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NORTH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF WELSH CULTURE AND HISTORY
BIENNIAL CONFERENCE
NAASWCH 2016
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Hosted by the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
July 20-22
Primary Organisers: Daniel G. Williams, President of NAASWCH
Melinda Gray, NAASWCH Treasurer and Secretary
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
WEDNESDAY JULY 20
Registration table will be open 9.00 - 16.00
08:30 – 9:30 Executive committee meeting
10:00 – 10:30 Opening and welcome
Coffee and Refreshments
10:30 – 12:00 SESSION 1
Panel 1a: Thompson Room
The Human Rights of Children and Young People: Making and Implementing the World’s First Domestic Law on the Rights of Children
Chair: Sir Roderick Evans
Jane Williams, Helen Mary Jones, Mike Sullivan.
Panel 1b:
Returns and Entrances: Welsh Writing in English
Chair: Andrew Webb
Catriona Coutts (Bangor), ‘Ni Allaf Ddianc Rhag Hon’: Returns, Ties and Constraints in the Literature of Wales
Katie Gramich (Cardiff), The Dragon’s Two Tongues in Contemporary Literature
Daniel Hughes (Bangor), The Soldier’s Return: Nigel Heseltine’s War-Haunted Writings.
Panel 1c:
War, Writing and Memory
Chair: John Ellis
Jonathan Morgan, Remembering the Welsh War Poets and those in Welsh Regiments
Meilyr Powell (Swansea), Creating a Casus Belli: The Welsh Press and the July Crisis of 1914
Andrew Edwards (Bangor), The National Gallery, Wales and War: the letters of Martin Davies, 1939-41
12.15 - 1.15 Session 2 (One Hour Session)
Panel 2a: Thompson Room
Chair: Daniel Williams
Menna Elfyn (Trinity Saint David), Eluned Phillips: the Prifardd against the ‘society of lies'
1:15 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 SESSION 3
Panel 3a:
Travel Writing and Wales (A panel organised by the AHRC-funded European Travelers in Wales Project)
Chair: Katie Gramich
Carol Tully (Bangor), ‘Hidden Between England and Ireland’: The Nineteenth-Century German Discovery of Wales and the Search for Self and Other.
Kathryn Jones, (Swansea), For Brittany, see Wales: Breton Travellers’ Vision and Views of Wales 1946 - 2014
Panel 3b:
Politics: After Devolution
Chair: Andrew Edwards
Einion Dafydd (Cardiff), Rebels or Poodles? Legislative Voting in the National Assembly for Wales.
Sian Powell (Cardiff), Mediating Elections in Post-Devolution Wales
Panel 3c:
Defining and Deconstructing Welsh Culture
Chair: Daniel Williams
Anwen Jones (Aberystwyth), The turn of a civilisation: Hywel Teifi Edwards, the National Pageant of Wales (1909) and excluded minorities
Clare Davies (Swansea), Cultural Contributionism? T. S. Eliot, David Jones and Welsh Culture
Huw Williams (Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol), Articulating Afallon? Sketching a Welsh Intellectual History
Panel 3d:
Transatlantic Connections
Chair: Melinda Gray
Colin Thomas (Bristol), Emigrants and Immigrants - past and present
Calista Williams (Open University), ‘Hateful the man who loves not the country that nurtured him’: the Aberystwyth University College’s fundraising expedition to North America, 1890.
Reuben Knutson (Aberystwyth), The Welsh Preseli Hills and American Dreaming
15:30 – 15:45 Afternoon tea and refreshments [JCR]
15:45 – 17:15 SESSION 4
Panel 4a:
Nonconformist Wales: Creation, Representation and Collapse
Chair: Huw Williams
Cynan Llwyd (Cardiff), ‘Seduced, ignorant people’: the educational endeavours of the Welsh Puritans
E. Wyn James (Cardiff), Illustrating Welsh Broadside Ballads, 1620 - 1840
Ioan Williams, Lewis Edwards and the ‘Chwalfa Fawr’
Panel 4b:
Writers and Intellectuals: Iorwerth Peate, R. S. Thomas and Raymond Williams
Chair: Kirsti Bohata
Martin Andrew Hanks (Bangor), The National Museum of Wales: The Wartime Dismissal of Iorwerth Peate.
Nathan Munday, R. S. Thomas and Pantycelyn: An Unexpected Relationship
Catherine Beard (Swansea University), ‘Now Take this pretty thread and see where it leads you’: Raymond Williams’s Loyalties
Panel 4c:
Language Matters
Chair: Anwen Jones
Karolina Rosiak (Poznań, Poland), The Welsh Language and Social Integration from the Point of View of the New Polish Emigration to Wales
Iwan Wyn Rees (Cardiff), ‘Are there “dialects” in mid-Wales?’.
Rhian Siân Hodges (Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol, Bangor University)
and Dr Cynog Prys (Bangor University)
“It's cool to be a Welsh person but that doesn't necessarily mean you speak Welsh”: Assessing Welsh Language Use Patterns in Six Welsh Communities.
Panel 4d:
Culture, Economy and Consciousness
Chair: Sam Blaxland
Sophie Williams (Swansea University), ‘That’s not bloody true, I’m as Welsh as anybody’: The Continuum of Welshness and Basqueness and its Implications for the Development of a National Consciousness
Russell Deacon (University of South Wales), When Welsh Politics Meant Business - some of Wales’ forgotten political businessmen of the early to mid twentieth century
Owen Derbyshire (Cardiff Met), Wales - an agile nation?
17:30 – 19:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 1
Richard Burton Annual Lecture
Matthew Rhys (in conversation with Daniel Williams),
From House of America to The Americans
19:00 Opening reception
THURSDAY JULY 21
09:00 – 10:30 SESSION 5
Panel 5a:
Disability and Industrial Society (A panel organised by the Welcome Trust funded project ‘Disability and Industrial Society’).
Chair: Catherine Beard
Steve Thompson (Aberystwyth), ‘Gwnewch Sylw o’m Sefyllfa: Dyn Cripil Ydwyf Fi’: Ballads and Disability in Nineteenth-Century Wales
Kirsti Bohata (Swansea), Sites of Struggle: Disability in Coalfields Literature
Alexandra Jones (Swansea), Embodied Disability: Gender, Sexuality and Race 1880-1948
Panel 5b:
From The Mabinogion to Torchwood: Myth in Contemporary Culture
Chair: David Lloyd
Melissa Beattie (Texas A &M), My Hero: National Identity and Discourses of Torchwood
Bethan Coombs (University of South Wales), New Stories from The Mabinogion: hybrid identities and parasitic assimilation in Gwyneth Lewis’s The Meat Tree
Audrey Becker (Marygrove College, Detroit), Welsh Mythology and the Contemporary Novel: The ‘double drive’ in Seren Books’ New Stories from the Mabinogion
Panel 5c:
Wales in America (Sponsored by the Welsh Government in North America)
Chair: Gareth Morgan, Welsh Government Office, NYC
Mari Morgan (University of Wales), Welsh Music Comes to America!
James P. Cassarino (Vermont), The Eisteddfod in America
Megan S. Lloyd (King’s College, Wilkes-Barre), Wales in America 100 years on, or Why Wales? Why Not?
Panel 5d:
Media and Culture: From Wales to India (A panel organised by The Centre for the Study of Media and Culture in Small Nations, University of South Wales).
Chair: Adrian Osbourne
Rhiannon Williams (University of South Wales), ‘You Can’t Print a Thunderstorm and Reproduce a Lightning Flash’: Performing the Welsh Repertoire.
Lisa Lewis (University of South Wales), ‘Welsh and Khasi Cultural Dialogues’: Mapping Methods of Performance.
Aparna Sharma (University of California, Los Angeles), Welsh and Khasi Cultural Dialogues: A Short Film
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee and refreshments [JCR]
10:45 – 11:45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2
Chair: Daniel Williams
Marc Shell, Harvard University, Language Wars
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch [JCR]
13.00 - 14.00 SESSION 6 (One Hour Sessions)
6:
Chair: Rhodri Morgan
Sir Roderick Evans, A Welshman, a Duel and the American War of Independence
14:00 – 16:00 SESSION 7 (2 hour sessions)
Panel 7a:
Dylan Thomas
Chair: Robert Walton
David Lloyd (Le Moyne College), Dylan Thomas and Kenneth Rexroth: “something terribly unbritish”
Adrian Osbourne (Swansea), ‘Twice spring chimed’: Hybridity, innovation and ritual in the poetry of Dylan Thomas
Kieron Smith, Activating the ‘brassy orator’: The Uses of Dylan Thomas
Andrew Webb (Bangor), Dylan Thomas and Rural-Urban Modernity
Panel 7b:
Welsh Pasts
Chair: Steve Thompson
Janet Kay (Boston College), Being ‘Welsh’ in the Fifth Century: Reconsidering our Archeological Perspective
Sue Johns (Bangor), Queenship in Wales in the High Middle Ages
Tim Thornton (Huddersfield), Wales and the Crisis of the Fifteenth Century
Lowri Ann Rees (Bangor), ‘He is More Fickle than I can describe’: the relationship between landlord and agent, a south-west Wales case study, 1841-47
Panel 7c:
Exploring Musical Traditions
Chair: E. Wyn James
Kent F. Williams (Rio Grande, Ohio), ‘For the Grave has extinguish’d its light’: Countering Stasis in Felicia Hemans’ Welsh Melodies
Rhiannon Ifans, ‘Re-Assembling Religious Ritual’: reviving indigenous Welsh carols and carolling customs
Helen Barlow, Welsh Airs and Triple Harps: the musical life of a Celtic Renaissance circle
16:00 – 16.30 Afternoon tea and refreshments [JCR]
16:30 – 18:00 SESSION 8
Panel 8a:
Presenting Gender in Early Modern and Modern Wales (Organised by the History Department, Cardiff University).
Chair: Anwen Williams
Lloyd Bowen, Masculinity, Welshness and the Early Modern Duel
Beth Jenkins, ‘In the Interest of the Progress and Development of the Country’: Gender, National Identity and Women’s Professional Employment in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Wales.
Stephanie Ward, ‘Men Cannot Long Remain Idle and Still Remain Men’: Miners’ Bodies and Mascuine Identity in Interwar South Wales’
Panel 8b:
Revising Literary Traditions
Chair: Ioan Williams
Jayne Bowden (University of South Wales), ‘Those things for which women are created’: Otherness in the fiction of Elisabeth Inglis-Jones
Robert Walton (Cardiff), How Macho is My Valley: Contemporary Welsh Women Novelists Re-Writing the Valleys
Rhiannon Heledd Williams (University of South Wales), ‘Llon Heddy yw Llenyddiaeth: Language, Culture and Literature in 19th Century Welsh America’
Panel 8c:
Visual and Literary Cartographies
Chair: Brian Roper
Mari Elin Wiliam (Bangor), Shifting Sands: Postcards and the Visual Identity of north Wales seaside resorts during the twentieth century
Jane Fraser (Swansea), Real Gower: A Conversation Between Texts
Ellie Rees, Deep Mapping the Welsh Coastline
Panel 8d:
Wales and the Longfellow Institute 20 years on: Welsh-American Literature
Chair: Marc Shell
Esther Whitfield, “Untranslatables” and the translation of Welsh-American Writing
Daniel Williams, Samuel Roberts, Abolition and Assimilation
Melinda Gray, Family Histories: Elegy in the early years of the Welsh American Journals
18:00 – 19:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 3
Chair: Mike Sullivan
Rhodri Morgan,
Is the UK Breaking Up and Does it Matter to Wales?
19:30 Drinks reception and Conference Dinner
FRIDAY JULY 28
10:00 – 11:30 SESSION 9
Panel 9a:
Women’s Poetry in Eighteenth-Century Ireland, Scotland and Wales (A panel organised by the Leverhulme Trust funded project ‘Women’s Poetry in Eighteenth-Century Ireland, Scotland and Wales’)
Chair: Sarah Prescott (Aberystwyth)
Wes Hamrick, (NUI, Galway), The National and the Domestic in Eighteenth-Century Irish Elegy
Sarah Dunnigan (Edinburgh University), ‘I maun hear and I maun grieve’: the Poetics of Mourning in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Women's Poetry
Cathryn A. Charnell-White (Aberystwyth), Pious and Loyal: Welsh-language Elegy by Women.
Panel 9b:
Politics: Since 1945
Chair: Rob Humphreys (OU)
Marc David Collinson (Bangor), Roy Jenkins, the tolerant tradition and the campaign for racial equality.
Sam Blaxland (Swansea), All Else is Embellishment and Detail: The Conservative Party and the Significance of Social Class in Post-War Welsh Politics.
Panel 9c:
Transatlantic Lives and Movements
Chair: Daniel Williams
Tony Kendrew (Hyampom, California), A poet responds to the life of Williams Jones Richards (1844-1892)
Proal Heartwell (Charlottesville, Virginia), Goronwy Owen: A Welsh Poet Exiled in Virginia
Robert Humphries (Wisconsin), A Son of the Rhondda’s ‘Entrepreneurial Society’ in the Deep South: the life and career of Williams Herbert (1850 - 1933)
Panel 9d:
Literature and Identity
Chair: Melinda Gray
Christine James (Swansea), ‘Taffy Was a Welshman’: Welsh National Identity in English Broadside Ballads
Rhiannon Marks (Cardiff), ‘Kate Roberts a’r Ystlum’: intertextuality and ‘re-writing’
Brian Roper (Swansea), Gwerin, cymrodyr, hiraeth and bodlon: Who is Wales?
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee and refreshments [JCR]
12:00 – 13:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 4
Chair: Huw Osbourne
Sarah Prescott (Aberystwyth)
Archipelagic Elegy: Eighteenth-Century Women's Poetry from Ireland, Scotland and Wales
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch [JCR]
14:00 – 15:30 SESSION 10
Panel 10a:
Human Rights for Children in Wales and the USA: different approaches, same intentions?
Chair: Jane Williams (Swansea University)
Wendy Murphy (New England Law School, Boston), Yvonne Vissing (Salem State University, Salem).
Panel 10b:
Transatlantic Wales
Chair: Daniel Williams
Huw Osbourne (Royal Military College of Canda), Ivor Novello, Wales and the Celebrity Batchelor
Robin Griffiths (University of Gloucestershire), ‘Kick[ing] against the system’: Queer(y)ing masculinity, stardom and ‘Welshness’ in the films of Richard Burton
Mark Rhodes (Kent State), Memorializing Wales: Paul Robeson, The Spanish Civil War, and the politics of Welsh commemoration
Panel 10c:
Forms of ‘Popular’ Culture
Chair: Lloyd Bowen
John S. Ellis, The Welsh Imperial Fiction of Owen Rhoscomyl
Chris Gardiner, ‘Admiring the Pugilistic Art?’: Newspaper reports on boxing in nineteenth century south Wales
15.30 - 16.00 Farewell
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