>I firmly believe that being Welsh is being Celtic; therefore, we are a >people much stronger and recognizable in greater numbers as the Celtic >race, being of Welsh ethnicity. On the word "Celtic": "The freedom with which this particular signifier has been floating through the European discourse of cultural criticism was made possible by the fact that no "Celts" have ever gone on record as identifying themselves under this name [...] rather, that classification has been imposed from the outside, by scholars from metropolitan Europe, writing _about_ these nations but rarely _for_ them. The term "Celt" has only very recently (in the last hundred years or so) come to be used in the first person, as the result of an internalization process of what was originally a term from the outside." - Joep Leersen, from a lecture, "Celticism" Quoting this gives me the opportunity to ask - how do I get hold of this Joep Leersen? A photocopy of his lecture came to me second hand - and I am intrigued, though somewhat confounded by some of his polemic against the use of Saidian "Orientalism" logic in the critical appraisal of Celticism. Does anybody know his address, or which university he works at (if any?). Johan Schimanski [newydd wedi cyrraedd yn Aberystwyth, o Oslo, am flwyddyn o waith fel Ymchwilydd ar Ymweliad yn Adran y Gymraeg cyfeiriad e-post newydd: jzs@aber.ac.uk cyfeiriad malwen-post: 3 Gateway Buildings Eastgate Aberystwyth Dyfed SY23 2AN Cymru ffon dros amser (tan fis Fawrth, rwy'n meddwl): +44-970-623111 est. 4055] ps.and no way I'm ever going to say something like "I am something-or-other, being of Swedish ethnicity" ho ho ho Johan Schimanski (jzs@aber.ac.uk) - Research Fellow, General & Comparative Literature, University of Oslo - Visiting Researcher, University of Wales Aberystwyth - Working on dissertation: "An Intercourse of Nation and Genre in Welsh Literatu re after 1700"