Programme

Wednesday 25 July

REGISTRATION: Registration will be open until 12.45 on Wednesday (MAIN ARTS RECEPTION)
** Paper with simultaneous translation

0900-0920

OPENING AND WELCOME (MALT)

LECTURE ROOM 3 (LR3)

LECTURE ROOM 4 (LR4)

LECTURE ROOM 5 (LR5)

0930-1100

PANEL 1A: Landscaping the Welsh past

• Gary Robinson (Bangor) & Lynda Yorke (Bangor):  Deep Histories: The social and environmental evolution of the Glaslyn estuary
• Leona Holland (Bangor):  Rethinking Frongoch
• Seán Martin (Bangor):  Contested Landscapes:  Tryweryn and Trawsfynydd, a comparative study
• Gary Robinson (Bangor), Mari Wiliam (Bangor) & Owen Hurcum (Bangor): ‘White Eagle Rising’: The visual and material culture of 1960s Welsh nationalism

PANEL 1B:  Dylan Thomas

• Non Mererid Jones (Bangor): ‘Ydych chi wedi colli rhywbeth – dan yr eira?’: T. James Jones a’r ymgyrch i adfer Cymreictod Dylan Thomas **
• Adrian Osbourne (Swansea): Schroedinger’s Cathmarw: Dylan Thomas, Derrida, and the Undecidable Campness of Zombies

PANEL 1C:   Gender and Separate Spheres

• Audrey Thorstad (Bangor): ‘Knot stronger than the Gordian’: Masculinity and Homosociality in Early Tudor Wales
• John Ellis (Michigan Flint): A maker of men: Gender in the life of Owen Rhoscomyl
• Dawn Williams (Bangor): Images of the ‘Welsh mam’ in the twentieth century

1100-1115

COFFEE (PJ HALL)

1115-1245

PANEL 2A:  Popular Culture and Identity

• Daryl Perrins (University of South Wales): ‘[A]n offer you can’t understand’: The sitcom in Wales as carnivalesque site of national reimagination
• Mark Rhodes (Kent State): Bursting the Swigen Iaith: Soundscape and national identity at the National Eisteddfod
• Aidan Byrne (Wolverhampton): ‘PC Gone Mad’: representations of Wales and Welshness in Video Games

PANEL 2B:  Cultural and Political Thought

• Daniel Williams (Swansea): Raymond Williams and the New York Intellectuals
• Daniel Gerke (Swansea): The Welsh western Marxist: Raymond Williams and European Marxism
• Llion Wigley (UWP) J. R. Jones a Seicoleg **

PANEL 2C: Straeon: doethuriaethau ysgrifennu creadigol (Stories:  creative writing doctorates)

This panel will be held through the medium of Welsh/ Cynhelir y panel hwn trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg

• Sian Northey (Bangor)
• Meg Elis (Bangor)

1245-1350

LUNCH (PJ HALL)

1400-1530

PANEL 3A: What brings us here so late? Revisiting Tony Conran

• Tony Brown (Bangor): ‘Charms for Living’: The Significance of Tony Conran’s Gift Poems
• Daniel Hughes (Bangor): ‘Where we put our suffering’: Tony Conran’s Elegiac Modernism
• Tomos Owen (Cardiff): The Late Tony Conran

PANEL 3B: Hiraeth:  The Welsh in America

• Wendy Lloyd Jones (Independent):   Cries across the Atlantic - Letters 1819-1830
• Michael Jones (Liverpool): Captain Lewis Holland Thomas in San Francisco

PANEL 3C:  Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates (ISWE): Researching the history, culture and landscapes of Wales through the prisms of estates: exploring the possibilities

Shaun Evans: Introduction to ISWE (10-15 minutes)

Thematic ‘lightning talks’ highlighting research questions and themes across disciplines (5 mins each):

• Stephen Rees: Identifying evidence of musical patronage and performance in Welsh estate archives, c.1750-1850
• Sue Niebrzydowski: The Mostyn Psalter-Hours: comments on the research potential of Welsh country house libraries
• Sadie Jarrett: The Salesbury family of Rhug
• Marian Gwyn: Welsh estates and the Atlantic Slave Trade – the broader context
• Eifiona Thomas Lane:  Ystadau Cymru – cyfleon ymchwilio treftadaeth bwydydd pleol or Welsh Estates – the potential of researching local food provenance.**
• Audrey Thorstad: Status, gender and space: Castles in 15th and 16th century Wales

Open discussion and questions on cross-cutting themes, including audience participation (30-45 mins)

1530-1545

TEA BREAK (PJ HALL)

1545-1645

PANEL 4A:  Musical Wales

• Trevor Herbert (OU/Royal College of Music): Instrumental music and the tastes of the people of Wales in the nineteenth century
• Helen Barlow (OU): Progress and tradition: Welsh musical practices in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

PANEL 4B: War, Society and the Arts

• Jonathan Morgan: Welsh poets of the Royal Welsh
• Gethin Matthews (Swansea): ‘Having a Go at the Kaiser’: Duty, Honour, Masculinity and Patriotism in a Welsh Family at War

PANEL 4C: Welsh Literary Perceptions

• Cathryn Charnell-White (Aberystwyth): ‘Yn frodyr mewn hyfrydwch’ (brothers in pleasure): London's eighteenth-century clubbable Welshmen and their literature
• Catriona Coutts (Bangor): The Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend? Representations of Germans in post-war Welsh Literature

1700-1800

KEYNOTE (MALT)
Huw Pryce: “Fabulous relations” and “genuine histories”: Edward Lluyd, Welsh historical culture and the British past

1815

OPENING RECEPTION (PROFESSORS’ CORRIDOR/SHANKLAND LIBRARY): READINGS AND REFRESHMENTS
1815-18.25: Opening remarks + Cheese and Wine
1825-1850: David Lloyd
1850-1855: Mingling and eating
1855-1920: Alys Conran
1920-1930: Break
1930-2000: Conran Chorus

0900-1030

PANEL 5A: Presenting the Great War

• Stuart Stanton (Bangor): An examination of Welsh Linguistic Identity in the years following the First World War through the distinctive memorials erected by Welsh communities
• Meilyr Powell (Swansea): For Belgium, For Serbia, For Wales? Rationalising the Great War in the Welsh Press, 1914-1918

PANEL 5B: R. S. Thomas

• Seth Armstrong Twigg (Cardiff): ‘And the young man realised with a terrible suddenness where he was’: R. S. Thomas in the Welsh Marches, 1936–1942
• Andy Webb (Bangor): The Influence of Edward Thomas on R.S. Thomas’s ‘Abercuawg’ and An Acre of Land (1952)

PANEL 5C: Administrating Wales

• Shaun McGuinness (Bangor): The Medieval Bishops of Bangor, 1092-1307. Tested Loyalties: The Politics of Intrusion and Exile
• Nia Powell (Bangor): The 1543 Act of Union and the governance of Wales
• Gwilym Owen (Bangor): The persistence of native Welsh land law beyond the Acts of Union 1536-43

1030-1045

COFFEE BREAK (PJ HALL)

1045-1145

KEYNOTE (MALT)
Katie Gramich, ‘Do you remember 1926?’: Dorothy Edwards, Rhys Davies and the Arts of Camouflage

1200-1300

PANEL 6A: Contemporary Wales

• David Paul Ellis (Bangor): A speculation about the relationship between Welsh philosophical ideas, and the Welsh environment
• Emyr Glyn Williams (Bangor): ‘Hi I’m Bi!’ – 50 years of Welsh language alternative culture + philosophical mechanics of ‘Y Naid’ = revolutionary success’’ 

PANEL 6B: Rethinking Medieval Wales

• Nancy Edwards (Bangor): Reinventing the pillar of Eliseg in the later eighteenth century: The sublime and the gothic

• Euryn Rhys Roberts (Bangor):  Gŵyl y Cestyll 1983 / The Festival of Castles 1983

PANEL 6C: Welsh Diaspora in the Press

• Gareth Evans-Jones (Bangor): Dyn v. Duw: Cyfraith y Caeth Ffoëdig (1850) ac ymateb Gwasg Gyfnodol Gymraeg America **
• Joseph Wyn Roberts (Cardiff): The Druid newspaper and the Welsh-American Relationship with Home, 1907-39

1300-1400

LUNCH (PJ HALL)

1400-1530

PANEL 7A: Communities and Change in Modern Welsh History

• Beth Jenkins (Essex):  Gender and Culture in Women’s University Halls of Residence in Wales, 1885-1914
• Sam Blaxland (Swansea): Reconstruction and community: Swansea University in post-1945 Wales
• Andrew Edwards (Bangor): ‘No more will I go on the slow train (from Bangor to Caernarfon)’: The social impact of the “Beeching Axe” in rural Wales

PANEL 7B: The Welsh Language and Nationhood in the 21st century

• Sion Owen (Bangor): Welsh out of School: Where are we now and what is the way forward?’
• Lowri Cunnington (Aberystwyth): Identity, belonging and outward migration in contemporary Wales
• Brian Roper (Independent): The building of a nation: Is Wales a special case?

PANEL 7C: Imagining Wales from Medieval to Modern

• Anton Brannelly (Harvard): ‘Mewn Gloywiaith’: The Poetic Vocabulary of Dafydd ap Gwilym
• David Lloyd (Le Moyne): The New Directions lead into Wales
• Amber Hancock (Bangor): Orienting in Nowhere: Mobility and Identity on the Border in Contemporary Welsh Fiction

1530-1545

TEA BREAK

1545-1715

PANEL 8A: Urban Identities

• Elizabeth Jones (Leicester): ‘It is but a village, although by courtesy it enjoys the title of a town’: Small towns and urban identity in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Wales
• Diana Wallace (University of South Wales): From Shifts to The Book of Idiots: writing work in the novels of Christopher Meredith
• Jessica George (Cardiff): Gothic silence and urban Welshness in Mary Ann Constantine’s Star-Shot

PANEL 8B: The Welsh in Northeast India: Cultural explorations through Creative Arts practice. Presentation by members of the Welsh and Khasi cultural dialogues project (2015-19) funded by the Leverhulme Trust

• Lisa Lewis (University of South Wales)
• Rhys ap Trefor (Actor)
• Helen Davies (University of South Wales)
• Gareth Bonello (University of South Wales)

1715-1815

KEYNOTE (MALT)
Huw Osborne, Fabulous! Fantasy and the re-covering of Queer Wales

1830-1930

PRE-DINNER DRINKS RECEPTION (POWIS HALL)

• Jazz Heritage Wales (Performance)

1930

DINNER (CLEDWYN 3)

0930-1100

PANEL 9A: Welsh Political History

• James Phillips (Cardiff): The 1922 Newport by-election
• Martin Wright (Cardiff): The Chimera of Welsh Politics? The Search for a Welsh Socialist Party from the 1890s to the 1990s
• Nye Davies (Cardiff): Aneurin Bevan and the Claim of Wales

PANEL 9B: Inclusivity and Welsh Language Learning

• Ifor Gruffydd (Bangor): Dysgu Cymraeg yn y Gweithle: Pa mor effeithiol yw rheolaeth strategol yr hyfforddiant yn y gweithle?
• Eileen Tilley (Bangor):
• Rebecca Ward & Eirini Sanoudaki (Bangor): Language development of bilingual children with Down syndrome in Wales

PANEL 9C: Travel Writing

• Matthew Jones (Connecticut): Mapping the ‘Welsh element’ in the Blue Books, Travel Writing, and the Victorian Imagination
• Elizabeth Brown (Rio Grande): Thomas Gray’s The Bard
• Angharad Price (Bangor): 'Double Vision': the travel writings of Jan Morris.

1100-1115

COFFEE BREAK (PJ HALL)

1115-1245

PANEL 10A: Diverse Musical Audiences in Wales

• Brooke Martin (Bangor): ‘Anyone’s Guess’: How much of a role does Cerdd Dant play in Grace Williams’ Penillion, and does it really matter?
• Jen Wilson (Jazz Heritage Wales): Going back to Dixie: a cultural fusion through ragtime and the cake walk, from Swansea’s theatre stages to the Union Workhouse 1905-26
• Gwawr Ifan (Bangor): ‘Ambell i gân a geidw fy mron, Rhag suddo i lawr dan amal i don’: Cerddoriaeth, lles a hunaniaeth Gymraeg **

PANEL 10B:  The Welsh Abroad: Microhistories

• Bill Jones (Cardiff): The Melbourne Welsh Church, 1852-1914: Writing a Micro-Micro Ethnic History
• Melinda Gray (Independent): Writing the ‘Twilight Zone’: Upstate New York and the Literature of Welsh America
• E. Wyn James (Cardiff): Creative tensions in the life and work of the Welsh-Patagonian travel writer, Eluned Morgan (1870-1938).

PANEL 10C: Identity: Art and Beyond

• Iwan Bala (University of South Wales): Art, language and identity
• Margot Morgan (Trinity St David): Why a Portrait of Nigel Jenkins (1949 - 2014)?

1245-1345

EARLY LUNCH AND BUSINESS MEETING (PJ HALL)

1345-1515

PANEL 11A: Welsh Poetic Forms and Language

• Rhea Seren Phillips (Swansea): Reconsidering a Modern Welsh Cultural Identity through Welsh Poetic Forms and Metre
• Marta Listewnik (Poznan): Idiomatic Phrasal Verbs in Welsh: A corpus study of stylistic markedness

• Ceri James-Evans (Bangor): Exploring Deixis: ‘That’ in Gwyn Thomas’s ‘Other’.

PANEL 11B: Women’s Archive Wales

• Shan Robinson (Bangor): History and collections
• Catrin Stephens (AMC/WAW): Research
• Annie Williams (Bangor): Involvement and Participation

1515

CLOSING REMARKS (PJ HALL)