission of Their Manuscripts |
| 15.15–15.30 | Break |
| 15.30–16.45 | Keynote Lecture 2 Chair: Matt Lampitt Keith Busby, Douglas Kelly Professor of Medieval French Emeritus, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America French in Medieval Ireland and the Serendipity of Scholarship |
| 17.00–18.30 | Book Launch, hosted by Leah Tether (University of Bristol) Medieval French on the Move: Studies in Honour of Keith Busby |
Friday 11 April 2025
| 8.30–9.00 | Welcome |
| 9.00–10.00 | Helen Fulton, Rachael Harkes, Matt Lampitt, Mike Jones (University of Bristol) Mapping the March Project Workshop |
| 10.00–11.30 | Panel 5: FUNCTIONS Chair: TBC Ed McCarthy (Independent Researcher) Code-switching in Medieval Cornish Drama: The Use of French Within the Cornish Court Helen Fulton (University of Bristol) Uses of French in Welsh Towns, c. 1100–1400 Cory Nguyen (University of California, Berkeley) Fourteenth-Century Ireland and the Languages of Lyric |
| 11.30–11.45 | Break |
| 11.45–12.45 | Panel 6: INTERSECTIONS Chair: TBC Maxim Fomin (Ulster University) The Opening Episodes in the Irish Arthurian Adaptations of French Romances Brigid Ehrmantraut (University of Cambridge) Chansons de geste, the Crusades, and Conversion Narratives in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Ireland |
| 12.45–13.00 | Closing Remarks Helen Fulton (University of Bristol) |
| 13.00–15:00 | Lunch |