Sixth Australian Celtic Conference  
University of Sydney  
 

Speakers and Abstracts 

 
Keynote and Plenary Speakers
 
David_Caldwell
Dr David H. Caldwell
'The image of a Celtic society - the
Scottish West, 1100-1600'
Keeper Scotland and Europe, National Museums of Scotland.
Ewen_Cameron
Dr Ewen Cameron
'The Scottish Highlands and the Scottish Conscience since 1850 '

Edinburgh University.

 

Brad_Patterson
Dr Brad Patterson
'Consider, contrast and compare Ulster migration to different parts of Australasia'
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Published Cornwall Editions 2005
Prof. Philip Payton
'Competing Celticities: Cornish and Irish constructions of Australia'
Cornish Institute, Exeter.

Papers & Abstracts

Speakers and Proposed Papers (as of April 2007):

Plenary speakers

 

David H Caldwell
Keeper of Scotland and Europe,
National Museums of Scotland
Paper: The image of a Celtic Society the Scottish West, 1100–1600

Session: Friday 20 July, 11.30am–12.45pm

 

Ewen Cameron
Edinburgh University
Paper: The Scottish Highlands and the Scottish Conscience since 1850

Session: Wednesday 18 July, 3.45pm–5.00pm

 

Brad Patterson

Director, Irish-Scottish Studies
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Paper: Contrast and consider differences in Ulster migration to Australasia

Session: Thursday 19 July, 11.30am–12.45pm

 

Philip Payton
Director, Institute of Cornish Studies
University of Exeter, Tremough Penryn Cornwall
Paper: Competing Celticities: Cornish and Irish Constructions of Australia
Session: Wednesday 18 July, 11.30am–12.45pm

 

Graham Aubrey

Independent scholar
Paper: Myth and Legend as Implied in Landscape and People: a Childhood Odyssey of Growing up in the Rhondda Valley

Session Eight: Friday 20 July, 2.00pm–3.30pm

 

Lorna Barrow

University of Sydney
Paper: Fourteenth Century Stay-at-Home Scottish Princesses

Session Six: Friday 20 July, 9.30am–11.00am

 

James Beattie

University of Waikato, Dunedin
Paper: The Scots in Asian and Australasian Forestry

Session Twelve: Saturday 21 July, 9.30am–11.00am

 

Ali Farid Belkadi

Independent Scholar
Paper: The Lady of Coizard

Session Four: Thursday 19 July, 2.00pm–3.30pm

 

Lauren Bernauer

University of Sydney
Paper: Early Celtic Mythology and Modern Fantasy

Session Three [Panel]: Thursday 19 July, 9.30am–11.00am

 

J. Beston

Independent Scholar

Paper: Galeran de Bretagne: Between Romance and Reality

Session Fifteen: Saturday 21 July, 11.30am–1.00pm

 

Du Biao

Beijing Language and Culture University, China
Paper: The Chinese Zhu and Si in 1100 BC: the Celtic Connection

Session Thirteen: Saturday 21 July, 9.30am–11.00am

 

Elizabeth Bonner

University of Sydney
Paper: The Early Career of Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange, c . 1520 1559

Session Six: Friday 20 July, 9.30am–11.00am

 

Kristen Erskine Campbell

Independent Scholar
Paper: Just What Did a Nemeton Look Like Anyway?

Session Thirteen: Saturday 21 July, 9.30am–11.00am

 

John Clancy

Independent Scholar
Paper: Microcosmic Celtic Communities Transplanted

Session Two: Thursday 19 July, 9.30am–11.00am

 

John Coombs

Independent Scholar
Paper: Fine Songs for Singing: an Australian Collector of Scottish Folk Songs

Session Five: Thursday 19 July, 2.00pm–3.30pm

 

Aedeen Cremin

Previously director of the Foundation for Celtic Studies
Paper: Fringes of the Fringes of Empire: Celts in the Gobi desert?

Session Two: Thursday 19 July, 9.30am–11.00am

 

Carole M. Cusack  

University of Sydney
Paper: Fiction, Feminism and the ‘Celtic Church': the Sister Fidelma Novels of Peter Tremayne

Session Three [Panel]: Thursday 19 July, 9.30am–11.00am

 

Diana Dominguez

University of Texas-Brownsville/Texas Southmost College
Paper: The Making of a Queen: Historical Possibilities and Precedents for Queen Medb of Connacht in the Ulster Cycle

Session Nine: Friday 20 July, 2.00pm–3.30pm

 

Tony Earls

Independent Scholar
Paper: The Lawyer as Folk Hero in Nineteenth Century Ireland

Session Ten: Friday 20 July, 4.00pm–5.30pm

 

Mathew Glozier

University of Sydney
Paper: Early Modern Celtic Warfaring

Session Eight: Friday 20 July, 2.00pm–3.30pm

 

Merrill Simmons Hansen

Te Wananga O Aotearoa, New Zealand
Paper: ‘What of us is here': Proverb, Culture and Social Work in Aotearoa New Zealand

Session Seven: Friday 20 July, 9.30am–11.00am

 

Anna Maria Hartland

University of Sydney
Paper: Constructions of Wales in Modern Fantasy Fiction

Session Eleven: Friday 20 July, 4.00pm–5.30pm

 

Sybil Jack

University of Sydney
Paper: Scottish and Irish Catholic Highland Missionaries in World Context

Session Eight: Friday 20 July, 2.00pm–3.30pm

 

Suzanne Jamieson

University of Sydney
Paper: TBA

Session Fifteen: Saturday 21 July, 11.30am–1.00pm

 

Stephen Legg

Monash University
Paper: Scottish Contributions to Forrest Culture in Colonial Victoria

Session Five: Thursday 19 July, 2.00pm–3.30pm

 

Trevor Lloyd

University of Toronto
Paper: Alexander the Pig: Shakespeare and the Celts

Session One: Wednesday 18 July, 2.00pm–3.30pm

 

Dymphna Lonergan

Flinders University
Paper: Sounds Irish: the History of the Irish Language in Australia

Session Two: Thursday 19 July, 9.30am–11.00am

 

Patrick McCafferty

University of Belfast
Paper: Irish Myths: Fantastic Nonsense or a Real Record of Astronomical Catastrophes

Session Four: Thursday 19 July, 2.00pm–3.30pm

 

Tessa Morrison

University of Newcastle
Paper: Classical Elements in the Architecture of the City in ‘Saltair na Rann'

Session Four: Thursday 19 July, 2.00pm–3.30pm

 

Michael Nelson

University of Sydney
Paper: Celts, Romans and Germans in the Rhineland

Session Fifteen: Saturday 21 July, 11.30am–1.00pm

 

Mary O'Connell

Independent Scholar
Paper: Brigid and Mary: the Mystic Celtic Sisterhood

Session Nine: Friday 20 July, 2.00pm–3.30pm

 

Lyn Olson

University of Sydney
Paper: The New Cornish Play ( Bewnans Ke ) and its Cultural Implications for Cornwall and Beyond

Session One: Wednesday 18 July, 2.00pm–3.30pm

 

Pamela O'Neill

Melbourne University
Paper: Becoming a Fuidir in Early Ireland

Session Fourteen: Saturday 21 July, 9.30am–11.00am

 

Jeff Parker

University of Queensland
Paper: ‘Migrant Fairies': an Anthropological Investigation of the Significance of Mythic Symbolism to the Congruency of Contemporary Celtic Identity in the Australian Setting

Session Five: Thursday 19 July, 2.00pm–3.30pm

 

Sally Parkin

Independent scholar
Paper: Women, Customary Law and Witchcraft in Early Modern Wales and the Isle of Man

Session One: Wednesday 18 July, 2.00pm–3.30pm

 

Paul A. Phillips

University of Sydney
Paper: Are Celtic Crosses Really Celtic or are they Markers of Constructed Identity

Session Eleven: Friday 20 July, 4.00pm–5.30pm

 

Penny Pollard

Independent scholar, New Zealand
Paper: Emain Macha: in This World and in the Otherworld

Session Nine: Friday 20 July, 2.00pm–3.30pm

 

Gwen Richards

University of Sydney
Paper: The Welsh Law of Women

Session Fourteen: Saturday 21 July, 9.30am–11.00am

 

Andrew Shields

Independent Scholar
Paper: From Repeal to Revolution: the Evolution of John Mitchel's Political Thought, 1846–48

Session Ten: Friday 20 July, 4.00pm–5.30pm

 

Michelle Smith

University of Auckland
Paper: Gendering the Foundation Myths of Medieval Scotland

Session Eleven: Friday 20 July, 4.00pm–5.30pm

 

Val Smith

Independent scholar
Paper: Allan Cameron — Jacobite Agent in the Court of the Old Pretender

Session Six: Friday 20 July, 9.30am–11.00am

 

Michael Stuckey

University of Glamorgan
Paper: The Idea of the Continuation/ Extinguishment of ‘Welsh' Customary Land Law

Session Fourteen: Saturday 21 July, 9.30am–11.00am

 

Stephen Szabo

Independent Scholar
Paper: ‘Virtuous and Well-Deserving': Some Scottish Armigers in Nineteenth-Century Australia

Session Seven: Friday 20 July, 9.30am–11.00am

 

John Taylor

Independent Scholar
Paper: George Forrest and Chinese Botany

Session Seven: Friday 20 July, 9.30am–11.00am

 

Dominique Beth Wilson

University of Sydney
Paper: Morgan le Fay Celtic Origins and Literary Images
Session Three [Panel]: Thursday 19 July, 9.30am–11.00am

For corrections or further enquiries, please contact the

Conference Convenor
A/Prof. Sybil Jack
4/415 Glebe Point Road
Glebe NSW 2037
Australia
Email: sybiljack@hotmail.com

 

 
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