1997 Conference

1997 Conference of the
North American Association
for the Study of Welsh Culture and History

The University of Rio Grande
June 26-28.

Keynote Address

• Geraint Jenkins, Director, Centre for Advanced Welsh Studies, "Laudanum, Fantasy and Fiction: The Historical Vision of Iolo Morganwg."

Remaking Wales

• Eirlys Mair Barker, Thomas Nelson Community College, "Pryce Hughes: A Forgotten Welsh Colony Planner and Explorer of the Early Eighteenth Century."

• Paul W. Birt, University of Ottawa, "The Journals of Evans of Trevelin, Patagonia."

• Stephen Correia, St. Norbert College, "From Wales to the World: The International Influences of the Educational Thought of Thomas Jessie   Jones."

R.S. Thomas

• David T. Lloyd, Le Moyne College, "R.S. Thomas and the Problem of Language."

• Kathleen Ebell, West Texas A&M University, "Arthur Doesn't Live Here Anymore: The Poetry of R.S. Thomas Written in Manafon and Eglwysfach."

• Norman Chaney, Otterbein College, "R.S. Thomas: The Poetry of Vocation."

Welsh-American Identity

• Roderic L. Owen, Mary Baldwin College, "Being Welsh American in a Postmodern World."

• Tina Popson, Grinnell College, "Cultural Transmission of Welsh Values in Diaspora Populations."

• D. Eirug Davies, "Pike's Peak or Bust: Welsh Writings from Colorado's Gold Era."

• North American Premier of Brynmore Williams' documentary, "Welsh Settlements in the American West."

Landscapes and Frontiers

• Rhys Jones, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, "Changes in the Meaning of Landscape in Medieval Wales."

• Helene Bradley, Chichester Institute of Higher Education, "Anglo Norman Frontiers in Wales."

Music

• Jen Wilson, Women's Jazz Archive, "Race, Class and Gender in Welsh Popular Culture: Afro-American Music in Wales from the 1850s."

• Christine Mueller, Illinois Wesleyan University, "An Investigation of the Robert Ap Huw Manuscript."

Welsh Voices

• John Vierling, Trinity Prepatory School, "The Red Dragon's Other Tongue: A Study of Three Anglo-Welsh Rhondda Valley Novelists."

• Robert Owen Jones, University of Wales, Cardiff, "The Post-1960 Revival in the Fortunes of the Welsh Language."

Keynote Speaker: Richard Loomis, Nazareth College of Rochester, "Guno'r Glyn on Building Homes in Early Modern Wales."

Welsh Literature

• James Doubleday, University of Rio Grande, "The Dream of Rhonabwy."

• Gruffydd Aled Williams, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, "Welsh Poets and the English Crown."

• Alf Siewers, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, "The Mythic Landscape of the Mabinogion."

Cultural Images in Contemporary Wales

• Douglas Caulkins, Grinnell College, "An Entrepreneurial Culture for Wales?  Regional Development and Advanced Technology Industries in Mid Wales."

• Keith Cooper, Miami University, "The Geopolitical Identity of Wales in the 1990s: An Application of Image Theory to Modern Welsh Internationalism."

• Caroline Reynolds, London, "Wales- The Resurrection of a Nation."

Religion and Wales

• Micheal Thompson, Miyazaki International College, "'The Third Spring': The Catholic Church in Modern Upland Wales."

• Richard Allen, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, "A Pilgrim's Progress: A Welsh Quaker's Spiritual Journey."

Welsh Visions of War

• John S. Ellis, Boston College, "A Pacific People-A Martial Race: Militarism, Pacificism and Welsh National Identity."

• Larry Griffin, Midland College, "In the Trenches: A Reconnaissance of David Jones's Art."

Roundtable Discussion- The Welsh Language Movement

• John Walter Jones, Welsh Language Board, "A Strategy for the Welsh Language."

The Arts

• Walford Davies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, "This World of Wales: Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Welsh Poetic Tradition."

• Ed Thomas, Y Cwmni, "Theatrical Wales, House of America."