Re-Reading the Revolution: A conference launching Lamh: Learn

Early Modern Irish (Lamh.org)

convened by
Jerry Hunter (Bangor University), Brendan Kane (UConn), Catherine McKenna (Harvard)

The Re-Reading the Revolution conference marks the launch of the website, Lamh: Learn Early
Modern Irish, a web-based tutorial and resource for learning how to read and translate Early Modern
Irish. No mere celebration, this is a working launch consisting of three complementary sections:

I. One day, one text: Following an established digital humanities model of collaborative scholarship,
the conference opens with a workshop at which participants work collectively whether in person or
remotely to produce a new text selection for Lamh.org. Experts and learners alike are encouraged to
take part. For details on how to take part, contact brendan.kane@uconn.edu.

II. Research panels: Leading scholars in Celtic languages will speak to recent research on the
revolutionary years 1630-60; design and development members of the "Lamh" team will present on
building the site and the challenges faced, lessons learned and potentials for replicability of model.

III. Re-Reading the Revolution roundtables: How might digital humanities initiatives like Lamh, and
greater access to Celtic languages generally, prove useful across disciplines? The concluding series of
panels explores ways by which the Celtic languages can be used to reorient our thinking about major
historical events. Specialists in the history and literature of Britain and Ireland during the crisis years of
1630-60, and experts in Celtic-language sources of the period, will discuss how widening source base
and strengthening collaborative networks might further our understanding of this revolutionary
moment.

October 3: Site TBD (Hartford or Storrs)

2:00-5:00 One day, one text: producing a new Text for Lamh.org
o collaborative editing of poem Eirechthar fs le cloinn gColla for posting on
website

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Humanities Institute
215 GLENBROOK ROAD, UNIT 4234
AUSTIN BUILDING #301-312
STORRS, CT 06269-4234
PHONE 860.486.9057
FAX 860.486.9136
An Equal Opportunity Employer
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www.humanities.uconn.edu
October 4: All Sessions in Humanities Institute Seminar Room, Homer Babbidge Library
8:30-8:45 Coffee, pastries
8:45-9:00 Welcome: Brendan Kane (Connecticut)
9:00-10:30 Research panel
o Ireland and an Ghaeilge in an age of Revolution, 1630-60
Eoin Mac Crthaigh (Trinity College Dublin): One mans war: the martial career
of Maghnas Domhnaill (1646)
Marc Caball (University College, Dublin): Dispossession and cultural trauma in
mid-seventeenth-century Ireland
Brd McGrath (Trinity College, Dublin): Early modern Irish parliaments and
towns: sources, questions and paths
Chair: Brendan Kane
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 Research panel
o Wales and y Gymraeg in an age of Revolution, 1630-60
Jerry Hunter (Bangor): From the Ancient Britons to the Unfortunate Welshman:
contextualizing the work of Morgan Llwyd
Peredur Lynch (Bangor): Welsh poetry and the Royalist cause
Lloyd Bowen (Cardiff): Political Knowledge and Political Identities in
Seventeenth-Century Wales
Chair: Catherine McKenna (Harvard)
12:15-1:45 Lunch
1:45-3:15 Research panel
o Digital Humanities and language learning: lessons of Lamh, Greenhouse Studios and
collaborative scholarship
Tim Morris (Connecticut)
Joel Salisbury (Connecticut)
Tom Scheinfeldt (Connecticut)
Chair: Hilary Bogert-Winkler (Connecticut)
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-5:00 Research panel
o Scotland and an Ghidhlig in an age of Revolution, 1630-60
Aonghas MacCoinnich (Glasgow): Beyond the bard? Accessing Scottish Gaelic
perspectives in the mid seventeenth century
Wilson McLeod (Edinburgh): Ideologies and affinities in the Gaelic poetry of
Scotland, 1630-1660
Wes Hamrick (Connecticut/Lamh.org): Re-Reading the 18th-Century Print
Revolution Through the Celtic Languages: A Case Study from Scottish Gaelic and
a Model for Multilingual Approaches
Chair: Jerry Hunter (Bangor)
5:00-6:00 Reception

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Humanities Institute
215 GLENBROOK ROAD, UNIT 4234
AUSTIN BUILDING #301-312
STORRS, CT 06269-4234
PHONE 860.486.9057
FAX 860.486.9136 An Equal Opportunity Employer
uchi@uconn.edu
www.humanities.uconn.edu
October 5: All Sessions in Humanities Institute Seminar Room, Homer Babbidge Library
9:00-10:30 Re-Reading the Revolution research roundtable
o Culture and Society
Tim Harris (Brown)
Valerie McGowan-Doyle (Kent St)
Peredur Lynch
Brd McGrath
Wes Hamrick
Chair: Jerry Hunter
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 Re-Reading the Revolution research roundtable
o Ideas, Religion and Memory
Sarah Covington (CUNY)
Eoin Mac Crthaigh
Wilson McLeod
Hilary Bogert-Winkler
Gregory Darwin (Harvard)
o Chair: George Moore (Connecticut)
12:15-12:30 Lunch served
12:30-2:00 Re-Reading the Revolution research roundtable
o Transnational Perspectives
Alastair Bellany (Rutgers)
Malcolm Smuts (UMass, Boston)
Aonghas MacCoinnich
Lloyd Bowen
Marc Caball
Chair: Brendan Kane
2:00-2:15 Closing remarks, wrap-up re. next steps and thank yous
o Brendan Kane, Jerry Hunter
Leave to attend Kelleher Lecture (Harvard University)

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Humanities Institute
215 GLENBROOK ROAD, UNIT 4234
AUSTIN BUILDING #301-312
STORRS, CT 06269-4234
PHONE 860.486.9057
FAX 860.486.9136 An Equal Opportunity Employer
uchi@uconn.edu
www.humanities.uconn.edu