Gynhadledd Astudiaethau Cymreig Canolfan Richard Burton Centre Dydd Mercher 25 Mai 2022 Wednesday 25 May 2022 Y Studio, Creu Taliesin, Campws Parc, Prifysgol Abertawe The Studio Taliesin Create, Park campus, Swansea University 2.00 Guinevere Clark – The Psychogeography of The Mumbles in Swansea through 3 Poems 2.30 Daniel Jones – Caliban’s Cultural Wounds: Language…Continue Reading Postgraduate Conference in Welsh Studies
Queer Data
12 October Queer Data Event Invitation – GENCAS Wednesday 12 October 2022, 2-3pm: Kevin Guyan joins us on Zoom to discuss his recent book, Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action (Bloomsbury). Data has never mattered more. Our lives are increasingly shaped by it and how it is defined, collected and used. But…Continue Reading Queer Data
Exploring Connections and Collaborations in Gender Teaching and Research
GENCAS (Swansea University, Wales, UK) and IGIUMA (University of Málaga, Spain): exploring connections and collaborations in gender teaching and research. As we seek to move forward after the disruption and pain of Covid, scholars across the world are exploring new avenues of inspiration, connection and innovation. This zoom meeting brings together scholars working on and around the…Continue Reading Exploring Connections and Collaborations in Gender Teaching and Research
Finding, Using and Making Oral Histories and Recorded Voices: Symposium 3 in ‘Researching Student Histories’ Series
Mon, 11 July 2022 10:30 – 15:00 BST Wallace Lecture Theatre, Swansea University (Singleton Campus) and on Zoom 10.30 Welcome, housekeeping and introduction (Sarah Crook) 10.40 Emily Sharp, ‘The collective memory of student activists: benefits and challenges of using oral histories to research student history’ 11.55 Sam Blaxland, ‘Institutional histories and the student voice: Swansea…Continue Reading Finding, Using and Making Oral Histories and Recorded Voices: Symposium 3 in ‘Researching Student Histories’ Series
History Research Seminars
With the exception of the CRAM annual lecture, all seminars take place on Wednesdays from 1pm to 2.30 pm. Zoom link for all sessions: https://swanseauniversity.zoom.us/j/94506346306?pwd=NkRWNUprdkVvRWNSVW1HbG12NXVCdz09 (Meeting ID: 945 0634 6306. Passcode: 525374) Everyone is welcome to attend but queries and questions can be sent to: m.johnes@swansea.ac.uk 26 January 2022: CRAM annual lecture: Patricia Owens (Oxford),…Continue Reading History Research Seminars
Swansea Ancient World Online Seminars 2021-22: Facing Power
We have again chosen a broad topic which speakers can approach from all angles: This year, it is ‘Facing Power’ – inviting questions about interactions with power and the powerful, and how they are regulated, channelled, communicated and performed. We acknowledge that ‘power’ can be understood in many different ways, and our speakers are offering…Continue Reading Swansea Ancient World Online Seminars 2021-22: Facing Power
Toxic Heritage: Post-Industrial Sites and the Unspoken Stories of Environmental Harm
Department of History, Heritage and Classics. History Research Seminar. Sponsored by CHART / DePOT. Wednesday, 17 November 2021 1.15pm Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies, Indiana University School of Liberal Arts (IUPUI) Focusing on heritage sites in the US and UK, this talk examines the public memory of environmental harm, particularly in post-industrial…Continue Reading Toxic Heritage: Post-Industrial Sites and the Unspoken Stories of Environmental Harm
Swansea / Université Grenoble Alpes Workshop: ‘Well-Being and the Humanities in Post-Covid Times’
Swansea’s Medical Humanities Research Centre (MHRC) is pleased to be collaborating with medical humanities colleagues at Université Grenoble Alpes as part of the broader strategic partnership between the two universities on the theme of ‘Resilience’. On Friday 22 October, we will be hosting a joint virtual workshop ‘On Well-Being and the Humanities in Post-Covid Times’….Continue Reading Swansea / Université Grenoble Alpes Workshop: ‘Well-Being and the Humanities in Post-Covid Times’
A Path-Breaking International Conference: ‘Race’, Law and Group Identity in Medieval Europe
On 6 & 7 September 2021 Swansea University and Nicolaus Copernicus University (Toruń, Poland) co-hosted this interdisciplinary conference welcoming registered delegates, both historians and art historians from Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Finland, England, Wales, Ireland, Spain and Brazil. Delegates discussed, from a variety of cultural and historical perspectives, the complex relationships that existed…Continue Reading A Path-Breaking International Conference: ‘Race’, Law and Group Identity in Medieval Europe
Creative Copperworks Walk **CANCELLED**
** Unfortunately, due to very poor weather conditions forecast for tomorrow Saturday 2nd October, our Community event has been cancelled. We hope to rearrange something for next Spring.** Please join us for a creative and activity-filled morning at the Hafod-Morfa Copperworks on Saturday 2nd October 10am-1pm. We are working in partnership with People Speak Up and a…Continue Reading Creative Copperworks Walk **CANCELLED**