Plenary sessions:

Ralph Griffiths, Professor of History, University of Wales, Swansea
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Catherine McKenna, Margaret Brooks Robinson Professor of Celtic Studies, Harvard University
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Pawl W. Birt, Chair of Celtic Studies, University of Ottawa
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Concurrent sessions:

Bringing Welsh Museums and Libraries into the 21st Century
Martin Locock A nation talking to itself: Wales and its journals in the 19th and 20th centuries
Kenneth Brassil New Archaeology Galleries at the National Museum

Early Modern Wales
Sally Harper Border Crossings: Welsh-English Musical Interchange c. 1450-1600
Karen Mura Texts and Contexts: Edward Jones and The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards (1794), An Anglo-Welsh Anthology
Megan Lloyd Patient Gwenllian and Intolerant Sir Owen: The Problems of Translating Welsh in Early Modern English Texts

Eighteenth-Century Religious Education in Wales and the U.S.
Lloyd Johnson A Profile of the founders of St. David's Society in Eighteenth Century South Carolina
Geraint Davies Griffith Jones and his circulating schools: The most important experiment in educatin in the eighteenth century "not only in Wales, but in Britain and all the British dominions"

Medieval Wales
Michael Faletra Reading Between the Lines: The Earliest Version of Gerald of Wales's Itinerarium Kambriae
Katharine Anderson Merely a Refuge for the Weak? The Place of Princely Sons in the Medieval Welsh Church
Stuart Rutten The Anglo-Cornish Vocabulary of Clothing Terms in MS. Cotton Vespasian A14, a late version of Ælfric's Glossary

New Research on Early Wales
Steffany Campbell By whose authority? Legal theory and the Law of Hywel
Dan Brielmaier Title TBA
Kristen Mills Title TBA

Opportunity and Controversy in Welsh Higher Education
Claire Syder Voices from the South Wales Valleys
Ioan Williams Welsh Medium in Higher Education
Harrison Solow The St. David's Institute for Wales in the World

The Place of Landscape in Welsh Writing and Architecture
Marcia Epstein Allentuck Sir Uvedale Price, John Nash, to the Architecture of Castle House at Aberystwyth
C.A. Prettiman "Countrysides of Anguish": Jean Rhys and the Semiotics of the Caribbean Landscape
Pete Davis "Into the Wildwood"-- Representations of the Welsh Landscape and its History in Relation to Ancient Forests

Twentieth-Century Wales
Mark J. Crowley " Return to Sender?" The Post Office's Response to the Welsh Language during the Second World War
Steve Thompson "Brodyr trwyadl mewn tywydd garw": The social provision of the South Wales Miners' Federation
Chris Hill Ernest Jones MD (1879-1958) and the Institutionalization of Psychoanalysis in the U.S.A. and Great Britain

Welsh Film and Media
Daryl Perrins The Gerwin at Ealing: the role of the Welsh in the post-war British national project of Michael Balcon
Gwenno Ffrancon The Angel in the House? Rachel Thomas, Sian Philips and the on-screen embodiment of the Welsh Mam
Mark Woods An Evaluation of the National Cinema of Wales and whether this Cinema Constructs or Represents a National Identity

Welsh Cultural Identity
Mari Elin Williams Welsh dolls in "Sunny Rhyl"-beauty pageants and nationhood in the 1950s
Michelle Walker English In-migrants in North Wales, 1970-2008: Colonisers or "Elective Belongers"?
John Harris Wales and the Ryder Cup

Welsh in North America I
Osian Rhys-Jones The Cambrian: From Cincinnati to Utica, Becoming Americans
D. Douglas Caulkins Cultural Hybridity in the Welsh and Irish Diasporas
Matt Carter Title TBA

Welsh in North America II
Gethin Matthews "The most harmless men in the whole of creation" -- Welsh reports of the native peoples of British Columbia
Mike Benbough-Jackson Scripting St. David's Day in the USA, 1880-1914
Ronald L. Lewis Shifting Identities: Welsh Immigrants in the American Coalfields, 1850-1920

Welsh Women Writers I
Katie Gramich Home and homelessness in fin-de-siecle Welsh women's writing
Claire Flay Dorothy Edwards
John L. Murphy Menna Gallie's "You're Welcome to Ulster": a Welshwoman enters the Troubles

Welsh Women Writers II
Kirsti Bohata The New Woman in Wales, 1880-1914
Bill Jones Language, Religion, Science and Feminism in the Writings of Margaret E. Roberts (1833-c. 1911)
Mary Nicholas "She who would valiant be . . ." The life and times of Cranogwen

Twentieth-Century Welsh Writers
Tony Brown The Uncanny Wales of Dylan Thomas's Short Stories
David Paddy At Home in the Dark: R. S. Thomas and Samuel Beckett
Hannah Dentinger David Jones and Prydeindod
Panel: Welsh Devolution
W.P. Griffith Whither the devolutionary imperative? Wales from war to the age of affluence, 1940-1965
Anthony Edwards Squaring the circle: Plaid Cymru and the devolution dilemma, 1945-1968

Open Panel Discussion: Teaching about Wales and the Welsh in North America
Discussion Leaders: Sarah Kennedy, Roderic Owen, Katharine Anderson

Panel: Location, Locution: Articulating the Meaning of Place in Modern Welsh Writing in English
Sarah Morse Y Blaenau and Y Fro/The Valleys and the Vale: Contested National Symbolics in the work of Gwyn Thomas (Rhondda)
Tomos Owen Behind, Between and Beyond: Constructing Wales from London in The London Kelt
Laura Wainwright The Transitional Space of Welsh Modernism

Panel: Identity, Creative Industries and Small Nations
Steven Blandford The Identity of Wales and the 'Creative Industries'
John Beynon Backdrop to the Cardiff School of Creative Industries
Lisa Lewis The Creative Industries and Drama: Square Peg/Round Hole

Panel: Queer Wales
Huw Osborne
John Sam Jones

Panel: Wales and Socialism
Martin Wright Robert Jones Derfel
John Ellis The "True Nationalism": Welsh Socialism and the 1911 Investiture
Paul Ward Contriving to be Huw T.: Wales and Socialism in the Mid-Twentieth Century

Poetry Readings with Commentary by Contributors to Other Land: Contemporary Poems on Wales and the Welsh-American Experience
Margaret Lloyd
Sarah Kennedy
William Greenway
Jon Dressel