{"id":58089,"date":"2011-09-30T09:32:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T07:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/?p=58089"},"modified":"2025-10-21T22:21:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:21:04","slug":"september-25-2011-report-of-a-celtic-languages-based-collaboration-project-between-harvard-and-rennes-2-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/2011\/09\/september-25-2011-report-of-a-celtic-languages-based-collaboration-project-between-harvard-and-rennes-2-france\/","title":{"rendered":"September 25, 2011: report of a Celtic languages-based collaboration project between Harvard and Rennes 2 (France)."},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week we drew a close-up on <\/a>Celtic languages<\/a><\/strong>, all considered endangered. Fittingly, this week, a Ouest-France<\/em> blog mentions a collaboration project between Rennes 2 University\u2019s Breton and Celtic Research Center<\/strong><\/a> (CRBC), and Harvard University.<\/p>\n

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The article reports that Harvard is the only North American university home to an actual department of Celtic studies<\/strong>: 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.<\/p>\n

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Director of the Harvard Celtic Studies department Catherine McKenna<\/strong> visited the Rennes 2 CRBC last week. The idea of this collaboration is to have Breton<\/strong><\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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Full article available here<\/a> (French).<\/p>\n

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