New
Research in Welsh Studies, 2nd June 2014
9.00-9.15-
Opening Remarks (Prof Daniel Williams, Director of the Richard Burton Centre)
9.15-10.30
Panel One
Bleddyn Penny- ‘Steel City’: Industry, Identity and
Place in Post-War Port Talbot
Sophie Williams- The Analysis of National Identity
and its relationship to the Nation and Nationalism
Sam Blaxland- Conservative Party success in post-war
Wales and the challenge of writing its history
10.30-10.45
Coffee
10.45-12.00
Panel Two
Alexandra Jones- “Lost Limbs, twisted spines, gashed faces”: Disability and the Male Body in British Coalfields Literature
Clare Davies- 'It was the blood that spoke': Race and Identity in the work of Geraint Goodwin
Mark Rhodes- ‘Paul Robeson: Friend of Wales and the
World’: An analysis of the Welsh memorial landscape of Paul Robeson
12.00-1.00
Lunch in Foyer
1.00-2.00
Keynote Lecture Richard Wyn Jones (TBC)
2.00-3.15
Panel Three
Ben Jones- From William Shakespeare’s Henry V to
Hayao Miyazaki’s Ni No Kuni: a documentation of the Welsh English dialect in
fiction
Shan Morgain- Rhiannon’s People
Liza Penn-Thomas- Beyond the Text: using archival material to write a narrative of the Welsh theatre tradition.
3.15-3.30
Coffee
3.30-4.30
Panel Four
Hannah Sams, Theatre of the Absurd
Christian Williams- Crefydd, Copr a Chymreictod-
Anghydffurfiaeth a’r Werin yn Abertawe Diwydiannol 1800-1914
(These two papers delivered in Welsh with
translation facilities)
