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NAASWCH
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WELSH STUDIES 2010
MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
DRAFT SCHEDULE
Please note that this schedule is subject to change. Revised schedules will be emailed to participants and this site updated as needed.
Thursday, July 22
900-1100 am: Executive Committee/Program Committee Meeting
1200-300: Registration
1-115: Opening Remarks and Welcome
115-245: Keynote Speaker #1: Katie Gramich, (Cardiff) “Narrating the Nation: Telling Stories of Wales”
245-300: Coffee break
300-430: Session 1
· Literature, Nation and Identity
· Trans-Atlantic Nonconformity
· Wales and the Media
430-445: Coffee break
445-600: Session 2
· Welsh Poetry
· Art and Nation I
· National Image and Identity I
700: Reception sponsored by Marymount University
800 or 900 pm: Informal Get Together at Area Restaurant/Bar (Uncle Julio’s or Union Jack’s)
Friday, July 23
8-9: Coffee and Refreshments
900-1030: Session 3
· Welsh Poetry and America
· Society and Industry
· Art and Nation II
1030-1045: Coffee break
1045-1145: Keynote Speaker #2: Paul O’Leary (Aberystwyth), “Divergent Paths? Wales, the Irish Question and the British State, c. 1850-1914”
1145-115: Luncheon/Business Meeting
115-245: Session 4
· Welsh American Encounters
· Pre-modern Literature
· Wales and Television
245-300: Coffee break
300-445: Session 5
· The Short Story in Wales
· National Image and Identity II
· Literary Encounters
800 or 900 pm: Informal Get Together at Area Restaurant/Bar (Uncle Julio’s or Union Jack’s)
Saturday, July 24
8-9: Coffee and Refreshments
900-1045: Session 6
· Welsh American Identity and Culture (2)
· The Welsh Language (2)
· Society in South Wales (3)
1045-1100: Coffee break
1100-1200: Keynote Speaker #3: Ron Lewis (West Virginia), “Welsh Coal Miners in America”
1200-1215: Concluding Remarks and Farewell
PANEL ORGANIZATION
SESSION ONE (300-430, Thursday, July 22)
Literature, Nation and Identity
· Elidir Jones (Cardiff) – “The Morality of Nationalism in the Early Novels of Emyr Humphreys”
· Stephen M. Jones (Ball State), “Tension and Comradeship with the Ethnic Other: Britain as Pastiche in David Jones’s Essays and the Poem In Parenthesis”
· Huw Osborne (Royal Military College of Canada), “‘Crawling through thorns’: Home, Exile, and Trauma in Contemporary English Language Welsh Literature”
Trans-Atlantic Currents in Welsh Nonconformity
David Ceri Jones (Aberystwyth), “‘Sure the time here now is like New England’: Jonathan Edwards and Eighteenth-century Welsh Evangelicalism”
Densil Morgan (Bangor), “Henry Rees’s American Adventure: Welsh Calvinistic Methodism in the United States”
Robert Pope (Bangor), “Christianity and Liberalism: Social Gospel and Evangelicals in USA and Wales, 1918-1932”
Wales and the Media
Rebecca Edwards (Aberystwyth), “The Kinnock Factor’: Welsh pop, Manic Street Preachers and the Music Press”
· John Harris (Kent State), “A Boy from Nowhere: Joe Calzaghe and the (In)visibility of Wales in US Boxing Narratives”
· Daryl Perrins (Glamorgan), “All Quiet on the Western Welsh Front: Poetry and Propaganda in The Silent Village (Jennings: 1943)”
SESSION TWO (445-600, Thursday, July 22)
Welsh Poetry
· Gerwyn Williams (Bangor), “Cynan Revisited: the First World War poetry of Albert Evans-Jones (1895-1970)”
· David Lloyd (Le Moyne), “Poetic Engagements with R. S. Thomas”
Art and Nation I
· Paul Joyner (National Library of Wales)- “Visualizing the Mabinogion”
· Rhiannon Williams (Glamorgan), “Chapel Spaces in Modern Welsh Society”
National Image and Identity I
· Roderic Owen (Mary Baldwin), “Welsh Pacifism”
Paul Ward (Huddersfield), “Selling Wales: Identity, Economics and Tourism in the Mid-Twentieth Century”
SESSION 3 (900-1030, Friday, July 23)
Welsh Poetry and America
· Melinda Gray (Independent), “Sarah Maldwyn and her Five Published Poems”
· Kent F. Williams (Rio Grande), “Through the Lattice”: Ann Griffiths’ Journey and the Joys of Heaven”
· Daniel Westover (East Tennessee State), “A House for Ghosts: Leslie Norris in Utah”
Society and Industry
· Andrew Edwards (Bangor), “‘In a Very Real Sense a War Casualty’: The Attempts to Save the Welsh Slate Industry, c.1945-c.1970”
· Stephanie Ward (Cardiff), “Protest, Gender and Unemployment in Interwar South Wales”
Art and Nation II
· Lisa Lewis (Glamorgan)- “Performing Wales at the 2009 Smithsonian Folklife Festival”
· Moira Vincentelli (Aberystwyth), “Clay Talk: Women and Ceramics in Wales Since the 1970’s”
SESSION 4 (115-245, Friday, July 23)
Welsh American Encounters
· E. Wynn James (Cardiff), “A Welshman in the Army of the Potomac: Evan Rowland Jones, Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War”
· Bill Jones (Cardiff), “Mr Griffith Goes to Washington: ‘Gohebydd Llundain’ [The ‘London Correspondent’] in post-Civil War America 1865-67”
· John S. Ellis (Michigan-Flint), “Such is Life in the Far West: Owen Rhoscomyl and the American West”
Pre-modern Literature (3)
· Megan Lloyd (King’s College), “A Tale of Two Welshmen: Caradoc, Morgan and the New Great Britain”
Christine James (Swansea), “Raise the Anchor!: A Welshman’s Farwell to Wine, Women and Song”
· Gwawr Jones (Bangor), “Listen to the Ladies”
Wales and Television
· Steve Blandford (Glamorgan) and Stephen Lacey (Glamorgan), - “Screening the Nation: Wales and Landmark Television”
· Michelle Davies (Bangor), “‘Thinking Outside the [Television] Box – or Rather, Thinking Inside It’”
SESSION 5 (300-445, Friday, July 23)
The Short Story in Wales
· Tony Brown (Bangor), “‘Dancing on the nerve ends’: The Short Fiction of Gwyn Thomas”
· Michelle Deininger (Cardiff ) –“‘This cord, we can never break it, can we?’: Gender, Belonging and Alienation in the Short-Story Cycles of Deborah Kay Davies and Tristan Hughes”
National Image and Identity II
· Jodie A. Kreider (Denver), “Lady Llanover’s Good Cookery: Constructing the Welsh Nation One Cookbook at a Time”
Mair Jones (Aberystwyth)- “Laura Ashley; A Welsh Icon”
Literary Encounters
· Leila Salisbury (Bangor), “Bliss of Heart and Soul: Iolo Morganwg in London”
· Elizabeth Brown (Rio Grande), “Swift’s Holyhead Journal: An Anglo-Irishman Encounters North Wales”
SESSION 6 (900-1045, Saturday, July 24)
The Welsh Language
· Sian Wyn Siencyn (Trinity)- “Welsh and the Early Years”
· C.A. Prettiman (Strayer University)- “Welsh and the Web”
Society in South Wales
· Lowri Ann Rees (Aberystwyth) – “‘Aspire, persevere and indulge not’: the Nouveau Riche in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century South-west Wales”
· Richard Haines (Swansea) –“People of Power: Shipowners and Philanthropy in Swansea, c. 1824-1870”
· Dinah Evans (Bangor), “The town has got out of hand and unbalanced’: a Study of Reconstruction in Swansea During the 1940s and 50s”
Welsh American Identity and Culture
· John Reinhart (Independent), “From the Slate; The Welsh and the Folk Art from Pennsylvania’s Slate Belt Region”
· Catherine Davies (Alabama), “Welsh Identity and Assimilation: A Case Study of an American Family”
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