2000 Conference

2000 CONFERENCE
of the North American Association
for the Study of Welsh Culture and History

June 22-24, 2000
Bryn Mawr College
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

THURSDAY, JUNE 22

Popular and Folk Culture

Sian E. Watts Frick, Newark, Delaware, Welsh Folk Dancing Past and Present: An Overview

Gareth Williams, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Every Valley Shall Be Exalted: Popular Culture in Wales, 1870-1930

Richard Allen, Trinity College, Wizards or Charlatans-Doctors or Herbalists?  A Modern Appraisal of the "Cunning Men" of Cwrt-Y-Cadno, Camarthenshire

Community and Identity

Cherilyn A. Walley, Iowa State University, The Old Man's Creek Welsh Community of Johnson County, Iowa

Elizabeth Brownell, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Searching for Culture in a Welsh-American Town: Poultney, Vermont- A Case Study

Carol Nelson-Burns, University of Toledo and Philip Bevan, Caerphilly County Borough, Leaving Llanbrabach: A Welsh Family Divided by Immigration

Giraldus: Readings and Reflections on Writing an Historical Novel

Richard Loomis, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Giraldus: A Reading from a Novel

Patagonia

Paul W. Birt, University of Ottawa, Source Materials for the Social and Linguistic History of Welsh Patagonia: The John Coslett Thomas Manuscript

Robert Owen Jones, Cardiff University, Welsh Language and Culture in Patagonia at the Start of the New Millennium

The Welsh in America

Marcella Biro Barton, University of Rio Grande, Welsh-Americans in teh Manuscript Collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Melinda Gray, Harvard University, Grave Matters: The Welsh Language as American Ethnic Souvenir

Keynote Address

Bill Jones, Cardiff University,
Writing the History of the Welsh in America: Past/Present/Future
 

Reception and Dinner

FRIDAY, JUNE 23

Living Welsh

Kara Lewis, University of Rio Grande, Cymraeg Byw-Living Welsh

Gwenan Thomas, Lampeter, Wales, The Experience of Welsh Speaking Women in a Bilingual Maternity Service

Ioan Rhys Jones, University of Wales, Bangor, Welsh Medium Education in the Twentieth Century and Welsh Identity

Religion and Nationalism

Densil Morgan, University of Wales, Bangor, Beyond the New Wales: Spirituality and National Identity at the Beginning of a New Millennium

Trystan Owain Hughes, University of Wales, Bangor, An Uneasy Alliance: Welsh Nationalism and Roman Catholicism

Mary K. Geiter, University of Maryland, Welsh Baptist Associations in Britain and the Early Republic

Keynote Address

Aled Jones, University of Wales, Aberystwyth,
Y Drych and American Welsh Identities, 1851-1951
 

Welsh and Welsh American Poetry Reading

David Lloyd, Le Moyne College

Margaraet Lloyd, Springfield College

Menna Elfyn, Llandysul

Emyr Humphries

Welsh American Labor History

Ronald Lewis, West Virginia University, Networking among Welsh Industrial Immigrants in Late Nineteenth Century America

Anne Kelly Knowles, Wellesley College, Welsh "NAWS" in American Iron

Paul Hancock, Green Mountain College, History of the Labor Movement in the Vermont-New York Slate Industry

Geraint H. Jenkins, Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, National Library of Wales, Terminal Decline?  The Welsh Language in the Twentieth Century

Tony Brown, University of Wales, Bangor, The Ex-Centric Voice: The English-Langauge Short Story in Wales

Keynote Address

Emyr Humphries, Reflections on Land of the Living
 

Reception and Banquet

Cymru Chamber Orchestra of Pennsylvania,
Buzz Jones, Gettysburg College, conductor

SATURDAY, JUNE 24

Theatre in Wales

Roger Owen, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, The Play of History; Inversions, Subversions and Diversions of Identity in Wales 2000

Thomas Taylor, Kent State University, Welsh Experimental Theatre: The Landscape as Stage

Lisa Lewis, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, In-Site-ing Memory: Performing Wales in Heritage Locations

David Adams, University of Glamorgan, Welsh Theatre in 2000

History and National Identity

Chris Williams, Cardiff University, Welsh Soldiers in a British Army? The Experience of the Great War

John S. Ellis, Green Mountain College, "With Mailed Warriors": Images of Medieval Conquest in Edwardian Wales

Shannon Rogers, St. Joseph's University, The Living Medieval: Perceptions of Wales in the Nineteenth Century English Imagination
 

Women and Gender in Early Modern Wales

Simone Clark, University of Wolverhampton, Retrieving the Past: Women Living and Writing in Early Modern Wales

Eryn White, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Women, Religion and Education in Eighteenth Century Wales

Michael Roberts, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Refreshing the histories of Wales for the new Millennium: have the years before 1800 (or even 1900) now any relevance?

Keynote Address

Menna Elfyn, Poetry Reading
 

Women and Literature

Jodie Kreider, University of Arizona, "Degraded and Benighted": Gendered Constructions of Wales in the Empire after 1847

C.A. Prettiman, Cedar Crest College, Women in Medieval Society: The Mabinogion and Early Welsh Secular Law

Nia Powell, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Participation by Women in Welsh Strict Metre Poetry: Can the Historical Mould Be Broken?

Contemporary Politics

Andrew Edwards, University of Wales, Bangor, Labour, the Party of Wales?

Andy Croll, University of Glamorgan, Looking Forward to a New Welsh Labor History

R. Merfyn Jones, University of Wales, Bangor, The Secretaries of State for Wales

Wales and the Margins

John Lloyd, Boston College, When Wales Became "Wild": Taste and Tourism in the Eighteenth Century

Phillip Jenkins, Pennsylvania State University, The Plight of the Pygmy Nations: Wales in Early Modern Europe

R.S. Thomas

Damian Walford Davies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, "For the Future, a Lesson in Style": Recording R.S. Thomas

Jason Walford Davies, University of Wales, Bangor, The Mind's Eye: R.S. Thomas and Images of Bardsey

Business Meeting