NEWS

A CELTIC STUDIES CONFERENCE

Medieval Celtic Law Texts: a Framework for Scholarly, Legal and Social Development

Thursday 25 and Friday 26 October 2012

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

Submissions are invited for scholarly papers (of twenty minutes’ duration) addressing any aspect of Celtic law in the early or Medieval period. Abstracts of up to 250 words should be sent by email to Dr Pamela O’Neill: pamaladh(at)gmail.com

The final date for abstracts to be received will be Monday 30 July 2012. Acceptances will be announced on Monday 6 August 2012, when a preliminary programme for the conference will be circulated. Any potential contributor who requires an earlier acceptance (eg for funding applications) should include a request with the submission.

To be added to the conference mailing list, please contact Dr O’Neill as above. Further information about the conference will also be available, from time to time, on the University of Sydney Celtic Studies website: sydney.edu.au/arts/celtic_studies

The conference fee will be 200 Australian dollars for regular participants and 100 dollars for students and unwaged participants. Further information, including how and when to pay, will be available with the preliminary programme in August.

Contributors to the conference will be invited to submit their papers for peer-reviewed publication in the conference volume to be published by the University of Sydney Celtic Studies Foundation.

Those receiving this announcement are encouraged to make its contents known to anyone else who might be interested.

This conference is an outcome of research supported under the Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects funding scheme (project number DP120103684).