Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University
LightNews LightNews
banner
celticuu.bsky.social
Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University
@celticuu.bsky.social
800 followers 84 following 70 posts
Sign our petition to save our BA programme! https://www.change.org/p/red-de-opleiding-keltisch-save-the-bachelor-celtic
Posts Replies Media Videos
celticuu.bsky.social
In their series 'protest songs', Nike talks about the various ways in which Óró sé do bheatha 'bhaile has been used as a protest - from the Jacobites to the feminists to our own Celtic students via Pádraig Mac Piarais. 2/2
We see a radio studio with presenter Laura Stek facing Nike Stam from behind microphones and computer screens carrying the logo's of Dutch National Public Radio Nike Stam in front of a microphone with headphones on in the radio studio with a banner stating her name and function (universitair docent Keltische talen en cultuur UU)
August 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
celticuu.bsky.social
Registration for the Maartje Draak Seminars 2025 is now open! 🥳

🖌 Registration via: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/FyXYEyg5TJ... (closes on the 11th of June!)

🐉 Programma via: keltisch.sites.uu.nl/maar.../maar...

🔥 Let us know whether we'll see you there this year! 🔥
May 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
celticuu.bsky.social
We are very delighted that dr. Jasper de Bruin of Rijksmuseum van Oudheden will speak at the #MaartjeDraakSeminars on the recently discovered Bunnik coin hoard, which contains both Celtic and Roman coins. Of course, we will be able to see the coins themselves on location @rmoudheden.bsky.social !
Logo of MAartje Draak Seminars which says 'sneak peek!' and has an image of dr. Jasper de Bruijn looking into the camera smilingly from in between a row of Roman altars.
May 19, 2025 at 7:38 AM
celticuu.bsky.social
Many thanks to #HistorischCafeAmsterdam for their invitation to speak about Kneecap, #Gaeilge and #CelticStudies. And well done to the audience for their amazing questions 🔥 Keep up the good work!
May 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
celticuu.bsky.social
We are delighted that dr. Fraser Hunter has agreed to be one of our speakers at the #MaartjeDraakSeminars 2025! He is the principal curator of prehistoric and Roman archaeology at the National Museums Scotland with a strong focus on ‘Celtic Art’ and the impact of the Romans on local populations.
PR image of the Maartje Draak Seminars 2025 which says 'sneak peek!' and which includes an image of dr. Fraser Hunter looking at a Roman arm guard
May 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
celticuu.bsky.social
REJOYCE, the #MaartjeDraakSeminars will be back! 😍 #SaveTheDate: Wednesday 25 June and Thursday 26 June will see our second edition of the Maartje Draak Seminars, with the theme 'The Legacy of Celtic Culture in the Roman World'. More information to be released soon, so keep an eye on our socials 🔥
May 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
celticuu.bsky.social
Today, our faculty council brought out an advice on the closure of the BA-programme Celtic Studies @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social . Together with the positive advice brought forward by UNL and DLG, (...) 1/4
April 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
celticuu.bsky.social
Did you know.......

that a book is soon to come out on the connections between Scifi and Old Irish Travel Narratives?

Leave it to dr. Natalia Petrovskaia to write 'Modern Afterlives of Old Irish Travel Narratives: From Gulliver to Star Trek' - soon to be out with Brill!

🛸🚀🌠
March 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
celticuu.bsky.social
#CeltsOnTour! 🍀 Woensdag werd het @utrechtuniversity doe-boek 'Zoek het Uit!' gepresenteerd. Superfeestelijk natuurlijk, maar wist je dat er in dit boek ook een stukje over ~geheimtaal~ staat? 🤫 En niet zomaar een geheimtaal.... maar een geheimtaal met middeleeuws Ierse letters en Ierse woorden! 🖌😍
March 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
celticuu.bsky.social
Celts on Tour!
Today, we offered our dossier with signatures, letters, and news articles to our Rector Magnificus. We had a good chat about the value of small subjects and expertises and how these may be safeguarded for the future. Keep your fingers crossed for us over the next few months!
March 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
celticuu.bsky.social
Today we offered the Dean of Interdisciplinary Education (Iris van der Tuin) and her colleagues our dossier on Celtic Studies - with all your letters showing the incredible interdisciplinary support we receive 🍀 🐉
February 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
celticuu.bsky.social
Next week on Valentine's Day, the brilliant Chantal Kobel of Maynooth University will host a public lecture as part of the The Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies series! Because, who ISN'T in love with medieval Irish manuscripts?! 😍

www.uu.nl/en/events/le...
February 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
celticuu.bsky.social
This is what you have given us 💚

An enormous file full of signatures, letters, and media coverage, which has now been sent to various institutions that deal with Higher Education in the Netherlands.

Thank you.
January 30, 2025 at 9:09 AM
celticuu.bsky.social
Some good news! Our AP Natalia Petrovskaia's new book 'Transforming Europe in the Images of the World, 1110-1500' has just come out in Open Access!

Many congratulations to her 🎉 and happy reading to you! 📖

library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
Book cover of 'Transforming Europe inthe Images of the World, 1110-1500' showing a manuscript image of a page in two columns, fully written
January 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
celticuu.bsky.social
A very special gift from the students to the staff this week! 😍

Diolch/go raibh maith agaibh! @svasterix
image of a broche in the shape of the protest symbol of #SaveCelticStudies: a dragon that curls around a red square.
January 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
celticuu.bsky.social
We wensen jullie allemaal een spetterende start van 2025! 💫
Wij zijn, dankzij het Nederlands Dagblad, alvast goed begonnen aan dit jaar door samen met #Fries en #Koreaans te spreken over de impact van de bezuinigingen op kleine vakgebieden en opleidingen. #Solidariteit 🔥
www.nd.nl/nieuws/neder...
Image of the newspaper article referred to in the link
January 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
celticuu.bsky.social
The letter entitled 'Welsh should be studied outside Wales', which supports Celtic Studies in Utrecht and which was published in Western Mail in November, has now also appeared in Welsh in the journal Barn!

Diolch yn fawr 👏
Image of the letter in the journal Barn on a wooden table Image of the letter in the paper version of the Western Mail
January 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
celticuu.bsky.social
Don't forget that there is one chance this year to show your support for Celtic - WHILE DANCING! Stichting A. G. van Hamel voor Keltische Studies organises a musical protest on Saturday, the 21st of December in Utrecht.
Wishing you a musical and wonderful Christmas break on behalf of all of us! ☃️
December 18, 2024 at 4:54 PM
celticuu.bsky.social
De stichting A. G. van Hamel organiseert een bioscoopbezoek naar de film Kneecap! Wil je deze film graag zien samen met andere Kelten? Wil je laten zien hoe relevant het Iers is vandaag de dag? 📽 Donderdag 12 december, 🎞screening van 18.45, 🏷tickets via Louis Hartlooper Complex!
Screenshot of the Instagram announcement of the A. G. van Hamel Foundation for their collective film visit to Kneecap which includes the cinematic poster of the film.
December 10, 2024 at 9:27 AM
celticuu.bsky.social
Op de Open Dag van vorige week was onze Alumna Demi bij ons om te vertellen over haar leven na Keltisch - meer lezen daarover en waarom ze twee spelletjes had meegenomen? 🎲
Check dan onze blog 't Keltisch Draakje! 🐉 keltisch.sites.uu.nl/2024/11/08/k...
November 19, 2024 at 3:14 PM
celticuu.bsky.social
Thursday the 14th saw a protest (thanks to students!) ❤️, it saw a 'protest in medieval Ireland' lecture, a sign-making session, and solidarity lunch 💯
Thank you students, you give us hope 😍
Sign our petition and support humanities subjects in the Netherlands!
#WOinActie #RedHetOnderwijs
Two students making signs, one of which says 'Save Celtic Study in NL!!!'; They both smile into the camera, surrounded by cardboard Selfie showing a lecturer and a few students with their signs in the middle of a huge crowd, with the dom tower in the back. a bike holding a Welsh-language protest-sign
November 18, 2024 at 4:35 PM
celticuu.bsky.social
Tussen 3 en 4 zijn Nike Stam (Keltisch) en Ashwin Gohil (voorzitter Stichting A. G. van Hamel voor Keltische Studies) te beluisteren op Radio Centraal (Antwerpen) in de show Babelonië!

Te beluisteren via FM, DAB en online!
106.7 fm in Antwerpen - DAB+ 10a - 209.9
Live beluisterbaar via streaming
November 16, 2024 at 1:58 PM
celticuu.bsky.social
Wales' Western Mail Newspaper on 15/11/2024: 'Welsh needs to be studied outside Wales', signed by 33 Welsh academics, speaking out against the announced closure of Celtic Studies in Utrecht. 🔥
Diolch yn fawr👏 🐉
November 16, 2024 at 6:56 AM
celticuu.bsky.social
🎧 Benieuwd geworden naar wat een Kelt eigenlijk is door de mediastorm over de mogelijke opheffing van ons vakgebied? Benieuwd waarom dit snoezige hondje een Kelt is? Luister dan de eerste aflevering van een tweeluik in de podcast #Oudheid over... 🥁...... De Kelten!
open.spotify.com/episode/1lfo...
Bronze statue of a whippet type dog that lies down and looks up over its shoulder. Picture of it taken in the exhibitions of RMO. Two coins in an exhibition showcase at RMO. Both show a stilistic image of a horse, and are associated with a tribe that called themselves 'Eburones'
November 13, 2024 at 1:33 PM
celticuu.bsky.social
Yesterday, an opinion piece came out by our very own Peter Schrijver, who stated that cancelling programmes like Celtic and Korean does not actually save much money, but that it is 'managerial machismo' 🔥 🛷
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...
Screenshot of newspaperarticle reading: 'Keltisch en Koreaans schrappen bespaart de universiteit amper geld - het is bestuurlijke stoerdoenerij' Headshot of Prof. Peter Schrijver with the caption 'Peter Schrijver is the last chair of Celtic at Utrecht University'
November 8, 2024 at 7:40 AM