Past Seminars
2012
13 November 2012: In Cardiff
Steve Eaves
'The potential contribution of critical Welsh Language Awareness training to language planning in Wales'
*This seminar was delivered in Welsh
23 October 2012: In Cardiff
'Welsh Print Culture in y Wladfa. The Role of Ethnic Newspapers in Welsh Patagonia, 1865-1933'
15 May 2012: In Cardiff
‘The constitutionalisation of Welsh within an emerging legal jurisdiction'
1 May 2012: In Cardiff
Menna Machreth
‘From Ianws to the National Poet post: some aspects on identity in the poetry of Wales between 1979 and 2011’
*This seminar was delivered in Welsh
20 March 2012: In Cardiff
Lucy Morrow
'Immigrant Identity and Welsh Language Attitudes: A Case Study'
7 February 2012: In Cardiff
Dr Angharad Watkins
'The Portrayal of the Household in the Welsh Novel from 1960 to 2008'
*This seminar was delivered in Welsh
26 January 2012: In Cardiff
Luciana Cordo Russo
'Medieval Welsh Tales as Adaptations: The Case of Iarlles y Ffynnon'
2011
16 December 2011: In Cardiff
John Caulfield
'Internet Interaction and the Irish Language'
15 November 2011: In Cardiff
'Comparing Language Commissioners:A Research Agenda'
1 November 2011: In Cardiff
Llŷr Gwyn Lewis
'"Crwydrais dipyn ar y byd”: Alltudiaeth yn Estheteg Gynnar T. Gwynn Jones a W. B. Yeats’
*This seminar was delivered in Welsh
4 October 2011: In Cardiff
Gruffudd Eifion Owen
‘W.S. Jones: Interpreting Theatre of the Absurd in Wales’
*This seminar was delivered in Welsh
2010
7 December 2010: In Cardiff
Dr Cathryn Charnell-White, Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies
'Songs of Freedom: Welsh poets' reaction to the French Revolution'
*The seminar was delivered in Welsh
12 October 2010: In Cardiff
Mair Rees
'Chwydu neu Fygu: Cyfogi fel Mynegiant Rhyweddol Symbolaidd yn Rhyddiaith y Gymraes’
*The seminar was delivered in Welsh
2 November 2010: In Cardiff
Bill Roberts
'The Welsh Rugby Supporter and Identity in the 21st Century'
4 May 2010: In Cardiff
Dr Marie Clague (Research Associate at the Centre for Manx Studies, University of Liverpool)
'Manx Language and Immersion Education'
8 March 2010: In Cardiff
Elidir Jones
'Nationalism, Morality and the Stereotype in the Works of Emyr Humpreys and Islwyn Ffowc Elis'
* This seminar was delivered in Welsh
2009
24 November 2009
Dr Enlli Thomas (Lecturer in Education - College of Education and Lifelong Learning, Bangor University)
"Dysgais i dreiglo ac yna i peidio"- effaith mewnbwn ieithyddol ar gaffaeliad plant o systemau cymhleth yn y Gymraeg
* This seminar was delivered in Welsh
13 October 2009
Dr Sarah Campbell
"Late Medieval Welsh Dramatic Texts Do Exist: A Close Look at Y Gwr Kadarn"*
23 April 2009: In Swansea
'Creating a theory of Welsh-language multiculturalism'
Department of Welsh, Swansea University
17 March 2009
Richard Roberts, University College Dublin:
"Ailddarganfod Llydaw a Chanlyn Arthur”
(Re-discovering Brittany and Pursuing Arthur)
19 February, 2009
Professor Linda Cardinal, University of Ottawa: ''Where Reasonable and Practical': The Development of French Language Services in the Justice Sector in Ontario'*
(*this seminar was delivered in English)
10 February, 2009
Heather Williams, Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales
‘Llydaw: ecofeirniadaeth, ôl-drefedigaethedd a llenyddiaeth’* ('Brittany: ecocriticism, post-colonialsim and literature'
2008
2 December 2008
Cath Pugh: 'Public Art and Identity: Queen Street, Cardiff'
The seminar will be delivered through the medium of English
18 November 2008
Dr Simon Brooks: 'Gwrth-semitiaeth mewn llenyddiaeth Gymraeg rhwng y ddau ryfel byd' ['Anti-semitism in Welsh literature between the two world wars']
The seminar will be delivered through the medium of Welsh. For further details, please email Dr Simon Brooks on BrooksS2@cf.ac.uk
20 May 2008
Prof Margaret Deuchar: 'Does code-switching lead to language death? Evidence from Welsh*' -
Director of ESRC Research Centre on Bilingualism, Dept of Linguistics and English Language, Bangor University
*this seminar will be held through the medium of English
4 March 2008
Caroline Walters (PhD student in the School of Welsh sponsored by the Welsh Language Board): 'The use of the Welsh language in Independent Television’
2007
11 December 2007
Prof Justin Lewis (Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies): ‘S4C and the future of Welsh broadcasting’
13 November 2007
Dr Siwan Rosser - ' ‘Ynom mae y Clawdd?’ Croesi ffiniau llenyddol’
22 October 2007
Huw Thomas: '’Breuddwyd i Baradwys? Y Dylanwadau ar Dwf Ysgolion Cymraeg De-ddwyrain Cymru’
8 May 2007
Prof Thomas Clancy (Prifysgol Glasgow): 'I, not I: Composing the Self in Celtic Literature’
27 March 2007
Marsaili MacLeod (Aberdeen University): 'Working linguascapes: the professionalisation of Gaelic in the Scottish Highlands and Islands'
6 February 2007
Dr Juliette Wood: 'The Grail in Wales: From Manuscript to Manor House'
2006
2 May 2006: Angharad George - 'Dafydd ap Gwilym a theori ôl-drefedigaethol'
21 March 2006: Huw Thomas - 'Addysg Gymraeg: Ym Mha Le y mae'r Pwer?'
21 February 2006: Dr D. Mark Smith - 'Y Marchog Tondal a'i daith: lluniau llawysgrifol o'r bymthegfed ganrif'
2005
Tuesday, 15 March 2005: Tudur Hallan, Department of Welsh, Swansea University - 'Y darllenydd yng ngwaith R. M. Jones'
Tuesday, 8 February 2005: Llion Pryderi Roberts - '"Dwyn ei genedl dan ganu": Llafaredd a pherfformiad ym meirniadaethau eisteddfodol John Morris-Jones'
2004
Thursday, 9 December 2004: Dr David Willis, Selwyn College, Cambridge: 'Prosiect Corpws Hanesyddol yr Iaith Gymraeg'
Tuesday, 30 November 2004: Gareth Miles - 'Rhai Sylwadau ar Ddylanwad Patagonia ar y Meddwl a'r Dychymyg Cymreig'
Tuesday, 16 November 2004: Dr Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost - 'Globaleiddio, y ddinas ac iaith'
Tuesday, 12 October 2004: Dr Diana Luft - 'Ailystyried Ysgolion Cyfieithwyr Cymraeg yn yr Oesoedd Canol'
Thursday, 23 September 2004: Geraldine Lublin - 'Hunangofiant Eduardo Thames Alderete, yr athro cenedlaethol cyntaf yn Nyffryn Camwy'
Thursday, 23 September 2004: Walter Ariel Brooks - 'Patrymau priodasau yn Nyffryn Camwy, 1900-1960'
Tuesday, 20 April 2004: Dr David Ceri Jones, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth - '"Manuscript of my Heart": Some Thoughts on Welsh Methodism and Popular Piety, 1735–50’
Monday, 8 March 2004: Geraint Evans, Sydney University - 'Gwyneth Lewis a’r Llofrudd Iaith: Llenydda mewn Dwy Iaith yn y Ganrif Newydd'
Tuesday, 10 February 2004: Dylan Foster Evans, School of Welsh, Cardiff University - 'Pwy a ganai gynt yng Ngwent?: Y Cywyddwyr yn y de-ddwyrain'
2003
Tuesday, 8 April 2003: Kate Olson, Harvard University - ‘Ennill enaid rhydd’: Welsh pilgrims abroad and to the Eternal City, c. 1200-1475’.
2002
Tuesday, 22 October 2002: William Raybould, School of Welsh, Cardiff University - ‘Onid perthynol yw?’
Tuesday, 8 October 2002: Gerald Morgan, Department of History and Welsh History, Aberystwyth University - ‘Y Gymraeg o'r tu hwnt i'r bedd.
Tuesday, 16 April 2002: Siwan Rosser, School of Welsh, Cardiff University -‘Merched ym maledi’r ddeunawfed ganrif’.
2001
Tuesday , 4 December 2001: Prof Brynley F. Roberts, Aberystwyth (Honorary Professor, School of Welsh, Cardiff University) - ‘Breuddwyd Macsen Wledig—pam?—pryd?’
Tuesday, 30 October 2001: Ifor ap Dafydd, Department of Welsh, University of Wales, Aberystwyth - ‘Beirniadaeth gynnar a llythyrau Saunders Lewis: teithio, iaith a chenedligrwydd’.
2000
Tuesday, 28 November 2000: Cathryn Charnell-White, Department of Welsh, University of Wales, Lampeter - 'Gwell pob cystudd, gwell pob aflwydd, na marwolaeth gwas i’r Arglwydd’: marwnadau Williams Pantycelyn a’u gofid am gryfder y mudiad Methodistaidd’.
Tuesday, 24 October 2000: Lowri Wyn Bevan, Department of Welsh, University of Wales, Aberystwyth - ‘Dydi arwr ddim yn marw: y ddelwedd o’r pencampwr mewn llenyddiaeth Gymraeg’
Wednesday, 5 April 2000: Dr Jerry Hunter, Department of Welsh, Cardiff University - ‘Poen y ddynoliaeth’: Kate Roberts, Adorno a’r Holocaust’
Tuesday, 21 March 2000: Dr Angharad Price, Department of Welsh, Cardiff University - ‘Print a rhyddiaith gyfoes’
1999
Wednesday, 17 November 1999: Prof. John Koch, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth - ‘Marwnad Cynddylan’.
Tuesday, 9 November 1999: Dylan Foster Evans, Department of Welsh, Cardiff University: ‘Yr heliwr a'r fforestydd: ymateb dau Gywyddwr cynnar i goncwest a gwrthryfel’
Tuesday, 21 September 1999: Dr Milan Bufon, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia: ‘Small Nations in the New Europe: The Case of Slovenia’.
Tuesday, 16 March 1999: Rhodri Llwyd Morgan, Department of Welsh, Cardiff University - ‘Y gwir a’r gau, y gwyr a’r bai: hanesion goresgyniad yng Nghymru a Sbaen yn yr oesau canol cynnar’.
Tuesday, 23 February 1999: Dr E Wyn James, Department of Welsh, Cardiff University -‘Canu blawd a menyn: golwg ar ganu macaronig yng Nghymru’.
Tuesday 16 February 1999: Dr Guy Lachapelle, Concordia University, Montréal - ‘Québécois Identity: Contemporary Issues and Problems’.
1998
Tuesday, 1 December, 1998: Llion Roberts, Department of Welsh, Cardiff University - ‘Yr Athro yn ei elfen’: Beirniadaeth eisteddfodol berfformiadol Syr John Morris-Jones’.
Tuesday, 10 November 1998: Prof. Colin H. Williams, Department of Welsh, Cardiff University - ‘New Directions in Celtic Studies: An Essay in Social Criticism’.
Tuesday, 20 October 1998: Prof. Glyn E. Jones, Department of Welsh, Cardiff University - ‘Dechreuad Addysg Gymraeg yng Nghaerdydd, 1949–81’.
1997
April 1997: Jeremy Evans, Department of Welsh, Cardiff University - ‘Dysgwyr a disgyblion: dyfodol dwyieithrwydd?’