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Joshua Byron Smith @joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · 6h

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Joshua Byron Smith @joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · 6h

Join us for CSANA's Fall online lecture:
Nicholas Wolf, "A Peak Diasporic Gaeldom? Estimating Levels of Irish Speaking among the Postfamine American Irish"

Thursday, October 30th, at 2:00 EST / 6:00 BST.

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Joshua Byron Smith @joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · Aug 26

Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 1:00 (EDT) / 6:00 (BST). Registration is free. Come and join us for a great discussion:

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Joshua Byron Smith @joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · Aug 26

This volume analyzes female figures as literary characters, rather than as mythological beings, focusing on their expression of emotions and the repercussions for the societies depicted in the narratives.

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Joshua Byron Smith @joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · Aug 26

About Bound and Free: Otherworld women feature in a number of medieval Irish tales. They are not always powerful figures, and their struggles often mirror those of mortal women; authors apparently found them useful for exploring social tensions and issues of contemporary concern.

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Joshua Byron Smith @joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · Aug 26

Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 1:00 (EDT) / 6:00 (BST). Registration is free. Come and join us for a great discussion:

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Joshua Byron Smith @joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · Jul 21

All disciplines of Celtic Studies are welcomed. This session is sponsored by the Celtic Studies Association of North America. The deadline for submission of abstracts is September 15. Questions may be directed to Prof. Joshua Byron Smith ([email protected]).

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New Work by Early-Career Scholars in Celtic Studies

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Joshua Byron Smith @joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · Jul 21

CFP: New Work by Early-Career Scholars in Celtic Studies

2026 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies
May 14–16, 2026, Kalamazoo, MI

This session seeks proposals for twenty-minute presentations by early-career scholars working in medieval Celtic Studies.

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Joshua Byron Smith @joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · Jun 18

Free CSANA Virtual Summer Workshop:

Putting Celtic into your Medieval Literature Survey!

This workshop is free, though space is limited. It will be held on July 16 and July 17 at 10:30 EDT to 1:30 EDT:

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Joshua Byron Smith @joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · May 20

and discussing points of continuity and difference between elite medieval worldviews and those of the pre-industrial rural labouring classes.

Joshua Byron Smith @joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · May 20

and conversion of Lí Bán, and many more. This lecture will explore depictions of the ‘people of the sea’ and their interactions with humans in medieval Gaelic, Norse, and Latin writing, interrogating these accounts as sources for popular belief and cultural exchange, /

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Joshua Byron Smith @joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · May 20

While systematic folklore collection did not begin in earnest until the nineteenth century, we nonetheless find traces of such beings in early insular literature: annalistic accounts of fishermen’s tales, monstrous maritime revenants in the Icelandic family sagas, the miraculous transformation and /

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Joshua Byron Smith @joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · May 20

Strange hybrids of human and fish, swan, serpent, or seal haunt the coastlines and rivers of the northwest Atlantic. Their roles in legend are myriad: omens of storm and death, destroyers of men, guardians of hidden knowledge, and dynastic ancestors. /

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Joshua Byron Smith @joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · May 20

Come join us! CSANA Online Lecture Series

Dr. Gregory Darwin
Uppsala University

"The People of the Sea in Early Irish and Norse Tradition"

Tuesday, June 10
12:00 p.m. (EST)
5:00 p.m. (BST)

Free; Registration Required:

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Joshua Byron Smith @joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · Apr 14

Recently published authors include Michael Clarke, Ranke de Vries, Charlene Eska, Deborah Hayden, Catherine McKenna, Damian McManus, Kevin Murray, Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh, Paul Russell, Katharine Simms, and David Stifter.

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Joshua Byron Smith @joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · Apr 14

Accepted articles generally are published within a year of initial receipt and sometimes considerably more quickly. Please direct queries and submissions to the editor, Joe Eska, at [email protected].

The North American Journal of Celtic Studies

The North American journal of Celtic studies is the official journal of the Celtic Studies Association of North America

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Joshua Byron Smith @joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · Apr 14

NAJCS is double-blind peer-reviewed and appears twice a year in both print and on-line versions (thus facilitating citation counting and impact of individual articles). The journal endeavors to provide thorough and useful feedback for all submissions.

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Joshua Byron Smith @joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · Apr 14

It's also available online! Here's a little message from our editor, Joe Eska:

The North American journal of Celtic studies (NAJCS) invites submissions from scholars working on all disciplines in all time periods connected to the field of Celtic studies, including younger scholars.

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Joshua Byron Smith @joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · Apr 14

I'd just like to encourage everyone, but especially ECRs to consider submitting to the North American Journal of Cetlic Studies. I can say from experience that the journal gets fast and effective peer review, which can be a boon for junior scholars.

The North American Journal of Celtic Studies

The North American journal of Celtic studies is the official journal of the Celtic Studies Association of North America

ohiostatepress.org

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Joshua Byron Smith @joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · Apr 8

Diolch i Rebecca Thomas a David Callander am gytuno siarad am y gynhadledd ac eu gwaith ar y radio. / Thanks to Rebecca Thomas and David Callander for talking about the Celtic Studies Association of North America and their work on Ozarks at Large.

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UofA hosts Celtic Studies Association of North America

Scholars from around the country and beyond are in Fayetteville for the annual conference of the Celtic Studies Association of North America. For three days, there were discussions about the Celtic la...

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Joshua Byron Smith @joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · Feb 13

CFP, 2026 Modern Language Society
8–11 January, Toronto, Canada

Celts and Empire

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Joshua Byron Smith @joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · Dec 4

In person only. CSANA holds several online events a year, however, and every four years our conference is fully online.

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Joshua Byron Smith @joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · Dec 2

Fancy a trip to the Ozarks in the Spring? Join us at the annual conference of the Celtic Studies Association of North America, April 3-5 in Fayetteville Arkansas. CFP has been extended to Sunday, Dec. 15th.

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Joshua Byron Smith @joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · Nov 12

Dr. Myrzinn Jaouen
The tcheu-tcheu: Perception and Attitudes towards the Gwenedeg Dialect among Modern Breton Speakers.

Tuesday, November 19,
2:15 pm (EST)
8:15 pm (Central European Time)
[Registration Below]

Free; Registration Required
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