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July 2007 A Busy Summer for the School of Welsh

Staff from the School of Welsh at Bangor University have a busy summer lined up!

Between 23-27 July, the XIII International Congress of Celtic Studies will be held at the University of Bonn, Germany.  The peripatetic congress is held every four years and this year’s general theme is ‘The Celts on the Rhine’.

The School of Welsh will be represented by Dr Angharad Price and Dr Sara Elin Roberts.

Angharad will present a paper on ‘T.H. Parry-Williams, Freiburg and Freud’.  She will be considering the impact of the founder of modern-day psychoanalysis upon the leading Welsh writer who studied in the University of Freiburg on the eve of the First World War.

Sara will present a paper on 'Clear-voiced Dafydd and the “cowardly stuttering boaster”’.  She will be discussing the bardic contention between Gruffudd Gryg and Dafydd ap Gwilym with special reference to the allusions to Gruffudd Gryg’s speech impediment and the treatment of the condition in medieval Wales.

For more information regarding the Bonn Celtic Congress, click here:

http://www.celtic-congress-2007.com/index.html

Image of the cover of Jerry Hunter's bookOn Monday, 6 August in the University of Wales, Bangor’s pavilion at the Flintshire National Eisteddfod, Sara will be launching her scholarly study entitled The Legal Triads of Medieval Wales (University of Wales Press). 

During the same meeting Dr Jerry Hunter’s pioneering publication, Sons of Arthur, Children of Lincoln: Welsh Writing from the American Civil War (UWP), will also be launched.

Later on Monday, Professor Gerwyn Wiliams will be one of the adjudicators in the Crown competition.  Having won the competition in 1994, this is the second time that he as adjudicated in this prestigious competition since 2003.  His fellow-adjudicators are Emeritus Professor Gwyn Thomas and the poet from Aber-geirw, Nesta Wyn Jones.

Then, on Wednesday, 8 August, Dr Angharad Price joins the adjudicating panel in the competition for the Prose Medal.  She herself won this competition in 2002 with the celebrated novel O! Tyn y Gorchudd and her fellow-adjudicators are Chief Poet John Gruffydd Jones and the novelist from Anglesey, Jane Edwards.

Click here to connect to the National Eisteddfod website:

http://www.eisteddfod.org.uk/english/