New Directions in Raymond Williams Studies
Friday, March 11, 10 – 6.00
Dydd Gwener, Mawrth 11, 10 – 6.00
An international one-day symposium to be held at Pandy Village Hall, Wern Gifford Estate, Pandy NP7 8DL . Followed by the launch of Peter Lord’s new history of Welsh Art, The Tradition, at The Art Shop & Chapel, 8 Cross St, Abergavenny NP7 5EH.
Cynhadledd ryngwladol undydd i’w gynnal yn Neuadd y Pentre,Ystad Wern Gifford, Pandy NP7 8DL. I’w ddilyn gan lawnsiad cyfrol newydd Peter Lord ar hanes celf yng Nghymru, The Tradition yn The Art Shop & Chapel, 8 Cross St, Y Fenni NP7 5EH.
Amserlen / Timetable
10.00. Daniel Williams, Croeso / Opening Remarks10.05 – 11. 35. Culture and Materialism
- Ryota Nishi,
'"You're An Ecologist, Aren't You?": A brief Note on Ecocriticism and Raymond Williams' Cultural Materialism
- Alice Barnaby (Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe)
Problems of New Materialism (for literary critics)
- Masashi Hoshino, (Manchester University)
Ernst Bloch and Raymond Williams: Principle and Resources of Hope
11.35 - 12.00 Tea / Coffee Break
12. 00 – 1.00 Tony Pinkney (Lancaster University),
'Oxford is making all the running': Raymond Williams as Oxford Thinker.
1.00 – 1.30 Lunch / Cinio (Provided)
1.30 – 3.30 Aesthetics, Art and Literature
- Fuhito Endo, Seikei University Tokyo
Marxist Aesthetics Reconsidered: Jameson, Felman, and Williams
- Takashi Onuki (Research Fellow, Richard Burton Centre, Swansea University),
''[T]he place-name which you now say as Ewyas": Trying to Translate The People of the Black Mountains
- Catherine Beard (Swansea University),
The ‘half-turned away child’- Loyalties and critical responses to the fiction of Raymond Williams
- Peter Wakelin,
Border Country in Paint: Raymond Williams' artist contemporaries
3.30 – 4.00 Making Connections: Conference Overview
Daniel Williams, (Swansea University)
Shintaro Kono (Research Fellow, Richard Burton Centre, Swansea University)
Daniel Gerke (Swansea University)
4.00 – Drive to Abergavenny / Gyrru i’r Fenni.
5.00 – 6.00. Peter Lord, ‘The Tradition’
The Art Shop & Chapel, 8 Cross St, Abergavenny NP7 5EH
30 minute talk, book launch and signing. (Refreshments provided)
Key Information / Y wybodaeth hanfodol
Pris y Gynhadledd:
Am ddim i’r cyfranwyr
£ 10 i bawb arall.
Mae hyn yn cynnwys cinio.
Gellir talu ar y dydd ond rhowch wybod i Daniel Williams os ydych yn dod, erbyn 1pm ar ddyd Llun Mawrth y 7fed os gwelwch yn dda.
Conference Fee:
Free to contributors.
£10 for everyone else.
This does include lunch.
You may pay on the day but please let Daniel Williams know if you’re coming by Monday, March 7th.
Trefnwyd gan / Organised by: Professor Daniel G. Williams
Director / Cyfarwyddwr: Canolfan Astudiaethay Cymreig Richard Burton / The Richard Burton Centre for the Study of Wales.
daniel.g.williams@swansea.ac.uk
Co-hosted by:
Richard Burton Centre for the Study of Wales
CREW - Canolfan Ymchwil i Lên ac Iaith Saesneg Cymru / Centre for Research into the Literature and Language of Wales
Raymond Williams Kenkyukai with the support of JSPS/MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
Parthian Books
Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Sir Fynwy a’r Cyffiniau.
Gyda diolch i / With thanks to:
Stuart Neale, Pandy Village Hall
Robyn Tomos, Swyddog Celfyddydau Gweledol , Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru
