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THE WELSH AND AMERICAN WARS

Saturday 21 November 2009
School of Welsh, Humanities Building, Colum Drive
Cardiff University - Room 0.31

Programme

10:15–10:25 - Coffee

10:25–10:30 - Welcome

10:30–11:15 - Dr Ffion Mair Jones (Aberystwyth):
‘Welsh Ballads and the American War of Independence’ [in Welsh]*

11:15–12:00 - Dr E. Wyn James (Cardiff):
                ‘A Welshman in the Army of the Potomac: Evan Rowland Jones,
                Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War’

12:00–12:45 - Dr Bill Jones (Cardiff):
‘John Griffith (‘The London Correspondent’) in the USA, 1865–67’ [in Welsh]*

12:45–2:00 - Lunch

2:00–2:45 - Ifor ap Glyn (Caernarfon):
‘ “We are now in France preparing a Christmas Box for the Kaiser”:
Welsh Americans and the Great War’ [in Welsh]*

2:45–3:15 - Martin Huws (Cardiff):
‘The Response of Novels and Films to the Falklands/Malvinas War’
[in Welsh]*

3:15–3.30 - Walter Brooks (Cardiff)/Dr Geraldine Lublin (Swansea):
                ‘The Falklands/Malvinas War through Argentinian Eyes’ [in Welsh]*

3:30–3:45 - Summing Up

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

COST: £25.00 / Unwaged: £18.00 / Students: £10.00
Includes morning coffee and buffet lunch

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

For more information and to book a place contact The School of Welsh on:
029 208 74843 / cymraeg@cardiff.ac.uk