North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History
North American Journal of Welsh Studies
1995 Conference of the
North American Association
For the Study of Welsh Culture and History
University of Rio Grande, June 1-2.
Exhibitions
Ruth Hall, "The Welsh Way: Oral History of the Welsh Community in Louisa County Iowa."
Hazel Davies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, "Contemporary Theater in Wales."
Keynote Address
John Davies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, "Wales and America."
Welsh Cultural Identity
Ned Thomas, University of Wales Press, "Wales- A Cultural Island or a Cultural Crossroads?"
Medieval Welsh Literature
Patrick K. Ford, Harvard University, "Poet of the Pigs: The Poems of Llywarch ap Llywelyn, Prydydd Y Moch."
The Construction of Welsh Identity
Nerys Patterson, University of Wales, Bangor, "Welshness and Englishness: An Ethnohistorical Conceptualization of Cultural Difference."
Douglas Caulkins, Grinnell College, "The Ethnography of Contemporary Welsh and Welsh-American Identity and Values."
Recovering and Reshaping Welsh Literature
David N. Kausner, University of Toronto, "The Welsh Interludes of the Sixteenth Century: A Documentary Context."
Marta Weingartner, Indiana University, "Medieval Literature and the Ideology of Modern Scholarship: The Case of Ystoryia de Carlo Magno."
Politics of Representation in Twentieth Century Wales
John S. Ellis, Boston College, "Welsh Nationalism and the Investiture of the Prince of Wales, 1911-1969."
Micheal Thompson, Carnegie Mellon University, "From Nationalism to Federalism: Plaid Cymru and Europe."
Poetry Readings
David Lloyd, Le Moyne College.
Jeremy Hooker, Bath College of Higher Education.
A Session of Welsh Folk Music by Killashandra
Debbie Norris, Harp
Ted Jordan, Fiddle
Keynote Address
Walford Davies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, "Visiting Fern Hill."
Teaching Welsh
Chris Grooms, Collin County Community College, "Madogions at the Alamo: Teaching Welsh in Texas."
Debra Luck, Indiana University, "Teach Yourself Welsh: A Reflection of the Rise in Prestige of the Welsh Language."
Welsh America
D.A. Jones, Trinity College, "A Welsh Presbyterian in America."
D. Eirug Davies, Harvard University, "Welsh Books of Nineteenth Century America."
Linda Pohly, Ball State University, "The Eisteddfod in Pennsylvania and Ohio in the Nineteenth Century."
Ronald Dennis, "The First Two Decades of Mormonism in Wales."
Keith Cooper, Miami University of Ohio, "Welsh Political Culture and its Impact upon the American Political System."
The Welsh in Industry
Karen Vuranch, West Virginia Graduate College, "The Influence of the Welsh Immigrants on the Development of the American Coal Fields."
Peter Williams, "David Thomas: The Father of the American Anthracite Iron Industry."
R. Merfyn Jones, University College of Wales, Bangor, "Wales- The Mining of a Nation."
Medieval Wales
Alan Grossman, University of California, Santa Cruz, "Diasporic Identity on the Welsh Marches."
Shannon Rogers, Penn State University, "Politics or Passion? A Look Inside the Marriage of Llywelyn ab Iowerth and Joanna of England."
Modern Welsh Literature
Jeremy Hooker, Bath College of Higher Education, "David Jones and the Matter of Wales."
Gavin Keulks, University of Kentucky, "The Natural Echoes of R.S. Thomas' Early Poetry."