1995 Conference of the

North American Association

For the Study of Welsh Culture and History

University of Rio Grande, June 1-2.

Exhibitions

• Ruth Hall, "The Welsh Way: Oral History of the Welsh Community in Louisa County Iowa."

• Hazel Davies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, "Contemporary Theater in Wales."

 Keynote Address

• John Davies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, "Wales and America."

Welsh Cultural Identity

• Ned Thomas, University of Wales Press, "Wales- A Cultural Island or a Cultural Crossroads?"

Medieval Welsh Literature

• Patrick K. Ford, Harvard University, "Poet of the Pigs: The Poems of Llywarch ap Llywelyn, Prydydd Y Moch."

The Construction of Welsh Identity

• Nerys Patterson, University of Wales, Bangor, "Welshness and Englishness: An Ethnohistorical Conceptualization of Cultural Difference."

• Douglas Caulkins, Grinnell College, "The Ethnography of Contemporary Welsh and Welsh-American Identity and Values."

Recovering and Reshaping Welsh Literature

• David N. Kausner, University of Toronto, "The Welsh Interludes of the Sixteenth Century: A Documentary Context."

• Marta Weingartner, Indiana University, "Medieval Literature and the Ideology of Modern Scholarship: The Case of Ystoryia de Carlo Magno."

Politics of Representation in Twentieth Century Wales

• John S. Ellis, Boston College, "Welsh Nationalism and the Investiture of the Prince of Wales, 1911-1969."

• Micheal Thompson, Carnegie Mellon University, "From Nationalism to Federalism: Plaid Cymru and Europe."

Poetry Readings

• David Lloyd, Le Moyne College.

• Jeremy Hooker, Bath College of Higher Education.

A Session of Welsh Folk Music by Killashandra

• Debbie Norris, Harp

• Ted Jordan, Fiddle

Keynote Address

• Walford Davies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, "Visiting Fern Hill."

Teaching Welsh

• Chris Grooms, Collin County Community College, "Madogions at the Alamo: Teaching Welsh in Texas."

• Debra Luck, Indiana University, "Teach Yourself Welsh: A Reflection of the Rise in Prestige of the Welsh Language."

Welsh America

• D.A. Jones, Trinity College, "A Welsh Presbyterian in America."

• D. Eirug Davies, Harvard University, "Welsh Books of Nineteenth Century America."

• Linda Pohly, Ball State University, "The Eisteddfod in Pennsylvania and Ohio in the Nineteenth Century."

• Ronald Dennis, "The First Two Decades of Mormonism in Wales."

• Keith Cooper, Miami University of Ohio, "Welsh Political Culture and its Impact upon the American Political System."

The Welsh in Industry

• Karen Vuranch, West Virginia Graduate College, "The Influence of the Welsh Immigrants on the Development of the American Coal Fields."

• Peter Williams, "David Thomas: The Father of the American Anthracite Iron Industry."

• R. Merfyn Jones, University College of Wales, Bangor, "Wales- The Mining of a Nation."

Medieval Wales

• Alan Grossman, University of California, Santa Cruz, "Diasporic Identity on the Welsh Marches."

• Shannon Rogers, Penn State University, "Politics or Passion?  A Look Inside the Marriage of Llywelyn ab Iowerth and Joanna of England."

Modern Welsh Literature

• Jeremy Hooker, Bath College of Higher Education, "David Jones and the Matter of Wales."

• Gavin Keulks, University of Kentucky, "The Natural Echoes of R.S. Thomas' Early Poetry."