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Welsh Women in the Americas

Friday 24 November – Saturday 25 November 2006

The Cardiff Centre for Welsh American Studies at Cardiff University presents their sixth annual conference Welsh Women in the Americas.

Programme

Friday 24 November 2006

7:00–8:30 Dr Daniel Williams (Swansea):
Cardiff Centre for Welsh American Studies Annual Lecture, 2006:
Black Skins, Blue Books: Slavery, Translation and Victorian Wales

Saturday 25 November 2006

10:15–10:30 Coffee and welcome

10:30–11:10 Dr Richard Allen (Fulton, Missouri):
Welsh Quaker Women and Pennsylvania c.1654–1750

11:10–11:50 Professor Jane Aaron (Pontypridd):
New World Awakenings: Ann Julia Hatton and Maria James in New York [in Welsh]*

11:50–12:30 Anna Gruffudd (Cardiff):
Women and the 1905 Religious Revival in Wales and America [in Welsh]*

12:30–1:30 Lunch

1:30–2:10 Dr Melinda Gray (Boston):
‘Ganwyd, Priodwyd, Bu Farw’: Poetry by Women in the Nineteenth-Century Welsh American Periodical Press

2:10–2:50 Dr E. Wyn James (Cardiff):
Between Two Worlds: Creative Tensions in the Writings of Eluned Morgan [in Welsh]*

2:50–3:30 Dr Bill Jones (Cardiff):
  Language, Religion and Nationality in the Writings of Margaret E.
  Roberts [in Welsh]*

The conference will be held in the School of Welsh, Humanities Building,
Colum Drive, Cardiff University (Room 0.31).

*These papers will be delivered in Welsh. Simultaneous translation will be available.

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COST: £25  (Unwaged: £18; Students: £10)    
Includes morning coffee and buffet lunch (cheques payable to: ‘Cardiff University’)

Please send completed form and cheque by TUESDAY, 21 NOVEMBER 2006, to:
The Centre for Welsh American Studies, School of Welsh, Cardiff University,
Humanities Building, Column Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU.

Simultaneous Translation Available

For further details and to recieve an registration form please contact:
School of Welsh, Cardiff University, Humanities Building,
Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
029 2087 4843 or cymraeg@caerdydd.ac.uk