Conferences
Recent
David Jones Centre Launch Conference, 14 September 2012
The David Jones Centre was launched at a one-day conference on 14 September 2012 at the DRWM, National Lilbrary of Wales.
Locating Revolution: Place, Voice, Community, 9-12 July 2012
A conference jointly hosted by the Wales and the French Revolution Project at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies; the Centre for Romantic Studies, Aberystwyth University; and the Department of English, Swansea University.
This multi-disciplinary conference invites papers which engage with local, regional, national, European and transatlantic responses to the Age of Revolutions. In what local forms did the upheavals of the age manifest themselves? What was the relationship between social, religious and political loyalties and people’s landscapes and environments? What forms did loyalism and opposition take in particular rural, regional, urban and metropolitan communities? Papers may focus on any aspect of history, science, literature, song, visual arts and material culture. Full details.
Are We There Yet? Remapping Literary Imagination, 25-27 April 2012
As our world continues to shift from localised cultures into a global society the landscapes of the humanities, like those of the real world, are constantly in a state of flux. This conference will explore how both the creative and critical modes of literary study are exploratory journeys that chart the sometimes subtle and sometimes seismic shifting of this terrain as it pertains to our ideas of nation, race, gender and art. Full details.
New Horizons: Crossing the Borderlands of the Humanities, 11-13 May 2011
With the rise of interdisciplinary criticisms, new and exciting light has been shed on the humanities, whether new avenues into past or contemporary literature, art or history, new forms of fiction and poetry, or blended methodologies and criticisms. This conference will explore various ways that the humanities might approach this new and open territory. See more details.
The Wye Valley: Romantic Representations, 1640-1830, 6-8 July 2011
The Wye Valley: Romantic Representations will examine a broad spectrum of negotiations with the Wye Valley during the period 1640–1830, following in the footsteps and waterwakes of the period’s commentators, authors and artists. How might we ‘revisit’ the Wye Valley in order to defamiliarise the myriad responses to this landscape? What is the extent of the Wye Valley’s ‘reach’ into the various cultures of the age? What are the contours of various ‘cross-border’ negotiations with the Wye? The conference will bring international scholars together to examine a crucial section of the Welsh and British map. See more details.
Location, Reception and Identity: Welsh Women's Writing in English, 2000 - Present Day , 11 March 2011
Combining creative and critical modes with the aim of establishing a ‘ground map’ of current trends in Welsh women’s writing, the symposium looked back at the influence of twentieth century writers such as Kate Roberts, but also towards future trends.
Recycling Myths, Inventing Nations, 14th - 16th July 2010
Recycling Myths, Inventing Nations explored myth and myth-making in all its guises. The conference brought together scholars working across creative and critical disciplines, historical periods and theoretical approaches in order to explore the links between story-telling, mythology, histories, identities and ideologies
Communities of Inquiry, Communities of Practice, 8th - 9th September 2009
The department hosted a two-day conference to bring together teachers and learners interested in exploring the possibilities of Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL), particularly in the humanities disciplines. Supported by CILASS (Centre for Inquiry-based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences) this event united practitioners, academics, and learning technologists to showcase current learning and teaching practices, and explore new methods of encouraging and supporting IBL.
Reappraising Welsh Modernism: A One-Day Postgraduate Symposium, 14th November 2008
Held at the National Library of Wales this event provided a forum for cutting-edge research on twentieth-century Modernist writing in Welsh and European contexts a combination of short papers, workshop sessions and round-table discussion. Papers were be delivered by Dr Patrick McGuinness, Laura Wainwright (Cardiff University), and Alan Vaughan Jones (Aberystwyth University). A presentation on resources available at the National Library of Wales relating to the study of Modernist writing was delivered by Ifor ap Dafydd.
Archive Fervour/Archive Further, Literature: Archives, and Literary Archives, 9th - 11th July 2008
This interdisciplinary conference explored the theoretical intersections between various disciplines in relation to the collection and processing of literary archives, writing about authors from the archive, the difficulties in archiving sound and performance, the trope of the archive in literary works, and many other topics. Keynote speakers were Carolyn Steedman (Warwick), Terry Cook (Manitoba), and Jeff Cowton (Wordsworth Trust).
Writing Wales: 1500-1800, 3rd - 4th July 2008
The Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) hosted a two-day conference at the National Library of Wales on the theme ‘Writing Wales: 1500-1800’. The aim of the conference was to explore the ways in which Wales was imagined in historical and literary texts in both Welsh and English in the early modern period, through the eighteenth century, and on to Romanticism. The conference provided an unprecedented opportunity for scholars across disciplines and conventional period demarcations to engage in a discussion of the different ways in which Wales was ‘written’ in the period 1500-1800.