Cynhadledd Astudiaethau Cymreig / Postgraduate Conference in Welsh Studies

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/

 

 

Brittle with Relics: Kirsti Bohata interviews Richard King

 

 

Cyfres Salon Llenyddol y Sefydliad Diwylliannol Dydd Mercher 6ed Ebrill 12yp – 1yp Creu Taliesin, Campws Singleton ‘Brittle with Relics’   Ar y cyd â Canolfan Astudiaethau Cymreig Richard Burton   Fel rhan o Gyfres Salonau Llenyddol, bydd Richard King yn sgwrsio â Kirsti Bohata, Athro Llenyddiaeth Saesneg a Chyfarwyddwr CREW (y Ganolfan Ymchwil i Lên ac Iaith Saesneg Cymru) ym Mhrifysgol Abertawe.   Llyfr sy'n torri tir newydd am hanes pobl Cymru yn ystod cyfnod o newid cenedlaethol mawr.   Yn ystod traean olaf yr ugeinfed ganrif, profodd Cymru effeithiau dad-ddiwydiannu, colli cyflogaeth a chydlyniad cymunedol yn sgil hyn, a brwydr am ei hiaith a'i hunaniaeth, i gyd ar yr un pryd. I raddau helaeth, gorfodwyd y newidiadau hyn ar y wlad a bu'n rhaid i'w llais ei hun, na cheir cytundeb yn ei gylch braidd byth o fewn ei ffiniau, frwydro i gael ei glywed y tu allan i Gymru.   Mae Brittle with Relics yn adrodd hanes pobl Cymru wrth iddynt fynd drwy rai o ddigwyddiadau mwyaf seismig a thrawmatig y wlad: trychinebau Aberfan a Thryweryn; twf mudiad yr iaith Gymraeg; Streic y Glowyr a'i sgil-effeithiau; a'r bleidlais o drwch blewyn o blaid datganoli rhannol.   Gan gynnwys lleisiau Neil Kinnock, Rowan Williams, Leanne Wood, Gruff Rhys, Michael Sheen, Nicky Wire, Siân James, ymgyrchwyr dros y Gymraeg, aelodau'r hen gymunedau glo a llawer mwy, dyma stori hollbwysig am genedl sy'n benderfynol o oroesi, gan goleddu'r gobaith y bydd Cymru, ryw ddydd, yn ffynnu ar ei thelerau ei hun.   Richard King yw awdur Original Rockers (a gafodd ei gynnwys ar restr fer Gwobr Gordon Burn ac ar restr Rough Trade, The Times ac Uncut o lyfrau'r flwyddyn), How Soon is Now? (Llyfr Cerddoriaeth y Flwyddyn The Sunday Times) a The Lark Ascending (Un o lyfrau'r flwyddyn Rough Trade, Mojo a'r Evening Standard, a llyfr rhestr fer Gwobr Penderyn) y cyhoeddwyd pob un ohonynt gan Faber & Faber. Cafodd ei eni i deulu dwyieithog yn ne Cymru a bu'n byw yng nghefn gwlad Powys am yr 20 mlynedd diwethaf.   COFRESTWRCH YMA:  bit.ly/brittlewithrelics

Cultural Institute Literary Salon Series   Wednesday 6th April 12pm – 1pm Taliesin Create, Singleton Campus ‘Brittle with Relics’   In association with Richard Burton Centre for the Study of Wales   As part of the Literary Salon Series, Richard King will be in conversation with Kirsti Bohata, Professor of English Literature and Director of CREW (Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales) at Swansea University.   A landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change.   In the closing third of the twentieth century, Wales experienced the simultaneous effects of deindustrialisation, the subsequent loss of employment and community cohesion, and the struggle for its language and identity. These changes were largely forced upon the country, whose own voice, rarely agreed upon within its borders, had to fight to be heard outside of Wales.   Brittle with Relics is a history of the people of Wales undergoing some of the country's most seismic and traumatic events: the disasters of Aberfan and Tryweryn; the rise of the Welsh language movement; the Miners' Strike and its aftermath; and the narrow vote in favour of partial devolution.   Featuring the voices of Neil Kinnock, Rowan Williams, Leanne Wood, Gruff Rhys, Michael Sheen, Nicky Wire, Sian James, Welsh language activists, members of former mining communities and many more, this is a vital history of a nation determined to survive, while maintaining the hope that Wales will one day thrive on its own terms.   Richard King is the author of Original Rockers (shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and a Rough Trade, The Times and Uncut Book of the Year), How Soon Is Now? (the Sunday Times Music Book of the Year) and The Lark Ascending (a Rough Trade, Mojo and Evening Standard Book of the Year, shortlisted for the Penderyn Prize), all published by Faber & Faber. He was born into a bilingual family in South Wales and for the last twenty years has lived in the rural county of Powys, in mid-Wales.     REGISTER HERE: bit.ly/brittlewithrelics

Upcoming Event (7/11/2021): Culture is Ordinary | Film Financed by the Raymond Williams Foundation

Wales Millenium Centre, Weston Studio, Sunday 7 November, 7pm - 7.30pm (FREE): Join us for the film premier of Culture is Ordinary, a piece created to mark the centenary of the birth of the Welsh writer and thinker Raymond Williams. Financed by the Raymond Williams Foundation, the 20 minute film focuses on the way culture is interpreted by young people in Wales. Directed by Colin Thomas and created by Cardiff-based artist Tom Goddard with new music by Cardiff musician Kiddus Murrell, currently working at Tŷ Cerdd. 

Link: https://www.wmc.org.uk/en/festival-of-voice/2021-artist-line-up/sundays-free-performances

Raymond Williams in Asia / Raymond Williams yn Asia

The next two symposia in the ‘Raymond Williams in the Age of Globalisation’ series are dedicated to Japan (October 22) and China (October 27) respectively. 

Full details of speakers, paper and registration links are on the website:

https://www.swansea.ac.uk/crew/raymond-williams/the-centenary-symposia/

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Ar ddydd Gwener Hydref 22 mi fyddwn yn trafod gwaith Raymond Williams gyda myfyrwyr ac ysgolheigion o Siapan. Fel y mae blogiadau blaenorol yn tystio, dyma berthynas hynod gyfoethog a gychwynnodd gyda ymweliad Shintaro Kono a Takashi Onuki yn 2009. Yna ar Hydref 27 mi fydd ysgolheigion o Tseina yn ymuno gyda ni.

Manylion llawn ar y wefan: 

https://www.swansea.ac.uk/cy/celfyddydauardyniaethau/ymchwil-y-celfyddydau-ar-dyniaethau/canolfannau-a-grwpiau-ymchwil-celfyddydau-a-dynoliaethau/crew/raymond-williams/cynadleddaur-canmlwyddiant/

Raymond Williams Symposium in China

Dr Zhou Mingying (who has been a Richard Burton Fellow working on the Raymond Williams papers at Swansea University) has written a report on a Raymond Williams that took place at Shaanxi Normal University. Some of those involved with speak at the Raymond Williams in China symposium on October 27th. 

Retrospection and Transcendence: Raymond Williams Centenary and Travel of Cultural Studies 

The Symposium was jointly hosted by Center for the Research of Literary and Cultural Theory of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Journal of Theory and Criticism of Literature and Art and School of Chinese Language and Literature of Shaanxi Normal University. Around 35 scholars from many famous Chinese universities and research institutes attended the gathering on the campus of Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an. They shared their studies on Raymond Williams from their distinct points of view to commemorate this prestigious Western Marxist together.

The symposium began at 9:00, 25th of September. Professor Su Zhongle ,Dean of School of Chinese Language and Literature, Shaanxi Normal Univeristy, Professor Cheng Wei, Dean of Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Professor Lu Taiguang, Deputy Director of Institute of Marxist Literary Theory, Chinese National Academy of Arts, gave their respective speech in the opening ceremony. Dean Su reviewed Raymond Williams’ important position in  Marxist history as well as in literary history, especially Williams Leftist stance in the domain of cultural studies that promoted the popular culture of the ordinary people. Director Cheng talked about the changing historical subjects of Marxists in the different historical contexts, and then warned against “the unconscious” embedded in the texts when studying western scholars. Whereas, Director Lu made an introspection of the studies in humanities and social sciences in China and made a positive view about the symposium in Raymond Williams studies as well as Western Marxist studies in China. The symposium comprised five sessions, with each session focusing on different topics, ranging from the discussions on the concept of “community” and “structure of feelings”, to the translation and introduction of Williams’ works in China, and even to the textual analysis of Williams’ fiction. In the closing ceremony, Prof. Xu Delin, on behalf of Center for the Research of Literature and Theory, Chinese Academy of Social Science, expressed deep gratitude to Dean Su Zhongle for hosting such a meaningful and memorable symposium and to the scholars from different parts of China for attending the academic gathering despite the covid-19 pandemic. Prof. Xu further pointed out that the British Marxists since 1970’s were worth our attention and the current China also needed such neo-Marxists like Raymond Williams.

Raymond Williams Symposium1

Centenary Symposia  https://www.swansea.ac.uk/cy/celfyddydauardyniaethau/ymchwil-y-celfyddydau-ar-dyniaethau/canolfannau-a-grwpiau-ymchwil-celfyddydau-a-dynoliaethau/crew/raymond-williams/cynadleddaur-canmlwyddiant/                                                               

Symposia’r Canmlwyddiant  https://www.swansea.ac.uk/crew/raymond-williams/the-centenary-symposia/

Raymond Williams in an Age of Globalisation.
Raymond Williams yng nghyfnod Globaleiddio

Symposium 1: Raymond Williams in Europe
Symposiwm 1: Raymond Williams yn Ewrop

Wednesday, September 29, 2021 

Dydd Mercher, Medi 29, 2021

Attendee Registration:
https://swanseauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-ucEu3G1Ti2TUZwE88YRug

See Website for abstract, speaker bios etc:
https://www.swansea.ac.uk/crew/raymond-williams/

10.00 Opening the Centenary Symposia. 

Daniel Williams introduces Merryn Williams (Raymond Williams’s daughter) who will launch the Centenary Symposia. 

10.30 – 11.30

Phoebe Braithwaite, Harvard University

Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall 

Julian Preece, Swansea University 

Raymond Williams and Elias Canetti

11.30 – 11.45 Break. 

11.45 - 12.45 

Rhian Jones, Red Pepper Magazine.

Raymond Williams and the Break-up of Britain

Kirsti Bohata, Swansea University 

Williams and Environmentalism

12.45 – 1.15. Lunch Break

1.15 – 1.45 

Harald Pittel, University of Potsdam

Feelings without Structure: A Cultural Materialist View of Populism and Affective Politics.

1.45 - 2.30  

From the German New Left to Ethnic Modernism 

Werner Sollors, Harvard University in discussion with Daniel G. Williams 

2.30 Close. 

Evening Event 6 – 7.30

A Creative Response to Raymond Williams as Psycho-Geographer

Separate Attendee Registration: https://swanseauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bF_-iWdZS96o0iereFIQVA

A Creative Response to Raymond Williams as Psycho-Geographer

Creative Evening Event. 6pm. Wednesday. September 29

Digwyddiad Creadigol. 6pm. Dydd Mercher. Medi 29.

In this presentation we consider how place and time were significant to Raymond Williams. In particular, Aled Singleton and Jon Gower pick elements of Border Country to explore how the structure of feeling concept is applied to capture the specificity of everyday life.

Performance artist Marega Palser gives short responses to a dialogue between Jon and Aled. We hope that the event inspires people to consider walking and site-specific performance as a means for future creative research.

3-minute film of the collaboration between Aled, Jon and Marega in 2019 https://vimeo.com/373090583

Aled Singleton is interested in psychgeography, walking, and using creative ways to explore emotional attachments to place. He has a professional background managing community and urban regeneration projects (2006-18) including community asset transfers, landscape architecture, events, and local economic development. Aled is now starting an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in human geography at Swansea University, focusing on the post-war environment: a time of industrial renewal, increased private motor vehicles and semi-detached suburban living. 

Marega Palser  is a performance based artist living in Newport, South Wales. She originally studied at the London School of Contemporary Dance, and after graduating in 1985 went on to work with various theatre companies, as well as being a founder member of the dance theatre group Paradox Shuffle who were based in Cardiff. Since 2001 she has worked with Gareth Clark as one half of the performance duo Mr & Mrs Clark.

She has collaborated with many artists and musicians and has performed and made work for Gallery spaces and for outdoor events both in this country and abroad. In 1994 she went to Japan to study and work with Butoh dancer Tetsuro Fukuhara.

In 2008 she completed a BA Honours in Fine Art at Howard Gardens (UWIC) in Cardiff, and a year later received a Creative Wales Award to develop her art and performance practice.

Jon Gower is a prize-winning author with over thirty books to his name. These include The Story of Wales, which accompanied the landmark BBC TV series and Y Storïwr, which won the Wales Book of the Year.  His volume An Island Called Smith, about a disappearing island in Chesapeake Bay was awarded the John Morgan Travel Writing Prize. Recent publications include studies of the radical film-maker Karl Francis and the visual artist John Selway as well as Gwalia Patagonia, being an account of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia and Wales: At Water’s Edge about the country’s coastal path. Jon has also published five novels and five collections of short stories.  He was an inaugural Hay Festival International Fellow and has been awarded an Arts Council of Wales Prize, a Creative Wales award and won both The National Eisteddfod Short Story Prize and the Allen Raine Short Story Competition.

Raymond Williams Centenary Conference: University of Hyderabad

 

CREW's Daniel Williams be delivering the 'Closing Plenary' at this international conference held on the Centenary of Raymond Williams's birth.