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MCC Celtic Scholars Present at SUNY CID Research Symposium


On Friday, March 13, nearly 50 faculty and students from across New York State attended the SUNY Conversations in the Disciplines Celtic Identity in the New Millennium Research Symposium hosted by Monroe Community College.  According to Project Director Stasia Callan, this symposium represented the project’s first goal to offer SUNY scholars a venue for sharing Celtic research.  A full-day of presentations by Celtic scholars from Alfred University, SUNY Oswego, SUNY Stony Brook, the University of Rochester, and MCC focused on the four fields of Humanities research which served as a foundation for the symposium - literature, religion, theater, and performing arts.  Presentations by the MCC Scholars were: Celtic Mythological Seeds of Contemporary Society by Stasia Callan, Professor of English;  “We’ll not rehearse it all again”: Irish Mythology and Celtic Culture in Vincent Woods’  A Cry from Heaven by Jeffery Jones, Assistant Professor of English; Tellers, Tales, and Trances: A Postcolonial View of Celtic Bards from Myrddin to McCourt by Gail Bouk, Assistant Professor of English; and Traditions that Define Celtic Identity in the Performing Arts: Past and Present by Dr. David Shaw, Associate Professor of Music.

The Celtic Project Committee includes Stasia Callan (Project Director), Patty Giblin (Project Secretary), Gail Bouk, David Shaw, Michael McDonough, and Jeff Bartkovich.  Work on the project’s second goal to explore the potential for system-wide collaborative research and discussion about Celtic issues in an online environment has already begun. 

Carol Wilkinson
Educational Technology Services
04/01/2009