‘Wales and Revolution’
AWWE in collaboration with the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth: 23rd Annual Conference April 8-10, 2011
The Association for Welsh Writing in English is proud to be collaborating with the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies in organizing its annual conference in 2011 on the subject of ‘Wales and Revolution’. The Centre has an important current research project on ‘Wales and the French Revolution’, which seeks to plot how the momentous events of 1789 and their aftermath came to be known and felt across the country, and to explore whether Welsh responses to the Revolution differed from those in Scotland, Ireland or London. A wide range of texts in both Welsh and English, from ballads and pamphlets to poems, essays, journals, sermons, songs and satires, are being analysed and edited by the project team. This textual focus makes it an ideal partner for members of AWWE, the association which provides one of the main scholarly fora for research and critical debate on Welsh writing in English of all periods and often in comparative contexts.
The conference interprets the theme, ‘Wales and Revolution’, in a variety of ways, both literal and metaphorical. Authors discussed range from T. Gwynn Jones and Amy Dillwyn to Raymond Williams and Ron Berry, as well as a host of lesser known names, while speakers focus on periods from the late eighteenth century right up to the present. Our plenary speakers are the Romantic specialist, Professor Caroline Franklin (Swansea University) and the scholar of working-class literature, Emeritus Professor H. Gustav Klaus (University of Rostock). The Wales Book of the Year winner, novelist Wiliam Owen Roberts, author of the revolutionary novel Petrograd will also be reading from his work.
Organizers:
Dr. Katie Gramich, School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU. Email: [email protected]. Telephone: 02920-875622
Dr. Mary-Ann Constantine, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3HH. Email: [email protected] Telephone: 01970 636543.
The Association for Welsh Writing in English is proud to be collaborating with the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies in organizing its annual conference in 2011 on the subject of ‘Wales and Revolution’. The Centre has an important current research project on ‘Wales and the French Revolution’, which seeks to plot how the momentous events of 1789 and their aftermath came to be known and felt across the country, and to explore whether Welsh responses to the Revolution differed from those in Scotland, Ireland or London. A wide range of texts in both Welsh and English, from ballads and pamphlets to poems, essays, journals, sermons, songs and satires, are being analysed and edited by the project team. This textual focus makes it an ideal partner for members of AWWE, the association which provides one of the main scholarly fora for research and critical debate on Welsh writing in English of all periods and often in comparative contexts.
The conference interprets the theme, ‘Wales and Revolution’, in a variety of ways, both literal and metaphorical. Authors discussed range from T. Gwynn Jones and Amy Dillwyn to Raymond Williams and Ron Berry, as well as a host of lesser known names, while speakers focus on periods from the late eighteenth century right up to the present. Our plenary speakers are the Romantic specialist, Professor Caroline Franklin (Swansea University) and the scholar of working-class literature, Emeritus Professor H. Gustav Klaus (University of Rostock). The Wales Book of the Year winner, novelist Wiliam Owen Roberts, author of the revolutionary novel Petrograd will also be reading from his work.
Organizers:
Dr. Katie Gramich, School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU. Email: [email protected]. Telephone: 02920-875622
Dr. Mary-Ann Constantine, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3HH. Email: [email protected] Telephone: 01970 636543.
Responses
Aidan Byrne (The Plashing Vole) published a set of conference weekend photos on flickr, as well as blogging both before and after the conference itself.
Documentation
Download the 2011 booking form and programme here:
| awwe_2011_programme.pdf |
Download a copy of the 2011 conference abstracts here (reproduced from the CREW archive of recent AWWE conferences at http://www.swansea.ac.uk/crew/awwe/conferencearchive/2011/):
| awwe_2011_abstracts.pdf |
