10:00am -   3:00  Registration open

10:00am  - 12:00  Executive Committee
&  Program Committee Planning Meeting

12:00noon  – 1:00  Luncheon for NAASWCH officers and committee

1:00pm – 1:15   Welcome and Opening

1:15pm – 2:45  First Concurrent Session

1.) Panel: The Battle for Welsh Devolution, 1966 – 1979

• Duncan Tanner, University of Wales, Bangor: Defining or Dividing the Nation? Opinion Polls, Welsh Identity, and Devolution
• Andrew Edwards, University of Wales, Bangor:  1979 Revisited: the Anti-devolutionary Case in Historical Perspective
• Chair: Chris Williams, University of Glamorgan

2.) Perspectives and Readings: Contemporary Welsh Literature

• Owen Martell, School of Welsh, Cardiff University: Perspectives on Contemporary Welsh Fiction
• David Lloyd, Le Moyne College:  Contemporary Welsh-American Experience: a reading from “Boys: Stories and a Novella”
• Grahame Davies, School of Welsh, Cardiff University:  Borders in the Mind
• Chair: Melinda Gray, Harvard University

2:45pm – 3:00   Break

3:00pm– 4:30  Second Concurrent Session

3.) Immigrant Industrial Labor

• Anne Knowles, Middlebury College: The Role of  Welsh Immigrant Labor in the American Iron Industry
• Ron Lewis, West Virginia University:  From Ogmore to Hollywood: the Incredible  Journey of Mary (Williams, Thomas) O’Neal
• Gethin  Matthews, Cardiff University: Gold Fever: the Welsh in the Cariboo, 1860-1870
• Chair: John Ellis, University of Michigan, Flint

4.) Representations of Wales

• Des Barry and Martin O’Neill, Cardiff University: “How Green Was My Valley”  to “A Bloody Good Friday:”  Culture and Change in Contemporary Wales
• Kate  Woodward, University of Wales, Aberystwyth: Wales and Film in the 1990’s
• Gwenno Ffrancon, University of Wales, Bangor: Dylan Thomas’ Wales on Film
• Chair: John Lloyd, College of St. Benedict

4:45pm – 5:45  First Keynote Address

• Dr. Bill Jones, School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University: Writing Back: Welsh Emigrants and their Correspondence in the Nineteenth Century
• Introduction and Chair: Ron Lewis, West Virginia University

6:30pm – 8:00   Buffet Dinner (Ballroom)

8:00am – 9:00am  continental breakfast available

9:00am – 10:30am  Third Concurrent Session

5.) Panel:  Borders, Education, & Identity

• Chris Williams, University of Glamorgan: The Ambivalence of Monmouthshire: A  Border County at the Cutting Edge
• Deborah James, University of Glamorgan: Curriculum Cymreig: Cultivating Welshness in Monmouthshire’s Secondary Schools
• Catherine Davies, University of Glamorgan: Welsh History, Welsh Identity, and the  Analysis of History Textbooks in Secondary Schools
• Chair: Anne Knowles, Middlebury College

• Melinda Gray, Harvard University: 19th Century Welsh Translation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin: the Formation of American Culture
• E. Wyn James, Cardiff University :  Welsh Ballads and American Slavery
• Chair: Carol Nelson-Burns, University of Toledo

10:45am – 11:45am  Second Keynote Address

• M. Wynn Thomas, Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of  Wales (CREW) , University of Wales, Swansea:  R.S. Thomas: the Poet as Resident Native
• Introduction and Chair: Melinda Gray, Harvard University

12:45 – 1:15   NAASWCH Business / Organizational Meeting (Ballroom)
   ** All members  are encouraged to attend and contribute **

1:15pm – 2:45pm Fourth Concurrent Session

7.) New Media: 21st Century Wales

• David M. Barlow, University of Glamorgan: Independent Local Radio in Wales: Underpinning or Undermining Democracy and Cultural Expression?
• Del Morgan, University of Glamorgan: The Emergence of a Bilingual e-community
• Grahame Davies, BBC Wales: Starting Points: the Welsh Language and the New Media
• Chair: David Lloyd, Le Moyne College

• Christine James, University of Wales, Swansea: How Green Was My Valley: Reading an  Early Modern Welsh Ballad
• Sarah  Kennedy, Mary Baldwin College : In Sickness and in Health: Welsh Women’s Recipe  Manuscripts from the 18th Century
• Moira Vincentelli, University of Wales, Aberystwyth: Gender, Identity, and Ceramic Display: the Welsh Dresser
• Chair: Shannon Rogers, St. Joseph’s University

3:00pm – 4:30pm Fifth Concurrent Session

9.) Cultural Politics of Nationalism

• William R.  Schumann, Appalachian State University: The Cultural Politics of National Ambition in Wales
• Jodie A. Kreider, University of Arizona: The Backbone of the Nation: Welsh Women in Plaid Cymru Publications, 1925-1945
• John S. Ellis, University of Michigan, Flint : The Labour Party and the 1969 Investiture of  the Prince of Wales
• Chair: Roderic Owen

• C.A. Prettiman, Cedar Crest College: Erotic Poetry in Medieval Wales
• Katharine Anderson, University of Southern Indiana: Boys, Men, and Dragons: the  Adolescent Warriors of  High Medieval Wales
• Richard Loomis, Nazareth College: Guto’r Glyn in 1492
• Chair: Megan Lloyd, Kings College

4:45pm -  6:30pm Mark Jenkins’ Playing Burton (Gluck Theatre)

Dinner on your own: Open evening

8:30am – 9:30am    Continental breakfast available

9:00am – 10:15am   Sixth  Concurrent Session

11.) Corruption and Mis-representation in  17th Century Wales

• Stephen K. Roberts, History of Parliament Trust: Political Corruption in South Wales  in the 17th and 20th Centuries: Is a Comparative Study Valid?
• Sharon K.S. Curtis, University of Colorado: Images of the Welsh in London Pamphlets during the British Civil Wars
• Chair: John Lloyd, College of St. Benedict

• Mark D. Matthews, Sheffield Hallam University & Open Univ. in Wales: Three Welsh Political Economists:  Examples of Cultural Divergence in 18th Century Wales
• Elizabeth Helen Watt, University of Wales, Bangor: Hen Gofnodion Treth: Government  Taxation Records for Wales: 1291-1689
• Chair: Eirlys Barker, Thomas Nelson Comm. College

• Elizabeth A. Brown, the University of Rio Grande: Wales and Welsh Legend in Lloyd  Alexander’s “Prydain Chronicles”
• Joe W. Moffett,  West Virginia University : David Jones’ “The Anathemata” and theModernist Search for Origins
• Chair: Melinda Gray, Harvard University

10:30am – 12:00noon   Seventh  Concurrent Session

14.) Panel: Teaching Welsh History and Literature at North American Colleges and Universities

• C. A. Prettiman, Cedar Crest College (Welsh & Celtic Literature)
• Megan Lloyd, King's College (Welsh medieval literature)
• Anne Knowles, Middlebury College (Welsh culture & geography)
• John Ellis, Univ. of  Michigan, Flint (Welsh History)
• Convener and Panelist: Roderic Owen, Mary Baldwin College (Introduction to Welsh History and Culture)

• Douglas Caulkins, Grinnell College: Welsh Culture, Celtic Culture, or Colonial Culture: Reflections on the Hechter Hypothesis
• Geraint Davies, Trinity College, Wales: Church Schools in Wales; Historical Development and Current Self-perceptions
• Lloyd Johnson, Campbell University  :  The 1736-1744 Welsh Migrations from Delaware to South Carolina
• Chair: Shannon Rogers, St. Joseph’s University

1:30pm  – 2:55pm    Eighth Concurrent Session

16.) Performance & Language: Drama and Television

• Lisa Lewis, University of Glamorgan: Welsh Language Performance: Memory and  Site
• Steve Blandford, University of Glamorgan: BBC Drama at the Margins: the Contrasting Fortunes of Northern Irish, Scottish, and  Welsh Popular TV Drama in the 1990’s
• Mark L. Woods, University of Glamorgan: A Review of Current Scholarship Relevant to a Study of Welsh Television and Film
• Chair: Roderic Owen, Mary Baldwin College

• Megan S. Lloyd, Kings College : The Valiant Welshman and Other Stereotypes: English Renaissance Views of the Welsh Character
• Jon Dressel, Independent Scholar : Poetic Expression of Welsh Nationalism of the 1960’s and ‘70’s
• Kerstin M. Baker, Mount Allison University: Their Own Worst Enemy? Plaid Cymru and Cymuned’s Self-inflicted Roadblocks….
• Chair: John Ellis, University of Michigan, Flint

18.) Folk Arts and History

• Steven Thompson, University of Wales, Aberystwyth: The People’s Songs: the Welsh Folk-Song Movement, c.1906-1939
• Mark Jenkins:   Mister Owen’s Millennium: Performing History (paper and  demonstration)
• Chair: Chris Williams, University of Glamorgan