NORTH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF WELSH CULTURE AND HISTORY CYMDEITHAS GOGLEDD AMERICA AR GYFER ASTUDIO HANES A DIWYLLIANT CYMRU BIENNIAL CONFERENCE /CYNHADLEDD DDWYFLYNYDDOL NAASWCH 2016 20-22 July/ Gorffennaf 2016 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE TREFN Y GYNHADLEDD PRIMARY ORGANISERS/ TREFNWYR: Daniel G. Williams, President of NAASWCH, Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe Melinda Gray, NAASWCH Treasurer and Secretary CONFERENCE SPONSORS / NODDWYR: The Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University Yr Adran Geltaidd, Prifysgol Harvard
DYDD MERCHER GORFFENNAF 20 / WEDNESDAY JULY 20 Registration table will be open 9.15-16.00 Barker 107 07:30 8:30 Executive Committee Meeting TBD 10:00 10:30 Opening and Welcome Coffee and Refreshments 10:30 12:00 SESSION 1 Panel 1a: (Barker 110) The Human Rights of Children and Young People: Making and Implementing the World s First Domestic Law on the Rights of Children Chair: Roderick Evans Jane Williams (Swansea), Mike Sullivan (Swansea), Helen Mary Jones (Youth Cymru) Panel 1b: Dana-Palmer 102 Returns and Entrances: Welsh Writing in English Chair: Andrew Webb (Bangor) Catriona Coutts (Bangor), Ni Allaf Ddianc Rhag Hon : Returns, Ties and Constraints in the Literature of Wales Katie Gramich (Cardiff), The Dragon s Two Tongues in Contemporary Literature Daniel Hughes (Bangor), The Soldier s Return: Nigel Heseltine s War-Haunted Writings Panel 1c: Plimpton Room (Barker 133) War, Writing and Memory 12.15-13.15 SESSION 2 (One Hour) Chair: John Ellis (University of Michigan, Flint) Jonathan Morgan, Remembering the Welsh War Poets and those in Welsh Regiments Meilyr Powell (Swansea), Creating a Casus Belli: The Welsh Press and the July Crisis of 1914 Andrew Edwards (Bangor), The National Gallery, Wales and War: The Letters of Martin Davies, 1939-41 Panel 2a: Chair: Melinda Gray Menna Elfyn (Trinity Saint David), Eluned Phillips: the Prifardd against the Society of Lies' 13:15 14:00 Lunch: Bagged lunches to be collected from the back of the 14:00 15:30 SESSION 3 Panel 3a: Travel Writing and Wales (A panel organised by the AHRC-funded European Travelers in Wales Project) Chair: Katie Gramich (Cardiff) Carol Tully (Bangor), Hidden Between England and Ireland : The Nineteenth Century German Discovery of Wales and the Search for Self and Other Anna-Lou Dijkstra (Swansea), Representations of Wales in Travel Guidebooks: A Country on the "Imaginative Periphery" of Europe Panel 3b: Dana-Palmer 102 Politics: After Devolution Chair: Andrew Edwards (Bangor) Einion Dafydd (Cardiff), Rebels or Poodles? Legislative Voting in the National NAASWCH 2016 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE @NAASWCH16 2
Assembly for Wales Sian Powell (Cardiff), Mediating Elections in Post-Devolution Wales Panel 3c: Plimpton Room (Barker 133) Defining and Deconstructing Welsh Culture Chair: Daniel Williams (Swansea) Anwen Jones (Aberystwyth), The Turn of a Civilisation: Hywel Teifi Edwards, the National Pageant of Wales (1909) and Excluded Minorities Clare Davies (Swansea), Cultural Contributionism? T. S. Eliot, David Jones and Welsh Culture Huw Williams (Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol), Articulating Afallon? Sketching a Welsh Intellectual History Panel 3d: Transatlantic Connections Chair: Melinda Gray Colin Thomas, Emigrants and Immigrants - Past and Present Calista Williams (Open University), Hateful the Man who Loves Not the Country that Nurtured Him : the Aberystwyth University College s Fundraising Expedition to North America, 1890 Reuben Knutson (Aberystwyth), The Welsh Preseli Hills and American Dreaming 15:30 15:45 Afternoon Tea 15:45 17:15 SESSION 4 Panel 4a: Nonconformist Wales: Creation, Representation and Collapse Chair: Huw Williams (Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol) Cynan Llwyd (Cardiff), Seduced, Ignorant People : The Educational Endeavours of the Welsh Puritans E. Wyn James (Cardiff), Illustrating Welsh Broadside Ballads, 1620-1840 Ioan Williams (Aberystwyth), Lewis Edwards and the Chwalfa Fawr Panel 4b: Dana-Palmer 102 Writers and Intellectuals: Iorwerth Peate, R. S. Thomas and Raymond Williams Chair: Kirsti Bohata (Swansea) Martin Andrew Hanks (Bangor), The National Museum of Wales: The Wartime Dismissal of Iorwerth Peate Nathan Munday (Aberystwyth), R. S. Thomas and Pantycelyn: An Unexpected Relationship Catherine Beard (Swansea), Nesta s Scream: Representations of Working-Class Women in Raymond Williams s Loyalties Panel 4c: Language Matters Chair: Anwen Jones (Aberystwyth) Karolina Rosiak (Poznań, Poland), The Welsh Language and Social Integration from the Point of View of the New Polish Emigration to Wales Iwan Wyn Rees (Cardiff), Are there Dialects in Mid-Wales? Rhian Siân Hodges (Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol, Bangor)and Cynog Prys (Bangor) It's Cool to be a Welsh Person but that Doesn't Necessarily Mean You Speak Welsh : Assessing Welsh Language Use Patterns in Six Welsh Communities NAASWCH 2016 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE @NAASWCH16 3
Panel 4d: Plimpton Room (Barker 133) Culture, Economy and Consciousness Chair: Sam Blaxland (Swansea) Sophie Williams (Swansea), That s Not Bloody True, I m as Welsh as Anybody : The Continuum of Welshness and Basqueness and its Implications for the Development of a National Consciousness Russell Deacon (University of South Wales), When Welsh Politics Meant Business - Some of Wales Forgotten Political Businessmen of the Early to Mid-Twentieth Century 17:30 19:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Richard Burton Annual Lecture From House of America to The Americans Matthew Rhys ( in conversation with Daniel Williams) Sponsored by the Richard Burton Centre for the Study of Wales, Swansea University 19:00 Opening Reception Barker Center Café DYDD IAU GORFFENNAF 21 / THURSDAY JULY 21 09:00 10:30 SESSION 5 Panel 5a: Human Rights for Children in Wales and the USA: different approaches, same intentions? Chair: Jane Williams (Swansea) Wendy Murphy (New England Law School, Boston), Yvonne Vissing (Salem State University), Ellen Marrus (University of Houston) Panel 5b: From The Mabinogion to Torchwood: Myth in Contemporary Culture Chair: David Lloyd (Le Moyne College) Melissa Beattie, My Hero: National Identity and Discourses of Torchwood Bethan Coombs (University of South Wales), New Stories from The Mabinogion: Hybrid Identities and Parasitic Assimilation in Gwyneth Lewis s The Meat Tree Audrey Becker (Marygrove College, Detroit), Welsh Mythology and the Contemporary Novel: The double drive in Seren Books New Stories from the Mabinogion Panel 5c: Plimpton Room (Barker 133) Wales in America (Sponsored by Welsh Government) Chair: Gareth Morgan, Head of Welsh Government North America, Washington DC Mari Morgan (University of Wales), A Nation s History is in its Songs: Welsh Music in America James P. Cassarino (Green Mountain College), The Eisteddfod in America Rhiannon Heledd Williams (University of South Wales), Llon Heddy yw Llenyddiaeth : Language, Culture and Literature in 19th Century Welsh America Panel 5d: Dana-Palmer 102 Media and Culture: From Wales to India (A panel organised by The Centre for the Study of Media and Culture in Small Nations, University of South Wales) Chair: Adrian Osbourne (Swansea) Rhiannon Williams (University of South Wales), You Can t Print a Thunderstorm and Reproduce a Lightning Flash : Performing the Welsh Repertoire NAASWCH 2016 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE @NAASWCH16 4
Lisa Lewis (University of South Wales), Welsh and Khasi Cultural Dialogues : Mapping Methods of Performance Aparna Sharma (University of California, Los Angeles), Welsh and Khasi Cultural Dialogues: A Short Film 10:30 10:45 Coffee and Refreshments 10:45 11:45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Language Wars Marc Shell (Harvard University) Chair: Daniel Williams Sponsored by the Learned Society of Wales 12:00 13:00 Lunch: Bagged lunches to be collected from the back of the 13.00-14.00 SESSION 6 (One Hour) Panel 6a: A Welshman, a Duel and the American War of Independence Chair: Rhodri Morgan Roderick Evans 14:00 16:00 SESSION 7 (Two Hours) Panel 7a: Dylan Thomas Chair: Robert Walton (Cardiff) David Lloyd (Le Moyne College), Dylan Thomas and Kenneth Rexroth: Something Terribly Unbritish Adrian Osbourne (Swansea), Twice Spring Chimed : Hybridity, Innovation and Ritual in the Poetry of Dylan Thomas Andrew Webb (Bangor), Dylan Thomas and Rural-Urban Modernity Panel 7b: Plimpton Room (Barker 133) Welsh Pasts Chair: Steve Thompson (Aberystwyth) Janet Kay (Boston College), Being Welsh in the Fifth Century: Reconsidering our Archaeological Perspective Sue Johns (Bangor), Queenship in Wales in the High Middle Ages Tim Thornton (Huddersfield), Wales and the Crisis of the Fifteenth-Century Lowri Ann Rees (Bangor), He is More Fickle than I can Describe : The Relationship Between Landlord and Agent, a South-West Wales Case Study, 1841-47 Panel 7c: Exploring Musical Traditions Chair: E. Wyn James (Cardiff) Kent F. Williams (Rio Grande, Ohio), For the Grave has Extinguish d its Light : Countering Stasis in Felicia Hemans Welsh Melodies Rhiannon Ifans (Trinity Saint David),'Carols at Cockcrow : Indigenous Welsh Carols in Privately-Held Songbooks Helen Barlow (Open University of Wales), Welsh Airs and Triple Harps: The Musical Life of a Celtic Renaissance Circle 16:00 16.30 Afternoon Tea NAASWCH 2016 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE @NAASWCH16 5
16:30 18:00 SESSION 8 Panel 8a: Presenting Gender in Early Modern and Modern Wales (Organised by the History Department, Cardiff University) Chair: Anwen Jones (Aberystwyth) Lloyd Bowen (Cardiff), Masculinity, Welshness and the Early Modern Duel Beth Jenkins (Cardiff), In the Interest of the Progress and Development of the Country : Professional Women Late Nineteenth Century Wales Stephanie Ward (Cardiff), Men Cannot Long Remain Idle and Still Remain Men : Miners Bodies and Masculine Identity in Interwar South Wales Panel 8b: Revising Literary Traditions Chair: Ioan Williams (Aberystwyth) Jayne Bowden (University of South Wales), Those Things for which Women are Created : Otherness in the Fiction of Elisabeth Inglis-Jones Robert Walton (Cardiff), How Macho is My Valley: Contemporary Welsh Women Novelists Re-Writing the Valleys Panel 8c: Dana-Palmer 102 Visual and Literary Cartographies Chair: Brian Roper (Swansea) Mari Elin Wiliam (Bangor), Shifting Sands: Postcards and the Visual Identity of North Wales Seaside Resorts during the Twentieth Century Jane Fraser (Swansea), Real Gower: A Conversation Between Texts Ellie Rees, Deep Mapping the Welsh Coastline Panel 8d: Plimpton Room (Barker 133) Wales and the Longfellow Institute 20 years on: Welsh-American Literature Chair: Marc Shell (Harvard) Esther Whitfield (Brown), Untranslatables and the Translation of Welsh-American Writing Daniel Williams (Swansea), Samuel Roberts, Abolition and Assimilation Melinda Gray, Family Histories: Elegy in the Early Years of the Welsh American Journals 18:00 19:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Is the UK Breaking Up and Does it Matter to Wales? Rt. Hon. Rhodri Morgan Chair: Mike Sullivan Sponsored by Swansea University 20.00 23.00 Conference Dinner Beat Brasserie 13 Brattle St. Harvard Square NAASWCH 2016 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE @NAASWCH16 6
DYDD GWENER GORFFENNAF 22 / FRIDAY JULY 22 10:00 10:15 Coffee and Refreshments 10:15 11:45 SESSION 9 ` Panel 9a: Dana-Palmer 102 Women s Poetry in Eighteenth-Century Ireland, Scotland and Wales (A panel organised by the Leverhulme Trust funded project Women s Poetry in Eighteenth Century Ireland, Scotland and Wales ) Chair: Sarah Prescott (Aberystwyth) Wes Hamrick (NUI, Galway), The National and the Domestic in Eighteenth Century Irish Elegy Sarah Dunnigan (Edinburgh), I Maun Hear and I Maun Grieve : the Poetics of Mourning in Eighteenth Century Scottish Women's Poetry Cathryn A. Charnell-White (Aberystwyth), Pious and Loyal: Welsh-Language Elegy by Women Panel 9b: Plimpton Room (Barker 133) Politics: Since 1945 Chair: Rob Humphreys (Open University Wales) Keith Gildart (Wolverhampton), Guardians of the Public Interest and the New Order : Reflections on Industrial Leadership in the Welsh Coalfields, 1945-1985 Marc David Collinson (Bangor), Roy Jenkins, the Tolerant Tradition and the Campaign for Racial Equality Sam Blaxland (Swansea), All Else is Embellishment and Detail: The Conservative Party and the Significance of Social Class in Post-War Welsh Politics Panel 9c: Transatlantic Lives and Movements Chair: Daniel Williams (Swansea) Tony Kendrew, A Poet Responds to the Life of Williams Jones Richards (1844-1892) Proal Heartwell (Charlottesville, Virginia), Goronwy Owen: A Welsh Poet Exiled in Virginia Robert Humphries (Wisconsin), A Son of the Rhondda s Entrepreneurial Society in the Deep South: The Life and Career of William Herbert (1850-1933) Panel 9d: Disability and Industrial Society (A panel organised by the Wellcome Trust funded project Disability and Industrial Society ) Chair: Catherine Beard (Swansea) Steve Thompson (Aberystwyth), Gwnewch Sylw o m Sefyllfa: Dyn Cripil Ydwyf Fi : Ballads and Disability in Nineteenth Century Wales Kirsti Bohata (Swansea), Sites of Struggle: Disability in Coalfields Literature Alexandra Jones (Swansea), Embodied Disability: Gender, Sexuality and Race 1880-1948 12:00 13:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Archipelagic Elegy: Eighteenth Century Women's Poetry from Ireland, Scotland and Wales Sarah Prescott (Aberystwyth) Chair: Huw Osbourne Sponsored by Aberystwyth University 13:00 14:00 Lunch: Bagged lunches to be collected from the back of the NAASWCH 2016 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE @NAASWCH16 7
14:00 15:30 SESSION 10 Panel 10a: Literature and Identity Chair: Melinda Gray Christine James (Swansea), Taffy Was a Welshman : Welsh National Identity in English Broadside Ballads Rhiannon Marks (Cardiff), Kate Roberts a r Ystlum : intertextuality and rewriting Brian Roper (Swansea), Gwerin, Cymrodyr, Hiraeth and Bodlon: Who is Wales? Panel 10b: Plimpton Room (Barker 133) Transatlantic Wales Chair: Clare Davies (Swansea) Huw Osbourne (Royal Military College of Canada), Ivor Novello, Wales and the Celebrity Bachelor Robin Griffiths (University of Gloucestershire), Kick[ing] Aagainst the System : Queer(y)ing Masculinity, Stardom and Welshness in the Films of Richard Burton Mark Rhodes (Kent State), Memorializing Wales: Paul Robeson, The Spanish Civil War, and the Politics of Welsh Commemoration Panel 10c: Dana-Palmer 102 Forms of Popular Culture Chair: Daniel Williams (Swansea) John S. Ellis, The Welsh Imperial Fiction of Owen Rhoscomyl Chris Gardiner, Admiring the Pugilistic Art? : Newspaper Reports on Boxing in Nineteenth Century South Wales 15.30-16.00 Farewell 19.00 Post-Conference Event: Menna Elfyn reads from her work at the historic Grolier Bookshop, Harvard Square: www.grolierpoetrybookshop.org THROUGHOUT THE CONFERENCE: There will be a Welsh Studies display in the window of the Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave THE CONFERENCE ORGANISERS WOULD LIKE TO THANK: The Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University for their generosity and their willingness to host NAASWCH 2016. Particular thanks go to Professor Catherine McKenna and departmental administrator Mary Violette. We are also grateful to Dr Caroline Coleman-Davies, Professor Mike Sullivan, and the Research Institute for Arts and Humanities (RIAH), Swansea University, for all their help. THANKS ALSO TO THE CONFERENCE SPONSORS: The Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University NAASWCH 2016 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE @NAASWCH16 8