The CELTIC AND GERMANIC STUDY GROUP – BRATHAIR – is an ongoing project open to the participation of all those who have interest for research on Celtic and Germanic cultural production. It is open because it intends to enlarge its activities and number of collaborators, maintaining a philosophy of interdisciplinary and interinstitutional Exchange of knowlege, without the setting of boundaries but only of intent: it deals with Celtic and Germanic cultures through the study of Greek and Roman literary sources and also through archeological findings. The group is, however, specially dedicated to the investigation of the continuity and historical unravellings of these cultures in the medieval period.

The first and foremost intent of BRATHAIR is the mutual collaboration among scholars; and the resulting coming together, stimulation, interchange of bibliography and of research findings – in this sense everyone inside Brathair is a teacher and a student, for we all learn from each other. The second goal set by the group is a wider knowledge of medieval culture – literature, philology, arts, habits of the common people and of the nobility, religion - to find the traces of their Celtic and germanic origins.
As a necessary consequence, the third goal of the group is to spread this perception of the proto- and pre-historical origin of Civilization to an ever more diversified universe of people.

The most important consequence of the joining of these three goals are the symposiums the group has organized every two years. In the links Bellow you can download PDF files with more information on the previous symposiums or access the site of the next symposium:

Schedule of the I SNECG - In Portuguese (soon in English)

Schedule for the II SNIECG - In Portuguese (soon in English)

Site do III SNIECG