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Professor Colin H Williams FRSA

Overview

Professor Colin H Williams Position: Research Professor Email: WilliamsCH@cf.ac.uk
 Telephone: +44(0)29 208 75657
Fax: +44(0)29 208 74604
Extension: 75657
Location: Humanities Building

Research interests

Main research interests:

Teaching Profile

BA in Welsh: Year One
  • CY1745 Cymru a’i Diwylliant [Wales and its Culture] (contributor)
BA in Welsh: Year Two and Final Year
  • CY2282 Cynllunio Ieithyddol [Language Planning]
MA in Welsh and MA in Welsh Ethnological Studies
  • CYD041 Language, Identity and Society
  • CYD031 Key Issues in Welsh Scholarship (co-ordinator)
  • CYD043 Wales and America (contributer)
Programme for resident Colgate University students
  • 'Wales and the Welsh Language' (Contributor)

Publications

Selection of Publications

“The Celtic World” in J. A. Fishman and O.Garcia (eds.), Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 237-54. 2010. ISBN 978  0 19 537492 6

“From Act to Action in Wales” in D. Morris (ed.), Welsh in the Twenty-First Century, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 36-60. 2010. ISBN 987 0  7083 2299 4.

An edited volume (with S. Pertot and T.M.S.Priestly) Rights, Promotion and Integration Issues for Minority Languages in Europe, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. i-xii +268. ISBN 1:978 0 230 20365 3

“Introduction: European Union Enlargement and Citizen Empowerment” in S. Pertot, T. M. S. Priestly and C.H. Williams (eds.), Rights, Promotion and Integration Issues for Minority Languages in Europe, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 1-23. ISBN 1:978 0 230 20365 3

“Governance Without Conviction” in S. Pertot, T. M. S. Priestly and C.H. Williams (eds.), Rights, Promotion and Integration Issues for Minority Languages in Europe, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 89-123-. ISBN 1:978 0 230 20365 3

“Conclusion: Identity and Democracy in an Enlarged Europe”, in S. Pertot, T. M. S.Priestly and C.H. Williams (eds.), Rights, Promotion and Integration Issues for Minority Languages in Europe, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 227-34. ISBN 1:978 0 230 20365 3

“Problemas y retros en torno al bilingüismo en Gales”, Hizkunea Soziolinguistiako Agerkaria, January 2009, pp. 1-25. www.euskara.euskadi.net/berripapera.

“Commentary: the primacy of renewal” in N. Coupland and M. Aldridge (eds), “Sociolinguistic and Subjective Aspects of Welsh in Wales and its Diaspora”, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, vol. 195, pp. 201-18.  0165 2516.

“Foras na Gaeilge and Bwrdd yr Iaith Gymraeg: Yoked but not yet shackled”, Irish Studies Review,  vol. 17. no. 1, pp.55-88.  ISSN 0967-0882.

“Let Freedom Reign: The Impress of EU Integration on Minority Survival”, in E. Prügl and M.Thiel (eds.), Diversity in the European Union, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 187-203. ISBN 978 0 230 61929 6

Research

Research Projects

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'Language Rich Europe' - British Council

ARUC: Les savoirs de la gouvernance communataire
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‘From Act to Action: Language Legislation in Finland, Ireland and Wales.’ Sponsored by the Svenska Kuturfonden, EBLUL, Foras Na Gaeilge and the Welsh Language Board.

‘Language Commissioners: A Comparative Perspective.’

‘Christian Witness and Non-Violent Resistance.’

Government of Ireland, 20 Year Strategy on the Irish Language

Postgraduate Students

Current PhD Students

William Roberts: Public Parades and Identity

Ifor Gruffydd: ‘Strategaethau Cynllunio Ieithyddol’ [Strategies for Language Planning]

Steve Eaves: ‘Cynllunio Ieithyddol: Hyfforddiant’ [Language Planning: Training]

Lucy Morrow: Language and Celtic Ethnicity in Contemporary Ireland and Wales (with Dr Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost)

Sean Ó Connor: The Irish Language in the Justice System (with Dr Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost)

Caroline Walters: ‘Y Cyfryngau yng Nghymru’ [The Media in Wales] (with Dr Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost)

Sarah Williams: 'Ffin y Lansker' (with Dr Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost)