Explore the range of seminars organised by SAMS since 2020.
Seminar for Ancient and Medieval Studies
Autumn semester 2025, UCC
All seminars at 6pm
8 October, West Wing 5
Dr Emma Nic Cárthaigh, Department of Early and Medieval Irish, University College Cork
From injury to insult: humour, horror and suspension of disbelief in the Colloquy of Fintan mac Bóchrai and the Hawk of Achill
29 October, CACSSS Seminar Room (G27 ORB)
Dr Anthony Harvey, Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources, Royal Irish Academy
Medieval Ghost Words, Poltergeist Words, and Frankenstein Words in the Celtic-Latin Corpus
26 November, CACSSS Seminar Room (G27 ORB)
Prof. Tom Birkett, School of English and Digital Humanities, University College Cork
Mapping the Reception and Legacy of the Vikings with NorseMap
Organisers: Dr Máirín MacCarron and Dr Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh
Seminar for Ancient and Medieval Studies
Spring semester 2025, UCC
All seminars at 5.15pm in ORB 2.02
22 January
Dr Pádraig MacCarron, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Limerick
Determining the effect of information loss on the social networks of Irish Sagas
19 February
Dr Pádraic Moran, University of Galway
Learning Greek in the ninth century: three bilingual Irish manuscripts
26 March
Professor Sharon Rowley, Christopher Newport University and Research Fellow, University of London
Bede's Elemental Miracles: Belief, Environment, and Perception in Early Medieval Miracle Stories
Organisers: Dr Máirín MacCarron and Dr Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh
Seminar for Ancient and Medieval Studies
Autumn semester 2024, UCC
All seminars at 6pm unless otherwise stated
18 September, West Wing 9
Dr Nina Cnockaert-Guillou, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Place-names, storytelling and intertextuality in medieval Ireland
23 October, West Wing 9
Elsina Caponetti, Department of Italian, University College Cork
Contiguous afterlives? The interim state of souls in Irish Vision literature and in Dante Alighieri's Commedia
4 December at 5.15pm, ORB 1.23
Dr Kevin Murray, Department of Early and Medieval Irish, University College Cork
The Disappearing Text: Acallam na Senórach
Organisers: Dr Máirín MacCarron and Dr Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh
Seminar for Ancient and Medieval Studies
Spring semester 2024, UCC
All Seminars at 5.15pm
31 January, MS Teams
Professor Emeritus Éamonn Ó Carragáin, University College Cork
The Green Tree, 'dryhtnes word', and a page (282v) in the Book of Kells
28 February, West Wing 5
Natasha Dukelow, School of History, University College Cork
The compiler of the Liber exemplorum and the Franciscan intellectual networks in thirteenth-century Ireland
20 March, West Wing 5
Dr Eugene Costello, School of History and Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork
Illiterate churls or non-elite actors? Reconsidering the agency of rural people in medieval northern Europe
Organisers: Dr Máirín MacCarron and Dr Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh
Seminar for Ancient and Medieval Studies
Autumn semester 2023, UCC
All Seminars at 5.15pm in ORB 1.56
4 October
Dr Christina Cleary, Queens University Belfast
The influence of Isidore’s Etymologies on the scholarship of medieval Ireland
18 October
Dr Emily Quigley, School of English and Digital Humanities, University College Cork
The pastoral application of Matthew’s Gospel in the writings of the Venerable Bede
22 November
Dr Diarmuid Ó Riain, Department of Archaeology, University College Cork
The chronological implications of Latinate inscriptions: new research findings from the Digital Atlas of Early Irish Carved Stone (DAEICS) project
Organisers: Dr Máirín MacCarron and Dr Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh
Seminar for Ancient and Medieval Studies
Spring semester 2023, UCC
8 February, ORB 2.02 at 6.00pm
Dr Jesse Harrington, IRC Postdoctoral Fellow, School of History, University College Cork
St. Lorcán Ua Tuathail, Duke Arthur of Brittany, and the Vita S. Laurentii
1 March, CACSSS Seminar Room, ORB G.27 at 5.15pm
John Sheehan, Department of Archaeology, University College Cork
Archaeology and Skellig Michael
15 March, ORB 2.02 at 5.15pm
Dr Crystal Addey, Department of Classics, University College Cork
Female Philosophers in Platonic Dialogues and the Late Antique Lives
Organisers: Dr Máirín MacCarron and Dr Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh
Seminar for Ancient and Medieval Studies
Autumn semester 2022, UCC
All events on Wednesday at 5.00pm
19 October, ORB 2.55
Dr James Chetwood, IRC Postdoctoral Fellow, University College Cork
The Medieval Transformation of English Personal Naming
16 November, ORB 2.55
Dr Mikael Males, University of Oslo
A (re)assessment of Irish influences in Scandinavia before c. AD 1000
23 November, CACSSS Seminar Room, ORB G.27
Celebrating funding awards for medieval research projects
Ultonia. Cultural Dynamics in medieval Ulster and beyond: a shared inheritance: PI, Dr Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh
GENCHRON. Time for Women? Gender, chronology and historiography before AD 900: PI, Dr Máirín MacCarron
DAEICS. Digital Atlas of Early Irish carved stones: PI, Dr Tomás Ó Carragáin
Organisers: Dr Máirín MacCarron and Dr Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh
Seminar for Ancient and Medieval Studies
Spring semester 2022, UCC
All seminars on Wednesday at 5.15pm in ORB 1.23
16 February
Dr Michael J. Kelly, Fulbright Fellow, University College Cork (Binghamton University, SUNY)
Postulating a Visigothic 'Human Nature'
2 March
Prof. Heather O’Donoghue, University of Oxford
What did the poet of Beowulf have to do with Old Norse myth?
23 March
Dr Máirín MacCarron, University College Cork
Bede, Computus and the development of historical chronology
Organisers: Dr Máirín MacCarron and Dr Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh
Seminar for Ancient and Medieval Studies
Spring semester 2021, UCC
All seminars on Tuesday at 5.15pm on MS Teams
23 February
Dr Peter Darby, University of Nottingham
Writing a Letter in the Age of Bede
30 March
Dr Riona Doolan, University College Cork
The case for including the early Irish legal tract Bretha Forloisctheo ‘Judgements on Arson’ in the Senchas Már
Organisers: Dr Máirín MacCarron and Dr Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh
Seminar for Ancient and Medieval Studies
Autumn semester 2020, UCC
All seminars on Tuesday at 5.15pm on MS Teams
20 October,
Prof. John Carey, University College Cork
The Performance of Magic in Medieval Irish Narrative
17 November
Dr Catherine Kavanagh, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
Sacred Space and Sacred Symbol, East and West: Maximus the Confessor, Eriugena and Abbot Suger on Liturgical Space and Function
8 December
Dr Elisabeth Okasha, University College Cork
Anglo-Saxon Sundials
Organisers: Dr Máirín MacCarron and Dr Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh
Seminar for Ancient and Medieval Studies
Spring semester 2020, UCC
All seminars on Tuesday at 5.15pm unless otherwise stated
28 January, ORB 2.44
Prof. Julia Hillner, University of Sheffield
Mind the Gap: Helena Augusta and the Women of the Tetrarchy
11 February at 6.00pm, ORB 2.44
Dr Cathy Swift, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
Frontier bishops of Munster AD 1150–1250: evidence from the Black Book of Limerick
25 February, ORB 2.44
Dr David Woods, Classics, UCC
Reading the Inscriptions on the York Group of Anglo-Saxon Gold Shillings (c. AD 630)
10 March, CACSSS Seminar Room
Dr Mary Rambaran-Olm, Independent Scholar
A Wrinkle in Medieval Time: Ironing out the problems of Race, Periodization and the Early English Period
24 March, CACSSS Seminar Room
Prof. Jacqueline Borsje, University of Amsterdam
‘Lettering down’ formulae and anatomic lists in verbal remedies for fevers and headache: a long-term and broad perspective
