Seminar on Welsh Nationalism
November 12th, 2013 - Programme
8.30 Participants arrival
9.00 Seminar Welcome
9.05 Seminar Presentation Speech
Mr. Aled Eurig
Representative and Strategic Advisor of the Vice Chancellor of Swansea University
9.15 Seminar Introduction
‘Nationalists and the Problem of Overcoming Invisibility’
Dr. Enric Ucelay-Da Cal
Professor, Dept. Contemporary History UPF & Principal Researcher of GRENS
9.45 Inaugural Conference
'Cymry Fu (the Welsh that were): The Many Faces of Wales'
Dr. Huw Williams
Lecturer in Philosophy, Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol, Cardiff University
10.30 Coffee-Break
11.00 The Origins of National Identity
‘Michael D. Jones and the Welsh Awakening’
Dr. Dafydd Tudur
National Library of Wales
11.45 The Road to Self-Consciousness
‘Liberal political theory and the failure of Welsh culture in the 19th century’
Dr. Simon Brooks
12.30 We, the Nationalists
‘Invisible Men: The Uses of Comparison in Welsh Nationalist Thought’
Professor Daniel Williams
Director of the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales
13.15 Lunch
14.45 Geography and Identity
‘The Place of Welsh Nationalism’
Dr. Pyrs Gruffudd
Senior Lecturer, Swansea University
15.30 The Interwar Period
‘The Evolution and Construction of a New Nationalism’
Mr. Syd Morgan
Fellow, European Institute of Identities, Swansea University
16.15 Coffee-Break
16.45 Post-WW2 Period
'Social Democracy & Nationalism – Consensus or Divergence?'
Professor Mike Sullivan
Professor, Swansea University
17.30 Great Expectations
'Can Welsh Nationalism Reach Miroslav Hroch’s Phase C (The Rise of a National Mass Movement)?'
Dr. Alan Sandry
Fellow, European Institute of Identities, Swansea University
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Organitzen: Grup de Recerca en Estats, Nacions i Sobiranies (GRENS) & European Institute of Identities, Swansea University, Wales