Dear all,

the programme for the annual conference of the Association for Welsh Writing in English (AWWE) is now available. The conference theme is 'Performing Wales' and the conference will be held between 30 March and 1 April 2012 in Gregynog Hall, Newtown.

Please email Alyce von Rothkirch ([log in to unmask]) for a conference programme leaflet, which includes the conference booking form or print this message. 

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Conference Programme

Friday, 30 March 2012
2.30-4.30pm: AWWE AGM (open to all members)
4.30-6.00pm: Coffee/tea and registration
6.00-7.00pm: Welcome and book launch
7.00-8.00pm: Dinner
8.30-9.30pm: Keynote lecture: Prof. Hazel Walford Davies, ‘“The country of my heart: the case of Lord Howard de Walden’
9.30-10.00pm: award of the first M. Wynn Thomas Essay Prize
10.00pm-late: Bar

Saturday, 31 March 2012
8.00-9.30am: Breakfast
9.30-10.30am: Keynote address: John E. McGrath, Artistic Director, National Theatre Wales
10.30-11.30am: Panel 1
- Andrew Filmer, ‘“Purposeful assemblage”: Practising Location in National Theatre Wales’ The Persians and Coriolan/us’
- Kirsty Sedgman, ‘“We are citizens of the world”: The Importance for Audiences of the ‘National’ in National Theatre Wales’
11.30am-12.00pm: Coffee/tea
12.00-1.00pm: Panel 2
- Liza Penn-Thomas, ‘Pasts, Presents and Futures – The Mari Lwyd performing as Prophetic Voice in the Work of Vernon Watkins and Sean Vicary’
- Andrew Webb, ‘Edward Thomas and the Welsh Folk Tradition’
1.00-2.00pm: Lunch
2.00-3.30pm: Panel 3
- Jasmine Donahaye, ‘“What comics we are!” Caradoc Evans and Ethnic Performance’
- Steve Greer, ‘Queer/Welsh and Welsh/Queer: Performing Hybrid Identity’
- Katie Gramich, ‘Gendered Performance in Jack Jones’s Black Parade (1935)’
3.30-4.00pm: Coffee/tea
4.00pm-5.30pm: Panel 4
- Kieron Smith, ‘Performing Culture on Television: John Ormond’s Cultural Documentaries’
- Rebecca Edwards, ‘Cerys, Kelly & Cool Cymru: Wales, Pop and Performance’
- Jason Benson, ‘Identity in Flux: Volcano Theatre Company as Social Practice’’
5.30-7.00pm: free time
7.00-8.30pm: Dinner
8.30-9.30pm: Performance/Reading
David Ian Rabey, Land of my Fathers (with Russell Gomer, Richard Harrington and Richard Lynch)
9.30pm-late: Bar

Sunday, April 1, 2012
8.30-9.30am: Breakfast
9.30-11.00am: Panel 5
- Margaret Ames, ‘“It’s a ghost”: The Uncanny and Rural Welsh Identity’
- Matthew Jones, ‘Young People’s Welsh Identities in the Theatre of Arad Goch’
- David Haylock, ‘The Role of Technology in the Work of Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru’
11.00-11.30am: Coffee/tea
11.30-1.00pm: Panel 6
- Liz Jones, ‘The Halfway House (1944)’
- Hywel Dix, ‘Cymbeline and the Display of Empire, 1536-1649’
- Heike Roms and Alyce von Rothkirch: concluding remarks
1.00-2.00pm: Lunch and depart


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Booking form:

Performing Wales
March 30 – April 1, 2012
Booking Form

Name: …………………………………………………………..
Organisation: ………………………………………………..
Address: ………………………………………………………
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Postcode: ……………………………………………………..
Email: …………………………………………………………..
Telephone: …………………………………………………...
Dietary requirements: …………………………………
I would like to become a member of AWWE
(annual membership: £18, includes free copy
of Almanac: Yearbook of Welsh Writing in English): Yes c

Please circle which you require:
Full board weekend (Fri-Sun):
Full Fee …………………………………..	£175
Student rate/unwaged ………........£80
Day rate: (circle day: Fri – Sat – Sun)
Full Fee ………………………..… ……..	£85
Student rate/unwaged ……………	£40
TOTAL enclosed: £………….

Please make cheques payable to ‘AWWE’ and return your completed form by March 10, 2012, to Dr Alyce von Rothkirch, DACE, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP.

Please book your place by 15 March 2012. Places are limited - so book your place now!