Burton Centre Lecture 2022: Kate Burton

 

In addition to the annual lecture advertised above, there will also be an event for students:

‘Kate Burton: A Life in the Arts for a Welsh American’
Friday, 18^th of November 2022 at 10.30am. 

Faraday G

The Richard Burton Centre is delighted to host a conversation with the Welsh American actress, Kate Burton, on Friday the 18^th of November 2022 at 10.30am in Faraday G for Swansea University students. 

 

Kate Burton is an actress, director, professor and labour activist. Born in Geneva, Switzerland under the British Consulate, she grew up in New York from the age of four when her parents Sybil Williams (from The Rhondda) and renowned actor Richard Burton (from Pontrhydyfen) divorced. Kate is best known for her television work on Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and most recently Inventing Anna, The Dropout and Bosch Legacy.  

 

In this event, Kate will be in conversation with Eve Johnson, a PhD student in the English Department at Swansea University, in which she will reflect upon her life and career. Following this conversation, there will be opportunity for the audience to participate in further discussion with Kate.

 

Digwyddiad ar gyfer myfyrwyr

‘Kate Burton: A Life in the Arts for a Welsh American’– Dydd Gwener, 18fed o Dachwedd 2022 am 10.30yb.

 

Mae’n bleser gan Ganolfan Richard Burton gynnal sgwrs gyda’r actores Americanaidd o Gymru, Kate Burton, ddydd Gwener y 18fed o Dachwedd 2022 am 10.30am yn Faraday G ar gyfer myfyrwyr Prifysgol Abertawe.

Mae Kate Burton yn actores, cyfarwyddwr, athro ac actifydd. Wedi'i geni yn Genefa, y Swistir o dan Gonswliaeth Prydain, fe'i magwyd yn Efrog Newydd yn bedair oed pan ysgarodd ei rhieni Sybil Williams (o'r Rhondda) a’r actor Richard Burton (o Bontrhydyfen). Mae Kate yn fwyaf adnabyddus am ei gwaith teledu ar Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal ac yn fwyaf diweddar Inventing Anna, The Dropout a Bosch Legacy.

 

Yn y digwyddiad hwn, bydd Kate yn sgwrsio ag Eve Johnson, myfyrwraig PhD yn yr Adran Saesneg ym Mhrifysgol Abertawe, lle bydd yn myfyrio ar ei bywyd a'i gyrfa. Yn dilyn y sgwrs hon, bydd cyfle i'r gynulleidfa gymryd rhan mewn trafodaeth bellach gyda Kate.

 

Postgraduate Conference in Welsh Studies / Cynhadledd Astudiaethau Cymreig ar gyfer myfyrwyr ol-radd

Gynhadledd Astudiaethau Cymreig

Postgraduate Conference in Welsh Studies

Canolfan Richard Burton Centre

 

Dydd Mercher 25 Mai 2022

Wednesday 25 May 2022

 

Y Studio, Creu Taliesin, Campws Parc, Prifysgol Abertawe

The Studio Taliesin Create, Park campus, Swansea University

 

2.00	Guinevere Clark - The Psychogeography of The Mumbles in Swansea through 3 Poems
2.30	Daniel Jones - Caliban’s Cultural Wounds: Language Loss and Dialect in Sheepshagger and Pigeon
3.00	Egwyl / break
3.30	Rhys Owens - A Welsh Vision of Empire? Welsh Imperialists and the Indian Empire
4.00	Aled Jones - 'Bullets, Bibles and Booze: How the Union Army Influenced the Americanisation of Welsh Cultural and National Identity during the American Civil War'.
4.30	David Cooke - The Development of Sport in 19th-Century Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire
5.00	Diodydd /Drinks

 

 

Mae Canolfan Richard Burton yn dod ag arbenigedd ac adnoddau at ei gilydd er mwyn hybu a meithrin ymchwil rhyngddisgyblaethol â ffocws Cymreig a Chymraeg ar draws Prifysgol Abertawe a thu hwnt.

 

The Richard Burton Centre for the Study of Wales brings together expertise and resources in Welsh studies located across Swansea University, encouraging interdisciplinary research of international quality.

 

Am fwy o wybodaeth ar y canolfan – for more information on the Centre

https://www.swansea.ac.uk/cultural-institute/richard-burton-centre/