Underscapes
Friday 9 - Sunday 11 May 2025
Hybrid Conference – in person at Gregynog Hall, Newtown, Powys, and simultaneously online
The Thirty-fifth Annual Conference
of the Association for Welsh Writing in English
Hybrid Conference – in person at Gregynog Hall, Newtown, Powys, and simultaneously online
The Thirty-fifth Annual Conference
of the Association for Welsh Writing in English
Call for Papers
What lies beneath? From drowned villages and underwater kingdoms, to peatbogs, coal-mines and the murky depths of the subconscious, we
are troubled and intrigued by places we cannot see. Not yet defined by the OED, the term 'underscape' opens up perspectives from below.
Sometimes used in geological discourses of rocks and strata, 'underscape' can also refer to sociological realms of class, race and activism. How do the critical tools of our discipline get under the skin of a text? How do we uncover hidden worlds that have been blanketed by a canon? This call for papers invites responses to 'underscape' interpreted as widely as possible – from the figurative and imagined to the physical and actual.
Possible themes for consideration include (but are not limited to):
are troubled and intrigued by places we cannot see. Not yet defined by the OED, the term 'underscape' opens up perspectives from below.
Sometimes used in geological discourses of rocks and strata, 'underscape' can also refer to sociological realms of class, race and activism. How do the critical tools of our discipline get under the skin of a text? How do we uncover hidden worlds that have been blanketed by a canon? This call for papers invites responses to 'underscape' interpreted as widely as possible – from the figurative and imagined to the physical and actual.
Possible themes for consideration include (but are not limited to):
- Texts and textualities, close-reading and text-mining
- Geology and science
- Deep mapping
- Extraction, mining, energy studies, climate crisis
- Critical underscapes, neglected authors, works and approaches
- Psychology and hidden selves
- Relations between languages
The conference is open to both critical and creative proposals – and welcomes work which reflects on the field (or part of the field) or which demonstrates, in its own practice, ways of challenging or extending the study of Welsh writing in English.
Proposals may be from individuals (limited to 20 minutes), from pre-formed panels of three papers (90 minutes total) or for a round table discussion (90 minutes).
Proposals of no more than 250 words should be submitted via our form.
Proposals may be from individuals (limited to 20 minutes), from pre-formed panels of three papers (90 minutes total) or for a round table discussion (90 minutes).
Proposals of no more than 250 words should be submitted via our form.
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Conference Fees
Full weekend delegate rate: £275
Reduced weekend delegate rate: £160 (student, unwaged and low waged)
One day + single night accommodation: £140 / £85
Zoom access: £10
Reduced weekend delegate rate: £160 (student, unwaged and low waged)
One day + single night accommodation: £140 / £85
Zoom access: £10
Deadline
Monday 20 January 2025
Attendance is in person or via zoom (please indicate when submitting your proposal).
Attendance is in person or via zoom (please indicate when submitting your proposal).
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