Detail of Gregynog Hall, adapted from a photograph by Aidan Byrne

AWWE Gregynog Conferences

2017  Ex/changes: Multi-disciplinarity, Wales Studies and Beyond

2016  Wales and the World: 
         Re-Framing the Literature of Wales in an International Context

2015   The Country and the City: Rural and Urban Wales

2014   In/Dependent Wales

2013   Literary Topographies: Mapping Welsh Writing in English

2012   Performing Wales: Theatre, Art, Identities

2011   Wales and Revolution

2010   Canons and Canon-building: Framing the Literature of Wales

2009   Spaces of Comparison: Welsh Writing in English in Comparative Contexts

2008   On the Edge: Margins and Peripheries in Welsh Writing

2007   Life Writing in Wales

2006   Travelling to new Worlds: 
          Immigration, Emigration and the Experience of Wales

2005   Wales at War

2004   Writing and the Visual Arts in Wales

2003   Border Writing

2002   Post-Devolution Wales: The Re-Imagined Nation

2001   No conference due to foot & mouth outbreak. 
          General Meeting at Rhayader, October 2001.

2000   Acts of Translation (Theory, practice and politics of translation)

1999   The Short Story

1998   Culture and Identity: The Literature of Wales

1997   Street Life

1996   Poetic Acts

1995   Contemporary Welsh Writing in English

1994   Welsh Writing in English: The 1950s and 1960s

1993   Welsh Writing in English: The 1930s and 1940s

Origins

The first AWWE conference was held at Gregynog in 1986.  For several years there was no central theme. The first themed conference was organized in 1993 by Tony Brown (Bangor University). Amongst the papers at that event was the first version of Wynn Thomas’s ‘R.S. Thomas: War Poet’ and Raymond Garlick also spoke. 

Since 1986, only three years have passed without AWWE conferences: 1988, 1989, and 2001, when the foot and mouth outbreak prevented the conference that had been scheduled for that year.

Gallery

The photographs in the image gallery on this page are variously from the 2011, 2013 and 2014 conferences. They are all © Aidan Byrne, whose complete albums for each of these conferences can be found on flickr.