2002 Conference

The Fourth North American Conference

on Welsh Studies

June 20-22, 2002
Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York, USA

North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History (NAASWCH)

COSPONSORS
Le Moyne Forum
Welsh National Gymanfa Ganu Association
British Council in Wales
Green Mountain College

THURSDAY, June 20:

WELCOME:

Rev. Charles J. Byrne, S.J., President, Le Moyne College.

ADDRESS:

Rev. Joseph Feeney, SJ, "Gerard Manley Hopkins and Wales."

SESSION I

Religion in Wales

Gianetta M. Hayes, Vanderbilt University, "Turning Priests into Ministers: Ordination in Wales and the Diocese of Hereford, c. 1540-1640."

Richard Allen, University of Northumbria, "'An Alarm Sounded to the Sinners in Sion': The Life and Experiences of John Kelsall, a Montgomeryshire Quaker and Diarist (1683-1743)."

Geraint Davies, Trinity College, Camarthen, "Teaching Religion in Welsh Primary Schools: A Study of the Differences Between Welsh Medium and English Medium Head Teacher's Perceptions."

Industry and Society

Joan Allen, University of New Castle, "'Building Bridges': George Crawshay (1821-1896), a Wlesh Entrepreneur in North East England and the Wider World."

Tydfil Thomas, University of Wales, Cardiff, "Poor Relief in Victorian Merthyr Tydfil."

Louise Miskell, University of Wales, Swansea, "The Making of a New 'Welsh Metropolis': Leisure and Industry in Early Nineteenth Century Swansea."

Women and Gender

Ursula Masson, University of Glamorgan, "'Hand in Hand with the Women, Forward We Will Go': Feminism and Welsh Nationalism in the 1890s."

Carol Nelson-Burns, University of Toledo, "Females at School: The Roles and Expectations of Females in South Wales 1890-1925."

Angela Fish, University of Glamorgan, "Romancing the Genre: 19th and 20th Century Women Writers of Wales."

COFFEE AND BAGELS

SESSION II

The Jews and Wales

Grahame Davies, "Wales and the Jews: Two Small Peoples, One Amazing Story."

Jasmine Donahaye, University of Wales, Swansea, "The Tredegar Riots of 1911: Their Use and Abuse."

Religion and Popular Culture

Colleen Seguin, Valparaiso University, "'Strange Wonders Never Before Heard Of': Miracles and Recusancy at St. Winifred's Well, Flintshire."

John Harvey, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, "'The Appearance of Evil': Visualizations of the Dead and Demonic in the Writings of Edmund Jones (1702-93)."
 

ADDRESS: Iwan Bala, "Hanes/History"

ART EXHIBITION AND RECEPTION

BUFFET DINNER

CONCERT AND COCKTAILS: Sian Phillips and Danny Kilbride

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FRIDAY, June 21:

COFFEE AND BAGELS

SESSION I

The Welsh in America I

Cynthia Bagley, "Reclaiming a Legacy: The Pioneer Welsh Settlement of Albany, Wisconsin."

Kara Lewis, University of Rio Grande, "The Welsh Gymanfa Ganu in North America and Southeastern Ohio."

Modern Fiction I

Dewi W. Evans, University College Dublin, "The Fantasy Worlds of Edward Tegla Davies."

Mary Nicholas, University of Wales, Swansea, "Emyr Humphreys- Creator, Crusader, Catalytic Converter."

Culture and Identity I

Hywel Bishop, Cardiff University, "Dimensions and Qualities of Welsh Social Identity."

Andrew C. Edwards, University of Wales, Bangor, "'Gwiath nid Iaith': Unemployment, Depopulation, Second Homes and the Growth of National Consciousness in North Wales, 1955-75."
 

SESSION II

The Welsh in America II: 

The Slate Valley

Gwilym R. Roberts, University of Maine, Farmington, "Migration from North Wales to the Northeastern United States in the Middle Years of the 19th Century."

John S. Ellis, Green Mountain College, "The Welsh Church of Poultney, Vermont: A Case Study in Welsh-American History."

Andrea Macura, "Representing the Welsh Immigrant: The Slate Valley Museum."
 

Welsh and Welsh-American Poetry Reading I

David Lloyd

Margaret Lloyd

Iwan Llwyd

Twm Morys

John Barnie

Culture and Identity II

Kimberly Bernard, University of Wales, Swansea, "The National Eisteddfod and Welsh Identity."

Brian S. Osborne, "'Within the Borders of History Not Myth': Re-Imagining the Past, Manipulating the Present, Constructing the Future in an Emerging Wales."

Pete Davis, University of Wales College, Newport, "The Enigma of Cader Idris."
 

LUNCH

SESSION III

The Welsh in America III

Ronald L. Lewis, West Virginia University, "Who Were the Welsh Coal Miners? Profiling Welsh Immigrant Coal Communities in Nineteenth Century Ohio."

Mario Varricchio, University of Padua, "Welsh Immigrants and Immigration in Twentieth Century America."

Teri Brewer, "The Ethnographic Picaresque of Idawl Jones."
 

Welsh and Welsh-American Poetry Reading II

William V. Davis

William Greenway

Fflur Dafydd

Nigel Jenkins

Lloyd Robson

Welsh History; New Approaches and Resources

Chris Williams, University of Glamorgan, "Postcolonialism and the History of Wales."

Deborah James, University of Glamorgan, "Towards the Creation of a More Usable Past? Gender and Welsh Women's History."

Jean Everitt, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, "Mapping Wales."

SESSION IV

The Welsh in America IV

Jen Wilson, "'Spies, Traitors and Pacifists': Jessie Donaldson the Swansea Abolitionist and the Cincinnati Trail."

Lloyd Johnson, Campbell University, "The Welsh in the Carolinas in the Eighteenth Century."

Modern Fiction II

Huw Edwin Osborne, "Rhys Davies (1901-1978): Sites of Contested Identity."

Stephen Knight, Cardiff University, "Post Industrial English Language Fiction in Wales."

Prophecy and Literature

Peredur Lynch, University of Wales, Bangor, "'Let Everyone Beware of His Neighbour': Vaticination and National Identity in Medieval Wales."

John K. Bollard, University of Massachusetts, "Owain Glyndwr and the Poets."
 

COFFEE

ADDRESS: Peter Lord

RECEPTION

BANQUET

CONCERT AND COCKTAILS: Y Bechgyn Drwg

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SATURDAY, June 22:

COFFEE AND BAGELS

SESSION I

Medieval Wales

Gareth Longden, Trinity College, Camarthen, "Writing Biographies in Stone: Inscribed Stones in Early Medieval Dyfed."

Prydwyn O. Piper, Harvard University, "Mabinogi Iessu Grist: Translation, the Bible and Middle Welsh Prose Style."

Katherine Anderson, University of Toronto, "'At His Father's Platter?' Child Rearing and Fosterage in Eleventh and Twelfth Century Wales."
 

RS Thomas I

Megan S. Lloyd, King's College, "'It's Not What He Means': Welsh Nationalism and the Poetry of R.S. Thomas."

Daniel Westover, McNeese State University, "A God of Grass and Pen: R.S. Thomas, Poetic Motivation and Building a Metaphoric Reality."

Grahame Davies, "Resident Aliens: T.S. Eliot, R.S. Thomas, Saunders Lewis and Simone Weil."
 

SESSION II

Early Modern Wales

Sally Harper, University of Wales, Bangor, "Musical Entertainments at Lleweni, Denbighshire, c. 1600."

Stephen K. Roberts, History of Parliament Trust, "How the West was Won: Parliamentary Politics, Regional Politics and the Military in South Wales, 1642-49."

Mark David Matthews, Open University in Wales, "Three Welsh Political Economists: Examples of Cultural Divergence in Eighteenth Century Wales."
 

R.S. Thomas II

Fflur Dafydd, University of Wales, Bangor, "Constructing R.S. Thomas."

Tony Brown, University of Wales, Bangor, "'Blessings, Stevens': R.S. Thomas and Wallace Stevens."

David Lloyd, Le Moyne College, "R.S. Thomas and William Carlos Williams."

LUNCH

SESSION III

Welsh Folk and Musical Traditions

Beth Phillips-Brown, "Making the River Talk: Continuity and Issues in Welsh Oral Tradition."

Sian Phillips, "Godliness and Folkiness: A Comparative Study of Early Welsh Folk Music and Hymn Tunes and their Subtle Influence on the Early Music of Applachia."

Lloyd C. Savage, "Sol-Fa: Welsh Harmony's Tonic."

Dylan Thomas and David Jones

Megan S. Lloyd and Jennifer Moyer, King's College, "'I am the Man Your Father Was': Breaking the Cycle in Dylan Thomas."

Geoffrey Madoc-Jones, Simon Fraser University, "Dylan Thomas in Vancouver, 1950 and 1952."

Rev. John Breslin, S.J., Le Moyne College "Roman, Christian and Welsh Themes in the Poetry of David Jones."
 

Cultural Imperialism and Welsh Identity

Jane Aaron, University of Glamorgan, "The Colonial Gaze: English Influence and the Construction of Nineteenth Century Welsh Identity." 

Harri Roberts, University of Glamorgan, "Abjection and Welsh Identity, 1847-1915."

COFFEE

ADDRESS: Peter Finch

BUSINESS MEETING

CONCLUSION

SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS

The North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History (NAASWCH) is a multidisciplinary association of scholars, teachers and individuals dedicated to advancing scholarship on Welsh studies, supporting the study of Welsh-American culture and fostering international bonds between scholars, teachers and the Welsh-American community.  Towards these ends, NAASWCH holds a biennial conference in North America where scholars of history, literature, language and the arts present and discuss the results of their research.

Interdisciplinary in nature, Le Moyne Forum on Religion and Literature focuses each year on a topic of importance to those in the fields of literature and religious studies.

Le Moyne College will host all sessions of this year's conference. A private liberal arts college offering graduate and undergraduate degree programs, Le Moyne was founded in 1946 by the Society of Jesus. Detailed information about the college can be found at the college web site: http://www.lemoyne.edu/.

The conference also receives support from the British Council, the Green Mountain College Welsh Heritage Program, the Welsh National Gyamanfa Ganu Association, and the National Welsh American Foundation.