Christian Schweizer

Medieval historian and Latinist

[CAMPS @ University of Galway @camps_galway]

🚨UPDATE!

See below our new, even fuller schedule for CAMPS lectures this semester!

All lectures will begin at 12pm on their respective Fridays.

Specific details will be circulated before each lecture.

Lunch will be provided afterwards, and everyone is very welcome!

[CAMPS @ University of Galway @camps_galway]

🚨 Announcing our second CAMPS event of the semester!

Dr Chris Doyle will deliver a lecture entitled "Following the Swarm: Beekeeping and the Medieval Irish Community in the Bechbretha"

Come along for a fascinating Friday afternoon!

🗓️21st Nov
🕒12pm

Lunch to follow.

[CAMPS @ University of Galway @camps_galway]

🔔Our first CAMPS event of the semester!

Dr Diarmuid Johnson will deliver a talk entitled "Why the Cambro-Normans Invaded Ireland: The Novel as a Vehicule of Comprehension."

Dr Johnson's latest novel, An Cláirseoir, has recently been awarded the prestigious Oireachtas Prize.

[CAMPS @ University of Galway @camps_galway]

2. Many thanks to Chiara Corongiu and Luke McDermott for taking over from @CGSchweizer (yours truly) as Communications Officers. It has been an honour and a pleasure to serve in this role for the last two years. Great to know the role is in good hands. All the best!👋🙋🏼‍♂️

[CAMPS @ University of Galway @camps_galway]

We are very proud of a strong presence of Galway employees and alumni at the Fourth European Symposium in Celtic Studies, which was a fantastic event and marvellously organised by Elena Parina and her great team in Bonn on behalf of the Societas Celtologica Europaea:
(1/7)

[CAMPS @ University of Galway @camps_galway]

@CGSchweizer, @Researchirel fellow in Classics, currently on placement at the Research Office, gave a keynote on The Legacy of the Irish Scholar Dicuil
(2/7)

[Dr Patrick McDonagh @pmcdonagh7]

Very excited to be giving the following public lecture during National Heritage Week on Thursday 21 August at the @NLIreland on the library's extraordinary collection of medieval deeds and charters
https://t.co/xIJ0spwtKP

[Darcy Ireland @darcyireland]

On behalf of CAMPS (@CAMPS_Galway), I am thrilled to announce our next event: ‘’De Quolibet’: Research from the MA Medieval and Antiquity: A CAMPS Symposium’, on Friday 16/05 12p in THB G010. Refreshments will be provided. All are welcome! (@UniofGalway)

[Dr Ronan Mulhaire @RMulhaire]

My new book ‘Irish Kingship in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries’ is now available to pre-order online, by clicking the link below. Save 20% by using the code: 25SMA2

https://t.co/UvvWHpubK2

[Darcy Ireland @darcyireland]

On behalf of CAMPS (@CAMPS_Galway), I am thrilled to announce our next event: Ian Wong, ‘Revisiting the Almanac in Early Modern Ireland: Astrology, Power, and the Meaning of the Mundane’, on Friday 25/04 12p in THB 1001. Lunch will be provided. All are welcome!

[Christian Schweizer @CGSchweizer]

It’s a dream come true for me to have been interviewed about Irish scholars at the Carolingian court for @EarlyIrishPod 😊. I also had a fantastic time in Maynooth last week for the recording
@Researchirel
@CASSCSResearch

[The Medieval Irish History Podcast @EarlyIrishPod]

Have you ever wondered how a medieval scholar applied for grants (of horses)? This week Dr @CGSchweizer gives all the deets about the political and academic life of Dicuil and other Irish scholars at the Carolingian courts in our podcast!

https://t.co/TVHxHcVRhU

[The Medieval Irish History Podcast @EarlyIrishPod]

Have you ever wondered how a medieval scholar applied for grants (of horses)? This week Dr @CGSchweizer gives all the deets about the political and academic life of Dicuil and other Irish scholars at the Carolingian courts in our podcast!

https://t.co/TVHxHcVRhU

[CAMPS @ University of Galway @camps_galway]

Here is a video of one of the highlights
of yesterday’s CAMPS Lab: Jacopo Bisagni @IrCaBriTT is playing medieval bagpipes in a demonstration accompanying Simone Marcenaro’s paper ‘Poetry in Music: Medieval Troubadour Songs, From Manuscripts to Performance’

[CAMPS @ University of Galway @camps_galway]

You are most welcome to our next lab:
Prof Simone Marcenaro (University of Molise)
‘Poetry in Music: Medieval Troubadour Songs, From Manuscripts to Performance’,
with live performances by Jacopo Bisagni @IrCaBriTT on medieval recorders and bagpipes!
Friday, 7 March
12pm
THB G010

[CAMPS @ University of Galway @camps_galway]

We are pleased to announce our upcoming CAMPS Lab:

Anthony Candon

Women in the Irish Annals in the Early Middle Ages

Friday 28 February
12 noon
THB G011
@CASSCSResearch
University of Galway

[Klaus Oschema @KOschema]

Auch im neuen Jahr eine kleine Erinnerung an ein #Jobangebot: Am @dhiparis bieten wir aktuell eine Promotionsstelle an (max. 3 Jahre) - und man kann sich noch bis zum 6. Januar 2025 bewerben! 👇

[Christian Schweizer @CGSchweizer]

@ConorMcDonough4 Many thanks, Conor! ☺️

[Dr Caitlin Ellis @meDIVAlist]

Three **salaried** PhD positions available in History at the University of Oslo, projects should relate to one of these themes: Democracy / Knowledge / Rights / Migration. Anyone interested in working on something medieval with me is welcome to email me
https://t.co/g1n8E3KIKh

[elena.parina @elena_parina]

The Department of Celtic Studies (IAAK, Uni Bonn) will host the Fourth European Symposium in Celtic Studies from 27th to 30th August 2025.
The deadline is 28th February 2025.
Our email is [email protected]
We look forward to receiving your contributions!

[Christian Schweizer @CGSchweizer]

@KOschema @SocCeltEuropaea @Researchirel @TCDHistHum @TCDtheBook @mgh_tweets Many thanks!☺️

[Christian Schweizer @CGSchweizer]

It is an incredible honour to receive the Johann Kaspar Zeuß Prize for my thesis on Dicuil’s De cursu solis lunaeque. Many thanks to @SocCeltEuropaea and to everyone who supported my work, incl. @Researchirel @TCDHistHum (esp. my supervisor Immo Warntjes) @TCDtheBook @mgh_tweets

[elena.parina @elena_parina]

Zeuss-Prizes of the @SocCeltEuropaea 2024 go to:
Dr Christian Schweizer @CGSchweizer
for his thesis ‘Dicuil’s De Cursu Solis Lunaeque [...]
and Dr Erin McNulty
for her article ‘[...] Language Revitalization and the Manx Verbal System’ (JCL 24, 2023).
Congratulations! 🏆🥂🎉