2004 Conference

2004 North American Conference on Welsh Studies

July 15-18, 2004
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
USA

Thursday, July 15th

10:00am -   3:00  Registration open

10:00am  - 12:00  Executive Committee
&  Program Committee Planning Meeting

12:00noon  - 1:00  Luncheon for NAASWCH officers and committee

1:00pm - 1:15   Welcome and Opening

1:15pm - 2:45  First Concurrent Session

1.) Panel: The Battle for Welsh Devolution, 1966 - 1979

• Duncan Tanner, University of Wales, Bangor: Defining or Dividing the Nation? Opinion Polls, Welsh Identity, and Devolution

• Andrew Edwards, University of Wales, Bangor:  1979 Revisited: the Anti-devolutionary Case in Historical Perspective

• Chair: Chris Williams, University of Glamorgan

2.) Perspectives and Readings: Contemporary Welsh Literature

• Owen Martell, School of Welsh, Cardiff University: Perspectives on Contemporary Welsh Fiction

• David Lloyd, Le Moyne College:  Contemporary Welsh-American Experience: a reading from 'Boys: Stories and a Novella'

• Grahame Davies, School of Welsh, Cardiff University:  Borders in the Mind

• Chair: Melinda Gray, Harvard University

2:45pm - 3:00   Break

3:00pm- 4:30  Second Concurrent Session

3.) Immigrant Industrial Labor

• Anne Knowles, Middlebury College: The Role of  Welsh Immigrant Labor in the American Iron Industry

• Ron Lewis, West Virginia University:  From Ogmore to Hollywood: the Incredible  Journey of Mary (Williams, Thomas) O'Neal

• Gethin  Matthews, Cardiff University: Gold Fever: the Welsh in the Cariboo, 1860-1870

• Chair: John Ellis, University of Michigan, Flint

4.) Representations of Wales

• Des Barry and Martin O'Neill, Cardiff University: 'How Green Was My Valley'  to 'A Bloody Good Friday:'  Culture and Change in Contemporary Wales

• Kate  Woodward, University of Wales, Aberystwyth: Wales and Film in the 1990's

• Gwenno Ffrancon, University of Wales, Bangor: Dylan Thomas- Wales on Film

• Chair: John Lloyd, College of St. Benedict

4:30pm - 4:45  Break

4:45pm - 5:45  First Keynote Address

• Dr. Bill Jones, School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University: Writing Back: Welsh Emigrants and their Correspondence in the Nineteenth Century

• Introduction and Chair: Ron Lewis, West Virginia University

5:45pm - 6:30  Reception  (Ballroom) ]

6:30pm - 8:00   Buffet Dinner (Ballroom)

Friday, July 16

8:00am - 9:00am  continental breakfast available

9:00am - 10:30am  Third Concurrent Session

5.) Panel:  Borders, Education, & Identity

• Chris Williams, University of Glamorgan: The Ambivalence of Monmouthshire: A  Border County at the Cutting Edge

• Deborah James, University of Glamorgan: Curriculum Cymreig: Cultivating Welshness in Monmouthshire's Secondary Schools

• Catherine Davies, University of Glamorgan: Welsh History, Welsh Identity, and the  Analysis of History Textbooks in Secondary Schools

• Chair: Anne Knowles, Middlebury College

6.) Wales, America, and Representations of Black People

• Melinda Gray, Harvard University: 19th Century Welsh Translation of Uncle Tom's Cabin: the Formation of American Culture

• E. Wyn James, Cardiff University :  Welsh Ballads and American Slavery

• Chair: Carol Nelson-Burns, University of Toledo

10:30am - 10:45   Break

10:45am - 11:45am  Second Keynote Address

• M. Wynn Thomas, Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of  Wales (CREW) , University of Wales, Swansea:  R.S. Thomas: the Poet as Resident Native

• Introduction and Chair: Melinda Gray, Harvard University

11:45am - 12:45 Buffet Lunch  (Ballroom)

12:45 - 1:15   NAASWCH Business / Organizational Meeting (Ballroom)
  ** All members  are encouraged to attend and contribute **

1:15pm - 2:45pm Fourth Concurrent Session

7.) New Media: 21st Century Wales

• David M. Barlow, University of Glamorgan: Independent Local Radio in Wales: Underpinning or Undermining Democracy and Cultural Expression?

• Del Morgan, University of Glamorgan: The Emergence of a Bilingual e-community

• Grahame Davies, BBC Wales: Starting Points: the Welsh Language and the New Media

• Chair: David Lloyd, Le Moyne College

8.) Welsh Folk Arts

• Christine James, University of Wales, Swansea: How Green Was My Valley: Reading an  Early Modern Welsh Ballad

• Sarah  Kennedy, Mary Baldwin College : In Sickness and in Health: Welsh Women's Recipe  Manuscripts from the 18th Century

• Moira Vincentelli, University of Wales, Aberystwyth: Gender, Identity, and Ceramic Display: the Welsh Dresser

• Chair: Shannon Rogers, St. Joseph's University

2:45pm - 3:00pm Break

3:00pm - 4:30pm Fifth Concurrent Session

9.) Cultural Politics of Nationalism

• William R.  Schumann, Appalachian State University: The Cultural Politics of National Ambition in Wales

• Jodie A. Kreider, University of Arizona: The Backbone of the Nation: Welsh Women in Plaid Cymru Publications, 1925-1945

• John S. Ellis, University of Michigan, Flint : The Labour Party and the 1969 Investiture of  the Prince of Wales

• Chair: Roderic Owen

10.) Medieval Welsh Literature

• C.A. Prettiman, Cedar Crest College: Erotic Poetry in Medieval Wales

• Katharine Anderson, University of Southern Indiana: Boys, Men, and Dragons: the  Adolescent Warriors of  High Medieval Wales

• Richard Loomis, Nazareth College: Guto'r Glyn in 1492

• Chair: Megan Lloyd, Kings College

4:30pm - 4:45pm Break

4:45pm -  6:30pm Mark Jenkins' Playing Burton (Gluck Theatre)

Dinner on your own: Open evening

Saturday, July 17th

8:30am - 9:30am Continental breakfast available

9:00am - 10:15am   Sixth  Concurrent Session

11.) Corruption and Mis-representation in  17th Century Wales

• Stephen K. Roberts, History of Parliament Trust: Political Corruption in South Wales  in the 17th and 20th Centuries: Is a Comparative Study Valid?

• Sharon K.S. Curtis, University of Colorado: Images of the Welsh in London Pamphlets during the British Civil Wars

• Chair: John Lloyd, College of St. Benedict

12.) Political Economy: Thought and Practice

• Mark D. Matthews, Sheffield Hallam University & Open Univ. in Wales: Three Welsh Political Economists:  Examples of Cultural Divergence in 18th Century Wales

• Elizabeth Helen Watt, University of Wales, Bangor: Hen Gofnodion Treth: Government  Taxation Records for Wales: 1291-1689

• Chair: Eirlys Barker, Thomas Nelson Comm. College

13.) Re-working Welsh Literary Sources

• Elizabeth A. Brown, the University of Rio Grande: Wales and Welsh Legend in Lloyd  Alexander's 'Prydain Chronicles'

• Joe W. Moffett,  West Virginia University : David Jones' 'The Anathemata' and theModernist Search for Origins

• Chair: Melinda Gray, Harvard University

10:15am - 10:30   Break

10:30am - 12:00noon   Seventh  Concurrent Session

14.) Panel: Teaching Welsh History and Literature at North American Colleges and Universities

• C. A. Prettiman, Cedar Crest College (Welsh & Celtic Literature)

• Megan Lloyd, King's College (Welsh medieval literature)

• Anne Knowles, Middlebury College (Welsh culture & geography)

• John Ellis, Univ. of  Michigan, Flint (Welsh History)

• Convener and Panelist: Roderic Owen, Mary Baldwin College (Introduction to Welsh History and Culture)

15.) Self Perception and Welsh Identity

• Douglas Caulkins, Grinnell College: Welsh Culture, Celtic Culture, or Colonial Culture: Reflections on the Hechter Hypothesis

• Geraint Davies, Trinity College, Wales: Church Schools in Wales; Historical Development and Current Self-perceptions

• Lloyd Johnson, Campbell University  :  The 1736-1744 Welsh Migrations from Delaware to South Carolina

• Chair: Shannon Rogers, St. Joseph's University

12:00noon - 1:30pm   Lunch on your own

1:30pm  - 2:55pm Eighth Concurrent Session

16.) Performance & Language: Drama and Television

• Lisa Lewis, University of Glamorgan: Welsh Language Performance: Memory and  Site

• Steve Blandford, University of Glamorgan: BBC Drama at the Margins: the Contrasting Fortunes of Northern Irish, Scottish, and  Welsh Popular TV Drama in the 1990's

• Mark L. Woods, University of Glamorgan: A Review of Current Scholarship Relevant to a Study of Welsh Television and Film

• Chair: Roderic Owen, Mary Baldwin College

17.) Welsh National Character

• Megan S. Lloyd, Kings College : The Valiant Welshman and Other Stereotypes: English Renaissance Views of the Welsh Character

• Jon Dressel, Independent Scholar : Poetic Expression of Welsh Nationalism of the 1960's and '70's

• Kerstin M. Baker, Mount Allison University: Their Own Worst Enemy? Plaid Cymru and Cymuned's Self-inflicted Roadblocks'.

• Chair: John Ellis, University of Michigan, Flint

3:00pm - 4:30pm   Ninth  Session

18.) Folk Arts and History

• Steven Thompson, University of Wales, Aberystwyth: The People's Songs: the Welsh Folk-Song Movement, c.1906-1939

• Mark Jenkins:   Mister Owen's Millennium: Performing History (paper and  demonstration)

• Chair: Chris Williams, University of Glamorgan

Ffarwel