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Die Abteilung für Keltologie (Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie) der Universität Bonn richtet vom 27. bis 30. August 2025 das Vierte Europäische Keltologie-Symposium aus. Abstracts (Länge max. 1700 Zeichen inklusive Leerzeichen) können bis zum 28. Februar 2025 als PDF-Datei via E-Mail eingereicht werden. Alle weiteren Informationen finden Sie unter Aktuelles > Tagungen.

Natalia Petrovskaia (Utrecht University) Looking at science fiction in the light of Old Irish travel narratives Please note that the talk starts at 6 pm sharp. If you would like to take part, please register with celtic@uni-bonn.de for the link.

Michael Hornsby (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) and Jonathan Morris (Cardiff University) Queering language revitalisation: Case studies from Breton and Welsh Please note that the talk starts at 6 pm sharp. If you would like to take part, please register with celtic@uni-bonn.de for the link.

Joe Eska (Virginia Tech) On realism and ultra-realism in Celtic historical phonology: some case studies Please note that the talk starts at 6 pm sharp. If you would like to take part, please register with celtic@uni-bonn.de for the link.

Elisabeth Chatel (University of Western Brittany) City of Light or Shadow of the Self? Brittany, Paris and Celtic studies under the Third Republic Please note that the talk starts at 6 pm sharp. If you would like to take part, please register with celtic@uni-bonn.de for the link.

Word and Image in Medieval Welsh Manuscripts Although comparatively few medieval Welsh manuscripts contain planned series of illustrations, closer inspection reveals a great variety of visual images, from full-size coloured drawings to marginal penwork figures. But what is the purpose or function of these visual images, and how Welsh are they? Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan was formerly Head of Manuscripts and Visual Images at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. Her publications on medieval textual culture and the relationship between word and visual image include An Index of Images in Welsh Manuscripts and English Manuscripts in Wales (2011). She is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales Trinity St Davids.

Renan, Arnold, Unamuno: Philology and the Minority Languages Did developments in Indo-European Philology influence the perception of Western European minority peoples and also our own self-perception and behaviour? An event in 1864 on the coast of north Wales serves to dramatize and illustrate a wider history seen through the prism of linguistic science which was itself developing. The dilemmas of those times have not wholly disappeared. Ned Thomas is a writer, journalist and academic who taught at the universities of Salamanca, Moscow and Aberystwyth before becoming Director of University of Wales Press. He founded the Mercator Centre which for thirty years has run projects on minority languages, linguistic diversity and literary translation. He is a Fellow of Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and the Learned Society of Wales, and was recently awarded an honorary D. Litt by University of Wales Trinity St David’s.