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.
