Conference Programme- 2nd June

Richard Burton Centre Annual Postgraduate Conference in Welsh Studies

Thursday 2^nd June 2016 10am-5.30pm

Arts and Humanities Conference Room, B02/3, James Callaghan Building, Swansea University

Provisional Programme

10.00-11.30 Panel One

Cath Beard, Nesta’s Scream: Representations of working-class women in Raymond Williams’s Loyalties

Dan Gerke, Raymond Williams with Frustration: The Long Reception of Georg Lukacs

John Boaler, At work: Miners’ wives and mothers

11.30-11.45 Coffee/Tea

11.45-12.45 Panel Two

Sophie Williams The Politics of Welshness: A Response to Bradbury and Andrews

Brian Roper The Multiple Identities of Modern Wales

12.45-1.30 Lunch/Cinio

1.30- 2.30 Panel Three (session yn y Gymraeg- translation facilities available).

Alex Lovell Model newydd ar gyfer Cymraeg Ail Iaith? Astudiaeth ar sut orau y gellir cyflwyno’r Gymraeg fel ail iaith yn llwyddiannus i’r rhai yn yr ardaloedd mwyaf Seisnig yng Nghymru .

Non Vaughan Williams, Nan Davies arloeswraig darlledu cyhoeddus yng Nghymru 1935-1969 / Nan Davies: a public service broadcasting pioneer in Wales 1935-1969.

2.30-4.00 Panel Four

Syd Morgan, Jack White: Wales and Ireland, Socialisms and Nationalisms

Jay Rees, Student experience, a mere footnote in education history: a case study of Swansea University

Sam Blaxland, The Curious Case of Ted Dexter and Cardiff South East.

4.00-4.20 Coffee/Tea

4.20-5.30 Keynote Lecture, Dr Angharad Closs Stephens (Swansea University) ‘From National Mood to Political Affects: notes from the funeral of Margaret Thatcher.

Welsh Multiculturalisms Conference

Richard Burton Centre for the Study of Wales
Canolfan Astudiaethau Cymreig Richard Burton

Cynhadledd Undydd / One-Day Conference

WELSH MULTICULTURALISMS:
NEW DIRECTIONS IN HISTORY AND CULTURE

Mai / May 27th 2016     9.30am – 5pm

Arts and Humanities Conference Room (B03), James Callaghan Building, Swansea University
Ystafell Gynadledda’r Celfyddydau a’r Dyniaethau, Adeilad James Callaghan, Prifysgol Abertawe

It has, by now, been well established that the idea of Wales as a ‘tolerant nation’ was based on a half-truth at best. Does the analogy of the ‘melting pot’ reflect the nature of multiculturalism in modern Wales, or should it be replaced by the ‘salad bowl’ or some other metaphor for describing our social and communal diversity? What might history tell us about current anxieties about immigration? Drawing on a wide range of speakers, from a diversity of backgrounds, this conference asks us to consider what multiculturalism means and has meant within the particular discourses, languages and cultures of modern Wales.

Ystyrir y syniad o Gymru fel 'gwlad oddefgar' yn ystrydeb erbyn hyn. Mae Cymru wedi gweld ei chyfran o wrthdaro a thensiynnau rhwng grwpiau cenedlaethol ac ethnig. Mae'r gynhadledd hon yn gofyn i ni archwilio’r gorffennol er mwyn dychmygu Cymry aml-ddiwylliannol, oddefgar, y dyfodol.  Cynhadledd iaith Saesneg yw hon. 

Programme

9.30 – 9.45 
Daniel Williams, Director, Richard Burton Centre
Welcome and Introduction:  Beyond the Melting Pot and the Salad Bowl 


9.45 – 11.15
Stephen Murray, Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe
Nativism, Racism and Job Protection: A Comparison of late nineteenth century social/industrial conflict in Merthyr/Dowlais, and Fall River Massachusetts and its contribution to the assimilation of migrant workers.

Kirsti Bohata, Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe 
‘The Absurd Label of Race’: Primitvism and Degeneration in Welsh Writing in English 


11.15 – 11.30. Coffee


11.30 –  12.30
Oscar Alvarez Gila, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea / Prifysgol Gwlad y Basg / University of the Basque Country 

An Unexpected Emigration:  The Experience and Memory of Basque Iron Workers to Wales


12. 30 – 1  Lunch Break


1 –  2.30
Simon Brooks, Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe
The 'Welsh Romani' - a mirror for the Welsh themselves

Paweł Wróbel- Prifysgol Aberystwyth University 
Wales’ popularity amongst the Polish diaspora: harmonious migration and socio-cultural changes.


2.30  – 3.30 
Hugh Griffiths- Merthyr Tydful
The Merthyr Migration Project

Tom Cheesman, Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe
‘Hafan Books: Publishing as Xenophile Activism’


3.30 – 4.00 Coffee Break


4.00 – 5.00
Glenn Jordan, University of South Wales / Prifysgol de Cymru (delievered by Chris Weedon, Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd) 
Building an Archive of the Marginalised and the Invisible: Photography and Oral History as Cultural Politics


5.00 – 5.30
Closing discussion. 

Organised by / Trefnwyd gan: Stephen Murray and Daniel Williams (Richard Burton Centre / Canolfan Richard Burton)

Coffe/Tea and Lunch provided during the day/  Darperir coffi/te a chinio yn ystod y dydd

Please contact / Cysylltwch â: Helen Baldwin – h.baldwin@swansea.ac.uk