Events

Group photo of students of the Department of Welsh and Celtic Studies - 2019 cohort

We run a number of different events during the year.

Please see below a list of upcoming events.

October 2025 - Oktoberfest at the Mouth of Στουκκία, 25 Years of Ancient Celtic at Aberystwyth

Oktoberfest at the Mouth of Στουκκία

25 Years of Ancient Celtic at Aberystwyth / 25 Mlynedd o Hen Gelteg yn Aberystwyth

25 October 2025

Tŷ Trafod

Visualisation Building, Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth, SY23 3BF

Printable Microsoft Word version of the Program

Time
9:30 - 11:20

Simon Rodway (Aberystwyth University):

Introduction: 25 Years of Ancient Celtic studies at Aberystwyth.

Patrick Sims-Williams (Aberystwyth University):

The Celticity of “Celtic Britain”.

Nicholas Zair (University of Cambridge) & Mark Darling (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg):

Celtic in the curse tablets from Uley.

Coffee break

11:50 - 13:00

Torsten Meissner (University of Cambridge):

Some (very) British names.

David Parsons (University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies):

Celtic before Cornish: some thoughts on the earliest linguistic evidence from south-western England.

Lunch break
14:15 - 15:50

Alexander Falileyev (Aberystwyth University):

‘New’ Gaulish names from Aquitania and their importance for Celtic historical grammar

Juan Luis García-Alonso (University of Salamanca):

Again on Hispano-Celtic vs Celtiberian: was there a Non-Celtiberian Celtic in Northern Hispania?

Corinna Salomon (University of Vienna):

Graphematical considerations regarding the Greek supplementary letters in Gallo-Latin inscriptions.

Tea break
16:10 - 17:40

John T. Koch (University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies):

PIE > Celtic: implications of new evidence for an updated working hypothesis.

Luka Repanšek (University of Ljubljana):

Back to the Perfect: Reconsidering the 3rd sg. perfect ending of *CeH-roots in Ancient Celtic.

Simon Rodway (Aberystwyth University):

Closing remarks.

Residential Course

Every summer, the Department's Residential Course is held for year 12 Welsh school pupils on the University's campus in Aberystwyth. An excellent program of various sessions on different aspects of the A Level curriculum is provided by members of the Department's staff, authors and other experts. Furthermore, accommodation, dinner and breakfast are provided in Pantycelyn Hall, along with entertainment in the evening.

Seminars

The Department holds a series of Seminars every Semester, and invites academics from Aber and beyond to present a paper on a topic of their choice.

A recording of previous Seminar's can be found on the Department's YouTube Channel.

For more information or for upcoming Seminars, please go to the Gylchgrawn Ar-lein "Y Ddraig" page (please note that this is only available through the medium of Welsh).