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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 24/11/2025
The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 F 16, the O’Gara manuscript. Written in the Low Countries in the mid-17th C, this collection of poetry transmits important literary material from manuscript sources that have since been lost.
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Geraldine Parsons @gparsons.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li... - Short-term research fellowships (1-4 weeks) available in the University of Glasgow Library, to work with our wonderful Archives and Special Collections. Do apply if this would suit you - a number of Celticists have been successful in the past.
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University of Glasgow - MyGlasgow - Library - Research Fellows
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
GRMA @tuairisc.bsky.social ! "'Is cinnte go bhféadfadh cúrsaí a bheith níos measa,’ a deir Nike Stam, ‘agus tá muid buíoch as an tacaíocht ar fad a fuair muid i bhfoirm agóidí, alt, litreacha agus achainí ar líne, a chabhraigh lenár gcás go mór.’" 💚 tuairisc.ie/an-leann-cei...
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An Léann Ceilteach san Ísiltír slán … mar chuid de Roinn an Bhéarla
Tá deireadh á chur leis Léann Ceilteach in Ollscoil Utrecht san Ísiltír mar chúrsa céime neamhspleách, ach mairfidh cuid de mar chuid de Roinn an Bhéarla
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Societas Celtologica Europaea @soccelteuropaea.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Lecture alert @celticuu.bsky.social! 🗓️ Seán Ó Hoireabhard (@hoireabhard.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social): Is the Irish Book of Rights a useable medieval source? 📍 Utrecht (Utrecht University Centre for Medieval Studies), Thursday 11 December 🔗 www.uu.nl/en/events/le...
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Lecture Seán Ó Hoireabhard: Is the Irish Book of Rights a useable medieval source?
Seán Ó Hoireabhard discusses whether the medieval Irish Lebor na Cert ‘The Book of Rights’, with its many flaws, can be regarded as a reliable historical source.
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
🎓 Symposium Alert! 31st of October, the workshop 'Sacred Landscapes in the Premodern World' will take place. Satoko Tokunaga of Keio University Japan will give the keynote lecture entitled 'Shaping sacred landscapes and early printing in late medieval England' 📚 More 👉 www.uu.nl/en/events/wo...
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Workshop: Sacred Landscapes in the Premodern World
Explore during this workshop the concepts of spatiality, landscape, and the sacred in the premodern world, from antiquity to the Renaissance.
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Middeleeuwen Podcast @middeleeuwen.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
IERSE VERHALEN | In de derde van in totaal vier afleveringen kijken we in de @ubleiden.bsky.social met dr. Nike Stam (@naoicea.bsky.social) naar verhalen uit middeleeuws Ierland! 🎧 De derde aflevering van dit vierluik is nu overal te beluisteren 🧵 1/2 #podcast #geschiedenis #Middeleeuwen #Ierland
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Verhalen uit middeleeuws Ierland: meertalige geleerden in de glossen (1/2)
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dr. Nike @naoicea.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
About this. I've just received an email from a friend and associate of Maartje Draak saying Maartje would have been 'highly satisfied' with this article, and I'm, just, I can't even, what. This is probably the best peer review I'll ever get in my life.
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Je bent zelf een uil!! Luister nu naar de nieuwe september aflevering over Middeleeuws Ierland bij #MiddeleeuwenPodcast!
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Welcome to our 14 😍 first year *felmaic* (students), who will be embarking on the magical journey that is Old Irish on Thursday (insert epic music here). Also, of course, a big fáilte/croeso to our current students, who will return to learn more, do more, and write brilliant theses this year! 🔥1/2
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elmo is standing in front of a fire with the words `` welcome to the darkside '' .
ALT: elmo is standing in front of a fire with the words `` welcome to the darkside '' .
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dr. Nike @naoicea.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Ken je die grap van een podcastmaker en een wetenschapper die een bieb binnen liepen om een tweeluik te maken? ... .... Tsja, dat werd een vierluik dus.
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Happy New Academic Year! Begin goed met deel één van een vierluik dat een tweeluik had moeten zijn over middeleeuws Ierland bij de onvolprezen Podcast Middeleeuwen! Van bronnentombola tot hanschriftenshuffle, ga mee op dit doldwaze avontuur 🔥
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Miss Celtic while you're enjoying the lovely summer? Then listen to our assistant-professor Nike on Dutch National Radio's history show OVT @omroepvpro and sing along to Óró sé do bheatha 'bhaile! 🎤 🎼 1/2 www.vpro.nl/ovt/artikele...
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Historische protestsongs: Oró, sé do bheatha ‘bhaile
Het historische protestlied 'Óró, sé do bheatha 'bhaile' met keltoloog Nike Stam.
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Are you still basking in the after glow of the #MaartjeDraakSeminars2025? ☀️ Then bask some more in this wonderful #Aftermovie, produced by @veraortlep! 🙏 We wish you all a wonderful summer and we look forward to seeing you again in september! 🐉💚☘️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMFp...
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Maartje Draak Seminars 2025: The Aftermovie
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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! 🔥
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Chantal Kobel @chantalkobel.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Excellent work by all involved!
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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I am so excited that this is live! @naoicea.bsky.social ’s article for which Dr. Katie Albers-Morris and I did the image processing and tech write up for is now live! Nike did an incredible pain-staking job with the translation and transcription. I am in awe of the effort she put into this edition.
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
A publication out of Utrecht fresh in @sfennica.bsky.social !
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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.
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dr. Nike @naoicea.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
You know you're studying a good language when there is a word specifically for *the neck of a decapitated body* Sometimes I forget how wonderfully graphic Fled Bricrenn is - why is there no film yet? eDIL s.v. méide or dil.ie/31755
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eDIL - Irish Language Dictionary
The electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (eDIL) is a digital dictionary of medieval Irish. It is based on the ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY’S Dictionary of the Irish Language based mainly on Old and Midd...
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
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!
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Peter Schrijver will give the Zenobia Lecture at the @rmoudheden.bsky.social on May 22! He will discuss cultural fusion among the Lepontic and Celtiberian peoples www.rmo.nl/uw-bezoek/ac...
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Zenobia-lezing | De Kelten - Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
Peter Schrijver, hoogleraar Keltisch aan de Universiteit Utrecht vertelt over Kelten, hun talen en de vroege culturen van het Middellandse Zeegebied.
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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 🔥
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Middeleeuwen Podcast @middeleeuwen.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
MIDDELEEUWEN | Vanaf maandag 28 april gaan we naar de Middeleeuwen! Wetenschappers uit Nederland en België nemen je mee naar die zo boeiende periode uit de geschiedenis. Benieuwd? Luister naar de trailer en zorg dat je Middeleeuwen volgt in je eigen podcastapp 🎧 ➡️ linktr.ee/middeleeuwen
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Middeleeuwen
Podcast · Epping Productions · Een podcast over de Middeleeuwen. Van Hadewijch tot Clovis, vikingen tot kloosterleven… en heel veel meer!Iedere week praten wetenschappers ons een uurtje bij over hun o...
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
So proud 😍
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
#CeltsOnTour! Our Medieval Celtic Palaeography class was on excursion to Leiden University Library, and we saw some very cool manuscripts. Many thanks to Leiden, and to Vera for the wonderful video! Manuscripts in video are: BPL 67 BPL 67D VLF 96A VLQ 7 VL) 35 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqNl...
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Excursion for Medieval Celtic Palaegraphy at Utrecht University
YouTube video by Keltisch UU
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Today, a Dutch book was launched on the Battle at the Grebbenberg, which took place during the invasion of the NLs in WOII. It includes the experiences of Dutch Celticist Th. Chotzen, who became part of the resistance movement 1/2 @nporadio1.bsky.social www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/s...
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De slag om Grebbeberg
85 jaar geleden vielen de Duitsers Nederland binnen. Het Nederlandse leger verzette zich vijf dagen maar moest zich toen overgeven. Eén van de zwaarste slagen vond plaats op de Grebbeberg, bij Wagenin...
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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! 🛸🚀🌠
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
#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! 🖌😍
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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!
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dr. Nike @naoicea.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Cú Chulainn is mad! #StopDeSloop
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dr. Nike @naoicea.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Nír lessaigis in saíthe! You did not benefit learning!
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Count Cormacula @cormacos.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Solidarity from Ireland to those protesting cuts to education - including the awesome Celtic language programme - over in the Netherlands. ✊
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Chantal Kobel @chantalkobel.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Very grateful to @celticuu.bsky.social & the Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies for inviting me to give a palaeography seminar to the undergraduates, followed by a public lecture & a lengthy q&a afterwards. Really enjoyed it and it's great to see such wide interest in Irish manuscript culture!
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Next week - Lecture "Mercian Authors and the Celtic World"! Christine Rauer (University of St. Andrews) explore evidence from Irish, Breton, and Welsh literary trends which can be shown to have influenced Anglo-Saxon productions in characteristic ways. All welcome! www.uu.nl/en/events/le...
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Lecture Christine Rauer: Mercian Authors and the Celtic World
This Centre for Medieval Studies lecture, Christine Rauer will reveal the evidence of literary borrowings between Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and Celtic cultures.
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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 🍀 🐉
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
@remcobreuker.bsky.social (hoogleraar Koreastudies in Leiden) op de bres voor de kleine talen in de Nederlandse Boekengids: 'Geen spreadsheets, maar kleitabletten' www.nederlandseboekengids.com/20250206-rem...
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Remco Breuker | Kleine talen, grote woorden
De door het kabinet gepresenteerde en geplande bezuinigingen in het hoger onderwijs zijn geen gewone bezuinigingen. In dit essay legt de Leidse koreanist Remco Breuker uit dat wetenschappers die in ve...
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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...
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Happy Monday! We celebrate with a new blog, written by our student Quinn, on Old Irish birds - enjoy! keltisch.sites.uu.nl/2025/02/03/s...
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Studenten over: Oudierse Vogels
Door Quinn Maibom, vertaald door Hannah Aantjes. Oorspronkelijke verschenen in de nieuwsbrief van S.V. Asterix. Als gepassioneerd vogelaar word ik altijd enorm enthousiast als er in literatuur over vo...
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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.
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This Saturday, a Dutch lecture on how feminist a 'Celtic Goddess' actually might or might not be by Dr. Nike Stam. Organised through the Van Hamel Foundation 👇 stichting.vanhamel.nl/Nieuws:Imbol...
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Imbolc-lezing 2025. Nike Stam: ‘Hoe feministisch is een Keltische godin?’
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UCD Archives @ucdarchives.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
This is a short thread of correspondence in the papers of Eoin MacNeill concerning the dismissal of Julius Pokorny from the Chair of Celtic Philology at the University of Berlin, under the provisions of the racist Nuremburg Laws of 1935. #HolocaustMemorialDay
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
This Thursday - all welcome! www.uu.nl/en/events/le...
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Lecture Brigid Ehrmantraut: New Approaches to Classical Influence on Early Irish Voyage Tales
In this lecture, Brigid Ehrmantraut will re-examine the question of classical influence on medieval Irish voyage tales.
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Norena Shopland @norenashopland.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
CALLING ALL LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS & ARCHIVES in WALES -First Call for Papers. Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections. Online Conference September PLEASE APPLY we need Welsh women's history @womenshistnet.bsky.social womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
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WHN Annual Conference 2025, Call for Papers
First Call for Papers Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference  Online via Zoom    Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Pe…
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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Lief netwerk, onlangs heb ik gehoord dat mijn huisbaas het pand gaat verkopen. Ik ben dus op zoek naar een huurappartement in de regio Leiden. Bij voorkeur ca. 40 m2, huur max. €1500 per maand. Alle tips heel erg welkom!
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a house on stilts with a top hat on top
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Last day today!!
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This month, we will be closing our petition in order to send the result to the various institutions deciding on the fate of Celtic Studies in Utrecht. So...if you know of some people who haven't signed yet, please send them our link! 🙏 1/2 www.change.org/p/red-de-opl...
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Red de Opleiding Keltisch/Save the Bachelor Celtic!
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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
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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This month, we will be closing our petition in order to send the result to the various institutions deciding on the fate of Celtic Studies in Utrecht. So...if you know of some people who haven't signed yet, please send them our link! 🙏 1/2 www.change.org/p/red-de-opl...
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Red de Opleiding Keltisch/Save the Bachelor Celtic!
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