Past Research Seminars
Past Seminar Events 2008/09
18 February 2009
Professor Patrick McGuinness (St Anne's College, Oxford University)
'Lynette Roberts's Poetic Transpositions'
18 March 2009
Glenn Jordan
Mothers and Daughters: Photographing Multi Ethnic Wales
Past Seminar Events 2007/08
Wednesday 31 October 2007
CREW
Seminar in Welsh Writing in English
Performance Lecture: Cerdded Adre/My Long Walk Home
Rowan O’Neill, Performance Artist
Wednesday 28 November 2007
CREW
Seminar in Welsh Writing in English
'Those blue remembered hills': Welsh border writing by men.
Dr Katie Gramich (Cardiff University)
Wednesday 6 February 2008
CREW
Seminar in Welsh Writing in English
Eighteenth-century women’s writing from Wales
Dr Sarah Prescott (Aberystwyth University)
Wednesday 20 February 2008
CREW
Seminar in Welsh Writing in English
Representing the Scottish and Irish Working Class in the 1980s
Dr Joseph Brooker (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Wednesday 5 March 2008
CREW
Seminar in Welsh Writing in English
A Common Reader: New Welsh Review 2002 - 2008
Dr Francesca Rhydderch (Editor, New Welsh Review)
Wednesday 19 March 2008
CREW
Seminar in Welsh Writing in English
Savantism and Disabled Presence in Niall Griffiths' Runt [CANCELLED]
Dr Stuart Murray (Leeds University)
Past Seminar Events 2006/07
Wednesday 9 May 2007
CREW
Seminar in Welsh Writing in English
Herman Melville: Autodidact of Empire
Dr Andrew Lawson, Leeds Metropolitan
Past Seminar Events 2005/06
Wednesday October 26 2005
CREW
Seminar in Welsh Writing in English
A Bilingual ‘Hamlet’
Gareth Miles, playwright
Wednesday November 9 2005
CREW
Seminar in Welsh Writing in English
Frederick Douglass’s ‘Welsh Friend’: the Welsh-American Press and Abolition, 1838-1865
Dr Jerry Hunter, University of Wales Bangor
Wednesday November 30 2005
CREW
Seminar in Welsh Writing in English
The Place of Wales in the New Ecopoetry
Dr Matt Jarvis, University of Wales Aberystwyth
Wednesday 8 February 2006
CREW
Seminar in Welsh Writing in English
Kafka / Gwyneth Lewis: Towards a Minor Literature
Dr Ian Gregson, University of Wales Bangor
Wednesday March 1 2006
CREW
Seminar in Welsh Writing in English
Poetry and Politics in Modern/Contemporary Welsh Writing in English
Dr Patrick McGuinness, St Anne’s College, Oxford University
Past Seminar Events 2004/05
Wednesday 24 November 2004
CREW
Seminar in Welsh Writing in English
On 18th and 19th Century American Literature
Dr Robert Lawson-Peebles, University of Exeter
Past Seminar Events 2003/04
Wednesday 12 November 2003
CREW
The Romans in Britain, 1603-1614
Professor John Kerrigan, Cambridge
Wednesday 21 January 2004
CREW
Seminar in Welsh Writing in English
Welsh Writing in Welsh: some problems and contexts
Owen Martell, novelist
Wednesday 4 February 2004
CREW
Seminar in Welsh Writing in English
Writing Arts Profiles for The Guardian
Nick Wroe, The Guardian
Monday 9 February 2004
W.D. THOMAS MEMORIAL LECTURE
Writing Home: Reflections of a Swansea Novelist
Dr Stevie Davies, Director of Creative Writing, UWS
Thursday 26 February 2004
CREW
Seminar in Welsh Writing in English
Transatlantic Literary Relations
Professor Susan Manning, Edinburgh University
Past Seminar Events 2002/03
Wednesday 20 November 2002
CREW
Seminar in Welsh Writing in English
Painting and Poetry
Iwan Bala, artist
Wednesday 4 December 2002
CREW
Seminar in Welsh Writing in English
Patrick Kavanagh and R.S. Thomas [provisional title]
Professor Patrick Crotty, University of Ulster
Past Seminar Events 2001/02
Monday October 22 2001
Department of English/Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales
Seminar in Welsh Writing in English
Between and After two Referendums: Contemporary Welsh Writing in English
Professor Jane Aaron
Wednesday November 14 2001
Department of English/Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales
Seminar in Welsh Writing in English
Post-War Irish Poetry
Professor Neil Corcoran
Wednesday 28 November 2001
Department of English/Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales
Seminar in Welsh Writing in English
Orality, Rurality and the Construction of Memory: the ‘prior culture’ in the work of George Ewart Evans
Professor Gareth Williams
Wednesday 30 January 2002
Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales
Seminar in Welsh Writing in English
On the uses of "hiraeth' in Welsh Writing in English
Dr Stephen Logan, University of Cambridge
Wednesday 20 February 2002
Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales
Seminar in Welsh Writing in English
On the Subject of Place
Professor Barbara Hardy
Wednesday 19 March 2002
Seminar in Welsh Writing in English
National Identity, Language Maintenance and Language Death
Dr Mari C Jones, University of Cambridge
Friday 26 April 2002
Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales
Seminar in Welsh Writing in English
The Question of Intellectuals in 20th Century Britain
Presented by Professor Stefan Collini, University of Cambridge