Last week we drew a close-up on Celtic languages, all considered endangered. Fittingly, this week, a Ouest-France blog mentions a collaboration project between Rennes 2 University’s Breton and Celtic Research Center (CRBC), and Harvard University.

The article reports that Harvard is the only North American university home to an actual department of Celtic studies: three professors and half a dozen contributors, essentially historians and medievalists, in a small structure offering to study every aspect of Celtic languages, from Old Irish to Middle Welsh to Modern Scottish Gaelic.

Director of the Harvard Celtic Studies department Catherine McKenna visited the Rennes 2 CRBC last week. The idea of this collaboration is to have Breton find a greater place at Harvard than it does now, with regular exchanges of lecturers and researchers, a week of introduction of the language, etc.

Full article available here (French).