AWWE 2015 ‘The Country and the City: Rural and Urban Wales’
Conference Programme
2.00-5.00
Registration
2.30pm AWWE
Annual Business Meeting (Library) All Welcome.
4-5pm Tea/coffee (Blayney
Room)
5-7pm Welcome Drinks (Senior Common Room)
Award of M. Wynn Thomas Essay prize
Honno Books Showcase: chair Jane Aaron.
My Mother’s House, by Lily Tobias, with an introduction by
Jasmine Donahaye (Honno) and The Greatest Need: The creative life and
troubled times of Lily Tobias, a Welsh Jew in Palestine by Jasmine
Donahaye (Honno)
Poetry reading and conversation: Sally Roberts Jones
7-8 Dinner
8.15pm Keynote Lecture 1 (Seminar Room 1)
Chair: M. Wynn Thomas
Professor Helen Fulton (Bristol
University),
‘Arthur in Caerleon: Remembering a Roman
City in the Literature of Wales’
Saturday 28 March
8.00-9.15 Breakfast
9.30-11am Parallel Sessions
Panel Session 1: Raymond Williams I
Chair: Daniel
Williams
Yasuo
Kawabata (Japan Women’s University), ‘Orwell, Raymond Williams and “Double
Vision”: A Reading of Loyalties’
Shintaro Kono
(Hitotsubashi University, Japan), ‘Beyond ‘“Developmental Narratives”: Virginia
Woolf, Emyr Humphreys and Haruki Murakami’
Ugo Rivetti (University of Sao Paulo,
Brazil), ‘Literature and
Capitalism in
Raymond
Williams’ The Country and The City’
Panel Session 2: The Urban and the
Industrial
Daniel Hughes (Bangor
University), ‘“At the hand of
the mangle”: Urban Modernism and Meaninglessness in Gwyn Thomas’s Oscar’
Alexandra Jones (Swansea
University), ‘Deformed
Landscape, Disabled Industry: Disability in South Wales Coalfields Literature’
Daryl Leeworthy (Cardiff University), ‘Making Room for
Jesters: Male Sexuality, Class, and the Urban in the Writing of Ron Berry and
Stead Jones’
11-11.30am Coffee (Blayney Room/ Dining Room)
11.30-1pm Parallel sessions
Panel Session 3: Raymond
Williams II
Malcolm Ballin, ‘”A Kind of Fall”: Some Welsh
Perspectives from The Country and The City’
David JG Barnes (University of South Wales), ‘Raymond
Williams and contemporary realist art practice’
Steve Hendon (Cardiff University), ‘An emotional
‘border crossed’: industrialised
masculinities in Gwyn Thomas’s All
Things Betray Thee (1949) and Raymond Williams’s Border Country (1960)’
Panel Session 4:
Landscapes of Ceredigion/ Cardiganshire
Jayne Bowden (University of South Wales), ‘“The Devil’s Grandmother’s
Jointure”: Elisabeth Inglis-Jones’ Gothic
Wales’
Alan Vaughan Jones (Independent
Scholar) ‘Representations of Ceredigion in Alun Lewis’s ‘Dwellers in the Valley’ and Idris Davies’s ‘Teify Side’
Kate Woodward (Aberystwyth University) ‘Noiring the
Picturesque: the discovery and abandonment of landscape in Hinterland / Y
Gwyll’
1-2 Lunch
2-3 Centenary Panel: Caradoc
Evans, My People (1915) (Seminar Room 1)
Chair: Kirsti Bohata
Dinah Jones, an award-winning programme maker, will
talk about her documentary film Caradoc Evans A’i Bobl (S4C) with M. Wynn Thomas and Mary-Ann Constantine
3-4 Parallel sessions
Panel Session 5: Short
fictions
Jane Aaron (University of South Wales), ‘Hiraeth
and the Pastoral in the Welsh Short Story in English’
Michelle Deininger (Cardiff
Metropolitan University), ‘“Ugly
cracks against the sky”: rural landscapes and
the politics of disease in the short fiction of Elizabeth Baines’
Panel Session 6:
Rural fictions
Georgia Burdett (CREW/ Swansea University), 'Bobbing along
a sea of urbanism: the rural fiction of Cynan Jones'
Lisa Sheppard (Cardiff University), ‘“Escape to the
Country”’ or into the Heart of Darkness?: “Going Native” in Joe Dunthorne’s Wild
Abandon
(2011)’
4-4.30 Tea (Blayney Room/ Dining Room)
4.30-5.30 Keynote Lecture 2 (Seminar Room 1)
Chair: Aidan Byrne
Ed Thomas, film maker, title tbc
5.30-6.30 Parallel
sessions
Panel Session 7: R.S. Thomas and the rural
Ceri Subbe (Bangor University) ‘From Iago to Ianto: How the Welsh peasant
lost the voice it never had’
Andrew Webb (Bangor University), ‘Post-rural,
post-urban space in R.S. Thomas’
Panel Session 8: Village
life and country ‘folk’
Catriona Coutts (Bangor
University), ‘The Influence of
the Gwerin Writers on the Work of Rhys Davies’
Liz Jones (Aberystwyth University), ‘Performing the
Language of the Grotesque: The “malignant beauty” of Caradoc Evans’ Taffy’
7-8 Dinner
8.15-9.15 Creative Keynote (Seminar Room 1)
Chair: Diana
Wallace
Professor Christopher Meredith
(University of South Wales)
'I'r Bur Hoff Bau'
Sunday 29 March
8.00-9.30 Breakfast
9.30-11 Parallel sessions
Panel Session 9 : Curious travellers: travel writing and
tourism
Mary-Ann Constantine (University of Wales,
CAWCS), ‘“Mountain-plants brought into a
stove”: Country and City in Catherine
Hutton’s The Welsh Mountaineer (1817)’
Elizabeth Edwards (University of Wales,
CAWCS) ‘”[S]eventeen different processes”: Mary Brunton’s border crossings’
Rita Singer (Prifysgol Bangor University), ‘German
Travel Writing in Search of the Poet as a Bohemian Dropout’
Panel Session 10:
Post-devolution gender and place
Emma Schofield (Cardiff University), ‘Returning to
Ground Level: Rediscovering Rural, Urban and Coastal Spaces in Stevie Davies’ Kith and Kin and Erica Woof’s
Mud Puppy’
Robert Walton (Cardiff University), ‘The ruralisation
of gender relationships in the novels of Trezza Azzopardi’
Rhiannon Heledd Williams (University of South Wales),
‘Local or National? Gender, place and identity in post-devolution Wales’ literature’
11.11.30 Coffee (Blayney Room)
11.30 -1pm Parallel sessions
Panel Session 11: Re/inhabiting the rural
Siriol McAvoy, (Cardiff University), ‘“My mother gave
me a pure white book with thick leaves and in it I pressed wild flowers”:
Lynette Roberts, neo-Romanticism, and gendered re-visions of national identity’
Rosie Milnes (Bangor University),
‘A geocritical re-examination
of Brenda Chamberlain’s Tide Race’
Sarah Morse, (CREW), ‘Reinhabiting the Rhondda:
Reading Ron Berry as an Eco-Centric Writer’
Panel Session 12: City and
Country
Jessica George (Cardiff
University), ‘“The unknown
region that lies beyond the Gray’s Inn
Road”: Evolutionary anxiety in the country and the city in Arthur Machen’s The Green Round
Sally Roberts Jones, ‘THE LITERATURE OF
WALES: City and Country’
Shan Morgain (University of Swansea), ‘Mabinogi Man: a
structural analysis of town and country portraits’
1-2pm Lunch and departure
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