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NORTH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF WELSH CULTURE AND HISTORY
BIENNIAL CONFERENCE
NAASWCH 2012
PRIFYSGOL BANGOR UNIVERSITY
Neuadd Reichel Hall, July 26-28
Organisers: Professor Tony Brown & Dr Andrew Edwards
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
THURSDAY JULY 26
08:30 – 10:15 Executive committee/programme committee meeting [Reichel Meeting Room]
09:00 – 14:00 Registration [Neuadd Reichel Hall]
10:15 – 10:30 Opening and welcome [Hall]
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee and Refreshments [JCR]
10:45 – 12:15 SESSION 1
* Papers presented in Welsh (with simultaneous translation by Bangor University’s Translation Unit) are highlighted in grey.
Panel 1a: Wales and the world [Hall]
Chair: Andrew Edwards
Bill Jones (Cardiff): Labour Migration and Cross-Cultural Encounters: Welsh copper workers in Chile during the Swansea moment.
Geraldine Lublin (Swansea): The Return of the Dragon: The Welsh community in Chubut and the Argentine Bicentenary celebrations (2010).
Lowri Ann Rees (Bangor): The return of East India Company men to Wales, c.1750-1850.
Panel 1b: R. S. Thomas [Lounge]
Chair: Katie Gramich
William V. Davis (Baylor): Testing his faith on emptiness: Reading R. S. Thomas’s Poems on Prayer.
Daniel Westover (East Tennessee State): ‘Strongholds of the imagination’: R. S. Thomas and Geoffrey Hill.
Tony Brown (Bangor): R. S. Thomas and Modernist Art: The Ekphrastic Poems.
Panel 1c: The Welsh slate industry [Library]
Chair: Neil Evans
David Gwyn (Independent): The Slate Industry in the History of Wales.
Alun Ephraim (Bangor): A Fundamentally Separate Community: Class, Nation and Culture in the North Wales Slate Communities c. 1880 – 1969.
Kathryn Weller (Slate Valley Museum, New York): Slate Valley Museum, New York.
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch and business meeting [JCR]
13:15 – 14:45 SESSION 2
Panel 2a: Medieval and early modern Wales 1 [Lounge]
Chair: Nia Powell
John K. Bollard (Independent): ‘Mefyl ar uy maryf i’: Myth and Motivation in The Mabinogi.
Aled Llion Jones (Bangor): Rhys Fardd a rhyddfrydwyr eraill yr Oesau Canol.[Rhys Fardd and other Medieval liberals].
Richard Bebb (National Museum of Wales): A praise poem in oak: The cupboard of Harri ap Gruffudd.
Panel 2b: Wales in North America [Hall]
Chair: Bill Jones (Cardiff)
Robert Humphries (Trinity Saint David): ‘Free press, free speech, a byth free men’: the Welsh language and political identity in Wisconsin, 1860-1920.
Colin Thomas (TV producer/director): ‘The dragon and the eagle’: telling the Welsh-in-America story digitally.
Gerald Morgan (Aberystwyth): Americans in Wales in 1881.
Panel 2c: Twentieth century and contemporary writing [Library]
Chair: David Lloyd (Le Moyne)
Alan Vaughan Jones (Aberystwyth): Spaces of Identity: The Caseg Broadsheets and the Art of Self-Inscription.
Tinashe Mushakavanhu (Kent): The Black Insider: Dambudzo Marechera and the Welsh literary scene of the 1970s.
Robert Walton (Cardiff): Directions in the contemporary Welsh novel in English.
14:45 – 15:00 Afternoon tea and refreshments [JCR]
15:00 – 16:30 SESSION 3
Panel 3a: Art, Theatre and Film [Library]
Chair: Andrew Webb (Bangor)
Daryl Perrins (Glamorgan): ‘They can’t stop us singing’? Nostalgia, Class and Regionalism in the Representation of Contemporary Wales in Film and Television.
Heather Duda (Rio Grande): Sex, Drugs, and Rhys Ifans: An American Explores the Contemporary Welsh Film Industry.
Panel 3b: Biographical perspectives [Lounge]
Chair: John Ellis
Angela V. John (Aberystwyth): Bifurcation? Lady Rhondda (1883-1958) and Wales.
Huw Pryce (Bangor): Harry Longueville Jones and Welsh antiquities: the French connection.
Gwawr Jones (Bangor): ‘Teaching the world to sing’: Clara Novello Davies (1861-1943) - an amateur in a professional world?
Panel 3c: Poetry and creative writing in Welsh [Hall]
Gerwyn Wiliams, Jerry Hunter, Jason Walford Davies and Angharad Price.
16:45 – 17:45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 1
Chair: Andrew Edwards
John Ellis (Michigan-Flint): Making Owen Rhoscomyl: Biography, Identity and the Welsh World. [Hall]
18:15 Opening reception [Shankland Library]
Welcome by Professor John Hughes, the Vice-Chancellor of Bangor University.
c.19:15 Poetry reading: Ian Gregson (Bangor), David Lloyd (Le Moyne, Syracuse, NY), Margaret Lloyd (Springfield, MA), Zoë Skoulding (Bangor), William Virgil Davis (Baylor), Christopher Meredith (Glamorgan).
FRIDAY JULY 27
09:00 – 10:30 SESSION 4
Panel 4a: Eighteenth and nineteenth century developments [Library]
Chair: Melinda Gray
Rhiannon Heledd Williams (Bangor): 'Cyfaill pwy?' Y wasg gyfnodol Gymraeg a hunaniaeth Cymry America 1838-66.[‘Who’s friend?’ The Welsh periodical press and the identity of Welsh-Americans 1838-66].
Anna Brueton (Leicester): Illegitimacy in South Wales 1700-1850: myth and reality.
Panel 4b: Education, language and belonging [Lounge]
Chair: Andrew Edwards
T. Crew (Bangor): Beyond Graduation: regional capital.
Rhian Hodges (Bangor): ‘We want more than a second language smattering of Welsh for our children’: Pam fod rhieni di-Gymraeg yn dewis addysg cyfrwng-Cymraeg i’w plant yng Nghwm Rhymni, de Cymru. [‘We want more than a second language smattering of Welsh for our children’: Why non-Welsh-speaking parents choose Welsh-medium education for their children in the Rhymni Valley, south Wales].
Panel 4c: Border writing [Hall]
Chair: Tony Brown
Jane Aaron (Glamorgan): Border Gothic.
Katriona Mackay (Glamorgan): Phil Rickman and the Gothic Welsh Border.
Christopher Meredith (Glamorgan): Knitting Mountains: The Woollen Line and Bog~Mawnog Projects.
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee and refreshments [JCR]
10:45 – 11:45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2
Chair: Tony Brown
Daniel Williams (Swansea) ‘Uplifting the Race': W. E. B. Du Bois, Frances Hoggan and the challenge of comparing Wales and Black America [Hall]
12:00 – 13:15 Lunch [JCR]
13:15 – 14:45 SESSION 5
Panel 5a: Wales and war [Hall]
Chair: Gerwyn Wiliams
Gethin Matthews (Swansea): Representations of the Great War in Welsh language television documentaries.
Ander Delgado (Basque Country): The relationships between Welsh and Basque Nationalist Parties during the Spanish Civil War.
Jerry Hunter (Bangor): ‘Yncl Sam anwadal’: Gwasg Gymraeg yr Unol Daleithiau a’r Rhyfel â’r Philipiniaid [‘Fickle Uncle Sam’: The Welsh-language Press of the United States and the Philippine-American War].
Panel 5b: Early modern Wales [Lounge]
Chair: Maddy Gray
Nia Powell (Bangor): Early Modern Towns in Wales: People, wealth and function.
Roger Lund (Le Moyne College): ‘Welcome to Smoky Aberystwyth’: Daniel Defoe and the Marketing of Wales
Panel 5c: Poetry [Library]
Chair: Aled Llion Jones
Angharad Price (Bangor): Gyrfa gynnar T. H. Parry-Williams [The early career of T. H. Parry-Williams].
Llyr Lewis (Cardiff): ‘Deal with the nonsense of this contention’: T. Gwynn Jones – Celtomaniac or Celtosceptic?
Melinda Gray (Independent): Rebecca Jones of Nelson, NY (1834-73): A sisterhood of poetry.
14:45 – 15.00 Afternoon tea and refreshments [JCR]
15:00 – 16:45 SESSION 6
Panel 6a: Inter-war Wales [Lounge]
Chair: Mari Elin Wiliam
Jen Wilson (Jazz Heritage Wales at Swansea Metropolitan): Jazz in Wales between the Wars 1919-1939: fascists, feminism, fashion and some o’ that Old Time Religion.
Beth Jenkins (Cardiff): A Forgotten Army? Female Professionals in Interwar Wales.
Russell Deacon (Trinity Saint David): The downfall of the Westminster coalition government: Lessons from the 1922 Newport By-election.
Panel 6b: Medieval and Early Modern Wales 2 [JCR]
Chair: Nia Powell
Maddy Gray (Newport): Some new light on the Reformation and Welsh identity: the Foxwist and Bulkeley memorials in Caernarfon and Beaumaris.
Janet Kay (Boston College): ‘The church lived in the world’: ecclesiastical and secular sites in Wales and the Atlantic West, 500-800AD.
Peter Wakelin (Royal Commission, Ancient and Historical Monuments): Records, Research and Relevance: the first century of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.
Panel 6c: Staying and Straying: Welsh Writing in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries [Library]
Chair: Huw Osborne
Katie Gramich (Cardiff): ‘Dwelling’ in Carmarthenshire: The Contrasting Visions of Dylan Thomas and Gwenallt.
Tomos Owen (Cardiff): Itinerant Masculinities from Wales to America: Freeways, Super-Tramps and Hoboes by Choice.
Catherine Phelps (Cardiff): Returning to the Scene of the Crime: Investigating the Role of the Welsh ‘Hardboiled’ Detective.
Panel 6d: Agweddau gwleidyddol a diwylliannol ar gyfieithu yng Nghymru (The culture and politics of translation) [Hall]
This panel is sponsored by the AHRC
*Please note that this panel will be in Welsh, with simultaneous translation provided*
Cadair/Chair: Angharad Price
Sian Beidas (Bangor): Cyfieithu a sefydliadau llywodraethol.
Judith Kaufmann (Cymdeithas Cyfieithwyr Cymru): Cyfieithu ar y pryd yn llysoedd Cymru.
Adam Pearce (Bangor): Cyfieithu Daniel Owen.
Rhiannon Marks (Cardiff): Cusan drwy hances ynteu cusan farwol?: cyfieithu barddoniaeth Cymraeg.
17:00 – 18:30 SESSION 7
Panel 7a: Nationalist developments in post-war Wales [Lounge]
Chair: Lowri Ann Rees
Mari Wiliam (Bangor): ‘God Save the Queen’ ac ‘Hen Wlad fy Nhadau’: Cymru a’r Coroni 1953 [‘God Save the Queen’ and ‘Land of my Fathers’: Wales and the Coronation 1953].
Einion Thomas (Bangor): The Tryweryn Controversy, 1955- 1965.
Panel 7b: Sexuality, gender and femininity [Hall]
Chair: Jane Aaron
Huw Osborne (Royal Military College of Canada): Longing and Belonging: Mapping Queer Wales in English Language Literature.
Kirsti Bohata (Swansea): The Chivalrous Rioter: Masquerade, Sexuality and Nationalism in Amy Dillwyn’s Novels and Diaries.
Gwen Saunders Jones (Bangor): 'Marriage and the Mostyn family of North Wales: A social insight in the poetry of Alis ferch Gruffudd (fl. 1540-1570)'.
Panel 7c: Balladry [Library]
Chair: Tony Brown
E. Wyn James (Cardiff): Welsh Bards and Hungarian Ballads.
Rhiannon Ifans (Trinity Saint David): Seasides and spas: Health in Welsh balladry.
19:30 Drinks reception and Conference Dinner
[Terrace Bar/Terrace Conference Room 3]
SATURDAY JULY 28
09:00 – 10:30 SESSION 8
Panel 8a: Wales and women [Lounge]
Chair: Martin Johnes
Shan Robinson (Bangor): Dilys Glynne Jones and the Association for Promoting the Education of Girls in Wales, 1886-1901.
Annie Williams and Jenny Sabine (Women’s Archive of Wales): Women’s Archive of Wales.
Panel 8b: Twentieth-Century Welsh writing in English [Hall]
Chair: Daniel G. Williams
Alyce von Rothkirch (Swansea): J.O. Francis and the Welsh inter-war amateur theatre: an attempt at non-amateurish analysis.
Andrew Webb (Bangor): Edward Thomas and Robert Frost: a Welsh-American literary relation.
Paul W. Birt (Ottawa): How Pleasant Was My Valley: The Welsh-Patagonian novels of Richard Llewellyn.
Panel 8c: Cross-cultural identities [Library]
Chair: Dinah Evans
Cai Parry-Jones (Bangor): Jewish Responses to Wales in the Twentieth Century.
Marco Giudici (Bangor): Discourses of identity in post-devolution Wales: a migrant perspective.
Catrin Wager (Bangor): Lord Penrhyn, the press and the people – lost in translation?
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee and refreshments [JCR]
10:45 – 11:45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 3
Chair: Bill Jones
Neil Evans (Bangor): Imagining and building communities: Unity and Division in Modern Wales [Hall]
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch [JCR]
13:00 – 14:30 SESSION 9
Panel 9a: Post-war Swansea [Hall]
Chair: TBA
Martin Johnes (Swansea): ‘Swansea’s my city so Swansea’s my club’: Football and social identities in post-war Wales
Dinah Evans (Bangor): ‘We must build not only houses…we must build communities’: Planning the social reconstruction of post-war Swansea.
Panel 9b: Eighteenth and nineteenth century literature [Lounge]
Chair: Paul W. Birt
Elizabeth Brown (Rio Grande): ‘It surpassed my Idea’: Samuel Johnson and Hester Thrale in North Wales.
Adam Coward (Newport): ‘When an American is drunk he brags; and when a Welshman is drunk he sings’: American identity and the celebration of Welshness in Wirt Sikes’s British Goblins (1880).
Panel 9c: Welsh Identities [Library]
Chair: Marco Giudici
Glenys Owen-Jones (Independent): Dislocation or disconnection with Welsh identities during A-level Geography fieldwork visits to North Wales.
Mike Benbough-Jackson (Liverpool John Moores): St David's Day: celebration, ceremony, ritual, symbol and myth.
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