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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)
  • CY1744 O Destun i Draethawd [From Text to Essay] (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

'Paradigm Shifts, Geostrategic Considerations and Minority Initiatives', Treatises and Documents Journal of Ethnic Studies, 2012  vol 66, pp. 8-24. ISSN  0354 0286

‘Language Policy, Territorialism and Regional Autonomy’, in B. Spolsky, (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, pp. 174-202. 2012 ISBN 978 0 521 19565 2

‘The Welsh’ in J. Cole (ed.), Ethnic Groups in Europe, Santa Barbara, CA. ABC CLIO, 2011, ISBN 9781 59884 302 6

‘The Imperial Reach and the Reluctant Response’ in A’ Cleachdadh na Gàidhlig slatan-tomhais ann an dìon cànain sa choimhearsnachd  air a dheasachadh le (eds.), Richard A.V. Cox agus Timothy Currie Armstrong, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Slèite, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach: Clò Ostaig pp.295-313., 2011. ISBN 978-0-9562615-2-6

Co-author with seven others of the ‘Radein Initiative on European Multilingualism’, available at http://multilingualeducation.eu/files/2011/06/Radein-Ini-docu-Jun11.pdf 2011

(With J.C.Evas) Komunikabideak, Bitaratekotza eta Jokabide Aldaketa. ITek ez Dute Zertan Zailak Izan, / Medios de communicación, intermediación y cambio de conducta. Por qué no son las TIC necesariamente difíciles, in Ayuntamiento de Andoain (2011) Las lenguas no hegemónicas o de nivel medio en los medios de comunicación y en las TIC,  Irigotenazpikoa, Ayuntamiento de Andoain. Pp. 12-70

‘Welsh-medium educational provision at university-level in Wales .’ Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK-China Workshop on Human Rights, 13 January 2011. London : Foreign and Commonwealth Office Papers. Pp. 1-30

“Linguistic Diversity and Legislative Regimes”, in Lenguas Minoritaria en la Administración, Vitorio-Gasteiz: Parlamento Vasco, pp. 23-50..2010.  ISBN 978 84 87122 98 9

‘Galesko unibertisateetan galesera sustatzearen posak eta frustrazioak’  Bat  Soziolinguistika aldizkaria, 73 zenb, 2, pp. 125-47. 2010

(With R.O.Jones) “The Sociolinguistic Context of Welsh” in Martin. J.Ball and Nicole Muller, (eds.), The Celtic Languages,   London : Routledge, pp. 650-711. 2010. ISBN 978 0 415 42279 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

(With S. Sandlund and P. Ó Flatharta) From Act to Action.  Report submitted to Svenska Kulturfonden, Helsinki , February 2010

Deddfu, iaith a chynllunio, Darlith Flynyddol Cwmni Iaith, gweler www. http://www.iaith.eu/uploads/darlith_steddfod_2009_3__2_.pdf 2010

“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

Active member of European Universities' Network on Multilingualism

http://parlamaidalba.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/turas-gu-eireann-a-tuath-gaidhlig-gaeilge/

'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)

Jenny Marshall: (KESS scholarship) 'Dulliau Dysgu a'r Economi Digidol [Learning Techniques and the Digital Economy] (with Dr Adrian Price)