XVIIIth International Congress of Celtic Studies will be held in Salamanca from 26 to 30 April 202The 7.

The International Congress of Celtic Studies is the leading international gathering of scholars dedicated to the study of the languages, literatures, and cultural traditions of the Celtic-speaking peoples. Held every four years, the Congress provides an important forum for the presentation and discussion of research across the full range of Celtic Studies. Scholars from a wide variety of disciplines—including literature, linguistics, history, archaeology, musicology, and art history—come together to exchange ideas and share the results of their work.

We are delighted to welcome the Celtic Studies community to Salamanca, home to the oldest university in the Spanish-speaking world, founded in 1218.

The logo for this edition of the ICCS honours the Celtic heritage of the Duero plateau in northern and central Spain. It features a Celtiberian coin dated to approximately 82–72 BCE, discovered in Salamanca. In 1973, during maintenance work next to the cathedral, a lump—possibly a clod of earth or an earthenware container, according to differing accounts—was accidentally broken open, revealing 32 Celtiberian coins inside

Half of these coins had been minted in a Celtiberian town very likely located somewhere in the Duero valley and bearing a toponym of clear Celtic etymology: Segobrix (Segobriga). The coin reproduced in the logo is one of these specimens (see M. P. García Bellido, “Tesorillo salmantino de denarios ibéricos”, Zephyrus 25, pp. 379–395).