Richard
Burton Centre Postgraduate Conference Programme
9.30-11.00=
Welcome and Panel One
Liza Penn Thomas, Protest, Participation and Theatre for the People: an audience for
English language Welsh drama 1900-1950
Clare Davies, Fierce and Fatal Struggles: T. S Eliot,
Saunders Lewis and canon (de)construction
Dr Kieron Smith,
11.00-11.15
= Coffee/Tea
11.15-12.45
= Panel Two
Bleddyn Penny, ‘The Others and the Brothers’? New
Perspectives for Welsh Labour History
Matthew Small, Imposed or organic? An examination of
social institutions in the workers settlement of Trevivian in the nineteenth
century
Alex Jones, ‘Injured men with black dust covering their broken bodies’:
Literature, history and disability in 1930s British coalfields literature.
12.45-1.30
= Lunch/Cinio
1.30-
2.30 = Panel Tri (sesiwn yn y Gymraeg).
Meilyr Powel, Cynhyrchu Rhyfel Sanctaidd: Crefydd, y
Welsh Outlook a’r Rhyfel Mawr
Catrin Heledd Richards, A ydy Theomemphus yn Hen?: Astudiaeth o arwyddocâd y teitl cyfeiriadol,
Mae Theomemphus yn Hen yn nofel Dafydd Rowlands.
2.30-4.00
= Panel four
Mark Rhodes, Paul
Robeson and the Processes of Welsh Memorialization: Context, scale, and agency
in the commemorative landscape
Sam Blaxland, The private and public attitudes of the
Conservative Party towards Welsh nationhood, 1945-1997
Syd Morgan, The Welsh Nationalist Party and Fianna
Fáil 1926--‐1948
4.00-4.15
Coffee/Tea
4.30-5.30
–
Dr Simon Brooks in conversation with Professor Daniel Williams.
The conference will be held in JC B02/03 on Monday 8th June, 9.30 start. All welcome/croeso i bawb.
