IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 1522: Celtic Studies, Appropriation, and Political Crisis
Thursday 4 July 2024, 09:00-10:30
| Organiser: | Manon Metzger, Irish & Celtic Studies Research Institute, Ulster University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Gaëlle Clion, University of Limerick |
| Paper 1522-a | Fear and Loathing in Fairy Forests: Borrowings from Irish Mythology in Fringe (Quasi)Religious Groups within the Russian LARP Community (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Celtic, Medievalism and Antiquarianism and Performance Arts - General |
| Paper 1522-b | From Reaction to a Status Quo: The Question of the Origins of the Breton Language and the Breton People (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Language and Literature - Celtic and Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 1522-c | On the Face of It: The Problematic Modern Historiography of Tattooing in the Early Medieval British Isles (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Language and Literature - Celtic and Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Abstract | In past years, Celtic material has frequently been appropriated by creators and activists with political agendas. Examples of this include the misuse of Celtic symbols in supremacist associated movements, or the re-writing of medieval Celtic literature to promulgate far-right agendas and ideas. How are these elements used and/or appropriated? How do their meanings shift? How is medieval Celtic material used in our modern political and audio-visual landscapes? For what purposes, and by whom? |