Programme

09:15 – 09:30

Registration

09:45 – 10:00

Welcome/Introduction

09:30 – 11:00

Medieval Wales

10:00 – 11:00

Nationalism(s) in Wales

Chair: Catriona Coutts

Wythnos yng Ngwlad y Rwla Fydd – Gwirionedd Can Angharad a Chwrs Bywyd Radicalwyr Cymru. 
(A week in Gwlad y Rwla Fydd – Can Angharad’s truth and the Welsh radicals’ course of life)*
Rhodri Evans

The Edge of Nationalism: Wales and Athletic Club Bilbao
Stuart Stanton

11:00 – 11:30

Tea break

11:30 – 12:30

Wales through its Literature
Chair: Michaela Jacques

The Medieval in Welsh Children's Literature
Rhonwen Bruce-Roberts

Tugging at a People’s Heartstrings: The Cognitive Effects of Harri Webb’s Nationalist Writings
Catriona Coutts

12:30 – 13:45

Lunch

13:45 – 15:15

Keynote Speaker: Robin Huw Bowen
Master of the triple harp
"'The Sweet Harp of My Land' - The Triple Harp"

Introduction: Meinir Olwen

15:15 – 15:45

Tea break

15:45 – 17:15

Welsh Identities
Chair: Thomas Davies

Ieuan, Johannes and John: First Names and Identity in Early Modern Cardiganshire
Keziah Garratt-Smithson

" Welsh Identity in Guidebooks: National Trust’s Penrhyn Guide books from 1952 to 2009"
Kayla Jones

The Welsh Language as an Expression of a Form of Life
David Ellis

09:15 – 09:30

09:30 – 11:00

Medieval Wales
Chair: Irfan Rais

Welsh, English and Norman: Cultural change in medieval southeast Wales 
Thomas Davies

St Tysilio and the Community of Meifod Church: Saint’s Cults and Identity in Twelfth Century Wales
Amy Reynolds

Addysg farddol yn y bymthegfed ganrif: Gramadegau fel gwerslyfrau ymarferol
(Bardic education in the 15th century: Grammars as practical textbooks)*
Michaela Jacques

11:00 – 11:30

Tea break

11:30 – 12:30

Women in a Man’s World
Chair: Amy Reynolds

Elizabeth Salesbury of Bachymbyd: A case study of an early modern Welsh gentlewoman
Sadie Jarrett

Côr Merched y Streic: Women and choral activities during The Great ‘Penrhyn’ Strike (1900 – 1903)
Catherine Jones

12:30 – 13:45

Lunch

13:45 – 15:15

Keynote Speaker: Madeleine Gray
Emeritus Professor of Ecclesiastical History, University of South Wales
The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night: The Problem of the Reformation in Wales.
Cyflwyniad/Introduction: Sadie Jarrett

15:15 – 15:45

Tea break

15:45 – 16:45

Legislating Wales
Chair: Dave Ellis

An examination of Welsh law for the protection of children: Before and after Brexit
Tanya Herring

 ‘A little community of commissioners’ or ‘the fourth branch’ in the making?
Constitutional watchdog networks in the post-devolution Wales
Ania Rolewska