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Thursday, September 18

8.30 – 9.20 Registration

9.20 – 9.30 Welcome by Professor Séamus Mac Mathúna, President of the Society and Professor Ranko Matasović, Chair of the Conference

9.30 – 9.45 Opening of the Colloquium by His Excellency Patrick McCabe, Irish Ambassador to Croatia Address by His Excellency Veselko Grubišić, Croatian Ambassador to Ireland

9.45 – 10.30 John Carey (Cork) ‘A Vision and its Context: Imperial Apocalypticism and Fís Adomnáin’

10.30-11.00 Ranko Matasović (Zagreb) ‘Some Celto-Slavic Etymologies’

11.00-11.20 Tea/Coffee break

Chair: Ranko Matasović (Zagreb)

11.20-11.50 Anna Bloch-Rozmej (Lublin) ‘Phonological Function of Noise in Irish and Ukranian Turbulent Sounds’

11.50-12.20 Eugeniusz Cyran & Bogdan Szymanek (Lublin) ‘Phonological and Morphological Functions of Palatalization in Irish and Polish’

12.20-12.40 Tatyana Mikhailova (Moscow) ‘Past ~ Present Shifting in Early Irish Narrative’

13.00-14.30 Lunch

Chair: Stefan Zimmer (Bonn)

14.30-15.00 Ana Galjanić (Zagreb) ‘Typology of Enumeration in Old Irish, Welsh and Greek’

15.00-15.30 Maria Bloch-Trojnar (Lublin) ‘The Syntax, Semantics and Morphology of De-verbal Nominalizations in Modern Irish’

15.30-16.00 Elena Parina (Moscow) ‘Loanwords in Welsh: Frequency Analysis’

16.00-16.20 Tea/Coffee break

Chair: Maxim Fomin (Coleraine)

16.20-16.50 Anna Bondaruk (Lublin) ‘On Copular Sentences in Irish and Polish’

16.50-17.20 Olga Karkishchenko (Moscow) ‘Anglo-Norman Borrowings in Irish’

17.20-17.50 Dubravka Ivšić (Zagreb) ‘Italo-Celtic Correspondences in Verb Formation’

7pm- Reception (Time & location t.b.a.)

Friday, September 19

Chair: John Carey (Cork)

9.30 – 10.15 Stefan Zimmer (Bonn) ‘On Comparing Slavic and Celtic Theonyms, with regard to their Indo-European Background’

10.15-10.45 Hildegard Tristram (Freiburg i.Br.) ‘Poetry and Prophecy in the Táin’

10.45-11.15 Sergey Ivanov (St. Petersburg) ‘Portrait of Anti-Christ in Irish and Coptic’

11.15-11.35 Tea/Coffee break

Chair: Séamus Mac Mathúna (Coleraine)

11.35-12.05 Gearóid Mac Eoin (Galway) ‘The Theme of Madness in Early Irish Literature’

12.05-12.35 Grigory Bondarenko (Coleraine) ‘Autochthons and Otherworlds in Celtic and Slavic’

12.35-12.55 Maxim Fomin (Coleraine) ‘The Acquisition of Land Motif in Irish and Russian Folklore’

13.00-15.00    Lunch

(Venue: Restaurant “Sesamme”)

The lunch is organized by the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

Chair: Tatyana Mikhailova (Moscow)

15.00-15.30 Dean Miller (Chicago) ‘Colors of Glory, Colors of Trickery: Hero and His Opposite in the Irish and Serbo-Croat Narratives’

15.30-16.00 Anna Muradova (Moscow) ‘The Supernatural Creatures in a Late Folklore Text: Breton Folk Tales and Russian Bylichki’

16.00-16.30 Marina Guister (Moscow) ‘The Swan-Maiden Plot and Other Swan and Bird Plots in Celtic and Slavonic Folk Texts’

16.30-16.45 Tea/Coffee break

Chair: Dunja Brozović (Zagreb)

16.45-17.15 Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka (Łodz) ‘Unparalleled Cultures. Irish Mythical Figures in the Polish Translation of Flann O'Brien's ‘At- Swim-Two-Birds’

17.15-17.45 Alan Titley (Cork) ‘Russians in the Western Isles’

17.45-18.15 Ludmilla Kostova (Veliko Târnovo) ‘Bardic Nationalism and Auto- Exoticism à la Slave: Nineteenth-Century Antiquarian and Ethnological Research and the Construction of a Slavic Cultural Identity in Europe’

18.15-18.30 Closing of the Conference

Saturday, September 20

9.00-17.00 Boat trip to the Elaphite Islands (includes lunch)

The conference lectures will take place at the Inter-University Centre, Don Frana Bulica 4

Organizing Committee:

Dunja Brozovic (Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Zagreb); Maxim Fomin (University of Ulster); Ranko Matasovic (University of Zagreb)

Conference Secretaries:

Tena Gnjatovic; Dubravka Ivšic

Sponsors:

Croatian Ministry of Science and Technology

Embassy of the Republic of Ireland to Croatia

Celto-Slavica 1

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Celto-Slavica 3

Celto-Slavica 4 - Poland