2006 Conference

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

Department of History, University of Wales, Swansea

British Academy

PROGRAM
2006 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WELSH STUDIES

SWANSEA, WALES
13-15 JULY

THURSDAY, 13 JULY 2006

1000: Welcome

1030: Parallel Session 1:

1a. Debating Nationhood and Governance: Welsh Devolution 1885-1945:

Chair: Andrew Edwards (University of Wales, Bangor)

� Wil Griffith (University of Wales, Bangor), �Devolutionist Tendencies in Wales, 1885-1914�
� Andrew Edwards (University of Wales, Bangor), �Welsh Nationalists, identity and governance 1918-1945�
� Duncan Tanner (University of Wales, Bangor), �Post-colonial politics and the rejection of devolution: the Labour party�s constitutional attitude c. 1900-1945�

1b. Discourses of Nationhood in Welsh Theatre and Media (I):

Chair: Gwenno Ffrancon (University of Wales, Swansea)

� Jamie Medhurst (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), �Teledu Cymru: Mammon v Mamwlad�
� Margaret Ames (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), �Pererin: From the Old to the New�
� Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), �Representations of the �whole of Wales� on Welsh language television (S4C)�
� Kate Woodward (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), �Battling for the Language: Bwrdd Ffilmiau Cymraeg�

1c. Welsh Poetry in English:

Chair: David Lloyd (Le Moyne College)

� Kathy Banks (Harvard University) and Dr. Mary Nicholas (Independent Scholar), ��Confederates of the Natural Day�: Robert Frost and the Poetry of R. S. Thomas, 1939-1963�
� Tony Brown (University of Wales, Bangor), �Welsh Writing in English and �The Uncanny��
� Fflur Dafydd (University of Wales, Swansea), �Scurrilous thoughts: R. S. Thomas and the post-colonial�

1d. Diwylltiant Cymru�r Pedwaredd ar Bymtheg Ganrif:

Cadeirydd: E. Wyn James (Prifysgol Caerdydd)

� Rhiannon Ifans (Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd Prifysgol Cymru), �Y gyfrol brintiedig gyntaf o waith llenyddol yn y Gymraeg gan ferch: tystiolaeth newydd�
� Marion Löffler (Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd Prifysgol Cymru), �Iolo Morganwg ac Oes Victoria: Sant ac Arwr Gwlad�
� Dulais Rhys (Ysgolhaig Annibynnol), ��Aberystwyth�: yr Emyn-Don a'i Chyfansoddwr�
� Celyn Williams (Prifysgol Caerdydd), �Ailddarganfod Merched Llanofer�

1200: Break for Lunch.  (Business Meeting for Executive Committee members.)

1330: Parallel Session 2:

2a. Discourses of Nationhood in Welsh Theatre and Media (II):

Chair: Gwenno Ffrancon (University of Wales, Swansea)

� Roger Owen (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), �La Fontaine: Modernism and the Theatricality of Deceit�
� Ioan Williams (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), �Prydeindod and Welsh Drama after 1880�
� Anwen Jones (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), �Welsh National Theatre�a Community of Imagination�

2b. Identifying Wales: Recent dynamics in national identity in Wales:

 Chair: Chris Williams (University of Wales, Swansea)

� Dafydd Evans (University of Glamorgan), ��We are Welsh, but���national identification on the margin�
� Steffan Morgan (University of Wales, Swansea), ��Mining the Meaning of Men�: Losing the Miners� Strike of 1984-85 and Masculinity in South Wales�
� Rebecca Edwards (University of Wales, Swansea), �Born in the U.S.K.�punk rock and identity in Newport�
� Robin Mann (University of Bristol), �Civil society and the political reconstruction of national identity in Wales�

2c. Welsh Literary Fiction:

 Chair: Tony Brown (University of Wales, Bangor)

� Robert Rhys (University of Wales, Swansea), �A �Welsh Dickens�?: Daniel Owen and the English-speaking audience�
� Melinda Gray ((Independent Scholar), �After Daniel Owen: The Story of a Welsh American Novel�
� Christine Jones (University of Wales, Lampeter), �The Significance of Dialect in Welsh Literary Fiction�

2d. Welsh Archaeology:

 Chair: Charlene Hutcheson (Roanoke, VA)

� Michael Anthony (Independent Scholar),�The Mason Marks of Raglan Castle�
� Iestyn Jones (University of Wales, Newport), �Dark Age houses in Wales�

1500: Coffee Break

1545: Parallel Session 3:

3a. Literary Perspectives of Postcolonial Wales:

Chair: Melinda Gray (Cambridge, MA)

� Claire Fay (University of Glamorgan), ��For Wales see England�: Power Dynamics and Cultural Imperialism in the Short Stories of Dorothy Edwards�
� Jane Aaron (University of Glamorgan), ��Cambria free and wild!�: Anti-colonialism in nineteenth-century Welsh women�s fiction�
� Hywel Dix (University of Glamorgan), �The Relevances of Raymond Williams: Raymond Williams, Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain�

3b. Medieval Wales:

 Chair: Eirlys Barker (Thomas Nelson Community College)

� Diana Luft, Dr. D. Mark Smith, and Dr. Peter Wynn Thomas (Cardiff University), "Knowing your limits: text and word as units in medieval Welsh prose"
� Juliette Wood (Cardiff University), �The Holy Grail in Wales�
� Trudi Wright (Concordia University), "With a Garment of Shining Gold Around Her: Perceptions of Maidenhood in Medieval Wales"

3c. Language, Identity, and Welsh Music:

 Chair: Sally Harper (University of Wales, Bangor)

� Craig Owen Jones (University of Wales, Bangor), �Articulation of National Identity and the Manic Street Preachers�
� David R. Jones (University of Wales, Bangor), �From Danville to Chicago via Llangollen: Welsh musical nationalism in the early twentieth century�
� Stephen Rees (University of Wales, Bangor), �A �Celtic� Reaction?  National Identity and Musical Style in Welsh Folk Music Groups of the 1970�s and 1980�s�
� Pwyll ap Sion (University of Wales, Bangor), "Towards a Typology of Code Mixing in Recent Welsh-Language Popular Music"

3d. Welsh Diaspora I:

Chair: John Ellis (University of Michigan, Flint)

� Ronald Lewis (West Virginia University), "Gender and Transnationality Among Welsh Tinplate Workers in Pittsburgh: The Hattie Williams Affair, 1895�
� Carol Nelson-Burnes (University of Toledo), �The Status of �the Welsh� in the US at the beginning of the 21st century: an examination of immigrant assimilation�
� Hilary Yewlett (Cambridge University), �In search of �sweet civility?�: Patterns of Migration among Selected Families of Early Modern Radnorshire�

1715: Break for Evening Meal

1930: Darlleniad (Reading from their Work):

 Cadeirydd: Roger Owen (Prifysgol Cymru, Aberystwyth)

� Fflur Dafydd (Prifysgol Cymru, Abertawe), ffuglen
� Christine James (Prifysgol Cymru, Abertawe), barddoniaeth

FRIDAY, 14 JULY

An Audit of Research in Welsh Studies

Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales
Canolfan Ymchwil i Lên ac Iaith Saesneg Cymru

The 2006 International Conference on Welsh Studies is pleased to feature an innovative summit meeting to audit recent scholarship on Welsh studies.  A whole day within the conference program will be devoted to this special event, which is unique in format as in purpose. Its aim is to stimulate awareness and discussion across the limiting artificial divides, inscribed in the rigid structure of academic study, that separate different key areas of the study of Welsh history and culture - with literature being separated from history,  music from art,  sociology from gender studies etc.  This special program will therefore take the form of a series of ten brief overviews, each by a leading specialist in a specific field, of these key areas.  Each specialist will speak not of his/her own work, but of the significant body of work that has been produced in his/her field over the past quarter of a century.  The audit will conclude with a carefully structured round-table discussion, at which each specialist will highlight such aspects of the presentation of the others, in their respective disciplines, as seemed to him/her to contribute to the development of his/her own field. This special program should therefore serve several functions, such as informing the wider international academic community of important developments across the whole range of Welsh Studies, offering a digest of the most valuable work done in a number of core disciplines over the past quarter of a century, and (hopefully) ushering in a new, and much more fruitfully cross-disciplinary, phase in the academic study of Welsh culture at large. The audit is thus designed to produce a step-change in an area that is currently undergoing rapid expansion.

The audit is scheduled to run from 930 to 1800, with breaks.  More information on the schedule and program will be posted in future.  The audit currently features the following disciplines and speakers:

• Introduction: Professor Susan Bassnett (Professor and Director of the Centre for British Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick)

• The Visual Culture of Wales:   Peter Lord (formerly of the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies)

• Welsh Language Literature:  Professor Dafydd Johnston (University of Wales Swansea)

• English Language Literature:  Dr Tony Brown (University of Wales Bangor, co-director of the R. S. Thomas Centre.)

• History: Professor Geraint Jenkins FBA (University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies)

• Gender Studies:  Dr Katie Gramich (Cardiff University)

• Religious Studies:  Professor Densil Morgan (University of Wales Bangor)

• Music: Dr Lynn Davies (University of Wales Aberystwyth)

• Film Studies:  Dr Gwenno Ffrancon (University of Wales Swansea)

• Theatre Studies:   Professor Ioan M. Williams (Professor and Director, Department of Theatre and Film Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth)

• Sociology and Anthropology: Dr Graham Day (University of Wales Bangor).

SATURDAY, 15 JULY

0830: Parallel Session 4:

4a. Museum Identities and National Identities: the National Museum of Wales in Historical and Contemporary Profile:

Chair: Ronald Lewis (West Virginia University)

� Bill Jones (Cardiff University), ��And the local was expanded into Welsh�: from Cardiff Municipal Museum to the National Museum of Wales c. 1893-1912�
� Alexandra Ward (Cardiff University), �The Transformation from Antiquarianism to Archaeology: Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler and the National Museum of Wales�
� Rhiannon Mason (Newcastle University), �The National Waterfront Museum Swansea: representing �the nation� in a twenty-first century museum�

4b. Contemporary Welsh Film:

 Chair: Steve Blandford (University of Glamorgan)

� Wyn Mason (University of Glamorgan), �PAPERWORK: a 10-min, dual-screen film, produced at Europe�s largest asylum seekers� centre, Le Petit Chateau, Brussels�
� Daryl Perrins (University of Glamorgan), ��Coming Up Cymru�: The Role of Film in Creating a Virtual Wales�
� Ieuan Morris (University of Glamorgan), �Film and Interactivity: Textual Attraction�
� Steve Blandford (University of Glamorgan), �A Way of Life, cinema and new British identities�

Note: Wyn Mason and Ieuan Morris will each screen complete short films during this panel. In the case of Ieuan Morris's film, delegates will have the opportunity to register their mobile phone numbers before the session in order to experience the interactive nature of Textual Attraction.

4c. Welsh Diaspora II:

Chair: Carol Nelson-Burnes (University of Toledo)

� Walter Brooks (Cardiff University), �Identity Crisis and Language Erosion: The Welsh Community in Patagonia (1930�s and 1940�s)�
� Gethin Matthews (Cardiff University), ��The Remarkable Infatuation of Gold��The Welsh Community in the Cariboo Gold Fields in the mid and late 1860�s�
� Nadia Lewis (Queen�s University, Kingston),  ��I�m Welsh, I am�: Ethnicity, Religion, and Settlement Patterns in Douglas, New Brunswick, and Welshtown, Nova Scotia, 1830 to 1880�

4d. Hanes, Llenyddiaeth, a Cherdd Cymru:

 Cadeirydd: Robert Rhys (Prifysgol Cymru, Abertawe)

� Christine James (Prifysgol Cymru, Abertawe), �Llenwi Pig y Pelican: 'Hanes Bagad o Gymru a aethant yn amser y Frenhines Elsbeth ... i�r Gorllewin India�
� E. Wyn James (Prifysgol Caerdydd), �Morgan John Rhys a Chaethwasanaeth Americanaidd�
� Anna Gruffudd (Prifysgol Caerdydd), "Diwygiad Crefyddol 1904/05: Creu Evan Roberts 1904/05-2004/05"
� Wyn Thomas (Prifysgol Cymru, Bangor), "Annie 'Cwrt Mawr' a Chanorion Aberystwyth"

1000: Coffee Break

1045: Parallel Session 5:

5a. Art-World-Wales:

Chair: Kim Waale (Cazenovia College)

� Tim Davies (Artist), �Contexts and Variations�
� Anne Price-Owen (Swansea Institute, University of Wales), �Taboo Subjects: Sex and Death�
� Iwan Bala (Artist and Writer), �Tribes of Art�

5b. Welsh Diaspora III:

Chair: Ronald Lewis (West Virginia University)

� Gruffydd Aled Williams (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), �Abraham Lincoln and the Welsh Ethnic Vote: two pamphlets from the 1860 Presidential Election�
� Richard Allen (University of Sunderland), "A Society for the Relief of Emigrants: The Welsh Society of Philadelphia and Welsh Emigration to Pennsylvania, C. 1798-1850"
� Menna Morgan (National Library of Wales), �O�u Henwlad i Ohio � The OHiO Project at the National Library of Wales�
� Robert Huw Griffiths (Independent Scholar), �Fact or Fiction: How should we view Welsh American History?�

5c. Historiography:

Chair: Chris Williams (University of Wales Swansea)

� Geraint Jenkins (University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies), ��An Abraham�s Bosom�: Glanmor Williams and History at Swansea�
� Lindsay Henderson (Queensland University of Technology), "Wynford Vaughan-Thomas and Gwyn A. Williams: Images of Welsh Medieval Heroes"
� Paul Ward (University of Huddersfield), �Welsh and Working Class (and British too): The Case of Huw T. Edwards�

5d. Religion and Welsh Culture:

Chair: Roderic Owen (Mary Baldwin College)

� Jane Cartwright (University of Wales, Lampeter), �The Cornish Cult of a Welsh Saint: St. Non�
� Martin Crampin (University of Wales, Lampeter), �Imaging the Bible in Wales�
� Jeremy Hooker (University of Glamorgan), �Rowan Williams, poet and theologian�

1215: Lunch.  NAASWCH Business Meeting.

1345: Parallel Session 6:

6a. TransAtlantic Poetry: Readings with Discussion by Welsh and American Poets (I):

 Chair: David Lloyd (Le Moyne College)

� Peter Finch (Yr Academi Gymreig/The Welsh Academy)
� David Lloyd (Le Moyne College)
� Iwan Llwyd
Note: This panel is open to the general public.

6b. British and Welsh Identities:

Chair: Duncan Tanner (University of Wales, Bangor)

� John Ellis (University of Michigan, Flint), �The 1969 Investiture and Youth Culture in Wales�
� Paul O�Leary (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), "Whose Nation?  Religion, Identity and Politics in Mid-Victorian Wales"
� John Harris (Kent State University), "(Re)Presenting Wales: Rugby Union and the Cultural Politics of Sporting Celebrity"

6c. Museums and Performance:

 Chair: Bill Jones (Cardiff University)

� Dr. Lisa Lewis (University of Glamorgan), ��Resurrection Theatre�: Welsh Heritage Performance�
� Clare Parry (Oxford Brookes University), �Performing a Welsh national cultural identity at Sain Ffagan: Amgueddfa Werin Cymru / National History Museum�

6d. History of Film and Photography in Wales:

 Chair: Kate Woodward (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)

� Gwenno Ffrancon (University of Wales, Swansea), �Edwardian entrepreneurs and the lost world of film in Wales�
� Huw Jones (University of Wales, Swansea), �The Lost Pictures of William Jones and the Changing Landscape of Industrial Wales�
� Mark Woods (University of Glamorgan), �Drych Ffilm y Gymru�A Filmic Mirror for Wales�

1515: Coffee Break

1600: Parallel Session 7:

7a. TransAtlantic Poetry: Readings with Discussion by Welsh and American Poets (II):

Chair: David Lloyd (Le Moyne College)

� John Barnie (Editor, Planet)
� Nigel Jenkins (University of Wales, Swansea)
� Sarah Kennedy (Mary Baldwin College)
Note: This panel is open to the general public.

7b. Early Modern Wales:

Chair: Chris Williams (University of Wales, Swansea)

� Sally Harper (University of Wales, Bangor), "Writing down the rules of Welsh music: a sixteenth-century syllabus for bardic apprentices"
� Ann Huse (John Jay College, CUNY), "The Vicarious Welshwoman: Katherine Philips and Cultural Surrogacy"
� Doug Krehbiel (University of North Carolina at Wilmington), �Cnapan and Nationalism: English prosecutions of 17th-Century Welsh Sport in Pembrokeshire�
� Nia Powell (University of Wales, Bangor), �Taxation and the Acts of Union�

7c. Welsh Industry and Disease:

Chair: John Ellis (University of Michigan, Flint)

� Moya Jones (Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux), �Swansea: The Fever for Copper�
� Mark Crowley (Cardiff University), "With dust still in their throats": Employment provision for suspended South Wales miners on account of silicosis and pneumoconiosis during the Second World War"
� Margaret Gregory (Cardiff University), �Cop Killers: Patterns of Death and Disease in Men of the Monmouthshire Constabulary, 1857-1914�

7d. 18th Century Welsh History:

 Chair: Carol Nelson-Burnes (University of Toledo)

� Tom Forde (University of Wales, Bangor), �Richard Pennant: Speculator, Opportunist or Industrial Pioneer?�
� Mary Geiter (Independent Scholar), �Backcountry Dreams: Welsh Migration into Western Pennsylvania�
� Mark Matthews (Open University), "Tales of the Sea: glimpses of maritime Wales and the wider world from south east Glamorganshire 1762-1795"

1730: Conference Close