2027 Meeting
The 2027 CSANA virtual conference will take place 25-28 February 2027, hosted by Virginia Tech and organised by Charlene Eska and Joe Eska. A call for papers will be circulated on 1 September 2026 with a deadline to submit abstracts by 15 November 2026. The plenary speakers will be:
Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh, Trinity College Dublin
Silva Nurmio, University of Helsinki
David Parsons, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies
Fangzhe Qiu, University College Dublin
Past Meetings
CSANA has held annual meetings since the organizations founding. Meetings are held each Spring at various institutions across North America, sponsored and organized by CSANA members. All are welcome and encouraged to attend. Below is a list of programs from recent past CSANA meetings:
| 2026 | St. Francis Xavier University. Antigonish, NS |
| 2025 | University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AK |
| 2024 | Fairleigh Dickinson University. Madison, NJ |
| 2023 | Digital Conference, hosted by Virginia Tech |
| 2022 | Digital Conference, hosted by Fairleigh Dickinson University |
| 2021 | Digital Conference, hosted by Virginia Tech |
| 2020 | Virginia Tech at the Hotel Roanoke. Roanoke, VA (cancelled) |
| 2019 | Harvard University. Cambridge, MA |
| 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA (co-meeting with the California Celtic Conference) |
| 2017 | The Vancouver Welsh Society. Vancouver, BC |
| 2016 | St. Francis Xavier University. Antigonish, NS |
| 2015 | University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA (co-meeting with the California Celtic Conference) |
| 2014 | Virginia Tech at the Hotel Roanoke. Roanoke VA |
| 2013 | University of Toronto, St. Michael’s College. Toronto, ON |
| 2012 | University of California, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA (co-meeting with the California Celtic Conference) |
| 2011 | The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH |
| 2010 | University of Notre Dame. South Bend, IN |
| 1994 – 2009 | Held at various institutions throughout North America |
| 1993 | University of Washington. Seattle, WA |
| 1992 | St. Francis Xavier University. Antigonish, NS |
| 1991 | University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA (co-meeting with the California Celtic Conference) |
| 1990 | University of California, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA (co-meeting with the California Celtic Conference) |
| 1989 | Harvard University. Cambridge, MA |
| 1988 | University of California, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA (co-meeting with the California Celtic Conference) |
| 1987 | University of Cincinnati. Cincinnati, CA |
| 1986 | University of Ottawa. Ottawa, ON (co-meeting with the North American Congress of Celtic Studies) |
| 1985 | University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA (co-meeting with the California Celtic Conference) |
| 1984 | Queens College, CUNY. New York City, NY |
| 1983 | University of Chicago. Chicago, IL |
| 1982 | University of California, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA (co-meeting with the California Celtic Conference) |
| 1977 – 1981 | University of Kentucky. Lexington, KY (co-meeting with the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference) |
| 1976 | New York City, NY (co-meeting with the Modern Language Association) |
| 1975 | San Francisco, CA (CSANA first proposed at a MLA Celtic seminar panel) |
Sponsored Sessions
CSANA also sponsors sessions at other related conferences, most frequently at the International Congress of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo and at the International Congress of Celtic Studies. If you are interested in having CSANA sponsor a session or panel at another conference of any related field, ancient, medieval, or modern, please contact either the current President (Joshua Byron Smith) or Vice President (Joanne Findon).