Colloquium 2025
After the successful international symposium on Cisalpine Celtic Literacy in June 2022, the team of Lexicon Leponticum, in collaboration with the research project Celtic Language and Identity in Northern Italy and the Alpine Region (Horizon Europe MSCA), is happy to announce a second conference, to be held on 29th–30th May 2025 at the Department of Early Irish of Maynooth University, Ireland.
Again, the conference aims to bring together researchers from different disciplines and scholarly traditions to foster collaboration and exchange of ideas on the study of Cisalpine Celtic, the fragmentary remains of Celtic languages in the Alpine region and Padan plain of the Iron Age. This time, we would like to focus particularly on the position of Cisalpine Celtic within the greater context of Continental Celtic. The keynote address will be delivered by Professor Emmanuel Dupraz (École pratique des hautes études Paris / Université Libre de Bruxelles).
We invite abstracts on all topics concerned with Cisalpine Celtic, from the reading and interpretation of individual inscriptions to discussions of overarching, theoretical and methodological issues. We especially welcome proposals which take comparative approaches to Cisalpine Celtic epigraphy in all its aspects – linguistic as well as historical, archaeological and graphematic – in relation to Continental Celtic and other fragmentary Palaeo-European languages and epigraphic cultures.
The conference will be held in person at Maynooth University; the possibility of hybrid participation will be explored should there be a demand for it. Attendance will be free, but travel expenses cannot be covered. Presentations should be 20 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. The publication of proceedings is planned as a special volume of Keltische Forschungen in 2026.
If you would like to present at the symposium, please email an abstract of no more than 300 words (excluding references) to corinna.salomon@univie.ac.at by the 15th of January 2025.
If you have further questions, please email corinna.salomon@univie.ac.at.
Corinna Salomon
Maynooth University
David Stifter
Maynooth University
